During an event with Native American code talkers at the White House on Monday afternoon, President Trump deployed a racist slur against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), calling her “Pocahontas.” Standing beside some of the few surviving Native Americans who served during World War II, Trump said, “You’re very, very special people. You were here long […]
More than 200,000 Americans sought to buy a gun the day after Thanksgiving this year, based on federal background check data. The Black Friday rush on firearms dwarfed the equivalent figures for 2008, 2009, and 2010 and far exceeded even the relatively elevated level of gun sales recorded through the background check data, Bloomberg reported. […]
A Breitbart contributor has been revealed to be an administrator of a secret Facebook group where users regularly post virulently racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic content, as well as support for far-right groups. Jack Hadfield, a third-year politics student at the University of Warwick in the U.K., has written more than 150 articles for Breitbart News, […]
As the Senate prepares to vote on their version of the tax bill as early as this week, all eyes are on six Senators. Three Senators, Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Bob Corker (R-TN), and John McCain (R-AZ) are virtually immune from outside pressure as they are unlikely to face voters again. Flake and Corker are retiring […]
As the Senate prepares to vote on their version of the tax bill as early as this week, all eyes are on six Senators. Three Senators, Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Bob Corker (R-TN), and John McCain (R-AZ) are virtually immune from outside pressure as they are unlikely to face voters again. Flake and Corker are retiring […]
The extent of Myanmar’s control over how its crackdown on the Rohingya is addressed came into sharp focus with Pope Francis’s visit there this week. Reuters reported on Monday that the pope met with the country’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, in Yangon, but it’s unclear if he addressed the government’s treatment of […]
The extent of Myanmar’s control over how its crackdown on the Rohingya is addressed came into sharp focus with Pope Francis’s visit there this week. Reuters reported on Monday that the pope met with the country’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, in Yangon, but it’s unclear if he addressed the government’s treatment of […]
In a recent national poll, millions of Australians voted overwhelmingly in favor of marriage equality for same-sex couples. As the country’s Parliament now considers legislation to follow suit, conservatives are already trying to lace the bill with “religious freedom” amendments that directly parallel the fights U.S. conservatives are waging in American courts. The Australia poll […]
Day laborers, many of them undocumented, are reportedly being exploited as they rebuild after Hurricane Harvey, and their health and economic well-being are are stake. According to a report from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and University of Illinois Chicago that surveyed 360 workers, 26 percent of workers have experienced wage theft in their post-Harvey […]
Dozens of local police departments are reportedly checking the immigration status of people they arrest as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to a Reuters investigation through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Since Trump’s inauguration in January, 29 police departments have joined a federal program that grants local law enforcement […]
Even a box of doughnuts couldn’t stem the drama. On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) found itself in the middle of a bizarre back and forth between Acting Director Leandra English — handpicked by outgoing chief Richard Cordray — and President Trump’s chosen CFPB successor, Mick Mulvaney, who arrived at the agency carrying what appeared to be […]
During a CNN appearance Monday morning, Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollak attempted to justify Roy Moore against allegations that he molested children and sexually assaulted teenagers by citing a lyric from a song popularized by Ringo Starr more than 40 years ago. “You know, in 1973 Ringo Starr hit number one on the Billboard charts with the […]
Kevin Jackson, one of a handful of black personalities to make frequent and repeated appearances on Fox News, remembers his media breakthrough on the right-leaning network as a divine moment. “Oh yeah,” he said during a recent phone interview from his home office in St. Louis. “I’ll never forget how it happened because it was […]
Dr. Kelly Pfeifer flies from San Francisco, California to Overland Park, Kansas one weekend every month to perform abortions. She says she donates her time for selfish reasons; she loves the work, people, and state. She even managed to catch a Katy Perry show after work once. Dr. Pfeifer likes to downplay her role and says […]
The wife of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is entangled in an ethics controversy — one that has already ensnared her husband — over her travel habits and possible improper use of taxpayer funds. In response to a last-minute request by Lolita “Lola” Zinke, staff at the Department of the Interior spent extra time reworking travels […]