A caravan of around 300 migrants from Central American arrived at the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday morning, where they planned to ask for asylum, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed News. “I’m a little scared of turning myself in, but I’m more scared of going back to where […]
John Bolton said Sunday that the United States will follow the “Libya model” as it prepares for talks on denuclearizing North Korea. That will probably be less than reassuring to Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un, who likely is only too aware that Washington launched a military operation that led to the overthrow of the North […]
Kuwait, Bahrain, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. Now add the Philippines to the roster of countries checking it at Trump International, the Washington, D.C., hotel operated by the U.S. president. The hotel, just a stone’s throw from the White House, will host a Philippine government gala to mark the country’s 120th Independence Day on June 12, […]
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) resisted calls for Gov. Eric Greitens (R-MO) to resign Sunday in an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. Earlier this month, a Missouri House committee released a report detailing allegations of sexual assault against Greitens. In the report, the committee said they believe the woman who made the allegations is credible. None […]
President Trump is concerned he will face impeachment if Republicans lose their House majority, he said Saturday night at a rally in Michigan. “We have to keep the House,” he said. “Because if you listen to Maxine Waters, she goes around saying, ‘We will impeach him! We will impeach him,’” he said, referring to the […]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has announced that guns will be barred when Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speech at its upcoming leadership conference in Dallas, and survivors of the Parkland school shooting are calling them out on it. “Due to the attendance of the Vice President of the United States, the U.S. Secret Service […]
It started innocuously enough. During the Mexican presidential debate on Monday, the independent candidate Jaime Rodriguez, who is trailing in the polls, suggested that thieves should have their hands cut off as a way to combat crime and corruption. “El Bronco” confirmed to the stunned moderator that he was speaking literally, not figuratively, and in […]
Content warning: This article contains graphic, violent and racist language. Since the April 23 van attack in Toronto that left 10 people dead and 14 wounded, people have been struggling to understand the misogynistic “incel” community referred to in a Facebook post by Alek Minassian, the man charged in the deadly rampage. “Incel” stands for “involuntarily […]
Content warning: This article contains graphic, violent and racist language. Since the April 23 van attack in Toronto that left 10 people dead and 14 wounded, people have been struggling to understand the misogynistic “incel” community referred to in a Facebook post by Alek Minassian, the man charged in the deadly rampage. “Incel” stands for “involuntarily […]
On June 9, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. and other top members of the Trump campaign met with a number of Russians, including lawyer Natalia V. Veselnitskaya. The meeting was set up after Trump Jr. was contacted by Rob Goldstone, an agent who represents a Russian pop star. Goldstone told Trump Jr. that the Russians had dirt […]