ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA — Former President Obama made his first campaign stop of the midterm elections in Orange County, California Saturday to stump for seven Democratic House candidates running in districts currently held by Republicans but that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. About 750 people attended the event at Anaheim Convention Center, where Obama delivered a […]
On Friday, Apple announced that in response to the $200 billion in tariffs that the Trump administration plans to slap on Chinese goods, the company will raise prices on a number of products, including the Apple Watch, AirPods and Apple Pencil. “Our concerns with these tariffs is that the U.S. will be the hardest hit, and […]
In July, Michigan State froze its $10 million Healing Assistance Fund, when its vendor said it had concerns over fraudulent claims. This week, MSU Interim President John Engler announced that the police are now investigating the fraud claims. “It’s been moved from being an investigation to being an active police investigation,” said Engler, as reported […]
Trump administration officials held several secret meetings with Venezuelan military officers plotting to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing American officials and a former Venezuelan military officer. While the White House claimed in a statement to the Times that establishing a back channel in a region the U.S. has interfered in […]
Tommia Dean, a former cheerleader at Kennesaw State University, is suing KSU and Georgia State officials for their response to her protest of police brutality and racial injustices during the national anthem. Last September, Dean and four other KSU cheerleaders took a knee during the national anthem, an extension of the movement started by former […]
During a Fox News interview on Saturday, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) — the Republican candidate for governor in Florida — was asked if he has any regrets about saying his black Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, might “monkey up” the state. DeSantis indicated he does not, before going on to decry “nonstop political correctness.” “It’s a […]
Following this week’s rocky confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats are openly accusing Kavanaugh of lying under oath. Among the issues Democrats believe Kavanaugh has not been honest about is his receipt of emails in 2003 that contained documents allegedly stolen from Democratic senators and staff. […]
In recent months, President Trump has gotten in the habit of taking credit for “the greatest economy in the history of our country.” Trump’s claim is false — this is not the greatest economy in American history. To cite just one metric, as ThinkProgress recently detailed, thanks in part to Trump’s trade war, wage growth didn’t […]
Delmonte Johnson, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, was one of the many teenagers across this nation who had been personally impacted by gun violence. Earlier this year, he joined the group GoodKids MadCity, a group led by young people of color that was founded in the wake of the Parkland school […]
HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS — The city of Holyoke is 88 miles west of Northeastern University where Dallas Mavericks guard José Juan “J.J” Barea attended college. The small city with a population of 40,341 is another 1,688 miles from his hometown of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Yet, you wouldn’t know that upon entering the gymnasium at Holyoke High School […]
On Tuesday, incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a surprise announcement: He would not, as many expected, seek a third term as mayor of Chicago. The shock announcement prompted radically different reactions. Working-class locals largely rejoiced at the news. The local business press, on the other hand, wore their frowns so tight that they risked […]
There are plenty of things you might associate with Sweden — Viking hats, a certain flat-packed furniture store, bad Europop. Political instability, however, is not likely to be one of them. But this Sunday, Swedes are set to shatter the political image of their country as calm and boring when they vote in a general […]
There are plenty of things you might associate with Sweden — Viking hats, a certain flat-packed furniture store, bad Europop. Political instability, however, is not likely to be one of them. But this Sunday, Swedes are set to shatter the political image of their country as calm and boring when they vote in a general […]
Police in Dallas are seeking manslaughter charges against an unnamed colleague who walked into a neighbor’s apartment and killed him Thursday night. After initially treating the killing as an officer-involved shooting, investigators determined the woman was off duty when she walked into an apartment she thought was her own and shot 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean […]