The White House announced that Wednesday will be a national day of mourning for George Herbert Walker Bush, America’s 41st president who died overnight at the age of 94. “President George H. W. Bush led a long, successful and beautiful life. Whenever I was with him I saw his absolute joy for life and true pride […]
Until last week, Republican State Rep. David Stringer was the chair of the Arizona House Sentencing and Recidivism Reform committee, having been re-elected to his seat last month. But on Friday, Stringer unceremoniously resigned his position amid a growing scandal involving racist remarks he made following a lecture at Arizona State University. In a leaked […]
Fox and National Geographic — the two networks at the helm of the Emmy-award winning Cosmos series, which is scheduled to premiere on March 3 — announced on Friday that they are investigating allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct by the series’ host, famed astrophysicist and TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson. “We have only just become […]
Black employees at Tesla factories were subject to racial abuse, barred from promotions, threatened by co-workers and repeatedly given demeaning assignments, according to a new investigation by the New York Times. The Times interviewed more than two dozen current and former black Tesla employees, as well as looking at internal Tesla communications and legal statements. […]
Fallout from last week’s revelation that Michael Cohen is extensively cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation continued into this weekend, after attorneys for Donald Trump’s former lawyer filed a sentencing motion revealing that Trump knew about communications between Cohen and the Kremlin. Cohen’s lawyers disclosed the latest bombshell as part of a court filing […]
Mexico today will inaugurate its first leftist president since the country transitioned to a full democracy in 2000. The outgoing Enrique Peña Nieto, whose 26 percent approval rating took another dive after he awarded Jared Kushner Mexico’s highest honor, will be replaced by the 65-year-old Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO. AMLO swept to victory […]
Oklahoma’s state senate is considering a bill that would criminalize all abortions in the state, without exception, “in any circumstance.” Senate Bill 13 was filed Thursday by Joseph Silk, a republican state senator in Oklahoma who has been relentless in his pursuit to outlaw all abortions in his home state. Last year, Silk filed a […]
For the second time in one week, an NFL team has cut ties with a player due to domestic violence. And, for the second time in one week, the incident tells us more about the league’s failure to take domestic violence seriously than anything else. On Friday afternoon, TMZ released a video of Kansas City […]
Next week will mark the midway point between Election Day on November 6 and the first day of the new Congress on January 3. Yet one congressional race in North Carolina remains undecided, and an ongoing investigation could leave the seat vacant for the foreseeable future. As of Saturday, the margin in North Carolina’s 9th […]
Thousands of protesters, many clad in high-visibility vests, descended on Paris on Saturday to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to increases fuel taxes. The demonstration led to serious clashes with police, who responded with tear gas, water cannon and stun grenades, the New York Times reported. Smoke was seen rising from part of […]
A grand jury on Friday indicted former Dallas, Texas, police officer Amber Guyger on one charge of murder for the shooting of Botham Jean. Guyger, who is white, shot 26-year-old Jean, an unarmed black man, inside his apartment in September. She told officers that she mistook it for her own apartment one floor down and […]