White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders got fact-checked in an unlikely place Sunday morning — during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Sanders joined host Chris Wallace to talk about the government shutdown and repeated one of President Trump’s favorite lies about immigration, that terrorists are streaming across the southern border into the United […]
He may or may not truly be a billionaire, but it’s common knowledge that Donald Trump was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. A massive New York Times expose last October found that by the time he was three, Trump was earning about $200,000 per year from his father’s real estate empire. He […]
Fred Guttenberg, the parent of a teen shot to death at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., is furious that two local sheriffs have appeared on NRATV to promote the arming of school teachers. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri appeared on NRA talk shows, even though they both sit […]
It’s not yet a policy proposal, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is taking to 60 Minutes to float a change to marginal tax rates to help offset the costs of Green New Deal programs. She points to progressive tax rates in the 1960’s and ’70’s as the model for her proposal, which would put the […]
President Trump will not withdraw US troops in Syria without assurances from Turkey that it won’t attack the Kurdish troops helping the United States fight ISIS, National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday. Bolton’s comments come just three weeks after Trump announced he would immediately withdraw all U.S. forces from the country, a decision […]
Local police have arrested Eric Black, Jr. and charged him with capital murder in the shooting that killed 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes on Dec. 30 in Houston, Texas. A second man, Larry Woodruffe, was also arrested and has not yet been charged. BREAKING: @HCSOTexas has identified 1st suspect in #JazmineBarnes murder as Eric Black, Jr. 20. I […]
A lawsuit brought by residents of Flint, Mich., who for months were supplied drinking water that was dangerously lead-contaminated and bacteria-laden, can go forward, an appeals court has ruled. An appellate court on Friday, over the objections of some state and local officials, ruled that the federal lawsuit against the city of Flint and several […]
More than two weeks into a partial government shutdown with no end in sight, President Donald Trump is more inclined than ever to declare a national emergency so that he can bypass congress to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, news reports said on Sunday. CNN cited a White House official who said the […]