Now a pandemic, coronavirus shuts down sports, travel and universities across the US

    Hours after the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, Americans were flooded with announcements from what seemed like every corner of the country. The President announced a sweeping ban on travel into the US. The NCAA barred fans from its annual tournament. The NBA suspended its season, altogether.     […]

Democrats Walk Out During Trump’s State Of The Union Address

  Multiple Democrats walked out before President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Bill Pascrell (N.J.), Tim Ryan (Ohio) and Jackie Speier (Calif.) left the room before Trump’s hour-plus speech concluded. “I walked out of that speech,” Tlaib tweeted after Trump’s address ended. […]

Don’t count on the Senate to save Dreamers from SCOTUS

    President Donald Trump says young undocumented immigrants have nothing to worry about from the Supreme Court. The Senate begs to differ. Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been on the front lines of the Senate’s immigration battles for decades, including trying unsuccessfully to […]

William Barr: ‘I act on behalf of the United States’

October 30, 2019 Edit Edit with WPBakery Page Builder   Attorney General William Barr on Monday said that he is not acting as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, after accusations from Democrats that he’s working in the president’s favor. “That’s completely wrong and there is […]

President Erdogan announces start of operation against US-backed Kurdish forces, days after President Donald Trump announced pullback of US troops

  October 10, 2019 Edit Edit with WPBakery Page Builder   Turkey began a planned military offensive into northeastern Syria on Wednesday, launching airstrikes and artillery fire across the border just days after the Trump administration announced it was pulling US troops back from the […]

Trump’s cognitive test slammed, deemed insufficient

By J. Zamgba Browne Chief Correspondent A mental health expert this week slammed President Trump’s cognitive exam and called for further testing. Bandy Lee, an assistant clinical professor at Yale University, and Norman Eisen, who served as former President Obama’s Special Counsel for Ethnics and […]