Category: News
Obama Pitches ‘John Lewis Act’ to Expand Voting Rights to Felons, Puerto Rico; Scrap Filibuster
While eulogizing John Lewis Thursday to thunderous applause, former president Barack Obama sought to leave the congressman and civil rights giant a durable political legacy.
Joe Biden: I’m Going To Be the ‘Most Progressive President in American History’
For the first time, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned Donald Trump's decision to send unidentified paramilitary federal agents into Portland Ore to take on the Black Lives Matter protesters in that city.
Former Chicago Mayor: Trump ‘Should Be Nationalizing Our Response to Public Health and Localizing Our Response to Public Safety’
By nationalizing law enforcement and localizing public health, Donald Trump's gotten his federal responses "backwards," according to a former mayor of Chicago and ex-White House chief of staff.
Adam Schiff on Deployment of Federal Agents: The Objective Here Is for Trump to Have a Campaign Issue
A top House Democrat who has a long history of investigating Donald Trump called out the Trump's use of unidentified paramilitary federal agents as nothing more than a political stunt.
Trump’s Secret Police Deployment Just ‘Smells Like Politics’
Donald Trump's move to deploy unidentified Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the streets of Portland, Ore., continued to get poor reviews from those in Congress as well as a former homeland security secretary.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth to DHS: ‘Don’t Even Think About’ Sending Federal Police to Chicago
A US senator from Illinois is warning Donald Trump not to send the kind of unidentified, paramilitary federal agents who have been snatching protesters from the streets of Portland Ore., also to the streets of Chicago.
Oregon Congresswoman: Federal Police ‘Inflaming’ the Protesters in Portland
It is the unidentified federal agents--not the local protesters--inflaming conditions on the streets of Portland, Ore., according to a congresswoman whose district includes the city.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Blames Federal Troops for Civil Unrest in His City
It's been the unidentified federal agents which the Trump administration has been sending into the city--not the protesters themselves--which are turning the protests in Portland, Ore., violent, according to Mayor Ted Wheeler.
W.H. Economic Adviser Kudlow: Not Getting Rid of Unemployment Stimulus in Phase 4, We Know There’s Hardship
After promising to kill it just last month, the top White House economic adviser is now reversing course and promising to extend a special $600 federal unemployment compensation benefit.
Mary Trump: Donald Trump Will Less Likely Stick Around with a Resounding Biden Victory
It's "perfectly reasonable" to worry about whether Donald Trump would leave the White House peaceably in event he loses the upcoming election, according to his niece, Mary Trump. However, he's more likely to leave in the event that Democrat Joe Biden pulls off a "resounding" victory in November, according to Trump's niece, the author of the blockbuster book Too Much and Never Enough, which sold more than 1 million copies on the day of release.
