Molly Prince on March 21, 2019RepublishReprint Former Vice President Joe Biden is considering launching a 2020 presidential announcement with failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as his running mate, according to a report published Thursday. Biden’s top advisors have been in discussions to add Abrams to the top of the ticket in an attempt to show…
Mary Margaret Olohan Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a 2020 hopeful, said social security and a pathway to citizenship should be rights for immigrants “in the country now” Tuesday at a campaign event in Iowa. “I have a lot of ideas,” Gillibrand said. “First, we need comprehensive immigration reform. If you are in this country…
Alec Schemmel A Mississippi police officer who left her three-year-old daughter strapped in a hot car so she could have sex with another cop pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday. Former Mississippi Gulf Coast officer Cassie Barker left her daughter, Cheyenne, inside her patrol car for four hours on Sept. 30, 2016 after falling asleep, according to…
Whitney Tipton Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke announced Wednesday that his record-smashing $6.1 million first-day haul came from just 128,000 unique contributors, giving an average of $47 each, and it looks like fellow contender Bernie Sanders’s prediction was right. O’Rourke, who announced his bid for president March 14, revealed the numbers in remarks…
Neetu Chandak Arizona police said a YouTube star allegedly threatened her seven adopted kids if they did not appear in her videos, with abuses ranging from the mother pepper spraying the children to forcing them to take ice baths. Authorities arraigned Machelle Hackney, 48, Tuesday and booked her into Pinal County Jail for child molestation, child abuse,…
Tim Pearce MSNBC host Chuck Todd received a Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism for a hour-long feature on climate change that excluded “climate deniers.” The Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication gave the award to Todd and his Sunday show Meet The Press. The hour-long special, titled “Climate Crisis,” featured experts and…
Michael Bastasch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t support the Green New Deal resolution that’s backed by Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates, according to Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib, a Democrat and Green New Deal supporter, told Fox 2 Detroit that Pelosi’s lack of support for the Green New Deal and Medicare for All hadn’t stopped progressives from…
Nick Givas on March 20, 2019RepublishReprint Attorney and election expert Tara Ross said the electoral college has nothing to do with slavery during an interview with “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com “You hear today that it’s just about slavery and the southern slave owning states wanted to have an electoral college….
Anders Hagstrom on March 20, 2019RepublishReprint South Carolina Democrats argued for more than an hour to prevent legislation that would require state universities to teach a “Constitution 101” course Tuesday. The Republican-proposed bill would update an existing 1924 requirement to teach the course, which U.S.C. has hitherto ignored. The legislation has already passed in the Senate, but Democrats in…
Grace Carr Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed a bill Tuesday banning abortions on the basis of race, sex or disability despite a pending lawsuit from a legal advocacy group. Bevin signed House Bill 5 “prohibit[ing] an abortion if the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion, in whole or in part, because of an unborn…