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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…
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…
Whitney Tipton Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed the “National Popular Vote Act” into law Friday in an effort to elect the next U.S. president by popular vote. This makes Colorado the 13th jurisdiction (12 states, plus the District of Columbia) enacting similar legislation to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). The law, having made…
Jason Hopkins Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Tuesday was named a board member of Fox Corporation, the new parent company of Fox News. Ryan will be one of seven board of directors, according to a press release from the company. He will serve alongside Rupert Murdoch, the founder of Fox, and Lachlan Murdoch, the…
Peter Hasson on March 19, 2019RepublishReprint Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says the federal government will punish media companies for the spread of misinformation if he wins in 2020. Yang’s proposal would introduce “penalties for persistent and destructive misstatements that undermine public discourse,” according to his campaign website. “We must introduce both a means to investigate and…