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Chuck Ross Disney CEO Bob Iger said Thursday the company dealt “privately” with scandals involving two ABC hosts who wore blackface. Iger was asked at a shareholder’s meeting in St. Louis about revelations that Jimmy Kimmel and Joy Behar have dressed in blackface in the past. Kimmel dressed as former NBA star Karl Malone for a segment…
Whitney Tipton, March 7, 2019 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a press conference Thursday to step up his attacks against HR1, the massive election reform bill currently being debated in the House, as a “turkey” and a “parade of horrible,” warning Democrats that supporting the bill will help Republicans win in 2020. During a press…
Peter Hasson Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her top aide hold majority control over Justice Democrats, a left-wing PAC waging open war on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other establishment Democrats, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, obtained majority control…
Evie Fordham President Donald Trump weighed in on Twitter Wednesday hours after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced it is not allowing Fox News to host any Democratic presidential debates this election cycle, citing the network’s alleged “inappropriate relationship” with the president. “Democrats just blocked Fox News from holding a debate,” Trump wrote on Twitter…
Henry Rodgers Special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is expected to come to an end soon. Republicans believe, regardless of the outcome, Democrats will still say he colluded with Russia. Many more investigations into Trump will come before the 2020 presidential election. Special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to wrap up the Russia probe into President…
Michael Bastasch Democrats on the House Committee on Financial Services voted unanimously against an amendment introduced by a GOP lawmaker to spark debate about a key demand of the Green New Deal. Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, the committee’s ranking Republican, introduced the amendment to the committee Democrats’ budget resolution, though he said in a…
Chris White Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the Silicon Valley company will begin completely reorienting its platform over the next several years, moving toward encryption and privacy. The move would shift the company’s focus from a social network to a platform in which people communicate with smaller groups and their content disappears after…
Evie Fordham President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday that a Senate vote to terminate his national emergency for border wall funding is not about “constitutionality” but about “desperately needed” border security. “Senate Republicans are not voting on constitutionality or precedent, they are voting on desperately needed Border Security [and] the Wall,” Trump wrote. “Our Country…
Michael Bastasch Senate Democrats are trying to shield themselves from voting on the Green New Deal. However, Republicans and environmentalists will make sure the Green New Deal sticks around through 2020. “Both the GOP and Democrats will love to denounce and praise it,” said one political observer. Democrats are trying to shake off the specter…
Kevin Daley Christian baker Jack Phillips and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) have resolved a legal dispute that set Phillips’ religious beliefs against the state’s public accommodations law. The deal, announced Tuesday afternoon, provides that the Commission will close an ongoing anti-discrimination probe of Phillips’s Masterpiece Cakeshop if Phillips withdraws a federal lawsuit alleging…