Former sports reporter Kelli Tennant spoke out Tuesday about her sexual assault allegations against Luke Walton, the new head coach of the Sacramento Kings. Tennant, who used to work as a reporter for Spectrum SportsNet LA, filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the NBA coach and former player forced himself on her after inviting her into […]
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Stakes high as Supreme Court takes on LGBTQ employment cases
A ruling against the workers would relegate “LGBTQ people around the country to a second-class citizen status,” the ACLU’s James Esseks said.
Hillary Clinton: Anyone but Trump would have been indicted
Clinton also said if Trump was a private citizen and had acted as Mueller described, he would have been indicted.
Border Patrol finds abandoned toddler with phone number on his shoes at border
Agents have taken the three-year-old boy to a U.S. border station and are trying to find his parents using the number written on his shoes, officials said.
Twitter Users Very Skeptical About Trump’s Closed Door Meeting With Jack Dorsey
Dorsey also put a positive spin on the meeting, saying that it was “constructive.” But other Twitter users were skeptical the meeting would do anything positive. Very, very skeptical. Oh that is rich. I really hope it’s in the vein of Jack pinpointing the damage Trump is doing to the health of the public conversation […]
United Airlines Agent Accused Of Calling Black Customer A ‘Monkey’ Faces Charge
An employee of United Airlines accused of using a racial slur toward a black customer is facing a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Houston police issued Carmella Davano a citation for disorderly conduct on Feb. 26, after United customer Cacilie Hughes alleged that the airline agent had called her a monkey ― a historically racist […]
Trump Administration Looks To Defy Tax Disclosure Law
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump’s administration is not abiding Democratic requests for Trump’s tax returns under a federal tax disclosure law that gives Congress the power to request copies of anyone’s tax information. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his department would provide a final answer by May 6 but strongly suggested that answer will be no. […]
Iowa State Lawmaker Leaves Republican Party Because Of Trump
A state representative in Iowa is leaving the Republican Party because he says he can no longer support President Donald Trump and the views of the GOP. Rep. Andy McKean announced he was switching parties during a press conference on Tuesday in which he called the president a “poor example for the nation.” McKean is […]
U.S. Files First Criminal Charges Against Major Drug Distributor For Opioid Crisis
NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday filed its first criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives over their alleged roles in fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic by putting profits ahead of patients’ safety. Rochester Drug Co-operative Inc (RDC), one of the 10 largest U.S. drug distributors, agreed […]
Fox News Found A Whole New Way To Freak Out About Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton
Former President Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton tweeted condolences on Sunday to the people who were killed during an attack on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter. And Fox News is shredding them for it. “The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity,” Obama wrote. […]
Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton accused of sexual assault
The Sacramento Kings said it was still “gathering additional information” on the alleged incident.
House Democratic leaders push investigations of Trump, not impeachment
Pelosi told lawmakers in a letter earlier Monday that gathering the facts necessary to hold Trump accountable could be obtained outside impeachment hearings.
Jimmy Fallon’s Bernie Sanders Turns ‘Old Town Road’ Into A Hilarious 2020 Anthem
Except in this case, he’s turned the rap-country crossover hit ― now in its second week in the top spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 ― into “Old Town Hall” and is full of sly references to 2020 campaign issues. Naturally, it’s also got plenty of cracks about Sanders’ age, including a line comparing him to […]
Kamala Harris Wants To Wield Presidential Powers To Tackle Gun Violence
During a CNN town hall on Monday, Sen. Kamala Harris said that, if elected president, she would take executive action in her first months in office to curb gun violence in the U.S. unless Congress acted first. “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and […]
Washington state lawmaker blasted for saying some nurses ‘probably play cards’ at work
“I would like to take a stand and petition to have the senator experience what really happens during an RN’s 12-hour shift,” a Chicago nurse said.
Kamala Harris Believes Congress Should Move Forward On Impeaching Trump
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she believed Congress should move forward in impeaching President Donald Trump during a CNN town hall on Monday night when asked about the possibility. “For those of us who have been following the investigation and have seen any part of that report, it is very clear that there is a […]
Elizabeth Warren On Climate Plan: ‘No Coal Lobbyists For Head Of EPA’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) promised to make the Green New Deal the centerpiece of her administration’s climate policy if she’s elected president. But that’d be a crowning legislative achievement. On her first day in the White House, Warren said, she’d halt mining and drilling leases on federal lands and set up a program at the […]
‘Hiding in plain sight’: Man sought in murder of teen girls has close community ties
“We believe you are hiding in plain sight.”
Elizabeth Warren: Politics Shouldn’t Prevent Democrats From Trying To Impeach Trump
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) says that political considerations should not prevent House Democrats from opening impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in the wake of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. “There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution,” the presidential candidate said Monday evening during a CNN town hall […]
Court says it’s illegal to chalk your tires to enforce parking rules
Marking your tires with chalk is trespassing, not law enforcement, the federal appeals panel said in a Michigan case.
Elizabeth Warren On Breaking Up Amazon: ‘You Don’t Get To Be The Umpire And Have A Team’
But the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful doesn’t want the player calling the shots in the half-a-trillion-dollar game of online retail. Associated PressDemocratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren explains why she wants to break up Amazon. That’s how she boiled down her provocative call to break up tech giants like Amazon, Google-owner Alphabet and Facebook at her CNN […]
Six People Dead After Small Plane Crash In Texas
DALLAS (AP) — A man who was part-owner of a plane that crashed Monday in Texas, killing all six people aboard, said he and his friend who owned the plane regularly volunteered to fly sick people in remote parts of the country to hospitals in Houston and Dallas. Officials have not yet released the identities […]
Elizabeth Warren Reiterates Support For Marijuana Legalization
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Monday that she absolutely supports the legalization of marijuana. She cited racial disparities as a major reason for that stance. “The best evidence suggests that African Americans and whites use marijuana at about the same rates,” she said at a CNN town hall in New Hampshire […]
Elite gymnastics culture is cruel. I had to give up the Olympics to regain my voice.
My UCLA coach encouraged to find my voice again. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth.
5th-grader from prestigious D.C. school among victims in Sri Lanka bombings
Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa was on a leave of absence from Sidwell Friends School and had been expected to return to begin middle school in the fall.
Twitter Users Nail Trump For Lying That No One Close To Him Spoke To Mueller
Trump falsely asserted that the people closest to him were never called to testify by the special counsel ― because the president claimed those people would have said “only very good things” about him. Isn’t it amazing that the people who were closest to me, by far, and knew the Campaign better than anyone, were […]
Nadler subpoenas former White House counsel McGahn after Mueller report
The Judiciary Committee chairman said the lawyer “is a critical witness to many of the alleged instances of obstruction of justice…”
Two Google employees say the company retaliated after they organized a walkout
The alleged retaliation, which Google denies took place, follows the worldwide walkout by employees in November.
Militia leader said group trained to assassinate Clinton, Obama, complaint says
Larry Mitchell Hopkins has been described as the “commander” of the United Constitutional Patriots detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
290 killed as Easter Sunday blasts hit churches, hotels in Sri Lanka
The government declared a curfew and said it had shut down access to major social media sites and messaging services.