The wife of CNN crew member Douglas Thomas pleaded to Donald Trump Jr. via Twitter on Wednesday to stop using an old image of her deceased husband to push a right-wing conspiracy theory. The image is 10 years old, taken when Hurricane Ike hit Texas in 2008, but was circulated and misrepresented by Trump Jr. on Sunday to attack … Read more
President Donald Trump is worried that Bob Woodward’s next book is going to be “bad,” the Washington Post reports. But if the president needs assurance that Woodward is an able journalist, he only needs to look as far as his own tweets. Woodward’s 448-page book is an intimate look at chaos and happenings surrounding Trump’s White House that have gone unreported until … Read more
Is a superstar quarterback quietly supporting the most divisive athlete of the modern era? Colin Kaepernick made headlines again Monday when Nike announced him as one of the faces of its 30-year anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. Tom Brady, QB for the New England Patriots, seemed to throw in his support for Kaepernick when he liked several Instagram posts … Read more
Read Christine Blasey Ford’s detailing sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh Christine Blasey Ford, a Palo Alto University professor, has alleged that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her down and sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. Ford came forward in a Washington Post report on Sunday after first … Read more
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched an Instagram account on Monday and marked the occasion by posting a photo declaring that the State Department has “swagger.” In fact, the department, which is tasked with working on international affairs, apparently is now the “Department of Swagger,” according to the (clearly joking) photo posted by Pompeo, which switched out the official … Read more
Cynthia Nixon has enjoyed plenty of support from her friends while campaigning to become the next governor of New York! On Thursday, New Yorkers will head to the polls to cast their vote in the state’s primary elections, as Nixon challenges incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has served two terms, for the Democratic nomination. Nixon, 52 — … Read more
Donald Trump Jr. said on Tuesday that his father, President Donald Trump, trusts a “smaller group” of people within his administration as tensions have flared in the wake of the anonymous op-ed written in the New York Times that claimed there are staffers who have worked to contain the president. Speaking with ABC News on Good Morning America, Trump Jr. suggested that the “senior … Read more
For many Americans, Sept. 11 will always be a solemn day. The anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center is a reflective time, the chance to remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost and observe how much the world has changed since three planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and one … Read more
On Tuesday, Zina Bash, a member of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s team, came under fire for holding her thumb and forefinger together in a circle. A gesture that was once universally understood to mean “OK,” has been reappropriated by pranksters as a nod to white supremacy and the policies of President Donald Trump. But it also still means “OK,” … Read more
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) grilled Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh about his views on net neutrality, a week after Democrats argued that he would “cripple” internet protections for “decades to come.” The senator, who has been vocal in her support for net neutrality protections, asked Kavanaugh about a dissent he wrote in 2017 as a judge in the U.S. Court … Read more