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Bad Bunny, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ricky Martin are calling for the resignation of Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. But why? On Saturday, 889 pages of private chats between Rosselló and members of his staff were leaked after two of the governor’s former officials were arrested by the FBI on corruption charges. The documents revealed that Rosselló had engaged in vulgar, sexist and homophobic conversations. In the chats Rosselló joked about…

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says the app is “deeply troubling” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called for an investigation into FaceApp, which alters users’ photos to make them look older or younger. In a letter posted on Twitter, Mr Schumer called it “deeply troubling” that personal data of US citizens could go to a “hostile foreign power”. Privacy concerns have been raised…

Bad Bunny, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ricky Martin are calling for the resignation of Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. But why? On Saturday, 889 pages of private chats between Rosselló and members of his staff were leaked after two of the governor’s former officials were arrested by the FBI on corruption charges. The documents revealed that Rosselló had engaged in vulgar, sexist and homophobic conversations. In the chats Rosselló joked about…

The US House has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt for not complying with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request for information on why they added a US citizenship question to the 2020 census. The final vote was 230-198, with only former Republican Rep. Justin Amash joining Democrats (four Democrats also voted no). The vote is part of an ongoing effort…

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We now have a virtual road map to the opioid epidemic, a road map that shows 76 billion opioid pills were distributed across the country between the years 2006 and 2012. That’s enough to supply every person in the United States with 36 pills each year. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: So what this road map is is a database of information the federal Drug Enforcement Administration has…

Unlike the rest of the news media, I’m not going to assume there’s any coherent or consistent meaning lying inside President Trump’s tweets about the unnamed “congresswomen” from this weekend. But while we’re leaping, as usual, to labeling the tweets “racist,” let’s at least acknowledge that Trump was right insofar as his tweet pertained to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Trump’s tweets were, if anything, a truncated version of a Washington…

Unlike the rest of the news media, I’m not going to assume there’s any coherent or consistent meaning lying inside President Trump’s tweets about the unnamed “congresswomen” from this weekend. But while we’re leaping, as usual, to labeling the tweets “racist,” let’s at least acknowledge that Trump was right insofar as his tweet pertained to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Trump’s tweets were, if anything, a truncated version of a Washington…

On a largely partisan vote, the U.S. House on Tuesday evening passed a rare resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” – a phrase used four times in the document — aimed at four congresswomen of color. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, made the closing argument for Democrats in the chamber. “I know racism when I see it. I know racism when I feel it, and at…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, no fan of a Trump impeachment inquiry, said she is unsure how Democratic lawmakers will vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump that are set for a vote. But the California Democrat is eager to dispatch with the resolution “expeditiously,” she told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t know what we’ll do but we’ll deal with it on the floor,” Pelosi said. Pelosi does not back the…

Video House votes to hold Attorney General William Barr, Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress House lawmakers accused Attorney General Barr and Commerce Secretary Ross of failing to provide Congress with information about the citizenship question for the census; reaction and analysis from the ‘Special Report’ All-Stars. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt, saying they…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to sideline an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, effectively killing the measure for now but not burying the issue that has divided Democrats. The resolution’s sponsor, Democratic Representative Al Green, was seeking to capitalize on growing criticism of Trump after the president’s recent attacks on minority congresswomen. The House voted 332 to 95 to set aside the measure. “Impeachment…

CLOSE The vote forced Democrats to take on impeachment and go on the record on whether they support taking it up in the House. AP WASHINGTON – The House voted to kill a measure seeking to impeach President Donald Trump – the first vote on such a measure since Democrats took the majority and since the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, no fan of a Trump impeachment inquiry, said she is unsure how Democratic lawmakers will vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump that are set for a vote. But the California Democrat is eager to dispatch with the resolution “expeditiously,” she told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t know what we’ll do but we’ll deal with it on the floor,” Pelosi said. Pelosi does not back the…

WASHINGTON—The House voted Wednesday to block an effort to impeach President Trump, but the tally made clear that many Democrats are eager to pursue removing him from office despite party leaders’ calls for caution. In the first test of the divisive issue since Democrats took control of the chamber, lawmakers voted 332 to 95 to kill the resolution, with all votes against the measure coming from Democrats. House…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to table an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, effectively killing the measure for now but not burying the issue that has divided Democrats. The resolution’s sponsor, Democratic Representative Al Green, was seeking to capitalize on growing criticism of Trump after the president’s recent attacks on minority congresswomen. The House voted 332 to 95 to set aside the measure. Green…

Attorney General William Barr speaks as he stands with President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross during an event about the census in the Rose Garden at the White House earlier this month. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Attorney General William Barr speaks as he stands with President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross during an event about the census in the Rose Garden at the White…

Video Nancy Pelosi says House resolution condemning President Trump was a ‘gentle as it could be’ The resolution didn’t say that President Trump was racist, only that the words he used were racist, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back hard Wednesday against President Trump’s efforts to cast New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s progressive “squad” as the face of her party, now that the fractious caucus has united…

All year, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tried to avoid a messy House of Representatives debate on impeachment — but this week, her luck ran out. Using a procedural tactic known as a privileged resolution, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) has forced the House to take action on articles of impeachment against President Trump. On Wednesday afternoon, then, the House began voting on the matter. However, there may not be a direct…

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is destined to live out his days at the country’s only supermax prison in Colorado — and he’ll never get to see his beauty-queen wife again, The Post has learned. “That’s where he’s going. I know for a fact that’s where he’s going,” a source with knowledge of Guzman’s case said Wednesday just after he was sentenced to life behind bars plus 30 years as the…