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Stacey Abrams hit the jackpot when she was picked to deliver the Democrats’ response to President Trump’s State of the Union Address: She’s a female minority who can’t be held politically accountable for anything because she doesn’t hold any office. ABC News on Monday ran the headline, “For Democrats, Stacey Abrams sends key message on gender and race in [State of the Union] response.” A news article in the New…

Gov. Ralph Northam’s now-infamous blackface-KKK yearbook photo may soon end his career. A large swath of the public, including many prominent liberals, progressives, and Democratic politicians, are demanding that the Virginia Democrat step down. Even notable institutions like the editorial board of the Richmond Times-Dispatch immediately called for Northam to step aside. Northam now claims he wasn’t actually in the 1984 picture. If it’s later proven that he is in…

“Imaad knows nothing about a subpoena, other than what’s been written,” Zuberi spokesman Steve Rabinowitz told The Times on Monday in a written statement. “It’s well known that after supporting President Obama and Hillary Clinton, that Imaad gave generously and directly to the Trump inaugural. But many others gave substantially more. For what it’s worth, Imaad, as always, gave only his own money from his own resources. If, in fact,…

Alex Horton February 5 at 2:43 PM William Brown had errands to run on a chilly Texas evening, and his grandmother was happy to lend him her light-blue Lincoln Town Car. Brown stopped at a store selling vaporizer smoking pens outside Fort Worth on Jan. 27. He sat alone in the parked car, put his lips to a pen, and soon after, an explosion sent shards of metal into his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman freed from federal prison after President Donald Trump cut short her life sentence for drug offenses and a Delaware boy allegedly bullied because his last name is Trump headline a varied group of 13 guests who will sit with first lady Melania Trump for the State of the Union address. Alice Marie Johnson, 63, served more than two decades of a life sentence without parole…

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Video Elizabeth Warren calls out billionaire ‘freeloaders’, apologizes to Cherokee nation Sen. Warren introduces ‘ultra-millionaire’ tax and apologizes for her DNA test ; David Spunt reports. Democratic presidential hopeful and class warrior Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is still worth millions, new financial records show — as she pushes a new wealth tax aimed at millionaires and billionaires. According to Warren’s presidential candidate personal financial disclosure, obtained by The Center for…

Snow levels dropped to around 4,000 feet in Southern California and will continue to dip to as low as 2,500 feet Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, which could result in snow in the Antelope Valley hills, according to the weather service.

A Texas man died after his e-cigarette exploded and cut a major artery in his neck, according to a medical examiner’s report. William Eric Brown, 24, went to his local vaping store, Smoke & Vape DZ in Fort Worth, Texas, on Jan. 29 and never returned, his grandmother, Alice Brown, told NBC DFW. William Eric Brown died after an electronic cigarette exploded and cut his artery on Jan. 29, 2019.NBC…

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President Trump dances with first lady Melania Trump at the Liberty Ball in 2017. Federal prosecutors subpoenaed Trump’s inaugural committee Monday, reportedly to find out how the inauguration was funded and by whom. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP President Trump dances with first lady Melania Trump at the Liberty Ball in 2017. Federal prosecutors subpoenaed Trump’s inaugural committee Monday, reportedly to find out how the inauguration was…

The Democrats’ 2020 primary has kicked off with a confusing and confused debate about the details of Medicare-for-all — one that shows just how much complexity lurks behind a seemingly simple slogan. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) started things, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that she’d “eliminate all of that,” where “that” referred to private insurance. Within a few hours, her staff was softening the statement, telling reporters that while pursuing single-payer…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said his country should develop new ground-based hypersonic and cruise missiles in a direct response to the apparent ending of a nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow. On Friday, the U.S. confirmed it would suspend its participation in the decades-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty that bans ground-launched medium-range missiles with a range of 310-3,400 miles. The U.S….

Cumberland County, Va. — A Virginia state trooper was killed when someone inside a home fired a weapon at police executing a search warrant during a drug investigation, reports CBS Richmond affiliate WTVR-TV. The person who killed Trooper Lucas Dowell was shot and killed by police. Dowell was killed while helping the Piedmont Regional Drug and Gang Task Force search a home near Farmville Monday night, according to police. “The…

Joshua Trump, a sixth-grader who says he’s been bullied because of his name, will be a guest at the State of the Union address Tuesday. (White House) Eli Rosenberg February 4 at 10:57 PM An 11-year-old boy who says he’s been bullied because of his last name — Trump — will be one of President Trump and first lady Melania Trump’s guests at the State of the Union on Tuesday,…

Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena for documents from President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, a representative of the committee said Monday night. The U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York is investigating allegations that the committee misspent some of the tens of millions it raised from donations and that some donors gave money in exchange for access to influence Trump administration policy positions. “We have just received…

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should not resign because he was an idiot in the past. He should resign because he is an idiot in the present. On Feb. 1, a 35-year-old photo reportedly showing Northam dressed either in blackface or Ku Klux Klan regalia first surfaced on the right-wing news site Big League Politics. Competing newsrooms, including the Virginian-Pilot, soon confirmed that the photo came from Northam’s page in…

The omission of any target date for eliminating fossil fuels frustrated environmental activists and progressives who argue that continued energy extraction will expose people to pollution and health hazards. | J Pat Carter/Getty Images Energy & Environment Legislative text being crafted by Democrats calls for “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” but doesn’t explicitly call for phasing out oil, gas and coal. By ZACK COLMAN 02/04/2019 05:21 PM EST Updated 02/04/2019 06:04…