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The United States will destroy any Iranian drones that fly too close to its ships and has “clear evidence” that it shot down such a drone on Thursday, a senior Trump administration official said. “If they fly too close to our ships, they’ll continue to be shot down,” the official told reporters at a briefing on Friday. The comments came a day after US President Donald Trump said…

Video Rep. Omar: Nothing President Trump says should be taken to heart After the president intensifies his attacks against progressive congresswomen, Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar says, ‘This is our country and we are where we belong.’ Rep. Ilhan Omar promised to continue being President Trump’s “nightmare” as she received a warm welcome in her Minnesota district on Thursday, following a turbulent week in which she repeatedly clashed with the White…

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Video President Trump disavows ‘send her back’ chant at North Carolina rally Trump says he disagrees with the chant aimed at progressive Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar: ‘I was not happy with it.’ President Trump distanced himself Thursday from a chant of “send her back” that rang out during his North Carolina rally the night before and was directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — saying he “was not happy” with the chant. “I…

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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…

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…

Video House votes to condemn Trump remarks made toward four congresswomen Trump’s tweets criticizing congresswomen spark calls for impeachment; Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan weighs in. The four progressive congresswomen who are currently in a nasty feud with President Trump offered a not-so-subtle warning to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, the next time she “singles them out.” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass, often…

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who was appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 as a moderate but later became a leading liberal voice, has died, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. He was 99. The cause of death was complications from a stroke he suffered on Monday, the Supreme Court said.  His daughters were by his side at the time of his death.  “He brought to our bench…

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INYO COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) — The family of a Huntington Beach hiker who was found Monday, four days after she vanished in the Inyo National Forest, says she was chased by a man with a knife. Sixty-year-old Sheryl Powell disappeared near the Grandview Campground in the Bristlecone Pine Forest area July 12. Her husband said she went to take their dog for a walk while he moved their Jeep the…

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Washington — Standing side by side, the four Democratic congresswomen of color who were targeted in a racist tirade by President Trump that elicited widespread condemnation mounted a vigorous defense of their progressive agendas and tried to downplay the commander-in-chief’s controversial comments, which they said were just the latest episode of a pattern of bigoted and divisive rhetoric. In a news conference at the Capitol on Monday afternoon, Democratic Reps….