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Democrats seem to be adjusting well to the Trump era. On Tuesday, for example, Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro targeted retirees in San Antonio for donating to President Trump’s reelection campaign. “Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump, etc,” the Twitter account maintained by the congressman’s reelection campaign said Tuesday. The note also lists local businesses and businessmen by name. To be clear, some…

CNN host Don Lemon was visibly flabbergasted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who claimed white supremacy was “actually not a real problem in America” during his program on Tuesday. Carlson downplayed the evidence of the rise of white supremacy throughout the US and described it a “hoax … Just like the Russia hoax.” Lemon was speechless after he replayed a portion of Carlson’s segment for his program. “Wow,” Lemon…

Fairfax County police are responding to reports of “a man with [a] weapon at the Gannett Building” in Tysons. The police department tweeted about the incident at 7950 Jones Branch Drive at 12:25 p.m. today (Wednesday). “Please avoid the area, updates to follow,” the tweet said. We are responding to reports of a man with weapon at the Gannett Building located at 7950 Jones Branch Drive in McLean. Please avoid the…

Cyntoia Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16, appeared during her clemency hearing in May 2018. Lacy Atkins/AP hide caption toggle caption Lacy Atkins/AP Cyntoia Brown, a woman serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16, appeared during her clemency hearing in May 2018. Lacy Atkins/AP Cyntoia Brown, who served 15 years of a life sentence for killing…

The congresswoman representing El Paso and her predecessor exchanged heated words with President  Trump on the eve of his scheduled visit to the Texas border city. The president is slated to travel Wednesday to El Paso as well as Dayton, Ohio – the sites of weekend mass shootings. Rep. Veronica Escobar tweeted Tuesday that she declined a White House invitation to meet with Mr. Trump. Escobar, a Democrat, wrote that she refuses…

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Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner represents Dayton, the scene of one of two mass shootings over the weekend. He opposed a House bill expanding background checks but came out in favor of measures to ban assault style weapons and proposals for red flag bills. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner represents Dayton, the scene of one of two mass shootings over the weekend….

A bipartisan bill to expand background checks and legislation that would flag mentally unstable gun owners are at the top of possible measures Congress could consider in the wake of the two mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and Rep. Pete King, a Republican from New York, held a joint press conference in Long Island calling on Senate…

New Delhi, India – Sanjay Bhan began distributing sweets outside his house on Monday, shortly after India’s government announced its decision to abolish a constitutional provision that guaranteed special rights to India-administered Kashmir. “I feel a rebirth today, I feel like an honoured Indian today,” said Bhan, beaming with joy. “It is a kind of happiness that I cannot explain,” added Bhan, a member of the Kashmiri Hindu community known…

Video Kellyanne Conway: Beto O’Rourke’s ‘cursing and screaming’ about Trump doesn’t ‘heal a single soul’ President Trump issued a fiery tweet late Tuesday for 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke ahead of his visit to the Democrat’s hometown of El Paso, Texas, following last weekend’s shooting that left 22 dead.  Over the past several days, O’Rourke has slammed the president, who he has placed blame for the massacre. The former congressman declared that Trump is…

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CLOSE CLOSE President Trump suggested linking gun control legislation to immigration laws after the El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, mass shootings. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Americans overwhelmingly blame the mental health system, racism and white nationalism, and loose gun laws for a series of mass shootings that have shaken communities across the country. A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll taken Monday and Tuesday, in the wake of deadly violence in El Paso, Texas,…

The owner of the extremist message board 8chan broke his silence on Tuesday in a defensive video statement that attempted to deflect blame for the role the platform plays in disseminating hate speech and inciting violence by lashing out at service providers, journalists and Instagram. Jim Watkins, a US military veteran who lives in the Philippines, defended the website amid growing outcry over reports that the alleged El Paso gunman,…

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CLOSE Three days after a horrific massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, the accused gunman Patrick Crusius still has not been arraigned in court. As a result, there’s been no sight of the 21-year-old defendant since he was arrested outside the Walmart where 22 people were killed.   Crusius’s arraignment – where he will be asked how he pleads – won’t take place until the investigation of the shooting concludes, Claudia Duran, a spokeswoman for…

Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they have launched a domestic terrorism investigation into the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in Northern California, which left three people, including two children, dead. John F. Bennett, special agent in charge with the San Francisco FBI, said at a news conference that the gunman had been “exploring violent ideologies.” An analysis of the suspect’s digital media turned up a “target list,” which included religious groups,…

Throughout Ms. Morrison’s work, elements like these coalesce around her abiding concern with slavery and its legacy. In her fiction, the past is often manifest in a harrowing present — a world of alcoholism, rape, incest and murder, recounted in unflinching detail. It is a world, Ms. Morrison writes in “Beloved” (the novel is set in the 19th century but stands as a metaphor for the 20th), in which “anybody…

Friends of the Dayton Oregon District shooter cut ties with him earlier this year because he’d unexpectedly brandished guns and once talked about shooting up Timothy’s, a popular bar among University of Dayton students, a former friend told the Dayton Daily News. Other people — far from friendly with Connor Betts, the shooter — recalled to the Dayton Daily News how they’d been concerned about him…

President Donald Trump’s message was a distillation of a sentiment “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade expressed on air Tuesday morning. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images white house By QUINT FORGEY 08/06/2019 07:46 AM EDT Updated 08/06/2019 08:12 AM EDT 2019-08-06T08:12-0400 President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked former President Barack Obama over the latter’s statement on the weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, tweeting edited quotes from Fox News hosts…

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his accusations against Google, claiming without offering evidence that the technology company worked to subvert his 2016 presidential campaign and warning he was watching it “very closely” ahead of the 2020 election. Trump, in a series of early posts on Twitter, also slammed Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai, and again raised questions about the search engine’s work…