Month: September 2020

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is targeting five red-state Democratic senators up for reelection in 2018 over the government shutdown. The effort targets Sens. Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonNASA, SpaceX and the private-public partnership that caused the flight of the Crew Dragon Lobbying world The most expensive congressional races of the last decade MORE (D-Fla.),Read moreRead more

Former Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderTrump official criticizes ex-Clinton spokesman over defunding police tweet Obama to speak about George Floyd in virtual town hall GOP group launches redistricting site MORE refused to rule out running for president while speaking to reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington on Wednesday.“We’ll see,” Holder said inRead moreRead more

Though an explosive interview with President Donald Trump conducted by the New York Times published Wednesday evening resulted in breaking news bulletins across the media and provided an inside look at Trump’s state of mind regarding current events, including healthcare, some in the journalistic community are expressing disappointment at the lack of substantive questions askedRead moreRead more

The artists that will be celebrated at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors were just announced. But one of them—legendary television producer Norman Lear—has said he’ll be boycotting the pre-gala White House reception in protest of President Donald Trump. The New York Times described his boycotting of the reception as “a rare move in the Honors’Read moreRead more

The August recess isn’t over yet, but progressive organizations are using the time to mobilize against looming Republican plans—spearheaded by the Trump administration in the White House and by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in Congress—to give corporations and the nation’s wealthiest individuals massive tax cuts while putting services and social programs onRead moreRead more

President Donald Trump’s newly-announced nominee to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an elected official with no science credentials. Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Oklahoma), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, is “unlike previous NASA administrators,” Newsweek notes, as “the 42-year-old Michigan native does notRead moreRead more

Just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he will come to a decision on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal “very soon,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned in an interview on CNN that “[e]xiting such an agreement would carry a high cost for the United States of America.” “Whatever line NetanyahuRead moreRead more

SAN DIEGO — California Democrats are anxious that crowded primaries could cost the party two must-win seats as it looks to take back the House majority. State leaders delivered a blunt warning at the state party convention last weekend about the perils of too many candidates running for the seats held by retiring GOP Reps.Read moreRead more

The Republican candidate for a vacant House seat in Pennsylvania, Rick Saccone, is facing questions over his description of working as a diplomat in North Korea. Saccone’s experience during his time in North Korea would have been as “more of an observer,” a former U.S. diplomat, David Lambertson, told The Guardian. Lambertson said he held the same position as Saccone at the Korea PeninsulaRead moreRead more

Click:industrial electric tricycle supplier As the Spanish government continued trying to block an independence referendum scheduled to take place Oct. 1 in Catalonia, on Saturday pro-independence voters occupied dozens of schools that had been designated as polling stations, in hopes of evading efforts by police officers to restrict access and stop the vote on Sunday.Read moreRead more