(Headline USA) The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter accelerated Thursday after Republican senators voted to authorize subpoenas of the CEOs of the social media companies to force them to address accusations of censorship in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign.
With Democrats boycotting the hearing, the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that America is an “idea” that “we’ve never lived up to.”
The former vice president shared a clip from his interview on the podcast, “Unlocking Us with Brené Brown,” in which he blasts the U.S. for failing to meet its ideals and...
(Headline USA) New York, Seattle and Portland — three cities recently labeled “anarchist jurisdictions” by the U.S. Justice Department — filed a lawsuit Thursday to invalidate the designation and fight off the Trump administration's efforts to withhold federal dollars.
“The Trump administration’s political threats against Seattle and other Democratic cities are...
(Associated Press) Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he's voted in the Nov. 3 election — but not for the leader of his party.
"I did not vote for President Trump,” the Utah senator told CNN.
He did not say whom he did vote for.
It was the latest chapter in the...
Two uniformed Durham County, NC sheriff’s deputies were turned away from an early-voting site this week in what the county’s Board of Elections now calls a “mistake.”
The two officers went to the Main Library polling place downtown this week but were turned away by election officials, the county’s election...
Facebook apologized to Babylon Bee, a conservative satirical website, after the social media platform censored one of its posts and demonetized its entire page for making fun of Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii.
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon revealed this week that Facebook had demonetized his website’s social media page for...
UPDATE VIA AP: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate as Republicans powered past Democrats' boycott of the session.
Democratic senators refused to show up in protest of the GOP's rush to install President Donald Trump's nominee to replace...
(Headline USA) Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, his culpability in national discord and his overall fitness for the job on Wednesday as he made his first in-person campaign pitch for his former vice president, Joe Biden.
With less than two weeks before Election Day,...
A former Republican senator who now sits on the board of directors for the Commission on Presidential Debates ripped President Trump for accusing the organization of being biased against him.
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, former Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., claimed Trump’s “attack on the debate commission is...
Minneapolis residents are suing the city over a lack of policing after officials voted to defund the police department earlier this year.
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously in June to dismantle the police department in favor of a “Department of Community Safety.”
Though the plan has not moved forward, Mayor...
The exit interviews of officers leaving the Seattle Police Department reveal how little support and concern for their well-being they received from city officials, according to KOMO News.
Dozens of officers have left the force over the past few months, in part because they no longer feel supported by city...
(Headline USA) Just in time for Election Day, Michigan's Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer claimed Wednesday that her state has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than ever.
She noted a sharp increase since the state Supreme Court rebuffed her sweeping lockdown orders earlier this month, declaring the authoritarian measures unconstitutional.
The...