On Monday, Trump claimed China called his top trade people last night and said the country wanted to make a deal. “China called last night our top trade people and said ‘let’s get back to MORE
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed to reporters that Trump did not attend today’s G-7 Summit’s session on climate, biodiversity, and oceans. MORE
Unrepentant racist and birther, Joe Arpaio, announced he will run for sheriff of Maricopa County in 2020. If he wins the election, it will be his 7th term. MORE
Axios reported that on numerous occasions, Trump has suggested nuking hurricanes before they make landfall. In one briefing, the president said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one MORE
From the Washington Post: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise visit to the city hosting the Group of Seven summit Sunday, a move that caught President Trump off-guard and added another element MORE
On ABC’s This Week, former Congressman Joe Walsh announced his plan to primary Trump. “I’m going to run for president,” Walsh told Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. ABC: George Stephanopoulos pointed out to Walsh that MORE
The Klan showed up in Hillsborough, North Carolina but were met with peaceful counter-protesters who outnumbered the hate-filled group. Community members and elected officials at the local, state and national level immediately condemned the group MORE
The White House said President Trump’s earlier suggestion that he regretted escalating the trade war with China was “misinterpreted” and that what he regrets is not raising tariffs higher. MORE
So, it’s Saturday night and it’s that time to let it all go. Let go of all the negative stuff that happened this week. Keep the good but let go of the bad. It’s Day MORE
A candidate for Marysville, Michigan’s City Council shocked the audience and other candidates with comments she made at a meet the candidates forum on Thursday. Sixty-seven year old Jean Cramer responded to a moderator’s question MORE
Earlier this week, an African-American employee with the US Department of Education had her office vandalized; other employees claim the act was racially motivated. According to a few employees and a congressional aid, African art MORE
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati dealt a crushing blow to former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. In a 3-0 ruling, the Court held two couples can sue Davis for damages after she MORE
No one knows the exact date of when the first slave ship actually touched land but it is believed to be August 20, 1619, 400 years ago this month. In his new article, Pitts talks MORE
In July 2018, Michael Drejka, a white Florida man shot and killed an unarmed black man, Markeis McGlockton, at a convenience store parking lot in Clearwater, Florida. The two men got into an argument over MORE
On his way to the G-7 meeting in France, Trump answered a few questions from the press, since we no longer have press conferences, and made a few comments. New format, bullet points: On tariffs: MORE
In another incident proving the Trump administration’s incompetency, AG William Barr’s DoJ sent an email to immigration court employees but “included a link to a white nationalist website.” The email provided information on immigration news MORE
From The Hill and Yonhap News Agency: North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the East Sea on Saturday local time, South Korea’s military announced, the seventh such launch in less than a month. The South Korean MORE
In the never ending Tariff War between the United States and China, Trump just tweeted that the original 10% tariff on $300 billion dollars worth of Chinese goods, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, MORE
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday. “The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” MORE
Trump’s hand picked Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell spoke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual symposium where he suggested, “the central bank is limited in its ability to counteract President Trump’s trade MORE
Although Trump claims the economy is doing gang busters and is the best economy ever, he took to Twitter this morning tweeting out who to blame in the event it crashes and burns. “The Economy MORE
Billionaire conservative icon David Koch has died at age 79, CBS News has confirmed, according to a source close to the Koch family.
China announced it will place $75 billion dollars in new tariffs and resume 25% tariffs on US automobiles beginning September 1, 2019. The new tariffs will take place in two increments with the second round MORE
This year alone, Brazil has suffered “72,843 fires with more than half in the Amazon region,’the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last MORE
The day before the mass shooting in El Paso, TX that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured numerous others, Gov. Abbot sent out a fundraising memo asking supporters to help him “defend Texas.” MORE