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Joe Arpaio to run for sheriff in 2020

08/25/2019 Ms. G 58

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

Iran’s Foreign Minister surprises Trump at G-7 summit

08/25/2019 Ms. G 23

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

Joe Walsh announces plan to primary Trump

08/25/2019 Ms. G 19

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 KKK holds a rally in North Carolina

08/25/2019 Ms. G 32

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

Trump regrets Tariff War then says he wishes tariffs were higher

08/25/2019 Ms. G 35

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

“Keep Marysville White!”

08/24/2019 Ms. G 87

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

African-American employee’s office vandalized at Dept. of Education

08/24/2019 Ms. G 13

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

Appeals Court rules couples can sue former County Clerk Kim Davis

08/24/2019 Ms. G 44

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

Florida man found guilty of manslaughter in ‘Stand Your Ground’ case

08/24/2019 Ms. G 40

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

Trump boards the bigly airplane to France: G7

08/23/2019 Ms. G 36

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

DoJ sends email with link to White Nationalist website

08/23/2019 Ms. G 60

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

North Korea launches two unidentified projectiles

08/23/2019 Ms. G 31

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

Christian TV host: Jeffrey Epstein is alive and well and may have had a ‘head transplant’

08/23/2019 Surley 46

In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide while in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons earlier this month, conspiracy theories began to swirl around the murky circumstances of his death. While some MORE

‘The Caller Told Them I Was Going To Open Fire On The Police’: A Black Writer Discusses Swatting

08/23/2019 Community 22

At 4:48 a.m. on a Sunday, Leonard Pitts Jr. woke up to a call from the police department in his Maryland suburb. MORE

Trump vows to respond to latest tariffs, calls for US companies to ‘start looking for an alternative to China’

08/23/2019 Community 25

resident Trump on Friday pledged to respond to China’s latest round of tariffs “this afternoon,” further ratcheting up the trade war between Washington and Beijing. MORE

The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking

08/23/2019 forkless 26

A grammatically challenged manifesto in favor of nude sunbathing written under the pen name Bronze Age Pervert (BAP for short) has Trump culitists swooning and giddy with excitement. MORE

Dow set to drop more than 100 points after China retaliates with new tariffs

08/23/2019 Community 30

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Friday after China said it will slap new tariffs on U.S. goods. At around 8:06 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 90 points, indicating a MORE

Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes pancreatic cancer treatment

08/23/2019 Ms. G 48

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 tweets fan the flames of an already faltering economy

08/23/2019 Ms. G 72

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

Billionaire David Koch dead at 79

08/23/2019 Ms. G 80

Billionaire conservative icon David Koch has died at age 79, CBS News has confirmed, according to a source close to the Koch family.

China retaliates and slaps another $75 Billion in new tariffs on US products