Gregory Cheadle, the black man singled out by President Trump as “my African-American” at a rally, is leaving the Republican Party and pursuing a congressional run as an independent, PBS News reported Thursday. The 62-year-old real estate broker told the outlet MORE
he Trump administration on Thursday is expected to complete the legal repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation, which had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and water bodies. MORE
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) on Thursday filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against CBS Corp. and CBS Broadcasting in New York, charging the organization with publishing false statements from two women who accused him MORE
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Medicaid, the government program that provides health care to more than 75 million low-income and disabled Americans, isn’t necessarily free. It’s the only major welfare program that can function like a loan. Medicaid recipients over MORE
In a direct and urgent call to address gun violence in America, the chief executives of some of the nation’s best-known companies sent a letter to Senate leaders on Thursday, urging an expansion of background checks to all firearms sales and stronger “red flag” laws. MORE
A nursing home doctor has been acquitted of the murder of an elderly woman with severe dementia following a closely watched euthanasia trial in the Netherlands. The court in The Hague concluded on Wednesday that MORE
A few hours before the 3rd Democratic debate tonight in Houston, TX, the Trump campaign will launch an ad blitz countering the Democrats. Trump’s campaign has taken out two, full page ads, one in the MORE
Scientists have discovered two gargantuan radio bubbles at the center of the Milky Way, near the galaxy’s supermassive black holes. These never-before-seen structures are believed to have formed during a “staggeringly powerful” eruption about seven MORE
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. MORE
The United States will not give temporary protected immigration status to people from the Bahamas who evacuated after the archipelago was battered by a Category 5 hurricane, the White House said on Wednesday. “The Bahamians MORE
Twelve leaders of a Southern California-based church have been arrested on charges of coercing dozens of mostly homeless people into forced labor, holding them captive and compelling them to panhandle hours a day to collect MORE
“We did our job. The Senate was supposed to come back, why don’t you all get that straight? The Senate did not come back to pass the bill.I’m getting very angry about the silliness of MORE
Republicans dominating a nearly half-empty North Carolina House chamber used an unexpected vote Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s two-year budget, prompting accusations of trickery and deception from Cooper and MORE
Trump denied that the White House pressured National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) into falsely issuing a statement that National Weather Service (NWS) was wrong in its Hurricane Dorian forecast. He told reporters today: “No MORE
Nicholas Haros Jr., whose mother Frances Haros was killed in the World Trade Center at age 76, wore a black T-shirt with the words “Some people did something” as he read a list of victims’ MORE
A follow-up to a current News Views article: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can “refuse to consider a request for asylum from anyone who failed to apply for it in another MORE
Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star. MORE
Republicans for the Rule of Law released a new video that will air on Fox News in D.C. and South Carolina using a clip of Graham’s own Senate floor speech about election security from July 2018. MORE
Update to a current News Views article: A Chinese businesswoman has been convicted of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents. The 10-woman, two-man federal jury reached the verdict MORE
The Trump administration is preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes as federal health officials call for restrictions to combat an outbreak of a mysterious lung disease that has sickened hundreds and killed at least six people, MORE
Donato Toma, the President of Molise, Italy will give people €700 ($769.65 US dollar) per month to relocate to villages in the area that have less than 2,000 people. Residents who take the president up MORE
Earlier today, Trump spoke at the Pentagon commemorating 9-11. He also commented on his decision to scrap peace talks with the Taliban he scheduled to have at Camp David days prior to the 18th anniversary MORE
U.S. President Donald Trump called on the Federal Reserve to push down interest rates into negative territory, a move reluctantly used by other world central banks to battle weak economic growth as it punishes savers and banks’ earnings in the process. MORE
U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that the U.S. Federal Reserve drive interest rates into negative territory. He says his motivation was to refinance the U.S. government’s $22 trillion in outstanding debt and lengthen the amount of time over which it is repaid. MORE