Politics

The president is rarely in a building, save for the White House, that doesn’t have his name on it. And that is costing the American taxpayer more than $100 million, according to HuffPost. Trump’s recent visit to his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, contributed $3.6 million to that total. The …

According to a fact check by the Associated Press, President Trump and his Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie are purposely taking credit for improvements made to a veterans healthcare program that started under President Obama. At a rally in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump said, “We passed VA Choice …

Last week after a flurry of states made news by passing legislation that would restrict a woman’s right to choose, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) decided to visit one of those states, Georgia, to protest the anti-abortion bills that she said are a “nationwide assault on women’s constitutional rights.” On Sunday …

Above the doors of the Alabama Statehouse, where late Tuesday the senate approved H.B. 314, the most extreme abortion ban in the country, is a plaster scroll embossed with the state’s Latin motto: Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere. “The phrase,” explains Amanda Reyes, president of the Yellowhammer Fund, means “We Dare …

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time, went after Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday for not prosecuting “corrupt” President Donald Trump. The comedian criticized Mueller’s “Boy Scout” way of “playing it by the book” during a time when America is “off book.” Maher began his “New Rules” segment by …

WASHINGTON — Almost six years ago, Elizabeth Warren introduced her first standalone bill as a U.S. senator. The premise was both clever and simple: students could borrow money for their educations at the same interest rate that banks received from the Federal Reserve. At the time, the rate for a …

WASHINGTON — At the end of a half-hour press conference in which Attorney General William Barr parroted White House talking points and acted more like the president’s personal attorney than the head of the Justice Department, a reporter asked the only question that really mattered: Was it wrong for him …

President Trump wants America to know that he is totally innocent. At the same time, he seems increasingly nervous about the public seeing a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s findings, which Attorney General William Barr says he will release Thursday. Though Trump has in the past expressed indifference …

President Trump had ISIS on the brain Friday morning, tweeting that the terrorist organization “uses the Internet better than almost anyone.” He made sure to clarify he did not mean to praise ISIS. Though the group is trying “to show a glimmer of vicious hope” (?), the president wrote, they …

Many people continue to speak out about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel. Lawmakers from both parties have issued statements condemning the freshman congresswoman’s remarks, which were intended to point out the influence of pro-Israel lobbying in the nation’s capital. President Trump went so far as to call for her …