Another Democrat is throwing his hat into the ring to challenge Republican Lindsey Graham for his South Carolina Senate seat. Jaime Harrison, the former chairman of the state’s Democratic Party, announced his bid Wednesday in a video shared on Twitter. “Lindsey Graham can’t lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for Read more about Democrat Jaime Harrison Announces Challenge To Lindsey Graham’s Senate Seat[…]

Jennifer Hudson surprised attendees at the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Awards ceremony luncheon in New York City on Tuesday. The Grammy award-winning singer channeled the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin with her performance of “Amazing Grace.” On Tuesday, Hudson shared her excitement to honor Franklin, who was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor in Read more about Jennifer Hudson Blows Crowd Away In Surprise Performance Honoring Aretha Franklin[…]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving visit in a manner similar to how a Chinese national gained admission four months later. University of Wisconsin student Mark Lindblom apologized Tuesday and received a year’s probation after federal prosecutors agreed he meant Read more about Wisconsin College Student Pleads Guilty To Sneaking Into Mar-a-Lago[…]

By Sophie Quinton Public-sector unions, struck last year by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended their ability to charge non-members fees, suffered another blow this month when the Trump administration blocked hundreds of thousands of Medicaid-funded home health aides from deducting union dues from their paychecks. California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington state and, separately, Read more about This New Trump Rule Draws Fresh Fights From States, Unions[…]

Meek Mill is threatening to take legal action against Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan hotel, saying its employees went to “extreme racist levels” to bar him from entering last week. In videos uploaded on Twitter and Instagram Saturday, the rapper can be seen speaking from inside his car to two individuals who appear to be hotel staffers. Read more about Meek Mill Condemns ‘Racist As Hell’ Vegas Hotel For Keeping Him Out[…]

The sweeping tax law Republicans enacted in late 2017 is definitely not paying for itself and has not significantly boosted the economy or increased wages, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service said in a report. But in line with what critics cautioned, the measure triggered a wave of corporate stock buybacks that benefited investors more than Read more about GOP Tax Law Doing Little For The Economy, Even Less For Workers: Congressional Study[…]

More than a month after he officially announced he would run for president, Joe Biden has finally entered the 2020 Democratic policy wars with his fellow candidates.  Click Here: On Tuesday, the former vice president and current Democratic front-runner released a wide-ranging education plan, which includes proposals his campaign contends would raise teachers’ pay and offer Read more about Joe Biden Tackles Education In First Major Policy Proposal Of 2020 Campaign[…]

Twitter and Facebook announced Tuesday that they had removed thousands of Iran-linked deceptive accounts in a crackdown on a disinformation network. In a statement, Twitter’s head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, said the company eliminated “more than 2,800 inauthentic accounts originating in Iran” earlier this month. “These accounts employed a range of false personas to Read more about Twitter And Facebook Crack Down On Iran-Linked Disinformation Scheme[…]

Scott Pelley, a career journalist at CBS and longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent, said Sunday he believes he lost his job as the host of “CBS Evening News” in 2017 after lodging complaints about a hostile workplace environment that ultimately saw many network executives forced from their jobs. Pelley, who appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Read more about CBS’s Scott Pelley Says He Was Canned After Trying To Report ‘Hostile Work Environment’[…]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he would work to fill any Supreme Court vacancy in 2020, an election year, despite his efforts to scuttle Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the bench for that very reason in 2016. “Uh, we’d fill it,” McConnell said in response to an audience question during an event Read more about Mitch McConnell Says He’d Go After Supreme Court Vacancy In 2020: ‘We’d Fill It’[…]