NBC Hands Warren A Safety Net, Gives Her An Excuse To Refuse DNA Test

An NBC News fact-check may give Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren the cover she needs to further explain her repeated refusals to take a DNA test that would prove the Native American ancestry she has claimed to have. DNA tests are not widely accepted as proof of tribal citizenship - in part because the DNA could not show a specific tribe, only some genetic markers from Native people - and are more unreliable for Native Americans than for other ancestral regions.

It’s decision time for Susan Collins

Any minute now, the president will announce his second pick for the Supreme Court, a nominee expected to cement a lasting conservative majority on that storied bench. This would be the same president, you'll recall, who promised to appoint "pro-life justices" who would tip the court so that it would "automatically" overturn Roe v.

Trinny Woodall wears a MASK as she enjoys motorbike ride as she…

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Colorado politicians strike back on border

A transport officer, right, helps immigrants Dilma Araceley Riveria Hernandez, and her son, Anderson Alvarado, 2, get off the bus after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 24 in McAllen, Texas. A transport officer, right, helps immigrants Dilma Araceley Riveria Hernandez, and her son, Anderson Alvarado, 2, get off the bus after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 24 in McAllen, Texas.

I’m more than an ex-coal lobbyist, new EPA chief from Ohio says

The country's new Environmental Protection Agency chief is an Ohio native who insists he's more than a former coal lobbyist. "One of my clients was a coal company," Andrew R. Wheeler said last month in an interview with the Hamilton News Journal.

Fox News Reporter Refutes Jim Jordan: There Seems To Be Many Credible …

The prominent congressional Republican from Ohio sat down with Bret Baier and vehemently denied the allegations made by several former college wrestlers that he turned a blind eye to sexual abuse when he worked as their assistant coach at Ohio State University. Pergram pointed out that of all the accusers, Jordan repeatedly took aim at Michael Disabato , who he claimed during the interview has a "vendetta" against Ohio State because he "lost a licensing agreement" with the university and attempted to discredit him by invoking his arrest earlier this year.

Jim Jordan Bashes CNN for Airing Interviews With Ex-Ohio State…

Bret Baier on Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan called out CNN for having former Ohio State wrestler and accuser Michael DiSabato on three times without doing their "homework" first. Just moments before, Jordan had said that the whole thing amounted to "conversations in a locker room" being expressly different from reports of abuse.

Anti-abortion past haunts Kansas Democratic governor hopeful

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement is giving the Kansas governor's race an odd twist by complicating the bid of a major Democratic candidate who's trying to rebuild his party's brand with rural voters but is hindered by his anti-abortion past. Former state Agriculture Secretary Joshua Svaty argues that Democrats can't break an eight-year losing streak in all statewide races without pulling more votes from strongly Republican rural areas.

Sen. Hatch, Elder Uchtdorf meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the LDS Church met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday, marking the first time a senior leader of the church has met with a German chancellor. Hatch invited Elder Uchtdorf, a German native and member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, on his trip to Berlin to meet with Merkel.