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A recently-released research study sheds light on the values of white working-class voters in the United States and the reasons these voters strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The trio of researchers conducted the study by visiting four places between August 2016 and March 2017: Birmingham, Alabama; Dayton, Ohio; Tacoma, Washington; Phoenix, Arizona; and - for some reason - the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
It's always in the last place you look, right? For more than a year, the FBI and Department of Justice insisted that they have no documentation from the country's most famous discussion of grandchildren.
In the sixteenth century, the French called venereal disease the "pox of Naples," blaming unclean Italians for the spread of the sexually transmitted infection. The people of Italy differed in their diagnosis, nicknaming VD, "the French disease."
Former president Bill Clinton took on the politics of discrimination and division in a panel discussion in Boston Friday night, never naming President Trump but pointedly addressing recent controversies that have been associated with the president's rhetoric and the views of some Trump supporters. Speaking on a panel before a crowd of more than 1,000 at Northeastern University's Matthews Arena, Clinton said that racism, sexism, homophobia, and other biases are nothing new, but that those elements are "all hanging out there now, for obvious reasons."
In this Thursday, July 28, 2016 file photo, Chelsea Clinton and former President Bill Clinton applaud as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Hundreds of college students from across the U.S. will be coming to Boston for a leadership conference created by former President Bill Clinton.
After waiting five days to put out a short statement on the Harvey Weinstein scandal through her spokesman , twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finally personally addressed the issue in a CNN interview on Wednesday. She told host Fareed Zakaria that the allegations against Weinstein make her feel "sick," "shocked" and "appalled," distancing herself from a man she had "known in the past" -- pointing out that "many others" within her political party are also in the same boat.
Loretta Lynch, former President Barack Obama's attorney general who has long been a target of Republicans, is scheduled to meet with Capitol Hill investigators next week as part of the Russia inquiries, according to sources briefed on the matter. Lynch is expected to voluntarily meet next week with both the House and Senate intelligence committees and could also meet with the Senate judiciary committee, sources said.
Bannon is the latest politico touched by the widening tentacles of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal... . FILE - In this May 25, 2017 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein appears at the amfAR charity gala during the Cannes 70th international film festival, Cap d'Antibes, southern France.
Democrats desperate to rebuild after losing the White House last year have scored a string of election victories for statehouse seats, testing a new generation of candidates and activists eager to resist President Donald Trump's conservative agenda. From New Hampshire to Oklahoma, Democrats have flipped eight Republican-held seats in special legislative elections, having spent millions of dollars on low-turnout contests mostly being fought over local issues.
In a September 2015 speech before the National Press Club in Washington , the Louisiana governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said: "Donald Trump is dangerous. But not in the way you think.
"At several events at this year's New Yorker Festival, a sense of wooziness predominated among audience members, who appeared to be grasping for a wisp of hope that the nightmare known as President Trump would soon be over. Alas, experts who graced the stages at three separate events had a common message: Expect Trump to serve out his first term, and perhaps even his second.
With the same cluelessness that lost her the presidency, Hillary Clinton is setting herself up for trouble in the way she is handling the revelations about one of her key political backers, Harvey Weinstein. First of all, she waited five whole days before responding at all, and when she first broke her silence, she did it indirectly.
Obama speechwriter-turned Hollywood speechwriter and strategist Jon Favreau and all around frat boy type hasn't quite got the memo yet about condemning Harvey Weinstein, and acting 'shocked, shocked' that Weinstein's sex depredations went on around Hollywood as his campaign donations to Democrats flowed. Galling from someone who called a dozen victims of sexual assault liars in order to elect their abuser president: https://t.co/pFALcwHiC7 https://t.co/CABokKqnny Let's get one thing straight; Jon Favreau is That Guy who got caught putting his hands on the boobs of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton while shoving a beer to her mouth in a gleeful frat-boy style photo.
Hillary Clinton said she would gift previous campaign contributions from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to charity. Clinton made the announcement in response to a question on the matter in a CNN interview on Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday tore into film producer Harvey Weinstein over the plethora of sexual abuse allegations against him, vaguely suggesting she would give away the money he's contributed to her political campaigns. The 2016 presidential candidate told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that she would "of course" donate Weinstein's campaign contributions to charity, though it remained unclear if and how she would actually do so.
In this Oct. 9, 2017, photo, former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a television interview in New York. Bannon is the latest politico touched by the widening tentacles of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal.
Harvey Weinstein's wife has said the widespread allegations of sexual harassment against the Hollywood mogul are "unforgivable" and she is leaving him. British fashion designer Georgina Chapman told People magazine: "My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions.
In this April 15, 2012, file photo, Eminem performs at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Eminem, in typical fashion, held nothing back in a blistering freestyle rap attack on President Donald Trump aired on Tuesday night during the BET Hip-Hop Awards.
Hillary Clinton spoke out against the scandal-plagued Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein Tuesday, five long days after The New York Times reported his history of sexual assault settlements. Clinton has a history of fundraising with Weinstein, which made her public condemnation all the more significant.