Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their new national chairman on Saturday over Rep. Keith Ellison, a liberal Minnesota congressman, after a divisive campaign that reflected the depths of the party’s electoral failures. Perez Elected DNC Chairman on Second Ballot Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as their new national chairman on Saturday over Rep. Keith Ellison, a liberal Minnesota congressman, after a divisive campaign that reflected the depths of the party’s electoral failures.
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The Latest: Obama congratulates Perez as new DNC leader
Former President Barack Obama has congratulated Tom Perez on his election to lead the Democratic Party and commended his decision to ask runner-up Keith Ellison to be his deputy. Obama said in a statement that he knows “Perez will unite us under that banner of opportunity, and lay the groundwork for a new generation of Democratic leadership for this big, bold, inclusive, dynamic America we love so much.”
Muhammad Ali’s son detained at airport: ‘Are you Muslim?’
Muhammad Ali’s son, who bears the boxing great’s name, was detained by immigration officials at a Florida airport and questioned about his ancestry and religion in what amounted to unconstitutional profiling, a family friend said Saturday. Returning from a Black History Month event in Jamaica, Muhammad Ali Jr. and his mother, Khalilah Camacho Ali, were pulled aside and separated from each other on Feb. 7 at the immigration checkpoint at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, said Chris Mancini, a family friend and attorney.
Coal royalty program changes frozen by Trump administration
The Interior Department has put on hold changes to how the federal government values huge volumes of coal extracted from public lands, primarily in the Western United States, after mining companies challenged the agency in federal court. The move by the Trump administration means current rules governing the industry will remain in place pending decisions in the courts, according to an agency notification due to be published Monday in the Federal Register.
Trump skipping annual correspondents’ dinner
I will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening! The dinner is billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and serves as a benefit for journalism scholarships.
Trump says he will not attend White House correspondents’ dinner
U.S. President Donald Trump said on February 25, 2017, he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the U.S. president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities. U.S. President Donald Trump said on February 25, 2017, he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with an annual tradition in which the U.S. president attends a light-hearted roast held by journalists and attended by celebrities.
Is Trump building a blueprint for mass deportation?
But it appears inevitable that many more undocumented immigrants will be swept up by the Trump administration’s more aggressive enforcement. The groups at risk of deportation have been expanded dramatically by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 25 executive orders and the enforcement memos issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security .
Perez elected DNC chair
Judging from some comments in previous threads, there has been a lot of angst and eagerness about the possibility that Congressman Keith Ellison, a Muslim, would be chosen as chair of the Democratic National Committee. Doubtless to the disappointment of some on the Left and many on the Right, it was not to be.
Republican Congressman Darrell Issa’s ‘Real Time’…
As Real Time With Bill Maher interviews go, last night’s top-of-show chat with Republican congressman Darrell Issa was low-key, even genial, but Issa’s call for a special prosecutor to investigate Russia’s involvement in last November’s presidential election has been reverberating ever since. The Republican congressman from California surprised Maher by agreeing that President Donald Trump’s recently appointed attorney general Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from an investigation.
President Donald Trump Will Not Attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Donald Trump has tweeted his regrets to the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, but wishes “everyone well and have a great evening.” Trump’s decision to break with tradition and skip the politico-press schmoozefest comes after a number of big-league news organizations have yanked their usual parties.
Gene Portner, 1926-2017: Navy man, water man and career father dies at 90
Unless you’re a horribly unique person, you would’ve loved Eugene Portner. Everyone who ever knew him fell for him.
Jen Psaki: Without free press, democracy dies
Is it typical to target specific media outlets and exclude them from attending a White House briefing? The short answer is no. I spent almost eight years working for the Obama administration, in the White House as the deputy press secretary, deputy communications director, communications director, and as the spokesperson at the State Department.
Sanders burns Trump with taunting tweet about the size of his inauguration crowd
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a December event at the headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers in Washington. Sen. Bernie Sanders set Twitter on fire Saturday with an epic troll of President Trump and his unending obsession with the size of the crowds that he draws.
After Trump’s immigration order, anxiety grows in Florida’s vegetable fields
Catalina Sanchez, holding her son Gustavo, and Cirilo Perez pose for a portrait with their daughter Miriam, 9, on their bed in the main room of their trailer in Wimauma, Fla. Perez works in the local tomato fields, while Sanchez raises 3-month-old Gustavo.
White House rescinds guidance on transgender students
The Department of Education under newly-appointed Secretary Betsy DeVos has done just what many LGBTQ advocates feared; it withdrew the Obama administration’s guidance issued last May that protected the rights of transgender students in public schools. The guidance was controversial at the time, leading to a lawsuit against the administration led by Texas and including eleven other states.
Spirit Awards: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney Roast Steve Bannon, Donald Trump in Opening Monologue
“We’re not in a bubble, we’re in a tent [on the beach]. … If this room leaned anymore to the left, we would literally topple into the Pacific Ocean.”
Democrats elect Perez national chairman
29, 2014 file photo, then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the White House compound in Washington. National Democrats will elect a new chair whose task is to st… .
President Trump takes on the media
The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write unflattering stories with an epithet he sees as the epitome of low-road, New York Post-style gossip: “Page Six reporter.” Whether the New England-born spokesman realizes it or not, the expression is perhaps less an insult than a reminder of an era when now President Donald Trump mastered the New York tabloid terrain – and his own narrative – shaping his image with a combination of on-the-record bluster and off-the-record gossip.
The Latest: Neighbor says alleged shooter was ‘drunken mess’
In this undated photo provided by Kranti Shalia, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, left, poses for photo with Alok Madasani and his wife Sunayana Dumala in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the middle of a crowded bar, a 51-year-old former air traffic… .
Top Democrats poised to choose next party chair
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Demands for answers on immigration, Russia at 2nd Lance town hall
BRANCHBURG — U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance faced hundreds of passionate constituents Saturday for the second time this week, addressing topics ranging from immigration to Russia as audience members alternately heckled and applauded him. The crowd, which filled most of a 900-seat auditorium at Raritan Valley Community College, peppered Lance with forceful questions about his voting record in Congress and his stance on recent moves by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Late Maine judge’s clerks urge Congress to respect the judiciary, rule of law
More than half of the men and women who worked as clerks for the late appellate judge Frank M. Coffin , a Lewiston native, have signed a letter addressed to members of Congress on the importance of judicial independence and the rule of law. Coffin died in December 2009 at the age of 90 in Portland.
Giffords’s husband to GOP rep: Don’t ‘hide…
Louie Gohmert Giffords’s husband to GOP rep: Don’t ‘hide behind’ my wife’s shooting to avoid town halls Giffords to lawmakers avoiding town halls: ‘Have some courage’ GOP rep invokes Giffords shooting as reason not to hold town hall MORE should not “hide behind” his wife’s shooting to avoid town halls. “If he doesn’t want to do town halls, he should just say he doesn’t want to face his constituents,” Mark Kelly said Friday, according to CNN .
DC residents back Utah rep’s primary challenger
Chaffetz and the Oversight Committee earlier this month attempted to strike down Washington’s legislation legalizing assisted suicide – the latest effort by the committee to use its jurisdiction to overreach in controlling local D.C. laws, critics say. In response, the angry residents are planning to send money to Damian Kidd, Chaffetz’s GOP opponent.
Picture of lighthouse wins drone photography competition
Food blogger is busted for cheating in half marathon by eagle-eyed viewer who spotted distance on her GPS watch was out – as she confesses to taking short-cut AND using a BIKE Homeland Security blocks Syrian cinematographer, 21, from entering America and attending Oscars where his film is nominated for Best Documentary Short Pope goes soft on paedophile priests – including one let off with just a lifetime of prayer for abusing five young boys First planned contact between North Korea and the U.S. in Trump administration is CANCELLED after top envoy is denied US visa ‘He’s the embodiment of awfulness in millennial conservatism’: The 16-year-old Canadian girl reveals how she took down Milo Yiannopoulos by exposing how he tried to rationalize pedophilia Beloved magician Daryl Easton is found dead inside closet of Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle ‘wearing only his underwear’ after he failed to … (more)
Manning Manifests: Campus censorship, deficits and the US election on the agenda
Kady O’Malley was on the panel circuit at the Manning Centre conference this morning. Here’s what she saw and heard.
We asked a top Democratic senator: Do Democrats need a Drudge?
Far-right outlet Breitbart News and conservative aggregator Matt Drudge played instrumental roles in helping President Donald Trump make his way through a bruising primary and ultimately defeat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The outlets both played up narratives that were key to the messages Trump tried to drive home to voters, flooding the internet with content aimed at elevating Trump and tearing down his opponents, including Clinton.
As party rebuilds, Democratic leadership still uncertain
In this Sept. 29, 2014 file photo, then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the White House compound in Washington.
Kansas Legislature’s lurch to center cuts governor’s clout
In this Feb. 22, 2017 file photo, Gov. Sam Brownback takes questions from the media after signing the veto of the tax bill sent to him from the legislature in Topeka, Kan. Debates in the Kansas Legislature over taxes, expanding the state’s Medicaid program and restoring guaranteed tenure for public school teachers illustrate how much clout Brownback and his allies have lost.
Vets group targets Warren over support for illegal immigrants
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is facing heat from a veterans’ advocacy group back home in Massachusetts for her support of illegal immigrants and not prioritizing veterans issues. The Boston Herald reported on Saturday that Veterans Assisting Veterans wrote in an open letter that Warren and other Bay State Democrats need to take care of their own troops before assisting people in the country illegally.
Kansas shooting kills 1, injures 1
An Indian man was killed and another wounded in a shooting being investigated by US authorities in the Midwestern state of Kansas as a possible hate crime. The two men, one of whom reportedly had lived in the US for more than a decade, were shot were at a bar outside Kansas City late Wednesday, according to The Kansas City Star newspaper.
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Tosher, like countless other Americans, likes the subsidized healt… . In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photograph, Vicki Tosher, a breast cancer patient, is shown outside her home in the south Denver suburb of Englewood, Colo.
Trump’s call for US nuclear supremacy raises questions
President Donald Trump would like the US to be “at the top of the pack” when it comes to having nuclear weapons. The President said the US has “fallen behind on nuclear weapons capacity” and that, while he would like to see the lethal weapons abolished, as long as they exist “we’re never going to fall behind on nuclear power.”
Crowds pack Amash and Huizenga town hall meetings Saturday
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash was met by a packed house in Hastings as he and Congressman Bill Huizenga played host to separate town hall meetings in two area communities Saturday. Amash hosted a town hall meeting at the County Commission on Aging in Hastings.
In Trumpa s first speech to Congress, will decorum hold?
This Dec. 8, 2008, file photo shows the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
The Latest: Perez says Dems in ‘a crisis of confidence’
29, 2014 file photo, then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the White House compound in Washington. National Democrats will elect a new chair whose task is to st… .
NY congresswoman urges open White House press briefings
A New York congresswoman has voiced outrage over the White House decision to block The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Politico and others from a press briefing. Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Saturday outside The New York Times offices in Manhattan that she wants the Trump administration to commit to a policy of press access for all.
Rep. Lance town hall event draws packed house, protesters
Rep. Leonard Lance held a second town hall Saturday, just days after his first one erupted in protests, and once again he presided Rep. Leonard Lance held a second town hall Saturday, just days after his first one erupted in protests, and once again he presided over a packed house. BRANCHBURG TOWNSHIP – Rep. Leonard Lance held a second town hall Saturday, just days after his first one erupted in protests, and once again he presided over a packed house.
Sheriff Gives SHOCKING Report On Illegal Alien PREDATOR Arrests! [VIDEO]
Liberals have willfully blinded themselves and have attempted to do the same to others when it comes to the detrimental effects of illegal immigration. All in the name of being more “politically correct” than their conservative counterparts.