The United States of America just elected an aging reality TV star to the presidency, yet a Republican-backed super PAC believes constituents in Georgia will be startled by a Democratic congressional candidate who dressed up as Han Solo in college. Former Capitol Hill staffer Jon Ossoff is barely out of his 20s, which appears to be the main point of this attack ad just released against him.
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Feds rescind opposition to key part of Texas voter ID law
The Trump administration says it won’t object to the strict voter ID law Texas wants to impose. A court has already concluded it violates the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the case.
Obama returns to Broadway to see Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’
Former President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia Obama have caught a new revival of Arthur Miller’s “The Price.” They attended the play starring Danny DeVito, Mark Ruffalo, Tony Shalhoub and Jessica Hecht at the American Airlines Theatre on Friday.
Trump walks back false voter fraud claim in interview with Bill O’Reilly
Bill O’Reilly interviewed President Trump for the first time in more than three months before the Super Bowl. He certainly did not admit to being wrong, but in his own way President Trump walked back his false claim that 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots were cast in the November election when he sat down with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly for an interview that aired before the Super Bowl.
Here’s the Real Reason Susan Collins Betrayed American Children
Susan Collins dropped a bombshell yesterday in announcing that she would not vote for Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education. Her reasons center more or less around the idea that charter schools and vouchers would hurt rural schools, which Maine has in abundance.
Author Sued for “Children’s Versions” of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Big publishers and the estates of Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway and Arthur C. Clarke have teamed up for a copyright lawsuit. Swedish author Fredrik Colting, who infamously went to court a decade ago after writing a “sequel” to J.D. Salinger’s classic novel, Catcher in the Rye , is now in a legal dispute for allegedly infringing the copyright to four classic novels – Breakfast at Tiffany’s , The Old Man and The Sea , On the Road , and 2001: A Space Odyssey .
President Obama Speaks With National Geographic About Climate Change and the Environment
In a recent interview with National Geographic , President Barack Obama speaks with environment writer Craig Welch on the well-being of our Earth. Obama was on the atoll to tour Midway’s 1,100-acre Sand Island and view the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
Exploring the ‘Lost City of the Monkey God’
To pigeonhole Douglas Preston a true-crime author is a gross understatement of his skills as a writer.
Critics say a popular vote would take power from the ‘white establishment’ – but it might not
Bill O’Reilly doesn’t want the Electoral College – or the disproportionate power it brings rural, white voters – to disappear. In a two-and-a-half minute introduction to the segment, the conservative Fox News anchor threw his support behind the system, insisting its survival was necessary to ensure that voters in predominantly rural states are not overrun by a growing population of minorities in city centers.