Mitch McConnell, a vocal opponent of reparations, is a descendant of a family...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's ancestors owned at least 14 slaves in the 1800s, according to NBC News. McConnell has spoken out against reparations for the descendants of slaves, arguing in...
View ArticleHere's how the senators who voted to confirm Alexander Acosta are reacting to...
60 senators, including eight Democrats, voted to confirm Alexander Acosta as labor secretary in April 2017. INSIDER reached out to the 56 current senators who voted to confirm Acosta, to see how they...
View Article#IStandWithIlhan: Bernie Sanders, George Takei, and Susan Sarandon are among...
Thousands of people used the hashtags #IStandWithIlhan and #IStandWithIlhanOmar after President Donald Trump's supporters chanted "Send her back" in an apparent reference to the congresswoman at a...
View ArticlePresident Trump has repeatedly claimed he's not a racist, despite weeks of...
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to say "I'm the least racist person in the world." He reiterated that statement on Tuesday as he departed to attend an event in Virginia, as well as...
View ArticleMoney from a retirement program for the US military is set to be diverted to...
The Supreme Court decided last week that Department of Defense funding could be used to construct sections of President Donald Trump's wall at the US-Mexico border. Programs set to lose funding...
View ArticleRep. Will Hurd is the 9th GOP house member to announce he's retiring this...
Nine house Republicans have said they plan to retire since the start of the year, as party strategists become increasingly apprehensive about the possibility of a GOP House takeover in 2020. Most...
View ArticleAn El Paso congresswoman says Trump isn't welcome in her community following...
Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas, who represents El Paso, said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that President Donald Trump wasn't welcome in her community following the shooting that left at least 20 people...
View ArticleThe Trump campaign's Facebook ads promoting ‘invasion’ rhetoric are similar...
President Donald Trump's campaign has run 2,200 Facebook ads using the word "invasion" since May 2018, according to the progressive media watchdog Media Matters. The president's rhetoric is similar to...
View ArticleR. Kelly was hit with more sexual misconduct charges for allegedly paying an...
Minnesota authorities charged R. Kelly with two more sexual misconduct crimes for allegedly paying an underage girl to take off her clothes and dance with him in 2001. Kelly's attorney called the...
View ArticleThe NRA expressed its 'deepest sympathies' about El Paso and Dayton shootings...
President Donald Trump, various GOP leaders, and the National Rifle Association (NRA) released statements in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, expressing their...
View ArticleThe Trump administration has actually cut government resources to fight white...
President Donald Trump vowed in the wake of this weekend's two mass shootings to give federal law enforcement "whatever they need" to fight domestic terrorism. His comments come as the threat of...
View ArticleThe State Department denied more than 5,300 visas to Mexican nationals...
More than 5,300 Mexican nationals were denied visas between Oct. 1 and July 29 because they were poor and considered to be "public charges" dependent on the US government for support, according to...
View ArticleJoe Biden made a glaring gaffe and said poor kids are ‘just as smart as white...
Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" while speaking to a group of mostly minority voters in Iowa. The 2020...
View ArticleA former Republican congressman just apologized for helping put 'an unfit con...
Former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh wrote an op-ed for The New York Times on Wednesday, apologizing for his role in helping President Donald Trump reach the White House and calling for a primary...
View ArticleShell workers in Pennsylvania say they were told to either attend a recent...
Workers at a new Shell plant in Pennsylvania say were told they had to attend a speech by President Donald Trump in order to get paid, according to a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Workers...
View ArticlePortland braces for protests and possible violence between the far-right and...
Portland is bracing for possible violence between the far-right and left-wing anti-fascists, known as Antifa, in clashes on Saturday. A member of the far-right Proud Boys organized an "End Domestic...
View ArticleThe Trump administration reportedly spent months trying to make sure...
Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's nativist adviser, tried to devise a plan that would keep immigrant children living in the US illegally from attending public schools, Bloomberg reported. He...
View ArticlePeople in Denmark are angry and sad that Trump canceled his visit — and...
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he will be postponing a planned state visit to Denmark, after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said he couldn't buy the autonomous Danish territory of...
View ArticlePeople are comparing Trump's EU ambassador to Tekashi 6ix9ine for 'snitching'...
Gordon Sondland confirmed Trump's quid-pro-quo arrangement with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky in his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment...
View ArticleAaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick sent an 18-year-old 400 ice pops after she...
Callie Kessler, 18, shared a video on Twitter of her professing her love for Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.At the time, she was eating a popsicle and feeling the after-effects of...
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