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AP Photo/Jeff Roberson KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker who drew bipartisan outrage over her brief Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated apologized publicly Sunday to Trump and his family, calling the online posting “a mistake.” But Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a black Democrat, said she has no plans […]
Screenshot via BIAUS One Nation leader Pauline Hanson appeared in the Australian senate today wearing the full black covering of a burqa. She wore it for several minutes until leaping to her feet when the Senate President gave her the call to ask a question asking to ban the burqa in Australia “in light of […]
AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Russian lawmaker has dismissed the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey as insignificant. Comey, who testified before a Senate committee on Thursday, asserted that President Donald Trump had fired him to interfere with an investigation of Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign and reaffirmed the intelligence community’s […]
AP / J. Scott Applewhite HOUSTON (AP) — A black Texas congressman said Saturday that he’s been threatened with lynching by callers infuriated over him seeking impeachment of President Donald Trump. U.S. Rep. Al Green held a town hall meeting and played recordings of several threatening voicemails left at his offices in Houston and Washington, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | KrulUA) Seven weeks after Congress voted to prevent implementation of new ISP privacy rules, a lawmaker who helped lead that effort has proposed legislation that would impose similar rules in a new form. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the House version of legislation that ultimately killed those privacy rules in March. But now she’s back […]
MOSCOW (AP) — The head of a Russian parliamentary committee is accusing some American news outlets of being part of “a massive system” to affect Russia’s politics. In the wake of widespread claims that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential race, Russia’s State Duma this year began examining the operations of certain U.S. media […]
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque United CEO Oscar Munoz was scolded during a congressional hearing for neglecting to immediately apologize to the passenger who was forcibly removed from a flight in an incident that ignited public backlash. “I was appalled at your comments at first,” Congressman Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., told Munoz during the Tuesday hearing. Public fury toward the airline intensified […]
Thomson Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Turkey will close the door on joining the European Union if it adopts constitutional changes backed at a referendum last week, a leading member of the EU parliament responsible for dealings with Ankara said on Wednesday. Kati Piri’s comments come a day after President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters Turkey will […]
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AP Photo/David Zalubowski At least one Republican lawmaker is asking White House press secretary Sean Spicer to quit, following an uproar over Spicer’s reference to Hitler during a press briefing. Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado said during a town hall meeting Wednesday, “He needs to go. Because I just don’t think he’s serving the president […]
