The reelection campaign for President Trump is making a move to court some of Democrats’ most reliable voters, opening centers meant to boost the president’s popularity among African-Americans in 15 cities around the country. The “Black Voices for Trump Community…
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Biden’s ad buy in Super Tuesday states dwarfed by rivals
As he pours resources into winning Saturday’s primary in his “firewall” state of South Carolina, former Vice President Joe Biden is finally taking to the airwaves in some of the 14 states that vote next week on Super Tuesday. But the modest ad…
Supreme Court agrees to review religious liberty dispute over foster care and same-sex couples
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it has agreed to hear a case involving a Catholic social services agency that sued the city of Philadelphia for cutting ties with them over their refusal to place children in foster care with same-sex…
Trump to speak at CPAC this weekend
President Trump is expected to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday for the fourth time in his presidency. “Look forward to being with all of my friends and supporters @CPAC on Saturday, February 29th! #KAG2020,” Trump tweeted over…
Who is Richard Grenell, the new acting director of national intelligence?
Who is America’s new spy chief? Richard Grenell, the current U.S. ambassador to Germany, is now the acting director of national intelligence after being appointed to the position by President Trump last week. He is an outspoken Trump loyalist with…
Union workers once opposed Klobuchar endorsement over ‘hostile’ treatment of staff
When then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar was running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2006, members of the local public employees’ union that represented the lawyers on her staff wrote to their state union headquarters asking it to withhold its endorsement from the Democrat.…
Hundreds camp out overnight ahead of Trump rally in Colorado
President Trump is gearing up for a rally in Colorado Springs Thursday evening, but many supporters have already been there for quite some time, braving cold temperatures and camping out overnight with the hopes of securing prime spots for the…
Pentagon chief visits nuke base to highlight weapon spending
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — Defense Secretary Mark Esper used his first-ever visit to a nuclear missile field in frigid North Dakota to tout the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar plan for a top-to-bottom modernization of the nuclear arsenal. The costly project…
Trump threatens lawsuits over Mueller probe, blasts prosecutors on Stone case
President Trump on Tuesday blasted the federal prosecutors who until recently were working GOP operative Roger Stone’s case, while even threatening to bring lawsuits over former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “badly tainted” investigation. “These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller…
DHS waives contracting laws in bid to speed up border wall construction
In a move to speed up the construction of 177 miles of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration is waiving a set of laws that applies to how the Department of Homeland Security can work with federal contractors.…