Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby spoke out after police in Charlotte, North Carolina, handcuffed and cited him for possessing a very small amount of marijuana on Monday night. DaBaby — whose legal name is Jonathan Kirk — said on social media early Tuesday morning that he’s a regular target of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which issued him two…
Rudy Giuliani doubled down Tuesday on his anti-Semitic comments about Hungarian Jewish billionaire George Soros, increasingly the target of exaggerated attacks by allies of President Donald Trump. “Soros has funded many enemies to the state of Israel, including groups that support (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement), whose ultimate goal is to destroy the Jewish…
Ballerinas with the Paris Opera performed outdoors on Tuesday in an act of protest against French President Emmanuel Macron’s planned pension reform. The dancers, who joined nationwide strikes that have been ongoing since early this month, performed part of “Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for a crowd of hundreds in front of the majestic Palais…
Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been exploiting prison labor to make calls on behalf of his campaign, The Intercept reported on Wednesday. The Bloomberg campaign contracted a call center company named ProCom through a third-party vendor to conduct the calls, according to the report. ProCom operates call centers…
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang has had unexpected staying power in the Democratic presidential primary thanks in part to the enthusiasm for his plan to provide every American with a basic income of $1,000 a month. But the boldness of his signature idea only serves to underscore the unambitiousness of the health care plan he released earlier…
Michelle Obama shared her family’s Christmas card on Instagram Monday, extending wishes for a “holiday season that sparkles with magic and wonder and a new year filled with peace and hope” to all of the family’s fans. The card, which appears to feature a tree on the front and a red flower on the inside,…
Americans lean toward the House of Representatives’ decision to impeach President Donald Trump, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. Forty-nine percent of Americans approve of the decision to impeach Trump, according to the poll, with 42% disapproving and 9% unsure. Views are overwhelmingly partisan: Eighty-nine percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents approve of the impeachment vote, with…
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday as his Senate impeachment trial remains at an impasse, with Republican and Democratic leaders at odds over its format and whether witnesses should be called. Speaking at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, after a teleconference call with troops stationed across the globe,…
A longtime editor of the Christian Post resigned after learning the publication plans to write an editorial praising President Donald Trump and blasting another Christian publication for condemning him. Napp Nazworth had worked for the Christian Post since 2011 and sat on the editorial board as politics editor when he quit Monday. He departed over…
DNC chair Tom Perez said America has a “hunger for the likes of people like George Herbert Walker Bush who did put country over party every day.” | Branden Camp/AP photo Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez praised late President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday as a leader who put the country above himself, adding…