Alana Minkler Published 5:22 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2020 | Updated 9:46 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2020CLOSE Jaden Smith criticized YouTube personality Shane Dawson for sexualizing his sister. Dawson also apologized for racist videos. Video ElephantThe FBI raided the California mansion of YouTube personality Jake Paul on Wednesday morning, the same day that Scottsdale police dropped charges against…
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 8:18 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2020 | Updated 8:41 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2020CLOSE Senate Minority leader Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters “we are not going to give up. We are not going to walk away,” as negotiations continue on a huge coronavirus relief bill. (August 4) AP DomesticWASHINGTON – After…
By Laura Vozzella, Katherine Frey The Washington Post Former Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox (R), shown last year in Richmond, said he is considering a run for governor. RICHMOND — Former House Speaker Kirk Cox confirmed Monday that he is “seriously looking” at running for Virginia governor next year, adding his name to a relatively…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have subpoenaed four top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying that the Trump administration is stonewalling their investigation into the firing of the State Department’s top independent watchdog earlier this year.Former State Department Inspector General Steve Linick appeared for a closed-door interview in the probe in June and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee has invited the new postmaster general to appear at a September hearing to examine operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries across the country.The plan imposed by Louis DeJoy, a Republican fundraiser who took over the top job at the Postal…
The United States House Intelligence Committee has launched an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence office, including its actions during protests in Portland, Oregon and its involvement in other anti-racism demonstrations across the country. In a letter to DHS officials on Monday, Committee Chairman Adam Schiff wrote that “the reporting regarding the monitoring…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a suburban Houston congressional district that backed President Donald Trump in 2016, a twice-elected Republican sheriff is battling a Democrat who’s the son of an immigrant from India. To Democrats, that smells like an opportunity.Things are flipped in central New York, where freshman Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi faces the Republican he…
After looking at several houses along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, my new wife and I decided the sunny cottage on Audubon Drive in Foley was the one—so long as the seller came down a little on the $145,000 asking price. There were two bedrooms, two bathrooms, an attached garage, a tidy shed that was painted picnic-table red,…
WASHINGTON — Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted his administration’s supply of ventilators, a critical tool for treating patients with life-threatening respiratory symptoms.But internal emails and documents obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee suggest that the Trump administration failed to enforce an existing contract with a major medical manufacturer,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiations over another coronavirus relief bill continue, the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives said as a federal jobless benefit was set to expire on Friday with no sign of a deal between the White House and Democrats. FILE PHOTO: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) testifies as the…