• Kim and Kanye’s marriage may not survive rapper’s latest episode

    Kim and Kanye’s marriage may not survive rapper’s latest episode

    Sources close to Kayne West and Kim Kardashian fear that their marriage won’t survive his latest public outbursts. The insiders believe that the rapper’s frightening behavior — including Sunday’s “campaign rally” where he cried while claiming that he had wanted to abort their first child and railed against Harriet Tubman — is connected to a …
  • New Yorker Writer Falsely Claims Two-Thirds of Emergency Room Visits Result from Police Violence

    New Yorker Writer Falsely Claims Two-Thirds of Emergency Room Visits Result from Police Violence

    A recent article in the New Yorker wrongly claims that two-thirds of emergency room visits by Americans aged 15 to 34 were the result of police violence. The article, written by Harvard University history professor and longtime New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore, tells of a “crisis in policing” which Lepore says is the “culmination …
  • Poll: Majority of Voters Say U.S. Society is Racist

    Poll: Majority of Voters Say U.S. Society is Racist

    A majority of voters — 56% — believe that American society is racist, a recent Wall Street Journal/ NBC News poll found. Eighty-two percent of Democrats polled agreed that American society is racist, more than any other subset included in the polling, including blacks and Hispanics. Ninety percent of Dems said black people are discriminated …
  • Trump campaign says ‘TikTok is spying on you’ in new Facebook ads

    Trump campaign says ‘TikTok is spying on you’ in new Facebook ads

    President Trump’s re-election campaign is turning up the heat on TikTok. The campaign this week ran ads on Facebook claiming that the wildly popular, Chinese-owned social-media app is spying on its users, linking to a survey asking respondents whether it should be banned in the US. “TikTok is spying on you,” one of the ads …
  • St. Louis Couple Charged for Waving Guns at Protesters

    St. Louis Couple Charged for Waving Guns at Protesters

    St. Louis’ top prosecutor has charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who pointed guns at protesters marching by their mansion last month, with felony unlawful use of a weapon. The McCloskeys, who are both personal injury attorneys in their 60s, also face a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree assault, the Associated Press reported. Circuit Attorney …
  • Progressive Newcomer Jamaal Bowman Ousts Longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in New York Primary

    Progressive Newcomer Jamaal Bowman Ousts Longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in New York Primary

    Longtime Representative Eliot Engel was toppled in New York’s Democratic primary race on Friday by progressive political newcomer Jamaal Bowman. Bowman, a former public middle school principal, received 55.5 percent of the vote compared to Engel’s 40.4 percent, with 100 percent of precincts reporting. The major upset win by Bowman was anticipated after initial results …
  • Georgia Governor Sues Atlanta Mayor over Mask Mandate

    Georgia Governor Sues Atlanta Mayor over Mask Mandate

    Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has filed a lawsuit against Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the Atlanta City Council challenging the city’s decision to mandate masks and revert to phase one reopening guidelines. The lawsuit calls the city’s new mask requirements “void and unenforceable” and asks a judge to block Bottoms from issuing any orders …
  • Biden Spokesman Accuses Trump of ‘Openly Embracing the Causes of White Supremacists’

    Biden Spokesman Accuses Trump of ‘Openly Embracing the Causes of White Supremacists’

    Joe Biden press secretary T.J. Ducklo accused President Trump on Thursday of backing white supremacist causes, in an interview on the Fox News Rundown podcast. “If you look at the Trump campaign and what they’re doing, you know they’re only speaking to their base,” Ducklo said on the podcast. “They are alienating voters with divisive rhetoric, …
  • A.G. Barr Warns U.S. Companies That Do Business in China Not to Violate Foreign Agent Registration Act

    A.G. Barr Warns U.S. Companies That Do Business in China Not to Violate Foreign Agent Registration Act

    In a Thursday speech, Attorney General William Barr cautioned American companies that do business in China against violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which requires Americans lobbying on behalf of foreign governments to identify themselves. Barr criticized the relationship between American corporations and the Chinese Communist Party in remarks delivered at the Gerald R. Ford …
  • Tyler Perry steps up to ‘bridge unity’ between Atlanta cops and residents

    Tyler Perry steps up to ‘bridge unity’ between Atlanta cops and residents

    Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry is doing what he can to bring his fractured city together. The creator of the “Madea” film franchise bought 1,000 Kroger’s supermarket gift cards — and turned them over to Atlanta police to hand out to the community, his office said Thursday. “This is about the community that I love, …