Speaking at the 25th annual Essence Festival, Senator Kamala Harris announced her plan to close the racial homeownership gap that has historically prevented minority families from purchasing homes. Harris’s proposal would allocate $100 billion in downpayment and closing-cost assistance to families living in historically red-lined communities, administered through the Department …
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The 2020 Democratic racefor president tipped off in earnest Wednesday night as the first slate of 10 candidates gathered to debate in Miami. The two-hour contest was feisty. While the evening’s headliner, Elizabeth Warren, held center stage with a heady mix of policy and passion, the contenders to her right …
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After Jon Stewart recently gave an emotional testimony before a House Judiciary Committee to ask Congress to extend the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed that the former late night host was “bent out of shape” about nothing. Stewart responded to that statement on The …
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WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report drove a dagger through the heart of one of the most notorious conspiracy theories of the Trump era: that a murdered DNC staffer named Seth Rich — not Russia — stole tens of thousands of Democratic Party emails and gave them …
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No lawmaker has been more critical of President Trump’s relationship with Russia than Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). The House Intelligence Committee chairman has long claimed that plenty of evidence of collusion exists in plain sight, making him a frequent target of Trump’s Twitter tirades. So when Attorney General William Barr …
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In 2016, Americans cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton by a margin of close to three million votes. Donald Trump became president, though, because of the Electoral College, which he won 304-227. The system is ostensibly in place to ensure that nation’s rural areas have a voice in national elections, …
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The Senate on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution to “terminate” President Trump’s national emergency declaration. The vote marks a stunning bipartisan rebuke of the president, who last month used his executive privilege to circumvent Congress and fund the construction of a wall along the southern border. Though the …
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President Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong-un didn’t go very well. After months of touting the “friendship,” “love” and “special bond” he shares with the dictator, Trump “walked” from negotiations in Hanoi last week without any sort of agreement. Two days later, satellite imagery revealed that North Korea has been …
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On Sunday morning, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) did not mince words when asked by ABC’s This Weekhost, George Stephanopoulos, whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice. “It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice. It’s very clear,” Nadler answered. Nadler went on to explain, “Eleven-hundred times [Trump] referred to …
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The morning after Spike Lee delivered an uplifting Academy Award acceptance speech in which he praised his ancestors who helped build the country and called for the triumph of love over hate in the 2020 election, President Trump logged onto Twitter to call him racist. “Be nice if Spike Lee …
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