WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 30: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) demanding the release of the Epstein files at the U.S. Capitol on July 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Democrats maneuvered to…
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump commemorated the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon. Trump, 79, was joined onstage by his wife, Melania, as well as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine. Melania, 55, wore a…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver waits to speak against a proposed congressional redistricting plan at a state Senate committee hearing on Friday, Sept. 11, 2025 in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb) The longtime congressman and Kansas City’s first Black mayor says Republicans are reviving segregation-era lines with their new map. Facing those seeking…
Two Black teens raising money for their church were subjected to a profanity-laced meltdown by a white man who called them “stupid f-cking monkeys” and hurled the N-word. The trigger? The teens told him, “God bless you.” A video of the jarring incident appeared on TikTok on Sept. 10, and commenters are convinced the man…
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty At least two HBCUs in Virginia, two more in Atlanta, Ga., and one in Alabama are reportedly under threat of terrorism, causing campuses to be temporarily shut down and students to be issued shelter-in-place orders. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, as of Thursday, Virginia State University and Hampton University have…
FILE – Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) The White House wants the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s board removed before next week’s interest rate decision. The…
Actress Julia Roberts reportedly has quietly stepped forward to offer support to her longtime friend Bruce Willis and his family as the Hollywood icon continues his battle with frontotemporal dementia. This news arrives just days after Willis’s devoted wife, Emma Heming, revealed that the “Die Hard” star was moved into a separate home away from…
Conservative leaders and right-wing media figures are facing condemnation after turning the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk into a rallying cry against Democrats, echoing President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that “the radical left” was responsible. Kirk, 31, founder of Turning Point USA and a close Trump ally, was shot in the neck by a sniper’s…
Source: Thai Noipho / Getty In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, and the MAGA world’s (fake) confusion about why so many people are far from sad about it, we really need to have a discussion about the dismissal of blatant bigotry and racist hate speech as a simple difference in opinion. But I won’t…
(Photo credit: DCPS) On Thursday, September 11, 2001, three students and three teachers from Washington, D.C. were among the nearly 3,000 who died that day. It’s been 24 years since two planes struck the Twin Towers in New York City, another hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth crashed before it could reach…
