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Video Virginia Gov. Northam reportedly tells staff he will not resign over blackface photo Nearly 60 percent of African-Americans in Virginia want Gov. Ralph Northam to remain in office despite the recent scandal surrounding a racist photo on the Democrat’s 1984 medical school yearbook page, according to a poll released Saturday. The Washington Post-Schar School poll, conducted Wednesday through Friday, found Virginia’s broader population to be split evenly about Northam’s fate, with 47 percent…

Lawyers representing a college professor who alleged Virginia Lieutenant Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) sexually assaulted her say their client is willing to testify at impeachment proceedings or to cooperate with law enforcement in an investigation of her claims. In a statement Saturday night, attorneys Debra Katz and Lisa Banks write that Vanessa Tyson is “fully prepared” to testify under oath on her claim that Fairfax assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National…

Rob Lowe’s tweet about Sen. Elizabeth Warren was not well-received by some in Hollywood. (Reuters) Actor Rob Lowe removed a Twitter post that poked fun at U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday out of concern that “some peeps got upset.” Earlier in the day, Lowe responded on the social media platform after the Massachusetts Democrat officially launched her 2020 presidential campaign with a kickoff event in Lawrence, Mass. “Elizabeth Warren…

Ocasio-Cortez apparently triggered the ire of Republican Scott Dunn, member of the City Council of Richardson, near Dallas, when she responded to GOP criticism that she wasn’t enthusiastic enough during Trump’s speech. She declared in a tweet: “Why should I be ‘spirited and warm’ for this embarrassment of a #SOTU?”

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is telling customers of its joint ventures to deposit oil sales proceeds in an account recently opened at Russia’s Gazprombank AO, according to sources and an internal document seen by Reuters on Saturday. PDVSA’s move comes after the United States imposed tough, new financial sanctions on Jan. 28 aimed at blocking Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro’s access to the country’s oil revenue. Supporters…

CLOSE After announcing her bid for president, Senator Warren told the crowd at her rally a candid story about how she was forced to potty-train her daughter in just 5 days. USA TODAY Sen. Elizabeth Warren formally announced her candidacy for the White House on Saturday, and hours later President Donald Trump weighed in on his newest campaign opponent, appearing to make a joke with reference to the Trail of…

Video Growing calls for Fairfax to resign amid second sex assault allegation Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on Saturday urged the FBI to look into sexual assault allegations against him, insisting that the encounters with his accusers were “consensual.” Fairfax, under fire in the midst of a tumultuous week for multiple Virginia politicos, issued a statement asking “impartial investigatory authorities, including the FBI” to look into accusations that he sexually assaulted two women,…

When self-described socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., released her “Green New Deal” Thursday, it was a full-blown leftist buffet. “The new Green Deal isn’t a plan. It’s a socialist Christmas list,” explained the Washington Examiner’s Phil Klein. “The Green New Deal, so far as it exists in the form of a nonbinding resolution, isn’t merely confined to addressing climate change; it also calls for tackling jobs, food, healthcare, housing, employment,…

LAWRENCE, Mass. — Elizabeth Warren formally launched her presidential campaign Saturday with a call for “fundamental change,” even if the “cowards and armchair critics” call it “extreme or radical.” “Because the man in the White House is not the cause of what’s broken, he’s just the latest — and most extreme — symptom of what’s gone wrong in America,” Warren said of President Donald Trump at an outdoor rally on…

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Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam faces hundreds of calls from the nation’s top Democratic leaders to resign. It’s all because of a photo supposedly depicting him in either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood. His second in command, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, now stands credibly accused of raping a woman at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. His reaction to the allegation on Monday was, and I quote, ”…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring are all facing calls to resign. What happens if they do? So here are the eight possibilities: Only Gov. Northam Resigns: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D) Only Lt. Gov. Fairfax Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D) Only…

Video Schiff announces investigation into President Trump ‘beyond Russia’ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff looks to expand scope of Russia probe; Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy reacts. One day after President Trump decried what he called “the politics of revenge” and “partisan investigations” in his State of the Union address, Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced a new, wide-ranging probe into the president’s foreign business dealings and Russian…

“The time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end,” Nixon said on Jan. 30, 1974. 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., directly claimed to be a Native American in the 1980s when she worked at the University of Texas law school, contrary to what she has suggested in previous statements. In 1986, Warren scribbled “American Indian” on the line that says “race” on her State Bar of Texas registration card, according to a Washington Post report published Tuesday evening. “The Texas bar registration card … removes any…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring are all facing calls to resign. What happens if they do? So here are the eight possibilities: Only Gov. Northam Resigns: Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D) Only Lt. Gov. Fairfax Resigns: Gov. Ralph Northam (D), acting Lt. Gov. Steve Newman (R), Attorney General Mark Herring (D) Only…

“We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good,” Trump said in his address.

Video Elizabeth Warren listed race as ‘American Indian’ in Texas State Bar registration An open records request by The Washington Post reveals the document filled out by the now Democrat senator in 1986; Doug McKelway reports. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren indicated that her race was “American Indian” in a handwritten registration form filed in 1986 with the Texas State Bar, according to a new report on Tuesday that documents the…

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