Watch Stacey Abrams Star in a Super Bowl Ad
Abrams in 2018.John Amis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic legislative leader who ran a spirited campaign to be Georgia’s governor in 2018, features in a television ad set to run in the state on Super Bowl Sunday. The ad boosts Fair Fight, Abrams’s initiative to…
President Trump Spends 60% of Average Day in Executive Time
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Axios has obtained the presidential daily schedule for the past three months. Here’s a typical day for our commander-in-chief: So that’s it. A 30-minute meeting with Mick Mulvaney and the rest of the day is spent just dicking around. I’m so old I can remember…
Trump Has Spent 75 Days of his Presidency at Mar-a-Lago
Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November 2018.Susan Walsh/AP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump passed Super Bowl weekend at his Mar-a-Lago club and estate in south Florida, pushing the running tally of time he’s spent at the property since his 2017 inauguration to 75 days. The club doubled initiation fees after Trump’s…
The LA Rams Integrated the NFL 73 Years Ago
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Did you know that the NFL desegregated one year before Major League Baseball? I didn’t. Kenny Washington and Woodrow Strode, college football stars who had played at UCLA with Jackie Robinson, were signed by the LA Rams in 1946. Both were past their prime, but…
Trump Says He Plans to Keep US Troops in Iraq
President Donald Trump speaks at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, December 26, 2018.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is committed to pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Syria. But in at times rambling remarks to CBS’s Face the Nation, Trump…
Top Virginia Democrats Call on Governor Ralph Northam to Resign
irginia Governor Ralph Northam speaks with reporters at a press conference on February 2, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia.Alex Edelman/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ralph Northam is all alone. The Virginia governor, a Democrat, is under fire after it was revealed a photo on his medical school yearbook page…