Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Her Dance Haters With Even More Dancing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, one day before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sworn into office, an anonymous Twitter user posted a video of the new representative from New York’s 14th Congressional District dancing on a rooftop from her days as a student at Boston University. “Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all…
Nancy Pelosi Is Voted Speaker of the House, Which Means Democrats Are Officially in Control
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California is applauded at the Capitol ahead of the vote that made her speaker of the House for the second time.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday afternoon, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was elected speaker of the House for the 116th Congress. In the biggest…
North Carolina’s Unsettled Congressional Race Is an Absolute Mess
Republican candidate Mark Harris answers questions at a news conference ON Nov. 7, 2018.David T. Foster Iii/Charlotte Observer/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 3, 40 freshman Democrats will be sworn in, officially flipping the House from red to blue. But the seat the 9th Congressional District in North…
Airlines Will Begin Reporting How Often They Break Wheelchairs, Thanks to Tammy Duckworth
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the closing weeks of the Obama administration, the Department of Transportation completed a years-long effort to begin holding airlines accountable for damaging passengers’ motorized wheelchairs and scooters. Then Donald Trump took office. Advocacy groups for people with disabilities say this happens…
Workers Describe How They’re Trying to Survive the Trump Shutdown
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Christmas Day press conference, President Donald Trump told reporters that federal workers had signaled to him that they were happy to be furloughed or working without pay. But as the partial government shutdown enters its fifth day, federal workers, contractors, and…
Yes, Ben Carson is Still in Trump’s Cabinet. And Congressional Probes Could Be Coming His Way.
Zach Gibson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After his 2016 presidential bid failed, Ben Carson acknowledged he didn’t have enough experience to run a federal agency. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Nonetheless, after he became president, Donald Trump tweeted that the famous retired neurosurgeon might be his nominee to run HUD, the $41 billion agency with more than 9,000 employees that oversees housing…