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Jul 14 2023
News
Far-Right Rep. Eli Crane Offensively Calls Black Americans ‘Colored People’ During House Floor Debate
Arizona Republican Rep. Eli Crane drew condemnation on Thursday when he referred to Black Americans as "colored people" during a debate on the annual defense policy bill. Crane, 43, made the comments while arguing for an amendment to the bill that would prohibit the Defense Department from considering race, gender, religion or political affiliation in its recruitment practices. “My amendment
PeopleJul 14 2023
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'I misspoke': Republican claims 'colored people' comment was just a slip of the tongue
The Republican Congressman who called Blacks on the house floor backtracked Friday, saying he simply “misspoke.” Re. Eli Crane (Fl.) made the outburst during a hearing on an amendment he proposed to the defense budget that would bar the Pentagon from requiring training in “certain race-based concepts.” “My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or Black people or
Raw StoryJul 05 2023
Analysis
How The GOP Could Pass On A Massive Senate Majority
For Senate Democrats, 2024 has long loomed as Year Zero.
That’s when the party faces the daunting task of defending seats across nearly half of the country — in reliably red states, light blue states and states with suddenly wide-open races.
For Republicans, it’s a chance to capitalize on a once-in-a-generation map that massively empowers their base of rural white voters to build
HuffPostJul 16 2023
News
Disney Replaces Snow White’s Seven Dwarfs With ‘Magical Creatures’: REPORT
Disney has replaced Snow White’s seven dwarfs with ‘magical creatures’ in its live-action remake of the famous fairytale film from 1937, according to the New York Post. The seven dwarfs have been scrapped and replaced by ‘magical creatures’ of all sizes, races and genders, according to the New York Post. The politically correct characters accompanying Snow White, played by Hispanic actress
The Daily CallerJul 12 2023
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'Yellowstone,' Harrison Ford, 'The Last of Us' and Scandoval: 2023 Emmy nominations snubs and surprises
The biggest surprise about this year's 75th Emmy Awards will be whether the industry's annual celebration of the best in television will happen as scheduled. Amidst the ongoing Writer's Guild of America strike and a potential Screen Actors Guild strike, the Television Academy is reportedly in discussions with Fox — which will air the Emmys this year — about delaying the ceremony until November
Yahoo NewsJul 07 2023
Opinion
May Trump Soon Reach His Waterloo
If you frequently have a screen on, your impression this summer is that all the hungry things are coming closer in. The sharks are coming closer to shore, the beaches suddenly closed. Bears have been coming in closer for years, deer too. Alligators are advancing onto the golf course and creeping out of the pond.
Candidates for president are coming in closer, away from their natural
Peggy NoonanJun 09 2023
News
Justices toss out Alabama’s new districting map
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court, in a surprise decision, ruled Thursday that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority -- in a state where more than a fourth of the population is Black. Chief Justice John Roberts, who has often voted to restrict voting rights and is generally skeptical of
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteJul 17 2023
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Georgia court dismisses Trump attempt to scuttle election probe
Former US President Donald Trump had requested prosecutor Fani Willis be blocked from filing charges against him. The Georgia state Supreme Court has voted unanimously to dismiss a petition from former United States President Donald Trump, seeking to halt an inquiry into potential election interference during the 2020 race. In a five-page opinion released on Monday, the court rejected that
Al JazeeraJul 15 2023
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US Rep. George Santos repays himself $85K raised from lackluster reelection fundraising
NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled freshman U.S. Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York charged with a host of financial crimes, including embezzling money from his campaign, withdrew $85,000 from his campaign to help repay hundreds of thousands of dollars he loaned himself to get elected in 2022. Congressional campaign records released Friday show Santos raised a relatively paltry $138,000
Associated PressJul 11 2023
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Schumer tears into "very dangerous" Tommy Tuberville after racist comments
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Sen. Tommy Tuberville after the Alabama lawmaker equated the term "white nationalist" with just being an American, and that it's all just a matter of opinion. (See video below, posted by The Recount.) "It's hard to believe that the Senator from Alabama has to be corrected again. The Senator from Alabama is wrong, wrong, wrong," Schumer said. "The
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