Donald Trump on Sunday said Hillary Clinton was “playing the woman’s card” and leveraging her gender while declaring Bill Clinton to be “fair game” as the former president escalates his campaigning for his wife, reports CNN. Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee thinks Trump has a good chance of defeating Hillary, according to Politico. NBC: Kentucky’s Mall St. Matthews […]

A Washington Post cartoon depicting Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his daughters as two dancing monkeys elicited such a furor that the newspaper quickly removed it, replacing it with an editor’s note, reports Reuters. Democracy Now: Seymour Hersh: US Military Undermined Obama on Syria with Help to Assad Reuters: Iran Calls The New U.S. Visa […]

Half of those polled in a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday said they would be embarrassed to have Donald Trump as president, but the majority of those are Democrats and independents, reports The Hill. Meanwhile, liberal activists are using the anti-immigration rhetoric of Trump and other Republican candidates to help sign up Latino voters, according to Reuters. Politico: Chris […]

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, reports NBC.   Graham had recently said that there was an “unhealthy” dislike of President Obama in the GOP and also apologized to America’s “Muslim friends” for Donald Trump’s inflammatory Muslim ban proposal, according to Politico. CNN: Nashua, New Hampshire, Closes Schools […]

In an overwhelming 316-113 vote on Friday, the House has backed an enormous $1.1 trillion spending package that avoids a government shutdown and funds federal agencies through next fall, reports CNN. One of the bill’s big “winners” is the US Department of Education, which will see a $1.2 billion increase in funding, according to the […]