WASHINGTON (AP) â Angry and anxious, Republican lawmakers and veterans groups hastened to disavow Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of a bereaved military family Monday, but the GOP presidential nominee refused to back down. He complained anew that he had been “viciously attacked” by the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) â First lady Michelle Obama stepped into the presidential election Monday with a forceful, impassioned defense of Hillary Clinton, casting her as the only candidate who can be trusted as a role model for the nation’s children. She took numerous swipes at Republican Donald Trump, all without mentioning his name. “This election and […]
Omarosa Manigault has gotten engaged. Her boyfriend, Pastor John Allen Newman, popped the question Sunday in front of his congregation at The Sanctuary at Calvary Church in Jacksonville, Florida, a churchgoer who witnessed the proposal tells TMZ. Omarosa, an assistant pastor at Weller Street Baptist Church in L.A., met Newman while she was teaching at Howard […]
Donald Trump enjoys promoting the politics of fear. In his doom-and-gloom view of America, Trump, during his acceptance speech for President, put panic in the hearts of many Americans by portraying this republic as a dangerous place in “crisis” and where “crime is through the roof” in inner cities across the country. Once again, Trump […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) â Thousands of demonstrators took to Philadelphia’s sweltering streets Sunday, cheering, chanting and beating drums in the first major protests ahead of the Democratic National Convention, as the city wilted during a heat wave. Throngs of Bernie Sanders supporters marched down a main thoroughfare to show their support of him and disdain for […]
WASHINGTON (AP) â It’s Hillary Clinton‘s turn. The Democratic National Convention opening Monday in Philadelphia is Clinton’s chance to hit reset after a vigorous primary against Bernie Sanders and the unlikely movement that formed behind the Vermont senator. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has endorsed Clinton, but many of his supporters have not. Some were […]
R&B group The O’Jays are decrying the use of their song “Love Train” during the Republican National Convention, including a version remixed as “Trump Train,” without the consent of the band. Founding members Eddie Levert and Walter Williams said in a statement Thursday that they were asked to appear at the convention in Cleveland, but […]
A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens: Television viewers got the moments of excitement they craved from the convention. They had everything to do with antagonism â not excitement â for presidential nominee Donald Trump. Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement speech for Trump, and the spreading realization through the Cleveland arena at […]
Well look-a-here at what we just found out. The LA Times spoke with Jarrett Hill, the brother who exposed the Melania Trump rip-off of Michelle Obamaâs 2008 speech at the RNC on Monday night. Heâs presently unemployed and was looking for his next opportunity and then it just up and happened. Hill, 31, says he […]
CLEVELAND (AP) â Cementing an extraordinary political takeover, Republicans nominated Donald Trump Tuesday night as their presidential standard-bearer, hitching their hopes of keeping Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House on an unorthodox candidate who has sown divisions within the party and across the nation. While it was Trump’s night, Clinton was frequently the […]
CLEVELAND (AP) â With police on edge in this summer of bloodshed, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters and foes held dueling rallies a half-mile apart Monday in a tense but mostly peaceful start to the four-day Republican National Convention. About a dozen Trump backers showed up with handguns strapped to their belts as allowed under […]
Omarosa Manigault is now officially tasked with trying to convince African-Americans across the country to vote for Donald Trump in November. The most memorable contestant on season 1 of his reality show The Apprentice announced her new official title within the Trump campaign: Director of African-American Outreach. âItâs really an extension of the work that the coalition has already been […]
