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The FBI Raid on John Bolton and the Investigation into Letitia James

Todays FBI raid on John Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, D.C., office, coupled with the Justice Department’s investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, has sparked heated debate. Critics cry foul, alleging political retribution by the Trump administration.The FBI’s search of John Bolton’s properties on August 22, 2025, was not a spontaneous act of vindictiveness but part of a national security investigation into the handling of classified documents. Bolton, a former national security adviser under President Trump, has long […]

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Trump calls D.C. neighborhoods ‘slums’ as critics say comments show bias against Black residents

Residents of Washington, D.C., are continuing to push back against the narratives about their city as military troops and federal officers swarm the streets as part of the Trump administration’s declared 30-day crime emergency. “It’s offensive, it’s dangerous, and it’s discriminatory to look at the part of the city, that is majority Black and has been so historically, and define them as slums and crime ridden when we’re communities and every neighborhood is different,” said Gregory Jackson, a longtime public […]

todayAugust 22, 2025 2

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California Democrats’ push for redistricting faces a tight legislative deadline

California Democrats are making a partisan push to draw new congressional districts and reshape the state’s U.S. House representation in their favor, but to pull it off, lawmakers returning to the Capitol on Monday face a tight deadline and must still win voters’ approval. Limits on federal immigration raids and advancing racial justice efforts are also among the hundreds of proposals the Legislature will vote on before the session ends in September. Here’s a look at what’s ahead for lawmakers in their […]

todayAugust 22, 2025

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The Texas House OK’d GOP-favored redistricting. California intends to counter with map of its own

The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct counter to the Texas House’s approval of a new map to create more conservative-leaning seats in that state. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy in response to President Donald Trump’s own brinkmanship. Trump pushed Texas Republicans to reopen the legislative maps they passed in 2021 to squeeze out up to five new GOP seats to […]

todayAugust 21, 2025 1

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Jasmine Crockett hits back after Marjorie Taylor Greene says she doesn’t understand Black ‘struggle’ because she’s educated

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tex., hit back at recent comments from fellow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who said she doesn’t understand Black American “struggle” because of her educational background. “She claims to be, you know, from her people…she puts on this image that she understands the Black American struggle. But let’s face it, the girl went to private school. She went on to, you know, I don’t know what college and law school she went to. It’s like…she’s a […]

todayAugust 21, 2025 2

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Obama applauds Newsom’s California redistricting plan as ‘responsible’ as Texas GOP pushes new maps

Former President Barack Obama has waded into states’ efforts at rare mid-decade redistricting efforts, saying he agrees with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s response to alter his state’s congressional maps, in the way of Texas redistricting efforts promoted by President Donald Trump aimed at shoring up Republicans’ position in next year’s elections. “I believe that Gov. Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach. He said this is going to be responsible. We’re not going to try to completely maximize it,” Obama said at a […]

todayAugust 21, 2025 3

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Abby Phillip’s powerful monologue takes on Jillian Michaels and Trump over slavery comments 

In what she billed as a lesson, not a lecture—a subtle nod to a recent comment made by Jillian Michaels that white people might not want another lecture—Abby Phillip opened up the August 19th episode of CNN’s “NewsNight” with a monologue about the history, reality and legacy of slavery. The CNN anchor also noted that all of the information she referenced was available in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, one of many institutions President Trump […]

todayAugust 21, 2025 3

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Trump deputy Stephen Miller says DC crackdown is for the ‘safety’ of Black residents. These residents say it’s causing more harm

After being met with angry protesters at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station amid the Trump administration’s federal law enforcement crackdown, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller dismissed community dissenters and said the surge of National Guard troops and federal police agents was all for the “safety” of D.C.’s Black residents. “Most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C. are Black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its Black citizens for generations,” said Miller, […]

todayAugust 20, 2025

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Before his slavery remark, in 2017 Trump praised the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Here’s what he said

President Donald Trump‘s latest remark about slavery has put renewed scrutiny on the Smithsonian museums, which are currently under internal review by the White House to “remove divisive or partisan narratives” and “restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.” In a Tuesday Truth Social post, the president appeared to suggest that the topic of slavery was a breach of what his administration considers too “woke.” “The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment […]

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