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Trump provides coy response when asked if he would pardon Diddy

President Donald Trump did not provide a definitive answer when asked if he would grant a presidential pardon to hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is currently on trial in a federal sex trafficking case in New York. On Friday, during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk on the tech billionaire’s last day as a “special government employee,” Trump was coy when answering the question from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy. “Well, nobody’s asked…But I know people […]

todayMay 30, 2025 1

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Trump demands an apology from bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy’ on LGBTQ+ people and migrants

President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally. Referencing Trump’s belief that he was saved by God from assassination, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde said, “You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon […]

todayJanuary 22, 2025

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Five years ago, we asked Kamala Harris about reparations. Now her opponents are distorting her answer

During Charlamagne Tha God’s interview in Detroit with Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, an exchange took place that I’d been bracing for since she announced her run for president: Charlamagne: Have you seen the clip Madam Vice President from theGrio? It’s a clip that’s kinda of out of context, and it says that you won’t do anything specifically for Black people. Have you seen that? VP Kamala Harris: I’ve not seen that. Charlamagne: It’s a clip that has you […]

todayOctober 17, 2024 1

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Was Kamala Harris code-switching or pandering? We asked an expert.

A new “gate” just dropped.  Ever since a sitting president was accused of sponsoring a Washington, D.C., break-in (no, not that one), covering up a secretly recorded phone call of his attempts to interfere with a presidential election (no, not that one) and Congress filing articles of impeachment (calm down, bruh; I’m getting to it!) attaching the suffix “-gate” to a word transformed a benign word into a scandal.  The Watergate Hotel burglary was just a gateway drug to America’s […]

todaySeptember 6, 2024 1

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Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War, leaves out slavery. It’s not the first time

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response — leading the voter to say he was “astonished” by her omission. Asked during a Wednesday night town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, what she believed had caused the war — the first shots of which were fired in her home state of South Carolina — Haley talked about the role […]

todayDecember 28, 2023 1