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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warns of ‘mass chaos’ in skies if shutdown continues

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted Tuesday that there could be chaos in the skies next week if the government shutdown drags on and air traffic controllers miss a second paycheck. There have already been numerous delays at airports across the country — sometimes hours long — because the Federal Aviation Administration slows down or stops traffic temporarily anytime it is short on controllers. Last weekend saw some of the worst staff shortages and on Sunday, flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey […]

todayNovember 9, 2025

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Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool. Dozens of centers are missing out on federal grant payments that were due to arrive Nov. 1. Some have closed indefinitely, while others are staying afloat with emergency funding from local governments and school districts. The closures mean Head Start students — who come from low-income households, are homeless or […]

todayNovember 3, 2025

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett says Trump continues to ‘chase President Obama’s shadow’ and push ‘white victimization’

Though former President Barack Obama has been out of office for nearly a decade, his name continues to be a fixture among President Donald Trump‘s MAGA world. Last week, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., evoked the name of America’s first Black president in a gripe over his father not having a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in striking peace deals from the Middle East to East-Central Africa. “Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize […]

todayJuly 1, 2025

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Georgia election workers seek more penalties against Giuliani, saying he continues to defame them

Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a judge Wednesday to penalize him even further for continuing to falsely accuse them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election. Attorneys for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, argued in a filing in a Washington, D.C. federal court that Giuliani has “brazenly” violated an agreement he signed to stop repeating the falsehoods. The alleged violations came in statements he made during two recent […]

todayNovember 22, 2024

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Harris works to energize Black male voters while Trump continues to attack immigration policy

DETROIT (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris warned Tuesday that Republican Donald Trump would “institutionalize” harsh policing tactics that disproportionately affect Black men, while Trump blamed Harris’ immigration policies for “devastating” Black and Latino communities. “Any African American or Hispanic that votes for Kamala … you’ve got to have your head examined, because they are really screwing you,” Trump said of Harris, who is African American, at an evening rally in Georgia. Earlier, during a radio town hall moderated by Charlamagne […]

todayOctober 16, 2024

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Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several top staffers in North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have quit their posts, marking more fallout from a CNN report outlining evidence that he made disturbing posts on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago. The campaign said in a news release Sunday that senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, the campaign’s finance director and the deputy campaign manager “have stepped down from their roles with the […]

todaySeptember 23, 2024

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‘Clown!’: Fani Willis continues to clap back at Republicans, vows she won’t be ‘broken’

Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump, is continuing clapping back at Republicans aligned with the former president as she presses on with her criminal election interference case against the indicted presidential candidate.  “I’m not someone that’s going to be broken,” said the 52-year-old progressive prosecutor during a Monday evening interview on MSNBC. She told host Rachel Maddow that she is not backing down amid federal and statewide investigations lodged by Republicans and numerous death threats. Rather […]

todayMay 21, 2024