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‘Crossed the line’: Stephen A. Smith blasts Sen. Mark Kelly over viral video urging troops to defy illegal Trump orders

Stephen A. Smith has opinions, and this week, he aimed them straight at Capitol Hill. On the latest episode of his “Straight Shooter” SiriusXM show, the ESPN personality called out Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) for appearing in a viral video alongside five other Democratic lawmakers, which has garnered more than 18 million views on X. In the clip, the group with military or intelligence backgrounds encourages service members to refuse illegal orders from the Trump administration. To Stephen A., that […]

November 29, 2025 1

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Shutdown leaves a mark on an already-struggling economy, from lost paychecks to canceled flights

WASHINGTON (AP) — The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history appears to be nearing an end, but not without leaving a mark on an already-struggling economy. About 1.25 million federal workers haven’t been paid since Oct. 1. Thousands of flights have been canceled, a trend that is expected to continue this week even as Congress moves toward reopening the government. Government contract awards have slowed and some food aid recipients have seen their benefits interrupted. Most of the lost economic activity will […]

November 11, 2025

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Karine Jean-Pierre defends Biden against claims about ‘mental acuity,’ says Dems are missing the mark in Trump era

Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is sticking beside her former boss, President Joe Biden, despite broad criticisms of his presidency and decision to run for re-election, only to drop out four months before the 2024 election. While promoting her new book “Independent: A Look Inside A Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” Jean-Pierre told “CBS Mornings” she rejects questions about Biden’s “mental acuity” while in office. “I take this very, very seriously. I never saw anyone who […]

October 20, 2025

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Thousands nationwide mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide and decry the Trump administration for setting their efforts back decades. The Rev. Al Sharpton said at a Houston graveside service that Floyd represented all of those “who are defenseless against people who thought they could put their knee on our neck.” He compared Floyd’s killing to that of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black […]

May 25, 2025

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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 […]

September 23, 2024

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Could Mark Robinson’s extremism hand North Carolina to Kamala Harris?

Republicans are facing trouble in North Carolina amid recent polling that shows the party’s gubernatorial nominee, Mark Robinson, is trailing his Democratic opponent. What’s more, Democrats believe Robinson’s extreme candidacy could cause Donald Trump to lose the battleground state to the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, in November. Robinson, North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor, has been the subject of many headlines as a result of incendiary comments he’s made about race, women and the LGBTQ community, among other things. […]

August 29, 2024

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NC gov. candidate Mark Robinson rallies GOP at state convention

Before Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s GOP candidate for governor, even stepped on stage at the state party’s convention Saturday, several state candidates took time in their own speeches to energize the crowd by vouching for Robinson’s gubernatorial bid. When the state’s lieutenant governor did take to the stage more than an hour and a half into the NCGOP Convention’s Old North State Dinner in Greensboro, Robinson started off his fiery speech denouncing the media for focusing too much on Donald […]

May 27, 2024 2

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Meet Mark Robinson, the GOP’s newest bizarro politician

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Who is this man that Donald Trump said is “Martin Luther King on steroids”? A man Trumpy said is “better than Martin Luther King”? In fact, “Martin Luther King times two.” Meet Mark Robinson, the GOP’s nominee for governor in North Carolina. He’s currently the state’s lieutenant governor, and hey, if Trump loves him then I’m sure you’ll hate him. I do. […]

March 8, 2024

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Heated North Carolina governor’s race ahead with Democrat Josh Stein vs. Republican Mark Robinson

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Democratic attorney general and the Republican lieutenant governor won North Carolina’s primaries for governor on Tuesday, setting the stage for what will be an expensive and high-stakes November contest in a state that the two parties see as a pivotal battleground. Josh Stein and Mark Robinson, each of whom turned back multiple party rivals, will present stark contrasts for voters in the ninth-largest state’s fall elections. In separate election-night victory speeches, each candidate laid out policy and […]

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