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The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election — in which the author called for Baltimore to be declared a disaster, and rebuilt.

President Donald Trump criticized House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Saturday for failing to help his district. He could just as well have pointed out Cummings does a terrible job of “oversight.”

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell called out the media and Democrats’ hypocrisy on Baltimore, tweeting a New York Times article from March 2019 on Sunday in response to claims that President Donald Trump’s criticisms of the city were racist.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Tuesday to decide whether to sign a bill requiring presidential candidates — including Donald Trump — to release their tax returns to qualify for the primary ballot.

The National Education Association and the California state government have caused 80,000 California students to lose their federal financial aid through a combination of political vindictiveness and bureaucratic incompetence.

SANTA MONICA, California — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a rally on unofficial “home turf” at Santa Monica High School on Friday evening, mobilizing supporters ahead of a crucial second Democratic debate next week.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to begin building the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border using emergency funds, lifting an injunction Friday that had been imposed by a district court in California and upheld by the Ninth Circuit.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released a $75 billion plan Friday aimed specifically at helping African-Americans overcome the wealth gap. The plan includes $60 billion to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and $12 billion to support black entrepreneurs.

The story that Israel has reportedly flown a modified version of the F-35 to Iran and back has already changed the balance of power in the Middle East.

Kamala Harris opposed Trump’s decision to restart the federal death penalty. First on the list of those to be executed is a white supremacist who killed an eight-year-old girl and her family.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posted a false claim on Wednesday from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday — only to delete it later.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday morning that it is resuming the federal death penalty, starting with the execution of five death row inmates who have been convicted of murdering children.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has published an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday in which she urges readers to go beyond condemning President Donald Trump as a racist, and “confront” his policies. Along the way, she confirms Trump’s basic criticism of her: namely, that she does not like the United States of America, at least as she finds it.

Republicans appear to believe that Joseph Mifsud was possibly used by opponents of then-candidate Donald Trump to implicate his campaign in wrongdoing.

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee repeatedly on Wednesday morning that the potential collusion between Democrats and Russians in the 2016 presidential election was “outside my purview.”

Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) caught former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in a contradiction in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning, noting that Mueller was saying something different now than he said in his report.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested Tuesday that a non-binding resolution opposing boycotts of Israel would “force” critics of the Jewish state to commit acts of terror.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was found Tuesday to have told a political opponent in the past that she needed to be deported — using a rhetorical tactic that Democrats have said is “un-American” and “racist.”

Leading Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced a plan Tuesday to introduce a new, more conservative alternative to the “Green New Deal,” the plan introduced earlier this year to great fanfare by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted fake news about Israel’s ongoing demolition of several illegal Palestinian-owned buildings in eastern Jerusalem, claiming Israel was attacking Palestinians “just because of who [they] are.”

San Francisco saw its homeless population rise by 17% in the last two years, but the rise in many surrounding counties has been worse.

Facing a tough re-election, Obama chose a path of confrontation, of divide-and-rule politics, echoing Occupy Wall Street and inflaming the Trayvon Martin controversy.

Former vice president Joe Biden is fighting to claim credit for the Obama administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Iraq, which created a vacuum of power that led to the rise of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS.

The Daily Beast has quietly edited a hit piece on Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera that accused him of harboring “secret far-right politics” and featured an image of him standing on the Israeli flag.

White House senior adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday that left-wing Democrats were not merely criticizing the U.S. to improve it, but rather hoping to turn it into a socialist country like Venezuela.

Stephen Miller, senior adviser and speechwriter for President Donald Trump, called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Sunday for comparing facilities at the southern border with “concentration camps.”

The Daily Beast published an article Sunday accusing Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera of “secret far-right politics,” solely on the basis of the fact that he is a Christian who supports the State of Israel.

Sam Liccardo, the Donald Trump-hating mayor of San Jose, revealed that he will make a cameo appearance in the first episode of the sixth and final season of the hit HBO comedy Silicon Valley.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is facing renewed scrutiny over a plea agreement she reached as attorney general of California with disgraced former San Diego mayor Bob Filner, who left office over sexual harassment claims.

Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.

Staffers for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have drafted a letter to campaign manager Faiz Shakir complaining that they are making “poverty wages,” and demanding he pay them a $15 per hour minimum wage.

The Squad’s confrontational approach suggests that Americans have lost touch with the language and the tactics of the civil rights movement.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday that supports the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement — and which also likens Israel to Nazi Germany.

Former vice president Joe Biden told a gathering of black leaders in Los Angeles on Thursday that President Donald Trump reminded him of segregationist George Wallace’s presidential campaign in 1968. Wallace was later shot in an attempted assassination.

New York Magazine has attempted to decipher the various flip-flops by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on health care policy and concluded that they make “no sense.”

The Powerline blog claimed in an investigative report published Thursday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) not only married her brother, but also received asylum as a child after her family used a false name.