Virginia governor apologizes for racist photo but resists growing calls to quit
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for a photograph in his 1984 medical school yearbook showing him and another person in racist garb at a party, but said he would serve out his term even as pressure piled on from fellow Democrats for…
Virginia governor apologizes for racist photo, resists calls to quit
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for a photograph on his 1984 medical school yearbook page showing him and another person in racist garb at a party, but said he would serve out his term even as pressure piled on from fellow Democrat…
Trump steps up attacks on Pelosi for opposing border wall funds
President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday, saying “she’s very bad for our country” and “doesn’t mind human trafficking” because she opposes his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico bord…
Virginia governor apologizes for racist 1984 yearbook photo
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for a photograph on his 1984 medical school yearbook page showing two people at a party in racist garb, one smiling and in blackface and standing next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan costume.
U.S. high court temporarily blocks Louisiana abortion restrictions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily prevented a Louisiana law imposing strict regulations on abortion clinics from taking effect in a case that presents a key test on the contentious issue following last year’s retirement of Justice Anthony Ke…
U.S. Energy Department warns staff to avoid foreign recruitment programs
The U.S. Energy Department on Friday told staff they are banned from taking part in foreign recruitment programs as the agency seeks to stop China and other countries from illegally acquiring sensitive research in supercomputing and other technologies….
Democrat Elizabeth Warren apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA test
Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren has apologized to the Cherokee Nation for taking a DNA test in a widely criticized effort to prove her claims to Native American ancestry, the tribe said on Friday.
House panel launches inquiry over voter rights roll-backs
The Democratically controlled U.S. House Judiciary Committee launched an inquiry on Friday into the Trump administration’s decision to reverse course on several key voting rights lawsuits and its efforts to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 20…
Democratic lawmaker re-introduces bills to strengthen antitrust
Senator Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, said on Friday that she had re-introduced two bills aimed at strengthening enforcement of U.S. antitrust law.
Like predecessor, Trump’s new EPA pick favors meetings with industry
Acting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the agency permanently, held nearly 20 times more meetings with industry representatives than with conservationists during his first two months on th…
