Democrats continue to hold a double-digit lead over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot among likely voters, according to a new CNN Poll. The party’s 55 percent to 42 percent advantage in the new poll mirrors their lead in early October and is about the same as the 10-point edge they held just after Labor […]
Rev. William Barber, a recent “genius grant” winner from North Carolina, explained Saturday evening at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, sums up the pseudo-Christianity Trump and those he endorses for political office have come to embrace as the word of God. Referencing Bible verses in Luke, Barber said Jesus told us what his political agenda was. […]
Residents in areas of West and Northwest Philadelphia are having problems reaching 911 from landlines, according to the Mayor’s Office. The issue, the cause of which is currently unknown, began Monday afternoon, according to a mayoral spokeswoman. The city’s Office of Emergency Management is working with Verizon to identify and resolve the problem, the spokeswoman […]
A white North Carolina woman who harassed two black women while they waited for AAA roadside assistance has turned herself into police, according to NBC News affiliate WCNC of Charlotte. Susan Westwood, 51, turned herself in on Saturday. She was transferred to the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department, where she was served with an outstanding misdemeanor […]
Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp announced that his office opened an investigation on Saturday night into the Democratic Party of Georgia over an alleged hacking attempt of the state’s voter registration system, according to a news release posted early Sunday morning. The announcement — slammed by opponents as a […]
Tuesday’s election will decide control of the U.S. House and Senate, with the outcomes determining the limits or possibilities of the next two years of Trump’s presidency. At the same time, it represents a test of the stunning results of 2016. If Republicans keep control of Congress, it could affirm Trump’s approach and embolden him […]
As thousands of migrants walk to America to escape the violence at home, I’m disappointed that a president who’s the son of an immigrant cannot see himself in those people. But I’m not surprised. After all, Trump told us from the very beginning that he saw Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists. But I AM surprised […]
President Trump said Thursday that he hopes the military troops being deployed to the United States’ southwestern border will not have to fire upon any migrants attempting to enter the country through Mexico, but warned that if any rocks are thrown from across the border “we will consider that a firearm. “They want to throw […]
A former Philadelphia police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to conspiring with corrupt Baltimore police officers who funneled illegal drugs to him to sell in Philadelphia. Eric Snell, 34, who was a Baltimore officer before he joined the Philadelphia force, had originally pleaded not guilty and was in the middle of a jury […]
Saying that three other officers had shown restraint by not firing at an unarmed man on an East Germantown street last year, Police Commissioner Richard Ross on Wednesday announced that he was terminating Police Officer Eric Ruch Jr. in the shooting of Dennis Plowden Jr., who died after a bullet went through his left hand […]
A federal judge knocked down a motion from Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp regarding the handling of absentee ballots in the state. US District Court Judge Leigh Martin May rejected Kemp’s arguments point by point and concluded the “injunction ensures that absentee voters who are unable to vote in person and whose applications or […]