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As New Jersey moves to legalize weed, the state may face a new challenge: how to handle driving while stoned. Critics of a bill to make cannabis legal warn it could lead to more drugged-driving cases and unsafe highways. But lawmakers say heightened police training and drug enforcement will keep the problem in check. Others […]
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apparently likes to pose in racist photos, dance around in blackface, and then hold press conferences to lie about it. So here’s what happened. Ralph Northam graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984. According to one of the yearbook’s editors, each student was responsible for submitting photos for their page […]
President Donald Trump said military intervention in Venezuela was “an option” as Western nations boost pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to step down, while the troubled OPEC nation’s ally Russia warned against “destructive meddling.” The United States, Canada and several Latin American countries have disavowed Maduro over his disputed re-election last year and recognized […]
Calling his client’s indictment a “travesty of justice,” the lawyer for Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon denied on Thursday that there was anything criminal about his client’s relationship with powerful labor leader John J. Dougherty and vowed to give prosecutors a bruising fight at trial. Attorney Brian J. McMonagle scoffed at the government’s depiction of […]
Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who rose to prominence as Newark’s charismatic and ambitious mayor, announced Friday that he is running for president. Booker chose the first day of Black History Month to launch his campaign, timing that nods to Booker’s own heritage and suggests he will put it at the center of […]
Congressional Democrats exploring ways to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns may target the adequacy of the Internal Revenue Service audit that Trump often cites as his reason for not making the returns public, according to sources familiar with the matter. Such a strategy, focused more on the IRS than on Trump, could help Democrats […]
Solomon Jones’ Big Three: Cops Spot Persons Of Interest On Surveillance Video In Jussie Smollet Case
Cops investigating the Jussie Smollett attack say they finally have a lead from surveillance video … but they’re gonna need the public’s help to locate multiple persons of interest. Chicago PD says detectives were able to find a camera angle that revealed “persons of interest wanted for questioning” in the assault and battery of the […]
Labor leader and political kingmaker John J. Dougherty and Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon were charged Wednesday with embezzlement, bribery, and theft, along with six other people affiliated with Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The sprawling 116-count federal indictment alleges that Dougherty, 58, and his associates stole more than $600,000 in […]
President Donald Trump’s planned “great, great wall” began morphing into a physical barrier and an array of high-tech gadgets in congressional talks launched on Wednesday to forge a compromise on security at the U.S. border with Mexico. Although there were no guarantees a deal could be reached by a Feb. 15 deadline, lawmakers on both […]
Solomon Jones’ Big Three: Stacey Abrams To Deliver Democratic Response To Trump’s State Of The Union
Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House Speaker who rose to national prominence in a losing bid to become the nation’s first African-American female governor, will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters on Capitol Hill that he contacted Abrams three weeks ago […]
Yesterday, when I heard that Jussie Smollet, one of the stars of the hit show Empire, was attacked by white men in ski masks who yelled racial epithets and gay slurs, I wasn’t angry. I was numb. That’s because in Trump’s America, hating those who are different has become a regular occurrence. It’s become a […]
Federal authorities will announce criminal charges Wednesday against powerful labor leader John J. Dougherty, Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon, and at least three other officers of their union, Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. The specific charges — and the total number of people […]