Just when you thought that the Al Franken sexual harassment-resignation news cycle was mercifully dead, four…
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Andrea Ramsey, a Democratic candidate for Kansas’s 3 Congressional District, announced that she will exit the race…
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Wedged into Paul Ryan’s Thursday press conference was a brief tangent about “entitlement reforms,” in which the…
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According to a letter obtained by CNN, the Justice Department is looking into the use of fetal tissue, a decision…
I think I’ve started typing the phrase “accused of sexual harassment” in my sleep.
After mounting sexual harassment allegations and pressure from his colleagues to resign, Al Franken announced that…
After a former Democratic Congressional aide accused Senator Al Franken of sexual harassment on Wednesday…
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Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, one of the six women who reportedly settled with Bill O’Reilly for workplace harassment,…
This tax bill is going to pass and Alabama is going to elect a pedophile!
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Garrison Keillor, the former host of National Public Radio weekend staple, A Prarie Home Companion, has been fired…
“I demand that you stop calling me a liar and attacking my character,” Leigh Corfman wrote in a letter to Alabama…
During a White House event honoring three surviving Navajo Code Talkers, including 97-year-old Fleming Begaye, the…
“Embarrassed and ashamed,” is how Minnesota Senator Al Franken described his feelings since four women accused him…
The House Ethics Committee launched an investigation of Representative John Conyers (D-MI) on Tuesday, shortly after…
I’m so tired of writing about sexual harassment and assault! How are you?
Stephen Bittel, the chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, resigned on Friday after six women complained of…
“We shouldn’t close it off and say, ‘To hell with him, rot, and go away from us for the rest of your life.’ Let’s…