Politics

Undocumented dad whose 5-year-old has leukemia granted stay in United States

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency granted a temporary stay of removal to an undocumented father who has a pregnant wife and a 5-year-old child battling leukemia, CBS reported Tuesday, allowing the man to return to his …

Trump Compelled Five Former Federal Prosecutors To Seek House Seats As Democrats

Thanks to the chaos Trump continues to unleash with everything he does, five former federal prosecutors have decided to seek House seats — and they’re running as Democrats. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Chris Hunter resigned from the …

Maggie Haberman on Her Hardest Interview and Predictions for 2018

The Times’s White House correspondent recently caught up with Jennifer Steinhauer, a colleague and onetime competitor, to discuss the art of interviewing, the Trump effect and more.…

Colbie Holderness survived Rob Porter's abuse: Tells White House, don't call me weak

Colbie Holderness, the first wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter—and the woman whose bruised face you’ve probably seen pictures of—is now speaking out. Holderness responded in the Washington Post to Kellyanne Conway’s Sunday comments about Porter, including …

Trump’s budget cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, breaking core campaign promise

When he began his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.”

This is a promise, however, President Trump would like to break. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal that would cut all three programs, which …

Katy Tur Destroys Trump By Listing All The Ways That He Has Leaked Or Mishandled Classified Intel

MSNBC’s Katy Tur ran through a damming of all the ways that Trump and his administration have leaked or mishandled classified intelligence while he has been in office. Video: Katy Tur lists all of the factually proven ways that Trump …

Fake News and Bots May Be Worrisome, but Their Political Power Is Overblown

It’s very hard to change people’s minds, especially when so many are already committed partisans.…

Morning Digest: Illinois House candidate releases powerful ad telling her own #MeToo story

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.

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How Trump turns deadly tragedies into political opportunities

Since Donald Trump took office in January of 2017, it has been a year of disasters. Three massive hurricanes ravaged the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean. Mass shootings at a concert in Las Vegas and a church in Texas were

Omarosa Says We’d Beg To Have Trump Back If Mike Pence Became President

In a preview for the latest episode of Celebrity Big Brother, former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said that Vice President Mike Pence would make an even more terrifying president than Donald Trump. “Can I just say this? As …