It presents a stark contrast with his Republican counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who opposes reparations for slavery. “What McConnell said was just preposterous and thats why Im supporting this legislation,” Schumer told us. “In his acti…

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce advocated for a safe harbor approach to cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, while speaking on Tuesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. Such a move would effectively permit offerings so long as issuers…

Ursula von der Leyen, the outgoing German defense minister and an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, won a closely contested vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday to become the new president of the European Commission. Why it matters: Von der Leyen ticks…

Data: NewsWhip; Chart: Chris Canipe/Axios Interest in the 2020 Democratic primary plunged last week as articles about the candidates generated just 6.5 million combined social media interactions the fewest since mid-January, according to data from NewsWhip e…

Fifty years after NASA first landed people on the Moon with its Apollo program, it’s now aiming to do it again, but the storied space agency has a long way to go before it can get there. Driving the news: Last week, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine reassig…

In the closing days of the 2018 elections, President Trumps political guru, Brad Parscale, rolled out a massive TV ad campaign featuring a worried suburban mom fussing over her daughter. The woman told herself that everything would be okay, because of Trumps …

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Posted July 16, 2019 08:37:49 It started with “go back to where you came from”. And now it’s, “if you don’t like it, leave”. “They’re very unhappy. All they do is complain,” US President Tweety McTreason said at an America First business event (appropriately…

President Trumps barrage of racist tweets on Sunday ignited precisely the kind of firestorm he wanted. So on Monday he doubled down and then tripled down, again attacking the four nonwhite Democratic women in Congress he had just urged to go back to their cou…

Howard Jacobsons novels include the Man Booker Prize-winning The Finkler Question. His new novel, Live a Little, will be published in September. That the former British Labour Partys head of disputes, Sam Matthews, should now be in dispute with the British L…

Three weeks ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) experienced a frustration familiar to anyone who has been the oldest child at a wedding or family reunion. She got stuck at the kids table. By simple luck of the draw, she was placed in the first night of the D…