Obamas paid $112,000 in taxes in 2012 President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama paid more than $112,000 in taxes in 2012, an effective federal income tax rate of more than 18% for 2012, according to the White House. The Obamas and Vice President Biden and his wife released their tax returns Friday, three days before the April 15 tax filing deadline. More
Romney: GOP, conservatives 'have not lost our way' Romney represents the GOP's old guard as younger Republicans such as Marco Rubio and Rand Paul are in spotlight at conservative event... The event known as CPAC often shines the spotlight on the up-and-comers of the Republican Party and is a critical proving ground for presidential hopefuls. More
The Man Who Shot Infamous "47%" Video of Mitt Romney to Reveal His Identity James Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, may have been the one to make the video of Mitt Romney's damning remarks about the "47 percent" in the run-up to the presidential election last year go mainstream, but the man who actually shot the video has remained a mystery, until now. More
Romney breaks post-election silence with Fox News For the first time since losing the White House to President Obama, Mitt Romney sat down for a TV interview that airs on Sunday. "We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs," Romney told Fox News, in an excerpt released Thursday night. More
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Republican delegates to vote Saturday on replacement for Sen. Mitt Romney Several Republican hopefuls have constructed campaigns geared toward receiving the endorsement of former President Donald Trump or Utah’s senior senator, Mike Lee, with candidates debating over which ... 04/25/2024 - 4:40 pm | View Link
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Being Stuck in a Courtroom Is Just What Trump Needed To win a political campaign, you want to put your candidate in a setting that provides a chance to excel. For Trump, that’s the trial. 04/24/2024 - 6:06 pm | View Link
Judge Merchan ruled that Donald Trump violated a gag order nine times and ordered him to pay $9,000. Merchan also threatened to jail Trump if he didn't comply with the gag order in the future. Criminal defense attorney Bill Brennan breaks down the decision.
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Eight years ago, the final Saturday before the Iowa caucuses brought forward all of the contradictions and chaos of then-reality star Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.
(PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.
Belizaire replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former minister of economy and finance who was the current interim prime minister.
The number of groups lobbying the U. S. federal government on artificial intelligence nearly tripled from 2022 to 2023, rocketing from 158 to 451 organizations, according to data from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying. Data on the total amount spent on lobbying by each organization and interviews with two congressional staffers, two nonprofit advocates familiar with AI lobbying efforts, and two named experts suggest that large technology companies have so far dominated efforts to influence potential AI legislation.
The pace is picking up at the Colorado Capitol, with stacked calendars of committee hearings and floor votes. The legislature has nine days to go — including this coming weekend — before the end of the 2024 session, which must adjourn by the end of the day on May 8.
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Updated at 10:30 a.m.: Colorado school employees must now call students by their preferred, gender-affirming names, under to a new law signed Monday by Gov.
So right-wing media continues the deliberate degradation of information, and then pulls it back when threatened with legal action. OAN is not really all that different from Fox, where Jesse Watters gleefully spreads manure on the air. Via the Daily Beast:
Far-right cable news network One America News apologized to Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen Monday after retracting a report that suggested he—rather than Trump himself—had been the one who carried out an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.