by Hope McCorkle | May 30, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
Biden recently pushed back against “this idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration” in New Hampshire
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., blasted former Vice President Joe Biden for his work on a controversial 1994 crime bill, which critics allege to have played a major role in America’s current mass incarceration crisis.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | May 30, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
Moore is “seriously considering” mounting another Senate bid, even though Trump has discouraged him from doing so
Republican Roy Moore, the former Alabama Senate candidate who lost in an upset victory to Democrat Doug Jones in 2017, recently told a journalist he does not think President Donald Trump should be weighing in on his future in politics.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | May 30, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
The speaker of the House blasts Facebook’s decision to allow a deceptively-edited video of her to remain online
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told a northern California radio station Wednesday that Facebook’s decision to allow a deceptively-edited video of her to remain on its platform means it has not learned a lesson from the 2016 elections.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | May 30, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and the cast of “Fox & Friends” had negative reactions to Mueller’s press conference
It was a sharp contrast to the Democratic presidential candidates who lined up to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s bombshell first public remarks about his investigation.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | May 30, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
It’s the first time in Israeli history that snap elections were called, because no majority coalition was formed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face a new round of elections less than two months after he believed he would been re-elected to an unprecedented fifth term.
The Knesset, or Israeli parliament, introduced a bill earlier this week that will dissolve itself as a result of its members inability to form a majority coalition behind Netanyahu, according to CNN.... Read Original Article