Oct 29 WATCH: White House accuses media of wrongly blaming Trump for attacks By Associated Press White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that the first thing the president did was condemn the attacks and the first thing the media did was blame the president. Trump critics have said the president's harsh partisan rhetoric… Continue reading
Oct 29 After Pittsburgh shooting and packages plot, Trump calls media ‘the true Enemy of the People’ By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press Trump strongly condemned the Pittsburgh attack as an act of anti-Semitism, and has denounced political violence and called for unity. But just days before the midterm elections, he has continued to hold his political rallies, complete with harsh criticism of… Continue reading
Oct 28 Wait times for citizenship applications stretch to 2 years By Amy Taxin, Associated Press More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once typically took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the administration of President Donald Trump. Continue reading
Oct 28 Georgia election fight shows that black voter suppression, a southern tradition, still flourishes By Frederick Knight, The Conversation Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued after an Associated Press investigation revealed that his office suppressed 53,000 voter registrations – most of them filed by African-Americans. Continue reading
Oct 28 Enough is enough: Fed-up Americans crave unity amid violence By Claire Galofaro, Margery A. Beck, Associated Press As authorities intercepted more than a dozen pipe bombs addressed to President Donald Trump’s most ardent critics, political scientists and ordinary Americans observed, again, that rabid partisanship had devolved to the point of acts of violent extremism. Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch 10:34 In Wisconsin, female politicians aim to turn the state blue By Zac Schultz, Wisconsin Public Television A record number of women are running for office this year, with more than 3,300 winning major party nominations for state legislature seats. NewsHour Weekend in the spring asked Republican women in the deep red state of Indiana about their… Continue watching
Oct 27 Trump says Pittsburgh attack lays bare ‘hate’ in US By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press President Donald Trump on Saturday lamented the “devastating” attack by a shooter on a Pittsburgh synagogue, saying it lays bare the “hate in our country” and speculating that the deadly violence would have been curbed if the building had had… Continue reading
Oct 27 After arrest, Republicans struggle with mail bombs fallout By Jonathan Lemire, Catherine Lucey, Associated Press Republicans this week scrambled to draw a firm line between the alleged actions of 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc and President Donald Trump. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch 7:03 Can a Democrat win in West Virginia’s ‘Trump country’? By PBS NewsHour, Jaywon Choe West Virginia was once a Democratic stronghold, but its political landscape has shifted solidly Republican in recent elections: in 2016, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton there by 42%. But now, a Democratic congressional candidate who himself voted for Trump is… Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch 14:08 Shields and Brooks on the mail bombs and politics as an identity Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the series of pipe bombs, extreme political divisions in America and campaigning on issues vs. values. Continue watching