• Reddit bans pro-Trump forum in hate speech crackdown

    Reddit bans pro-Trump forum in hate speech crackdown

    Jun 29, 2020 07:59 PM EDT

    Reddit, an online comment forum that is one of the internet's most popular websites, on Monday banned a forum that supported President-Donald Trump as part of a crackdown on hate speech. The Trump forum, called The_Donald, was banned because it encouraged violence, regularly broke other Reddit rules ...

  • Trump's Phoenix speech brings thousands together indoors -- in a virus hot spot

    Trump's Phoenix speech brings thousands together indoors -- in a virus hot spot

    Jun 23, 2020 10:40 PM EDT

    President Trump traveled to Arizona on Tuesday, visiting Yuma to see newly built sections of border wall and then heading to Phoenix for a campaign rally at a church. The venue, located in a coronavirus hot spot, was reportedly filled to capacity, with no social distancing inside and few people wearing masks. Stephanie Sy joins...

  • WATCH: Trump says 'America will rise from this crisis' in Memorial Day speech

    WATCH: Trump says 'America will rise from this crisis' in Memorial Day speech

    May 25, 2020 02:42 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump honored America’s fallen service members on Monday as he commemorated Memorial Day in back-to-back appearances in the midst of the pandemic. Watch Trump's speech in the video player above. “Together we will vanquish the virus and America will rise from this crisis to ...

  • Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speech

    Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speech

    May 17, 2020 12:57 AM EDT

    Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation's response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commencement address that the pandemic shows many officials "aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”

  • Mississippi auditor finds Brett Favre paid from welfare funds for speeches he never gave

    Mississippi auditor finds Brett Favre paid from welfare funds for speeches he never gave

    May 06, 2020 09:32 PM EDT

    ... program. The audit says Favre Enterprises was paid $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018, and he was supposed to make speeches for at least three events. The auditor's report says that "upon a cursory review of those dates, auditors were able to determine that ...

  • WATCH: Bloomberg looks beyond Super Tuesday in Florida speech

    WATCH: Bloomberg looks beyond Super Tuesday in Florida speech

    Mar 04, 2020 02:06 AM EDT

    Bloomberg told supporters at a West Palm Beach rally that "winning in November starts with Florida," a state that won't vote until March 17.

  • Jewish leaders seek better policing of online hate speech

    Jewish leaders seek better policing of online hate speech

    Feb 14, 2020 02:56 PM EDT

    ... can't be said is a thorny issue, said Alex Samos, former chief security officer of Facebook. "Discussions about what is lawful or not lawful speech are extremely complicated,” he said. WATCH: Derek Black grew up as a white nationalist. Here’s how he changed his mind He noted that ...

  • WATCH: Trump slams opponents in speech celebrating his acquittal

    WATCH: Trump slams opponents in speech celebrating his acquittal

    Feb 05, 2020 10:29 PM EDT

    “It was evil, it was corrupt," President Donald Trump declared at the White House. “This should never ever happen to another president, ever.”

  • WATCH: Pelosi rips up Trump’s State of the Union speech

    WATCH: Pelosi rips up Trump’s State of the Union speech

    Feb 05, 2020 03:50 AM EDT

    ... the speech altogether. “After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a few hours before the speech. “None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it.”

  • Democratic women wear white for Trump's State of the Union speech

    Democratic women wear white for Trump's State of the Union speech

    Feb 05, 2020 01:46 AM EDT

    The House is lit for television ahead of President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, and members of Congress are showing off their priorities. Many Democratic women are wearing white Tuesday to align themselves with suffragettes a century after women won the right to vote. Some also are ...