Valerie Richardson

Barney Frank: Beto O’Rourke ‘may be regretting he’s straight’ amid Pete Buttigieg surge

Former Rep. Barney Frank, the first openly gay man to serve in Congress, says that Beto O'Rourke "may be regretting he's straight," given how well Pete Buttigieg is performing in the Democratic presidential primary polls.

May 5, 2019

Snoop Dogg berates Facebook for banning Louis Farrakhan: ‘I stand by him’

Snoop Dogg rushed to the defense of Louis Farrakhan after the Nation of Islam leader was booted from Facebook, calling him "my dear brother" and declaring that, "I stand with him."

May 3, 2019

Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic teen, sues NBC for $275 million

Attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann filed a $275 million lawsuit Wednesday against NBCUniversal over its coverage of the Kentucky teen, accusing the network of creating a "false narrative" driven by its "anti-Trump agenda."

May 1, 2019

New York Times blames Trump after running anti-Semitic cartoon

Even as The New York Times accepted responsibility for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon, the newspaper sought to slough off some of the blame onto President Trump.

May 1, 2019

Democrats move to keep Donald Trump off 2020 ballot over tax returns

Democrats have redoubled their efforts to force President Trump to release his federal tax returns by threatening to keep him off the 2020 ballot in deep-blue states, to which he might say: So what?

April 30, 2019

Israeli ambassador rips New York Times as ‘cesspool of hostility’ after anti-Semitic cartoon

Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer denounced The New York Times as a "cesspool of hostility" after the newspaper ran -- and then apologized for -- an anti-Semitic cartoon.

April 30, 2019

Tom Miller, Iowa AG, gets GOP pushback on anti-Trump lawsuits

For two years, Iowa Republicans have stewed as Attorney General Tom Miller filed lawsuit after lawsuit against the Trump administration. Now, they have said "enough."

April 29, 2019

New York Times issues correction for article describing Jesus as a Palestinian

It's been a rough few days for The New York Times on the Judaism front: A day after running a widely decried anti-Semitic political cartoon, the newspaper issued a correction for an article that identified Jesus as a Palestinian.

April 29, 2019

New York Times blames ‘single editor’ for anti-Semitic cartoon in second statement

The New York Times issued a second statement over the weekend on its decision to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon, this time apologizing for the "dangerous" image and pinning the blame on "a single editor."

April 29, 2019

John Earnest, synagogue shooting suspect, despised ‘Zionist, Jew-loving’ Donald Trump

The suspect in the deadly shooting at a San Diego County synagogue had no love for President Trump, apparently blasting him as a "Zionist, Jew-loving" traitor in a hate-filled manifesto posted before Saturday's attack.

April 28, 2019

New York Times pulls anti-Semitic cartoon, cites ‘error in judgment’

The New York Times deleted a political cartoon over the weekend after acknowledging that it contained "anti-Semitic tropes," an episode decried as the latest example of rising anti-Semitism on the left.

April 28, 2019

Canadian cafe owners charged with faking anti-Semitic hate crime

An investigation into an attack on a Jewish-owned cafe in Winnipeg resulted in charges against the owners after police said they staged the robbery, vandalism and anti-Semitic graffiti.

April 25, 2019

Cory Booker, Eric Swalwell each pledge to name a woman as a running mate

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Rep. Eric Swalwell of California on Wednesday each pledged to name a woman as his vice presidential pick.

April 24, 2019

Xavier Becerra Planned Parenthood ties under fire in David Daleiden, Sandra Merritt case

There's no doubt that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is a staunch pro-choice Democrat, but the question is whether he's too close to Planned Parenthood to prosecute undercover pro-life investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.

April 24, 2019

Eric Swalwell admits ‘I’m a white man,’ pledges to run with a female veep candidate

Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, pledged to run with a female vice president candidate if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination, admitting what many have long suspected by declaring, "I'm a white man."

April 24, 2019

Netflix ‘Our Planet’ hit on climate change walrus cliff-diving claim

A new Netflix documentary series that features disturbing footage of walruses plunging off a cliff to their deaths -- a phenomenon attributed by the filmmakers to climate change -- has sparked a fact-check backlash by critics questioning whether the animals were actually fleeing polar bears or drones.

April 22, 2019

Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member’s wife

The Pulitzer Prizes organization has been accused of being an exclusive club in which members give awards to each other, and the institution did nothing to dispel that notion last week by honoring the wife of a prominent board member.

April 22, 2019

Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if federal employment discrimination laws protect LGBTQ employees, granting review in a series of cases that test the limit of what qualifies as "sex"-based discrimination.

April 22, 2019

Pete Buttigieg, gay candidate, surges in polls

Amid the hoopla over the blue wave in November, not everybody noticed the simultaneous rainbow tide that swept record numbers of LGBT candidates into office. But Pete Buttigieg did.

April 21, 2019

Rashida Tlaib’s Passover greeting falls flat

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, offered Passover greetings to her "Jewish sisters and brothers" with a graphic that included two fluffy loaves of bread. There's just one problem: Jewish people don't eat leavened bread on Passover.

April 21, 2019