Valerie Richardson

U.N.’s anti-Israel vote fuels Republican calls to defund world body

The resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank could be the most expensive vote ever taken at the United Nations.

December 27, 2016

Obama’s refusal to veto anti-Israel U.N. vote ranked most anti-Semitic incident of 2016

President Obama's refusal to veto an anti-Israel U.N. resolution was ranked Tuesday as the most anti-Semitic incident of 2016 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

December 27, 2016

Outraged critics assume RNC meant Trump, not Jesus, in Christmas reference to ‘new King’

Describing Jesus as "King" is as old as Christianity itself, but the implication was lost on media mavens who accused the Republican National Committee of referring to Donald Trump.

December 26, 2016

Falwell: Trump Supreme Court picks helped him surpass Bush, Romney with white evangelicals

Nobody would describe President-elect Donald Trump as more devout than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or former President George W. Bush, but the casino-building billionaire outperformed previous GOP presidential candidates with white evangelical voters.

December 26, 2016

Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump will abolish 70 percent of Obama’s executive orders within days

Newt Gingrich predicted Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump will devastate President Obama's legacy by immediately rescinding up to 70 percent of the Democrat's executive orders.

December 25, 2016

Netanyahu slams Obama over U.N. vote: ‘Friends don’t take friends to the Security Council’

Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday took a parting shot at the Obama administration for refusing to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

December 25, 2016

Professor who harassed Ivanka Trump on airplane hit with bad book reviews on Amazon

A JetBlue passenger who was kicked off a flight last week for harassing Ivanka Trump has inspired a backlash from Trump fans who now are giving his book bad reviews on Amazon.

December 25, 2016

Trump spokesman does about-face, turns down White House job

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller has changed his mind about working at the White House, announcing that he will pass on the job of communications director.

December 25, 2016

North Dakota town with growing population challenges Weather Channel’s climate change report

For a burg that's supposedly disappearing as a result of climate change, the town of Minot, North Dakota, is expanding rather briskly.

December 25, 2016

Sarah Root’s family set for ‘empty’ Christmas despite Donald Trump’s help

There was a time when Scott Root and Michelle Wilson-Root looked forward to Christmas, but not this year. Their 21-year-old daughter, Sarah Root, was killed Jan. 31 by Eswin Mejia, an illegal immigrant from Honduras accused of plowing into the back of her vehicle as he street-raced while drunk in Omaha, Nebraska. He skipped bail. Nearly a year later, he remains a fugitive.

December 22, 2016

Dakota Access pipeline: Judge tell protesters trying to wiggle out of lawyer bills to ‘get a job’

A North Dakota judge had a message for Dakota Access pipeline protesters seeking to avoid paying their public defenders: Get a job.

December 21, 2016

Colin Powell places third in presidential race at Electoral College

Colin Powell didn't campaign or raise any money, but he outperformed every presidential candidate not named Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Electoral College.

December 21, 2016

Donald Trump wins Electoral College as Hillary Clinton suffers more defections

The Electoral College officially voted Monday to select Donald Trump as the 45th president as noisy anti-Trump protests across the country fizzled, and Democrats ended up with an even worse black eye in the results.

December 19, 2016

Anti-Trump forces press Electoral College voters to upend election results

State officials braced for an anything-can-happen vote Monday of the Electoral College as Democratic and progressive operatives took their historic campaign to upend President-elect Donald Trump down to the wire.

December 18, 2016

Tarantula fans fret over endangered listing

Tarantula collectors have no fear when it comes to their favorite large, hairy pets, but U.S. breeders are scared to death of a Fish and Wildlife Service proposal that would list the species as endangered.

December 18, 2016

John Kasich emerges as choice for rogue Electoral College movement

Despite his protestations, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has emerged as the top choice of rogue electors seeking to throw the presidency to someone other than Republican Donald Trump.

December 18, 2016

Liberal Hollywood stars reach out to Republican electors to stop them from voting for Trump

A bevy of liberal Hollywood stars have put aside their differences with Republicans in an eleventh-hour plea to GOP electors to convince them not to cast their ballots for Donald Trump at the Monday vote of the Electoral College.

December 17, 2016

Anti-Trump Washington state electors plan to appeal after judge rejects bid to defy popular vote

Two "faithless electors" from Washington state plan to file an appeal after a judge rejected their effort to unbind their ballots from the popular vote as part of a long-shot campaign to upend President-elect Donald Trump.

December 15, 2016

Yasmin Seweid made up story about being harassed by Trump supporters, New York police say

A Muslim teen who said she was harassed over her religion on a New York City subway by Trump supporters was arrested Wednesday for fabricating the account.

December 14, 2016

Harvard professor advising electors behind scenes says 20-plus Republicans may vote against Trump

State officials scrambled Wednesday to uphold the Electoral College process as a Harvard Law School professor insisted that he was closing in on enough Republican defectors to upend President-elect Donald Trump.

December 14, 2016