• Kamala Harris Isn’t Letting Trump Dodge on Abortion

    Days after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total ban on abortion could be enforced in the state, Kamala Harris went after Trump for his position on abortion in a campaign speech Friday in Tucson. Harris said that the ruling, which granted abortion exceptions only when it was “necessary to save” a woman’s life, “demonstrated […]

  • Trump’s supposed advantage with Latinos isn’t all that it seems

    The Pew Research Center released polling this week that casts serious doubt on recent surveys showing Donald Trump making significant gains among Black and Latino voters. The Pew survey suggested majorities of Latino, Black, and Asian voters continue to largely favor the Democratic Party. The results show very little change among Black and Latino Americans since the early 1990s, while white voters remain almost exactly as aligned with the Republican Party as they were in the early ‘90s. "Not...

  • Trump isn’t doing anything new with his recent Truth Social windfall

    The ex-president is now majority owner of an unpopular website worth billions – and the truth behind how that happened really isn’t all that impressiveA lot of people think investing in the stock market is rigged in favor of the big investors, the large financial firms and the people in the know. Small-fry individual investors have as much chance of success on Wall Street as they do at the Bellagio. Donald Trump’s recent windfall isn’t going to win any converts.Trump merged his unprofitable and...

  • No, ‘Civil War’s’ Fascist President Isn’t Donald Trump

    Few films have stirred the cultural pot quite like “Civil War.” The April 12 release envisions a near-future America at war with itself. Kirsten Dunst leads an ensemble cast including “Parks and Recreation” standout Nick Offerman as the U.S. president. Much of the film’s story has been kept under wraps. The film’s SXSW Film and TV Festival debut let some light shine on the narrative. Offerman’s president, for example, has fascistic tendencies and is currently serving his third term....

  • No, ‘Civil War’s’ Fascist President Isn’t Donald Trump

    Few films have stirred the cultural pot quite like “Civil War.” The April 12 release envisions a near-future America at war with itself. Kirsten Dunst leads an ensemble cast including “Parks and Recreation” standout Nick Offerman as the U.S. president. Much of the film’s story has been kept under wraps. The film’s SXSW Film and TV Festival debut let some light shine on the narrative. Offerman’s president, for example, has fascistic tendencies and is currently serving his third term....

    • MSNBC

    Three years later, Trump isn’t done targeting the Impeachment 10

    Many of Donald Trump’s endorsements are easy to overlook. The former president finds sycophantic allies and publishes cookie-cutter statements of support — occasionally for Republicans who face little opposition. But a few of his endorsements stand out for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious. NBC News reported this week, for example: Revisiting our earlier coverage, when Trump was impeached for his role in the Jan. 6 attack, it resulted in the most bipartisan impeachment vote in American...

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    Trump team's 'first attack point' should be 'credibility' of witnesses in hush money trial

    Jury selection for former President Trump's hush money case begins today in a Manhattan courtroom. This is the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Our legal panel provides more insight and legal analysis on the historic trial.

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    Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says Trump prosecution isn’t about politics

    NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg spoke candidly about his unease with the job’s political demands. A former law professor, he’s more comfortable untangling complex legal questions than swaggering up to a podium. But when the first of Donald Trump’s four criminal []

  • Trump asks why Europe isn’t giving Ukraine more aid as Johnson presses forward

    Former President Trump questioned why European nations weren’t providing more support to Ukraine, but stopped short of weighing in on a foreign aid package proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R

  • $20 hourly fast food pay isn’t big worry for MUSD staffing

    Fast-food workers in California now make a minimum of $20 an hour. Manteca Unified starts its Nutrition Services Assistant workers out at $17.89 an hour. At first glance, it looks like the math is against MUSD when it comes to attracting food service workers.

  • Trump supporters worried about President Biden's 'weak leadership' following Iran's attack on Israel

    Prior to former President Trump's rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, many of his supporters sounded the alarm about the failures of President Biden's administration following Iran's attack on Israel.  Fox News reporters spoke to several people ahead of Trump's rally who expressed grave concern over the attack on Israel. "ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK! This should never have been allowed to happen — This would NEVER have happened if I were President!," Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform...

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    Trump’s $175 million bond reduction isn’t unusual. That’s the problem.

    Larry Price Jr. weighed 185 pounds in the summer of 2020, when he entered the Sebastian County, Arkansas, jail where he would die. When guards found him deceased a year later, he was alone in his cell, lying in contaminated water and his own urine and weighing 121 pounds. As the word “jail” suggests, he had not been convicted of a crime. Nor was Price, who suffered from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, detained because of the crime he was accused of — verbally threatening police...