GOP Candidate and Senator from Texas Ted Cruz has said that if the government shuts down over the defunding of Planned Parenthood the blame is on President Obama. Cruz has previously said he is willing to shut down the government over the issue. Calls to defund Planned Parenthood have erupted since a controversial edited video …
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan is the first openly transgender staffer for the White House. She will serve as outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of Personnel. Earlier this year, she was one of several advocates to participate in the first-ever White House briefing on the state of transgender minority women. She urged administration …
Donald Trump, who is the current Republican frontrunner for the 2016 presidential election, criticized Beijing for devaluing the yuan. “They’re just destroying us,” Trump said, according to Reuters. “They keep devaluing their currency until they get it right,” he said. “They’re doing a big cut to the yuan, and that’s going to be devastating for …
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Saturday that he believes that black voters are becoming more open to the Republican Party. According to The Hill: “I think there’s a lot of people who are waking up,” the neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate said at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa. “I met with a group of …
About a dozen protesters showed up to wave Confederate flags as President Obama’s motorcade drove into Oklahoma City and outside the hotel where the President was staying Wednesday night. The leader of the protest was an African-American man named Andrew Duncomb, who told KFOR, “We don’t believe it’s a symbol of racism,” “They’re blaming the …