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President Donald Trump defended his appointment of several billionaires—including the former President of Goldman Sachs—to his Cabinet and senior posts at a 2020 election campaign rally in Iowa Wednesday. “In those particular positions I just don’t want a poor person. Does that make sense?” Trump said during the rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, referring mainly

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Despite internal disorder and splintered membership, the organized Ku Klux Klan movement remains active in 33 states, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism, which has tallied just over 40 total affiliated groups across the country. The report, “Despite Internal Turmoil, Klan Groups Persist,”

DETROIT—The FBI says the stabbing of a police officer at a Flint airport is being investigated as an “act of terror,” carried out by a man who yelled “Allahu Akbar” before attacking the officer in the neck with a 12-inch Amazon Jungle Survival Knife. “Suffice to say, he has a hatred for the United States,”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton escaped criminal charges last year but her legal troubles may not be over – the Arkansas state bar has promised a decision by next month on disciplinary action. And the State Department continues to probe Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of classified information, with an eye toward deciding whether she and

SAN FRANCISCO — One week after taking a leave of absence from the $70 billion company he founded, ride-sharing firm Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned. The embattled executive stepped down Tuesday in response to a letter signed by several of Uber’s shareholders, said a person familiar with the situation who asked not to be

Sen. Marco Rubio (R) tweeted Tuesday and joked that he is “investigating” a photo of a “failed hug” between him and first daughter Ivanka Trump before the pair headed for a meeting on child tax reforms at the Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. The photo first posted on Twitter by an Associated Press

Three months after the desecration of Jewish graves in St. Louis, the historic Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery looks better than ever. But the Jewish community is still grappling with what the incident means. In February, almost two hundred headstones were found cracked or toppled. Karen Aroesty, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, remembers rushing to

It’s seemingly far easier to be a former president than it is to be a current president. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have both seen their popularity surge after leaving the Oval Office, according to a Gallup survey this week. Fifty-nine percent of adults have a favorable view of Bush, which represents