Sister Simone Campbell ‘speechless’ over Presidential Medal of Freedom

On Sunday, Maria Bartiromo reported during a Fox News Sunday Morning Futures segment that there are 1,850 boxes filled with classified documents that President Joe Biden donated to his home state's university.

Rollan Roberts II’s longshot bid the White House got off to an inauspicious start when his wife collapsed on to the floor in the middle of his kickoff speech. Ms Roberts, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child, was standing by as Mr Roberts detailed why Americans might consider him for the presidency in 2024, until she wobbled slightly and fell to the ground. Rollan Roberts II announces he is running for president this week, when his five-months pregnant wife passes out. She was fine, and Roberts was obviously highly concerned. Hell of a start to Rollan Roberts 2024!...

Donald Trump said World War III could involve nuclear weapons and World War I and World War II would look like small battles, by comparison.

There are obviously a handful of ongoing controversies surrounding national officeholders and alleged mishandling of classified materials, but by any sensible measure, the controversy surrounding Donald Trump is qualitatively different. After all, the former president, unlike President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, ignored requests to return the...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and condemned a recent rise in violence between Israel and the Palestinians and urged a de-escalation of tensions in the region. NBC's Kelly Cobiella has details.Jan. 30, 2023.

The “Living Black History” series will celebrate the pioneers in our community, who are living Black history right now. To kick off the series, Symone D. Sanders-Townsend had a one-on-one with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Dana Canedy, who is the first African American to head a major publishing company, which is one of her many "firsts."Jan. 29, 2023.

Freedom of the press and freedom of expression are at the core of our national identity as Americans. And yet, prominent republicans continue to villainize the media. Most recently, former head of the CIA and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo disparaged Washington Post Journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by agents of the Saudi government in 2018. Journalist deaths rose by nearly 50% in 2022 from the previous year. If we stand for democracy, then we support journalists in their quest to bear witness, and hold power to account.Jan. 29, 2023.

Materials the House Jan. 6 committee released during its final days show a deeper link between Christian nationalism and the attempted insurrection than the committee revealed in its final report. These documents raise questions about whether the committee adequately probed these ties and informed the public about them. At the...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters that she has "absolutely no intention" of watching the bodycam video of the attack on her husband, Paul, and thanked those that continued to offer support.Jan. 27, 2023.

Every year around this time, a few of my law students ask me to serve as a “moral character” reference for them. Those of you who are not lawyers may not know that such references are a cornerstone of our profession, reflecting lawyers’ position of public trust in our society. That trust has been repeatedly broken by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers — most recently by John Eastman, the former dean of Chapman University School of Law, and one of the architects of the plan to send slates of fake electors to vote in the Electoral College.

Last week, classified materials were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home. Of course, that discovery followed the discoveries of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s vacated office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and at his Delaware residence. And those two cases came after the FBI executed a search warrant to retrieve documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. Also, in December, Trump’s attorneys reportedly found two documents with classified markings at a storage unit in West Palm Beach.

In 2018, as President Donald Trump was separating children from their parents and mocking victims of sexual assault, The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote, “The Cruelty is the Point.”. “We can hear the spectacle of cruel laughter throughout the Trump era,” he wrote. But cruelty is no longer...

During her tenure as chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel has seen more setbacks than she generally likes to admit. As regular readers know, after Donald Trump chose her for the RNC role, McDaniel’s first national election cycle was awful: The party lost 40 House seats and its majority in the chamber.

Speaker McCarthy is lashing out against top Democrats even as the Paul Pelosi attack video underscores the danger of demonizing fellow lawmakers. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who has faced death threats from election deniers, joins MNSBC’s Alicia Menendez to discuss Republicans’ extreme rhetoric. “We have to recommit ourselves to democracy,” says Secy. Griswold.Jan. 30, 2023.

Newly released body camera footage from the violent hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi showing the break-in. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the attack and argues it falls within a “wider right wing effort to deploy political violence.” Melber is joined by civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley and Founder of Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall.Jan. 28, 2023.

After successfully assisting Kevin McCarthy secure his speakership, the Georgia congresswoman is reportedly eyeing Trump's 2024 VP slot. Olivia Troye and Miles Taylor join Jonathan Capehart to share their thoughts on MTG's rise to prominence in the Republican Party.Jan. 29, 2023.