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Jimmy Kimmel tearfully reveals newborn son has heart defect, makes plea for Obamacare

Jimmy Kimmel revealed last night, on the air, that his new son Billy was born last week with a heart defect, and had to undergo open-heart surgery on his third day of life. Kimmel’s ...

5/2/17 12:05pm by John Aravosis 3

GOP congressman: People with pre-existing conditions lead “bad” lives

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks, who is a member of the US House Freedom Caucus, responsible for creating the new TrumpCare plan to repeal Obamacare, said today that people who have ...

5/1/17 6:48pm by John Aravosis 18

Was a Russian reporter flashing Alt Right hand-signs in the White House?

A reporter with the Russian propaganda publication Sputnik, Cassandra Fairbanks, was in the White House recently with controversial far-right (some say white supremacist “Alt ...

5/1/17 12:27pm by John Aravosis 6

URGENT: Pence says GOP has Obamacare repeal votes. Contact Congress now.

The Center for American Progress is reporting that Vice President Mike Pence says House Republicans have the votes to repeal Obamacare. We need you to contact the swing votes now in ...

4/30/17 3:35pm by John Aravosis 5

Trump blames Obama for Trump hiring Michael Flynn after Obama fired him

On Fox News last night, Donald Trump again defended his embattled former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and then blamed President Obama for not sufficiently vetting Michael ...

4/29/17 2:46pm by John Aravosis 3

New evidence says top Trump aide Bannon found school “too Jewish” for his kids

The New Yorker’s Connie Bruck reports on new evidence that top Trump White House adviser, Steve Bannon, took issue with his daughter’s potential school because, in Bannon’s ...

4/29/17 2:16pm by John Aravosis 8

Congress exempts self from Obamacare repeal — add your name to stop them

The new compromise Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) contains a provision exempting members of Congress and their staff from the repeal. Yes, you heard ...

4/26/17 12:01pm by John Aravosis 6

O’Reilly replacement makes sexist joke about Ivanka Trump on the air

Fox News host Jesse Watters, whose show was moved into primetime as a replacement for the O’Reilly Factor, after O’Reilly was fired/resigned following repeated sexual harassment ...

4/26/17 11:28am by John Aravosis 6

Hey Jeff Sessions: Alabama is 2 to 3 times more dangerous than NYC

Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who spent years as the Senator from Alabama, accused New York City cops last week of being “soft on crime.” While I ...

4/24/17 1:33pm by John Aravosis 8

100 Chechen gays kidnapped, tortured, arrested in growing Russian pogrom

The NYT has a blockbuster story today about the growing anti-gay pogrom in Russian Chechnya. Chechen authorities, who claim that homosexuality doesn’t exist in Chechnya — ...

4/21/17 12:58pm by John Aravosis 4

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