Senator Al Franken said he “didn’t know” if he would be accused of groping someone again, the Washington Post reported. Franken spoke with several Minnesota news outlets on Sunday about the two allegations of groping made against him. In response to a question about whether he has ever placed a hand on a woman’s buttock’s…
A woman accused Senator Al Franken of touching her inappropriately while she took a picture with him at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010, CNN reported. The woman, Lindsay Menz, 33, of Texas, says Franken grabbed her butt cheek while her husband took the picture of her and Franken. Menz’s husband, father and mother all…
The political future of one of Israel’s staunchest supporters is on the line in a New Jersey courtroom — along with the political power balance in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, is now at the opening stages of his criminal trial for corruption charges involving his ties to a Jewish…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced on Monday that she would oppose the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, becoming the latest Democrat to ditch the legislation over free speech concerns. “I do not support the boycott, I think the boycott is wrong,” the Massachusetts Democrat said at a town hall meeting, referring to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has softened a bill that cuts U.S. funding to Palestinian areas as long as the Palestinian Authority pays subsidies to the families of Palestinians who attack Israelis. The change to the Taylor Force Act apparently was made to attract Democratic and mainstream pro-Israel support. On Wednesday, the…
Al Franken is touching base with his old days as a comedian with the publication of his new book “Giant of the Senate.” And the Minnesota Senate Democrat isn’t holding back when it comes to assessing the humor of his colleagues. Franken recalled how he once told South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham that he would…
Chuck Schumer is having a moment. The Senate Minority Leader kept his fellow Democrats unified to help sink President Trump’s effort to repeal Obamacare, with colleagues praising his grit and strategy. “I think he makes it look easier than it is,” Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal told The New York Times, speaking about Schumer. “He makes…
Josh Mandel, the Jewish Republican Treasurer of Ohio, took to Twitter Thursday morning to defend the far right media figures who were attacked by the Anti-Defamation League. Mandel objected to the ADL including Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich in a list of “alt-right” and far right figures who use xenophobic, Islamophobic and sometimes anti-Semitic rhetoric…
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