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Ava DuVernay will headline a fundraiser for Cory Booker’s Senate reelection campaign on Wednesday. Booker’s re-election is widely predicted, as he faces Rik Mehta, a biotech entrepreneur. But the New Jersey incumbent has long ties to the entertainment industry that extend to his days as the mayor of Newark. Booker and…

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that he is ending his presidential bid, the latest Democrat to drop out of the race after lagging in fundraising strength and failing to qualify for the most recent debates. In a video posted on Twitter, Booker said, “Today I am suspending my campaign for president with the same spirit…

Another day, another lecture for Meghan McCain. After yesterday’s “Let me tell you something about The View” scolding from moderator Whoopi Goldberg, McCain got a lesson in respect from Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker. "We should watch the way we talk about each other," Booker told The View co-host when…

Days before the new session of the Supreme Court is set to begin, an ever-growing chorus of displeasure with the alliance between Comcast and Donald Trump's Department of Justice in Byron Allen's $20 billion battle with the NBCUniversal owner grew even louder and potentially more presidential. In the closing hours for…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden is not the Democrats’ official 2020 rival to Donald Trump, but the former Vice President and the former Celebrity Apprentice host are squaring off like contenders when it comes to Los Angeles fundraisers this month. Just under two weeks after the upcoming 10-candidate debate, hosted by ABC News…

Donald Trump loves to mock the former vice president of the United States as "Sleepy Joe," but coming off a less-than-stellar performance during the last debate, Joe Biden was aiming for full Joe Frazier mode in the Motor City tonight against his relentless rivals with some Rope-a-Dope moves too. Unmentioned last…

Sen. Cory Booker was in the middle of his opening statement at tonight’s Democratic debate when he was interrupted by protesters’ shouts from the audience. The lawmaker from New Jersey stopped speaking, and CNN and its moderators waited for the heckling to play out. At least three protesters yelled slogans including…

A growing number of 2020 presidential candidates are voicing support for Sen. Kamala Harris following racist attacks claiming the California Democrat doesn’t represent African-Americans because her father was born in Jamaica. The attacks began to flood Twitter Thursday, following Harris’ breakout performance on the…

BET is set to air a special this weekend hosted by Soledad O'Brien on criminal justice reform titled American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. The one-hour broadcast will explore what BET describes as “the stark racial disparities that plague America's criminal justice system and offers solutions.” O’Brien will be joined…

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made it official today: The New Jersey Democrat declared he’s running for president  in 2020. “I'm running for president,” Booker tweeted today, the first day of Black History Month. “Join me on this journey.” In a video Twitter message about his decision to run (hear it below), Booker said, “I…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump commended those who apprehended Floridian Cesar Sayoc Jr. in connection with  "packages and devices” that have been mailed to “high profile figures throughout the country and a media organization." “I am pleased to inform you that law enforcement has apprehended a suspect,” Trump said…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump this morning declared the “bomb’ stuff” to be “very unfortunate” — for Republicans. Not long after TV news outlets began reporting two more explosive devices had been found, addressed to two more high-profile critics of Trump, Trump tweet-complained that Republicans had been doing “so…