Emma Ayers

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A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

Andrew Napolitano: Michael Cohen’s interview worthy of causing ‘sleepless nights’ for Trump

Emma Ayers · July 2, 2018 9:11 pm

A Capital Gazette newspaper rack displays the day's front page, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the newspaper's building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said.

Capital Gazette takes thinly veiled swipe at Trump: ‘We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people’

Emma Ayers · July 1, 2018 8:26 pm

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., carries her baby Maile Pearl Bowlsbey after they went to the Senate floor to vote, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 19, 2018 in Washington.

Tammy Duckworth: Democrats moving too far left will doom White House hopes

Emma Ayers · July 1, 2018 7:46 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks at the Families Belong Together - Freedom for Immigrants March in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, June 30, 2018. In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered Saturday across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, in the latest act of mass resistance against President Donald Trumpâs immigration policies.

Maxine Waters on death threats: If you shoot me, you’d ‘better shoot straight’

Emma Ayers · July 1, 2018 4:42 pm

John Bolton: ‘We’re very well aware’ that North Korea breaks promises

Emma Ayers · July 1, 2018 3:59 pm

Hundreds of activists protest the Trump administration's approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents.

Democrats split over whether to abolish ICE

Emma Ayers · July 1, 2018 2:22 pm

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks at the 50th anniversary of the Fund for America Studies luncheon at the Trump Hotel in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017.

Susan Collins: Neil Gorsuch wouldn’t vote to overturn Roe v. Wade

Emma Ayers · July 1, 2018 1:51 pm

Linda Sarsour attends the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards at Kings Theatre on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, in New York.

Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour leading women in ‘mass civil disobediance’ against Trump immigration policy

Emma Ayers · June 28, 2018 3:46 pm

Kennedy's comments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission appear to side somewhat with the baker's argument on free speech and free exercise. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Comedy Central writer: I wish Justice Kennedy ‘had been shot’ instead of JFK or Robert

Emma Ayers · June 27, 2018 11:32 pm

President Trump gestures to the audience after speaking at an event called "Face-to-Face with our Future" on June 27, 2018, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington.

Trump approval rating rises as Congress approval numbers remain steady: Poll

Emma Ayers · June 27, 2018 6:22 pm

Facebook turns to Homeland Security, FBI for help with Russian meddling in future elections: Report

Emma Ayers · June 27, 2018 3:52 am

Elaine Chao physically blocks protesters from husband Mitch McConnell

Emma Ayers · June 26, 2018 9:21 pm