Tag: Protests

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he intends to cancel the traditional August recess and keep the Senate in session to deal with backlogged tasks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

Protesters accost Mitch McConnell as he leaves Kentucky restaurant

Emma Ayers · July 8, 2018 1:26 pm

Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, takes a stairwell at the Capitol as he arrives for questioning by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its ongoing investigation into meddling in the U.S. elections by Russia, in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018.

Steve Bannon harassed at Virginia bookstore by woman calling him a ‘piece of trash’

Daniel Chaitin · July 8, 2018 1:01 pm

Protesters march against gun violence in Chicago.

Hundreds of anti-gun protesters descend on Chicago, block freeway traffic

Katelyn Caralle · July 7, 2018 5:50 pm

Prosecutors drop all Trump inauguration rioting cases

Steven Nelson · July 6, 2018 8:54 pm

President Trump waves to the cheering crowd as he leaves a rally at the Four Seasons Arena at Montana ExpoPark on Thursday in Great Falls, Mont., in support of Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., and GOP Senate candidate Matt Rosendale.

Beltway Confidential

Why Trump won’t let the national anthem debate die

Tom Joyce · July 6, 2018 7:55 pm

Passersby gather to take photos in front of the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Va. The restaurant has become internationally famous since ousting Sarah Sanders in June.

Restaurant that kicked out Sarah Sanders reopens to protests

Caitlin Yilek · July 6, 2018 2:50 pm

Therese Patricia Okoumou pleaded not guilty on July 5, 2018, to trespassing for climbing the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July in what prosecutors called a "dangerous stunt."

Statue of Liberty climber pleads not guilty to trespassing

Associated Press · July 6, 2018 12:54 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confer at the Capitol on May 10, 2018.

Nearly 200 black, female leaders demand Pelosi, Schumer apologize to Maxine Waters

Caitlin Yilek · July 6, 2018 12:13 am

President Trump arrives to speak at a rally at the Four Seasons Arena at Montana ExpoPark on Thursday in Great Falls, Mont.

Trump: NFL players staying in the locker room during the national anthem is worse than kneeling

Caitlin Yilek · July 5, 2018 11:59 pm

Trump says he’d use net to capture ‘clown’ who climbed Statue of Liberty

Steven Nelson · July 5, 2018 11:05 pm

A white supremacist carries a Nazi flag into the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.

Northrop Grumman ‘taking immediate action’ after employee allegedly took part in violent white supremacist rallies

Caitlin Yilek · July 5, 2018 9:00 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said that whenever President Trump appears on TV, "there should be a disclaimer that says, 'This may not be acceptable for children.'"

Maxine Waters should be expelled for inciting ‘mob violence,’ says Judicial Watch

Naomi Lim · July 5, 2018 6:50 pm