Evie Fordham

BROOKLYN - Activist Shaun King gave Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders a backhanded compliment while introducing the 2020 presidential hopeful at a rally in Brooklyn, New York, Saturday. “For most of us in our minds, Bernie has…

Republican State Rep. Fred Keller in 2016 discussing the state budget situation as Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a new spending plan for the fiscal year. Photo credit: Rep Keller, YouTube. WASHINGTON - A state representative with nearly a…

MARYLAND - White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Friday the Trump administration’s strategy to address aspects of the opioid crisis is a “natural extension” of President Donald Trump as “the most pro-life president in American…

WASHINGTON - Democrats are eyeing another line of attack against President Donald Trump after a report Wednesday that he ordered his senior adviser, Jared Kushner, be given a top-secret security clearance in 2018. “Stunning. The…

WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers painted Medicare-for-all as a socialist nightmare after Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Debbie Dingell of Michigan unveiled their bill to place virtually all health care payment in…

RUSSIA - A U.S. citizen accused of espionage by the Russian government has been in prison for two months and may face an additional three months due to what some speculate is a ploy by Moscow to facilitate a prisoner swap. Paul…

WASHINGTON - Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley reminded seven pharmaceutical company executives that drug list prices matter to patients during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on drug prices Thursday. “For a patient taking a…

RALEIGH - Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris is bowing out of the race to represent North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, citing health concerns in a statement Tuesday. North Carolina’s Board of Elections …

VERMONT - Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign is already hauling in massive amounts of cash less than a week after he announced his presidential bid, and his fundraising shows no sign of slowing down. Sanders has…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump reacted on Twitter Monday evening after the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, which would have ensured that babies who survive abortions are given medical attention, failed to pass the Senate. …

UKRAINE - A Ukrainian actor and comedian who portrays the country’s president in a television series is running to be Ukraine’s real president — and a Monday poll shows him leading the incumbent by roughly 5 percentage points. …

NEVADA - President Donald Trump went after former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Twitter Monday hours after CNN published a wide-ranging interview with Reid in which he called the president a “human leech.” “Former…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday to confirm reports that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a summit at Mar-a-Lago following successful trade talks between U.S. and Chinese officials. “I am…

BRAZIL - The first shipment of humanitarian aid crossed the border from Brazil to Venezuela Saturday, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said, but getting aid to the people of Venezuela continues to be beyond difficult. “This…

Editors Note: The above video is a clip from a 1998 Purdue Pharma marketing video intended for doctors to show their patients. (Video provided by STAT).  NEW YORK - Newly released emails from 1997 appear to show that former…

NORTH CAROLINA - North Carolina Republican politician Mark Harris’s son testified that he had warned his father about a “shady” political operative, appearing to contradict earlier claims by his father, at a Wednesday hearing on a…

MIAMI - National Security Adviser John Bolton shared a menacing message to Venezuela’s military Tuesday evening on Twitter as the country’s dictator Nicolas Maduro clings to power in the struggling socialist country. “Any actions by…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump could bring a big bargaining to his upcoming summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un: Officially ending the Korean War, which the U.S. has technically been involved in since 1950. Trump was…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed a directive that will launch the Space Force on Tuesday, placing it under the Air Force. The plan still needs to be approved by Congress, reported The Wall Street Journal. “Space,…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called The Washington Post “a Fact Checker only for the Democrats” on Twitter Tuesday. “The Washington Post is a Fact Checker only for the Democrats,” Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday.…

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump called out Democrats for “slow walking” his executive nominees such as ambassadors in a tweet Sunday. “Democrats in the Senate are still slow walking hundreds of highly qualified people wanting to…

NEW YORK - Lee Radziwill, a real-life American princess and sister of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died Friday in her New York City home. She was 85. Radziwill was known as a 1960s “it girl” along with her sister…

ILLINOIS - Police named the five victims of a shooting at a manufacturing company in Aurora, Illinois, Saturday after a man opened fire during a meeting Friday. The victims were employees of the Henry Pratt Company. According…

EUROPE - The Vatican announced Saturday that it defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after an investigation into years-old sexual abuse allegations against him were found credible. McCarrick cannot appeal the punishment,…

NEW YORK - Financial powerhouse JPMorgan is launching its own digital coin — even though JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a “fraud” in 2017. “JPM Coin” will have a fixed value of $1. It will only be available for major…

WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) administrator Brock Long said Thursday he is stepping down from the position after working on “more than 200 declared disasters.” “While this has been the opportunity…

WASHINGTON - China envisions becoming an industry innovator of producing drugs and medical devices, but the country “lags far behind” the U.S. when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, according to a report released Tuesday by…

WATERVILLE - A suspected bank robber in Waterville, Maine, was quickly arrested after being taken out by a patch of ice, sending the cash he had allegedly just taken flying through the air Tuesday. “I had just left my shift at…

NEW YORK, NY - Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is heading to the early-voting state of New Hampshire ahead of a potential 2020 presidential run, sources close to the mayor told Politico Monday. De Blasio’s plans…

WASHINGTON - Recently released documents about the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) show the agency spent millions researching invisibility cloaks, high energy laser weapons, wormholes and more between 2007 and 2012. The…