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U.S. craze for DNA 'heritage' tests may bolster racism, critics warn
Millions of Americans are using DNA test kits sold online to research their ancestry, either out of simple curiosity or to find answers about their identity. But some academics warn the craze could reinforce racial stereotypes and divisions. For around $100 and a few drops of ...
Trump calls porn star 'Horseface' and again pegs senator as 'Pocahontas'
A budding diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia, Hurricane Michael's wreckage to clean up, stock market jitters, and ... President Donald Trump's standout act Tuesday was to brand porn star Stormy Daniels "Horseface." That wasn't all. The U.S. leader, who revels in making up nicknames for opponents ...
Claims of voter suppression and 'illegals' color Georgia midterm race
A bitter political battle over access to the polls is consuming the final stretch of the hotly contested Georgia governor's race. Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican nominee, says Democrat Stacey Abrams and liberal allies are fighting for immigrants without legal status to cast ...
That "Pocahontas" taunt must have rankled. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's release Monday of a DNA analysis that she does indeed have Native American ancestry is a pointed pushback to Donald Trump's derisive nickname for her. It also looks like an attempt by the Massachusetts Democrat to ...
Should shareholders always come first?
Elizabeth Warren wants to make companies also consider workers, customers and local communities.
Angry lawmakers heaped another round of blistering criticism on Wells Fargo's CEO, pressing Thursday for details about what senior managers knew about allegedly illegal sales practices and when any concerns were disclosed. Chief Executive John Stumpf, newly stripped of tens of millions in compensation, told ...
Warren blasts Trump as 'thin-skinned fraud' and spares no mercy for top Republicans
Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacked Donald Trump as a "loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud" Thursday in a scathing broadside also aimed at the top two Republican leaders in Congress. Trump "has never risked anything for anyone and serves nobody but himself. And that is just one of ...
Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren becomes comic book hero
Her parents didn't hail from the planet Krypton, and she was never bitten by a radioactive spider, but that has not stopped Elizabeth Warren from starring as a comic book hero. "Female Force: Elizabeth Warren" tells the true-life story of Warren's rise from Oklahoma schoolgirl ...
President Barack Obama may issue an endorsement in the Democratic primary, his press secretary said Monday, as Vice President Joe Biden considers whether to challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. While Obama considers his selection of the former Delaware senator as his running ...
Obama hits liberal left's Warren on trade as Senate readies debate
As the Senate prepares to debate his trade agenda, President Barack Obama is sharpening his criticism of a vocal opponent on the left. In a weekend interview with Yahoo Politics, the president said Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is factually wrong and politically motivated ...
Pressured by liberal Democrats, candidate Clinton goes after CEO pay
Hillary Rodham Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters. Striking a populist note, Clinton, who announced on Sunday she was ...
Upset by Warren's calls for break-ups, U.S. banks debate halting some Senate campaign donations
Big Wall Street banks are so upset with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, sources said. Representatives from Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have ...
