According to reports, there are plans underway for ousted White House staffer Omarosa to get her own talk show.
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Hip-hop star Pras Michel -- a founding member of the Fugees -- bought a 30-second Super Bowl spot to announce the launch of Blacture, a “platform for black culture in America.”
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Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) last week joined with three other members of Congress to introduce a bipartisan bill looking to ensure that the federal government continues its efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans.
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Congressman Al Green (D-TX) flew to El Salvador this weekend to meet with José Escobar -- a former ‘constituent’ of Green’s -- who was deported after what he thought would be a routine check-in with immigration authorities.
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On Friday, HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson called on the department's Inspector General to “review” his family’s role and influence at HUD after reports that there may have been ethics violations.
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Former President Barack Obama is heading to New Zealand in March, but we don’t know why. He’ll be in the country on March 21st for a yet-to-be-announced reason.
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Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX), the only African American male Republican in the House, does not think a controversial memo drafted by GOP staffers vindicates Donald Trump.
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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has a new goal, and a new partner, on an issue that is traditionally a bread-and-butter one for Democrats: paid family leave.
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Florida’s current ban on former felons voting is unconstitutional.
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Cristina Antelo has left VantageKnight, the boutique lobbying firm run by Manny Ortiz, to start her own shop, Ferox Strategies.
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Dems called for a suspension of the Trump administration’s tip-pooling proposal after reports that top officials at the Labor Department buried “unfavorable” data suggesting that servers stand to lose billions of dollars if gets enacted.
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Friends of the American Latino Museum (FRIENDS), the only nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to the creation of a National American Latino Museum, announced yesterday the creation of the Chairman’s Advisory Council.
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First Lady Michelle Obama visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show for the host’s 60th birthday. She finally shared details of the awkward gift exchange between the outgoing and incoming first couples.
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HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson allowed his son to help organize a “listening tour” in Baltimore last summer despite warnings from department lawyers that doing so risked violating federal ethics rules
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A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed all charges against Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ), following a request from prosecutors.
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Elizabeth Guzmán, one of the first Latinas elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, delivered the Spanish-language rebuttal to Donald Trump's SOTU address.
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The Hill is expected to announce today that The Beat DC’s Jamal Simmons will help launch an exciting new digital platform for the political journalism outlet. Jamal is starting a progressive opinion show due out later this year. But don’t worry. He’s not going far. Look out for future collaborations between The Beat DC and The Hill.
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¿Qué está pasando? Congressional Republicans were quick to spread word yesterday that Donald Trump’s immigration proposal had been endorsed by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Well, it turns out that LULAC National President Roger Rocha wrote a letter to Trump over the weekend saying that the WH’s framework was one “LULAC can support.”
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Hours before his first formal State of the Union address, Donald Trump gathered some top news anchors at the White House. Among them? Telemundo's José Díaz-Balart, PBS’ Yamiche Alcindor, TV One’s Roland Martin, and NBC News anchor Lester Holt.
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MSNBC has named Pulitzer Prize-winning journo Trymaine Lee as a Correspondent.
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