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Congressional Black Caucus Rejects Trump’s Invite To White Hose The Congressional Black Caucus has declined an invitation from Donald Trump to visit the White House. The 49-member group rejected the White House meeting citing his unresponsiveness on previous attempts at policy engagement as proof that Trump isn’t interested in working with the members beyond a photo op. “Through an objective assessment, we have seen no evidence that your Administration acted on our calls for action, and we have in fact witnessed steps that will hurt the Black community,” the letter stated. Despite repeated attempts to communicate with the White...

Maddow Makes Bombshell Revelation About Trump-Russia Money Laundering (Video)   Maddow continues her great coverage on the Trump-Russia story. [watch the videos below] On Tuesday night’s edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, we learned about a new potential bombshell story in the Trump-Russia saga. Maddow revealed the details of a new report by Tim O’Brien of Bloomberg News, that details a connection between Donald Trump’s real estate business and “money connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Maddow walked through the relationship between Trump and a shadowy Russian mafia figure named Felix Sater. Sater was involved in a large stock...

Republican Karen Handel Defeats Democrat Jon Ossoff In Georgia Congressional Race Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. The race has been the most expensive House race in history, after the seat that has been in the hands of the Republicans since 1979 was being challenged on the left. In the primary on April 18, Ossoff came in first place with 48.8 percent – just shy of the 50 percent threshold to win the race outright. Handel’s predecessor won in November by 23 points, while she won tonight by only five points. The contested...

Flynn Received CIA Secrets Despite Concerns Of Russian Blackmail Michael Flynn was given CIA secrets despite serious concerns among senior officials that he could be vulnerable to blackmail from Russians, according to a new report. The New York Times on Tuesday reported that officials at the FBI, CIA and the Justice Department considered Flynn to be at risk of being blackmailed. However, Flynn continued to recieve highly classified information. The New York Times report noted, “At the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — agencies responsible for keeping American secrets...

Live Election Results: South Carolina Special Election Race [Live results below] The polls in South Carolina close at 7 pm Eastern. South Carolina’s special election has largely flown under the radar while national attention has focused on the Georgia special election between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel. In South Carolina’s 5th congressional district Republican Ralph Norman is expected to beat Democrat Archie Parnell. The seat was left open when Mick Mulvaney joined the Trump administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Here are live results in the South Carolina Congressional race: (please refresh if results don’t...