The 2017 campaign season ushered in a string of boundary-breaking elections across the United States.
Voters swept Democratic candidates from underrepresented communities into office in the party's first major victory of the Trump era. Andrea Jenkins is the first openly transgender African-American woman ever elected to public office.
The newly-elected Minneapolis City Councilwoman joined Cheddar to discuss her big win.
Jenkins put the November elections in perspective, drawing comparisons between herself and other history-making candidates, such as Virginia's Danica Roem. She also gives a prediction as to whether Democrats can keep these trends going into 2018 and beyond.
Finally, we discussed the dozens of sexual misconduct allegations rocking both Hollywood and Washington D.C. A second woman came forward Monday with more claims that Senator Al Franken touched her inappropriately. Jenkins says if these kind of allegations keep surfacing, there won't be any men left in Washington D.C. eligible to lead.
The Biden administration calls it a “student loan safety net.” Opponents call it a backdoor attempt to make college free. And it could be the next battleground in the legal fight over student loan relief.
PGA Tour leaders defended its merger deal with Saudi Arabia's LIV Golf tour before a Homeland Security subcommittee on Tuesday.
Nearly 30,000 people in Mississippi were dropped from the state's Medicaid program after an eligibility review that the government ended during the pandemic.
Iowa lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
The Biden administration unveiled a plan to fight fentanyl overdoses.
Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don't need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a long-running religious freedom case that went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Associated Press reveals findings from SCOTUS ethics investigation.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a judge to postpone his criminal trial without setting a new date as he stands accused of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate.
A court-appointed monitor is urging a judge to begin contempt proceedings against New York City over conditions at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex, setting the stage for a potential federal takeover of the jail system in the nation’s most populous city.
The Biden administration aims to control hidden healthcare fees.
