Why Lea DeLaria Thinks Vice President Mike Pence Thinks About Gay People "Too Much"
"Orange Is The New Black" actress Lea Delaria assesses the Trump administration on its handling of LGBTQ issues. Unsurprisingly, she's not a fan.
When asked what grade she would give the president on his time in office, DeLaria says "a negative 20." But it's not just President Trump. "Mike Pence is so vehemently anti-gay. In fact, I think he thinks about us too much."
DeLaria also discusses the impact "Orange Is The New Black" is having on political discourse in America, specifically when it comes to female incarceration. She says it's important because "we're actually having a discussion."
Frederico Klein, a former State Department official, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison after being found guilty on several counts including assault of multiple police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
President Joe Biden and First lady Jill Biden are traveling to Lewiston Maine to pay their respects to the people who were killed there in a mass shooting last week.
The House approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
The U.S. Senate, circumventing holds by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, on Thursday confirmed the nominations of two senior military leaders, including the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live.
Israeli troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. With no end in sight after weeks of heavy fighting, U.S. and Arab mediators intensified efforts to ease Israel's siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and called for at least a brief halt to the hostilities in order to aid civilians.
