Monica Hunter-Hart

State legislatures are required to redraw voter districts once a decade, and the next deadline is looming. Politicians who are elected in the next few years will have the power to draw district lines in 2022 based on data collected during the 2020…

The pressure to be accommodating can follow women even as they enter the most powerful offices in the country. If it were up to one model and activist, female members of Congress wouldn't hold back when standing up for themselves. At a policy…

You can get away with a lot as president of the United States, but apparently violating a Hollywood blockbuster's copyright protections isn't one of them. Twitter removed a video that President Donald Trump posted on Tuesday to promote his…

Wednesday was a big day for deep space. Scientists working with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project announced that they had succeeded in capturing a photo of a black hole for the first time ever. The picture is distinctive and shows a big…

Despite increased attention on gun violence after deadly mass shootings in Parkland, Las Vegas, and Pittsburgh last year, Congress still hasn't passed major legislation aimed at combating the problem. But a group of students at the Temple Emanuel…

Showing a continued willingness to break with tradition, President Donald Trump announced he'll skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year for the third time in a row. While leaving for a trip to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico…

President Donald Trump is lashing out as a new book about a certain former first lady sheds light on how much she reportedly disliked the 45th president. In an interview with The Washington Times on Thursday, Trump said Barbara Bush "should" have…

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday that it's updating two rules that have been used to ostracize gay members. According to the new policy, the Mormon Church will now let children of LGBTQ parents be baptized and…

The former vice president is embroiled in a controversy about whether he's been overly intimate when interacting with women, and his attempt at damage control may not have improved the situation much. Three new people came forward on Thursday,…

Nearly a month after a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft went down in Ethiopia, new details have emerged about how the pilots responded. On Thursday, the country's government issued a preliminary Ethiopian Airlines crash report indicating that pilots…

Tens of millions of Americans are effected by the nation's student debt burden, and the current presidential hopefuls aim to address the issue in different ways. Whether or not you're struggling with your own loans, it's important to know where the…

Twitter lit up on Tuesday as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made plans with Queer Eye's Bobby Berk, the interior design expert for the "Fab Five." It looks like the Netflix star is gearing up to remodel the freshman congresswoman's office while he's…

President Donald Trump has openly admitted that he doesn't want Republicans to undermine the Green New Deal too much because he wants to run against it in the 2020 election. But apparently he can't entirely resist criticizing the proposal, as…

A bill that's being considered in the Georgia legislature would make it practically impossible for most women to get an abortion in the state. To try to prevent its passage, a group of Hollywood celebrities protested Georgia's so-called "heartbeat"…

Dozens of people are being prosecuted in the college admissions scandal that has rocked the United States this past month, but lawmakers in one state are already taking further preventative action. On Thursday, California lawmakers introduced six…

Two competing bills aimed at addressing the gender wage gap made their way around Capitol Hill this week. Hours before Democrats' Paycheck Fairness Act passed through the House on Wednesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) introduced her own bill.…

One of the best ways for Democratic presidential contenders to spread their message in these early days of the 2020 campaign is through a town hall. New Jersey's Sen. Cory Booker discussed gun control with CNN on Wednesday night, and showed why the…

Attention is back on the Green New Deal this week after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a vote on the resolution that many Democrats dismissed as a political stunt. The deal was also discussed on the House floor, where GOP Rep. Sean…

Barbara Bush lived a long life in the spotlight as the wife of the 41st president and mother of the 43rd — but in recent years she made headlines more often as a critic of President Donald Trump. According to a new book by Susan Page, The Matriarch:…