AOC defends 'defund the police' mantra after Dem losses

Progressive Democrats took aim at former President Barack Obama after he argued that political candidates alienate voters when they use "snappy" slogans such as "defund the police." Obama made the comments during an interview with Peter Hamby on the Snapchat original political show "Good Luck America" that aired Wednesday morning.  "You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done," Obama said.

Former President Barack Obama had some harsh criticism for the “Defund the police” movement in an online interview scheduled to be released in three parts this week.

A young woman who had a large following as an Instagram influencer has been found dead on the side of a west Houston road -- a day after she was last seen leaving her house after an argument, according to reports. Houston police had been looking for 26-year-old Alexis Less Sharkey when they found a woman’s body Saturday on Red Haw Lane.

Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after a female cyclist was seriously hurt in a road crash. The 40-year-old was taken to Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock for treatment after the incident which happened at around 10.35am on Sunday November 29 on the A78 near Loans.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has tossed out an election lawsuit to delegitimize mail-in ballots, but Republican congressional candidate Sean Parnell said his team will on Sunday ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case, which questions the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's Act 77.

Police have launched an appeal after a hit and run driver struck a six-year-old boy. Officers are keen to get public help to trace the motorist following the incident on the West Approach Road, Edinburgh.

Harry Styles’ Vogue cover, in which the singer wears a dress.The “Cherry” singer, 26, recently received backlash for wearing a ball gown in his shoot for American Vogue’s December cover.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the latest public figure to defend Harry Styles for wearing a dress on the cover of US Vogue.Earlier this month, the “Watermelon Sugar” singer made history by becoming the first solo man on the magazine’s cover.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Police are appealing for information after a robbery within a house in Bothwell at the weekend.Three men wearing disposable face masks forced their way into a house on Glebe Hollow, where they threatened two women, aged 49 and 59 before ransacking the property and makiing off with a three figure sum of cash.They left in a grey/silver coloured Audi A3 saloon.The incident happened around 5.30pm on Saturday,

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Harry Styles’ mother Anne Twist spoke about the One Direction star hitting headlines with his recent Vogue cover during an appearance on Tuesday’s “Lorraine”.

missing Scots pensioner who vanished from his Inverurie home. Ronald Watson was last seen in the Kellands Road area of the town at around 1.15pm on Saturday, November 14.

was shot just yards away, on Furrow Drive, in January this year.It is not clear if the two shootings are linked.A spokesperson for GMP said: "Officers were called at 8.15pm this evening (Saturday 14 November 2020), to a report of a firearm discharge on Anson Street, Eccles."Officers are in attendance and initial enquiries suggest that a man on a bike was shot at by a passing vehicle."A 20-year-old man has been taken to hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life threatening."No

Nicola Adams and Katya Jones have been forced to pull out of this year's Strictly Come Dancing after the Russian professional tested positive for Covid-19.

Bolton between 2001 and 2010 after coming through the youth ranks at the Trotters and notched up more than 160 appearances for the club, the majority of these being in the Premier League. And the defender has now responded after returning home, thanking people 'from the bottom of my heart' for their 'kind' messages following the incident.He says he is 'sore' but 'hopefully on the mend'.

straight to your inbox Manchester City's injury problems have worsened after Nathan Ake was the latest to suffer a setback on Wednesday night. The versatile defender started at centre-back for the Netherlands in their friendly match with Spain in Amsterdam but had to be taken off after just six minutes.He was pictured clutching his right hamstring, which appears to be the cause of the injury.