Rashida Tlaib

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was emotional sharing her experience getting death threats for being a Muslim woman before she was even sworn into office and how she felt watching the riots at the Capitol building unfold on Jan. 6.

Progressive Democrats are celebrating two primary victories in U.S. House races.

President Donald Trump is facing widespread backlash after making a shocking statement about Jewish voters who support Democrats. The pro-Israel group J Street called it “dangerous and shameful,” while the head of the Anti-Defamation League is urging Mr. Trump to “stop using Jews as a political football.”

Showing a fresh willingness to play politics along religious and racial lines, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that American Jewish people who vote for Democrats show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Trump’s claim triggered a quick uproar from critics who said the president was trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes. It came amid his ongoing feud with Democratic...

Palestinians shared sweet and sometimes harrowing stories of their grandmother’s lives on social media Saturday after Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib announced she wouldn’t be visiting her grandmother in the West Bank, NBC News reports. Tlaib announced Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the West Bank after Israel placed what she called “oppressive conditions” on her trip. Israeli...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she will not go to the West Bank despite Israel granting her a permit based on humanitarian grounds because of “oppressive” conditions Israel placed on her visit.

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, despite being granted an Israeli permit on humanitarian grounds, saying Israel’s “oppressive” conditions aimed to humiliate her. Israel barred Tlaib and another Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, from visiting Jerusalem and the West Bank over their support for the international boycott movement following an...

Trump urged Israel not to welcome them before the decision.

Democratic Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley slammed Israel on Thursday for saying it will bar fellow “Squad” members Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country over their support for a Palestinian-led boycott movement. “I’m calling this like I see it: bigoted, short sighted and cruel,” Pressley said on Twitter. “Any leader committed to advancing democracy would welcome with open...

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts has responded to President Donald Trump’s most recent tweet aimed at her and three other Democratic Congresswomen of color. Sunday morning, President Trump continued his attacks on Pressley and the others, a week after a series of tweets directed at the same group ignited controversy and ended with a formal rebuke from the House...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts said we all have to not take the bait from President Trump.

While President Donald Trump continues to attack four U.S. Congresswomen of color, even after Congress formally condemned his statements, Massachusetts politicians continue to speak out. Former U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, who lost his seat to one of the members of “the squad”, Ayanna Pressley, says he has been watching the feud unfold. The feud started when four freshmen Congresswomen known...

Sen. Mitt Romney said President Donald Trump fell “far short” of his duty to unite all Americans with his weekend tweets telling four congresswomen of color to leave the country. In an exclusive interview with NBC10 Boston Monday, Romney also took aim at the group of women known as “the squad.”

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said President Donald Trump’s comments about how she and three other congresswomen of color should go back to their “broken and crime infested” countries serves as a good reminder of “who the real enemy is.” “I think it’s really par for the course,” the Massachusetts Democrat told NBC10 Boston’s Alison King as she prepared to board an...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is weighing in on the growing controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s comments over the weekend about how four congresswoman of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from. Baker, a Republican who has often clashed with Trump, called the comments “shameful,” adding that Trump’s tweets are “a disgrace.”

President Donald Trump is facing backlash from politicians after a tweet about “progressive Democratic congresswomen” that some have regarded as nationalistic.

Defiant in the face of widespread criticism, President Donald Trump renewed his belligerent call on Monday for four Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. “right now,” cementing his position as the most willing U.S. leader in generations to stoke the discord that helped send him to the White House.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Monday defended recent remarks she made about the Holocaust and Israel and lashed out at President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers for “spreading outright lies” about her, NBC News reported. During an interview on Yahoo News’s “Skullduggery” podcast released Friday, Tlaib was asked about her support for a one-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. Tlaib...

Rep. Ilhan Omar has come under fresh criticism for remarks critics call anti-Semitic. The Minnesota Democrat was appearing at a forum in Washington with Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan when she said she fears everything they say about Israel is construed as anti-Semitic because they’re Muslim. But some Jewish leaders say Omar then revived an old trope about divided loyalties...

Hours after being sworn in, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., appeared to tell a cheering crowd of supporters that the Democrats “are gonna impeach the motherf—er,” NBC News reported. The comments about President Donald Trump were captured in video posted online by an immigration activist, who also posted a group selfie with the new representative. “When your son looks at you...