Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said on Friday that nothing “corrupt” occurred when the Department of Justice suddenly changed an eight-year-old legal interpretation in a way that clearly benefited President Donald Trump’s biggest political donor, casino oligarch Sheldon Adelson. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked Whitaker whether he was involved […]
Jimmy Fallon jumped into character as former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for a spoof campaign ad on Thursday. And “The Tonight Show” host as Schultz revealed why he was considering a presidential run as an independent in 2020. It was because people around America had been telling him “please for the love of God, don’t […]
After previously slamming her qualifications, President Donald Trump on Thursday praised former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, who is set to give the Democratic Party’s response to Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. The president said that he hopes “she does a good job,” a sharp contrast from his comments during last year’s […]
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is separating fact from fiction. In a way. On Thursday, Colbert’s team pretended to expose a recent spate of so-called “deepfake” videos starring President Donald Trump. But the actual (spoof) footage is even more bizarre. Check out the comedy bit below, and the explainer on “deepfakes” above: RELATED COVERAGE […]
The Green New Deal is finally taking form. On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) unveiled a landmark resolution cementing the pillars of an unprecedented program to zero out planet-warming emissions and restore the middle-class prosperity of postwar America that the original New Deal helped spur. Just three months after calls for […]
Although the polar vortex put much of the country into a record-breaking deep freeze, it wasn’t all bad news. The plummeting temperatures allowed a Minnesota man and his neighbors to revive the mystifying and somewhat eerie phenomenon known as frozen pants. Tom Grotting of Minneapolis began the frozen pants movement in 2013. A polar vortex […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) let President Donald Trump have it with both barrels in a speech on Monday. The possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate straight-out called Trump “a racist” as he marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a town hall event in South Carolina. “Today we talk about justice and today we talk about […]
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett wants to repeal and replace the FBI. “This is an all-powerful, out-of-control agency, rogue agency, and frankly it’s time that it be halted in its tracks, reorganized and replaced with a new organization that has legal restraints imposed upon it and accountable to somebody,” he told Sean Hannity on […]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. judge in California on Sunday blocked Trump administration rules, which would allow more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control, from taking effect in 13 states and Washington, D.C. Judge Haywood Gilliam granted a request for a preliminary injunction by California, 12 other states and […]
Jim Bachor doesn’t often use his pothole mosaics to make a political point. But the Chicago artist made an exception when it came to President Donald Trump, who he describes as a “carnival barker” and “terrible human” who has dragged down the country’s discourse. “Trump drives me crazy,” Bachor, 54, who is better known for […]