MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Thursday took the Republican-controlled Senate to task for failing to deal with the ongoing partial government shutdown. The “Hardball” host questioned why senators even bothered bringing two potentially shutdown-busting bills to the floor earlier in the day. “What do you make of this political gamesmanship that’s going on?” Matthews asked former […]
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman pulled no punches with his analysis of the people working under President Donald Trump. In his latest column for The New York Times, Krugman described the people that Trump surrounds himself with as being of “extraordinarily low quality.” “Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of morons,” […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Extremely cold, record-breaking temperatures are settling across parts of the Midwest after a powerful snowstorm pounded the region overnight Monday, and forecasters are describing the subzero weather on the way as potentially life-threatening. Minneapolis Public Schools announced there would be no classes through Wednesday, when the region will experience frigidly low temperatures […]
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Police in coastal Texas have captured a pair of runaway emus that had been on the lam for a day after escaping from their owner’s backyard. Emus aren’t permitted in Galveston, but police say a man recently brought the large, flightless birds to the island after the death of his mother. […]
Warm up for Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams with Bad Lip Reading’s amusing summary of the 2018-2019 NFL season. As has become an annual tradition, the YouTube channel’s editing wizards spliced and diced clips ― and added their own audio ― to reveal what really gets said […]
A 14-year-old Florida girl is facing grand theft charges after she allegedly stole a pizza delivery driver’s car early Wednesday morning. Police in Lee County said Josie Bigelow ordered two pizzas and had them sent to a neighbor’s house in Lehigh Heights. When the driver went to the door to deliver the pizzas, Bigelow allegedly popped out […]
By David Montgomery AUSTIN, Texas — A recruiting video from the Fort Worth Police Department features a look-alike of Star Wars’ Chewbacca. Gimmicky? Perhaps. But it’s gotten nearly 3 million views online and the department believes it’s helped recruit as many as 50 officers. In Florida, the Clearwater Police Department hopes to entice potential job […]
Kellyanne Conway inadvertently made a strong case for not building President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall on Thursday, according to dozens of Twitter users. The apparent self-own came as Conway, a White House counselor to the president, celebrated the largest seizure of fentanyl in the history of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency with […]
Joe Biden bashed President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address while praising Stacey Abrams’ rebuttal, saying it is the former Georgia gubernatorial nominee who really knows what makes America great. The former vice president posted his scathing one-sentence response on Twitter late Tuesday after both speeches had concluded, chalking Trump’s remarks up as a […]
Donald Trump took a few minutes Sunday night amid the government shutdown to work on a pressing matter: boosting the Hall of Fame chances for pitching great Curt Schilling. The president took to Twitter to make a case that Schilling should be among those inducted Tuesday. It may be a little too late: The New […]