President Donald Trump took questions on the White House lawn Monday before departing for the American Farm Bureau Federation’s convention in New Orleans. One reporter asked what he thought of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) calling him a racist in a recent interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes.” “Who cares?” the president responded immediately, making a […]
The Killers offer up a blistering critique of America under President Donald Trump in new protest song “Land of the Free.” The rock band’s frontman, Brandon Flowers, sings about institutional racism, immigration, incarceration and gun violence in the track released Monday. And on Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, Flowers muses: Check out the music video, directed […]
In May 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act establishing the nation’s largest public utility and setting in motion an ambitious New Deal policy to provide electricity and jobs to some of the poorest Americans in the midst of the Great Depression. Nearly 86 years later, a new proposal aims to […]
One of President Donald Trump’s wild and rambling rally speeches has finally been given the “Drunk History” treatment. In a segment made for “The Daily Show” ― which featured “Drunk History’s” Derek Waters on Monday night ― “Trump History” is built around a speech the president delivered in Ohio in October. Trump shared an anecdote […]
The fluffy, cheerful Pomeranian whose charm and good looks captured the hearts of the internet, has died. Boo, 12, died in his sleep early Friday morning, according to an announcement on social media signed “Boo’s humans.” “With deepest sadness I wanted to share that Boo passed away in his sleep early this morning and has […]
“Is this the best a man can get?” That’s the question behind the nearly two-minute video the shaving giant Gillette put out earlier this week. In the video, a series of opening scenes show young boys beating each other up, others bullying a boy they call a “freak” and a “sissy,” grown men ogling women, […]
A black student is suing her former Kansas high school district and its staff on the grounds that she was racially discriminated against as a member of the school’s dance team, with staff telling her she couldn’t participate in a performance because of her skin color. Camille Sturdivant, who graduated in May 2018, claims she was […]
By April Simpson Cellphone companies often boast about how much of the country they cover. But with billions of federal dollars at stake to expand mobile broadband in rural America, state officials and other groups across 37 states say those claims aren’t always true. The challenge is proving the carriers wrong. In Vermont, that meant […]
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 […]
Fox News anchor Dana Perino made a classic Super Bowl snack Sunday night, but the internet isn’t sure what it was. “I made queso,” she tweeted just after the kickoff, along with a photo of a slightly congealed crock pot of orange-brown glop. Upon closer look, the substance appeared to be separating, lifting from the […]