Burger King may have met his match. President Donald Trump presented a spread of fast-food burgers and chicken sandwiches to North Dakota State University’s champion football team at the White House on Monday, telling players he could have had his chef whip something up but thought better of it. “Because I know you people very […]
Comedian Patton Oswalt isn’t averse to knocking President Donald Trump with a disgusting analogy. Remember when he likened Trump to something horrible in a sauna? Well, in a new interview for BuzzFeed’s Facebook Watch show “Profile,” Oswalt invoked another disturbing scenario to sum up the Trump White House — and it involved monkeys, PCP and lots […]
Another partial government shutdown later this week “absolutely cannot” be ruled out, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday. Mulvaney, who also serves as director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that congressional talks to keep the government open are “all over the map, and […]
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson fired back at allegations that she plagiarized passages in her new book, telling CNN on Sunday that her lifting of other writers’ words was not unethical because she credited them in the footnotes. “I would never purposely take credit for the work of another journalist or writer,” Abramson told […]
Twitter users dunked on Donald Trump Jr. after he shared yet another inaccurate meme on Friday. President Donald Trump’s son likened his father’s declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to former President Barack Obama’s 2010 enaction of the Affordable Care Act with this image of Kermit the Frog […]
A bipartisan group of 58 former national security officials on Monday issued a blistering critique of President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying there was “no plausible” justification for declaring a national emergency. “We have lived and worked through national emergencies, and we support the President’s power to mobilize […]
One of Minnesota’s most popular, most good-natured and fluffiest politicians died Thursday. Duke, a 13-year-old Great Pyrenees, was mayor of Cormorant Village for about four years before he retired in June. “Our beloved mayor Duke went to doggie heaven today,” his human family wrote on Facebook. “He will be greatly missed.” The post noted that […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on surrogates representing his 2020 presidential campaign in the media to “respectfully engage” his opponents in the Democratic presidential primary, encouraging them to focus on policies rather than personalities. In the Saturday email to over 100 campaign surrogates obtained by HuffPost, Sanders also preemptively admonished supporters against “bullying and harassment […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A mind-altering medication related to the club drug Special K won U.S. approval Tuesday for patients with hard-to-treat depression, the first in a series of long-overlooked substances being reconsidered for severe forms of mental illness. The nasal spray from Johnson & Johnson is a chemical cousin of ketamine, which has been used […]
A barber in Hanoi is offering customers free haircuts in two of the world’s most distinctive styles: the instantly recognizable coiffure of President Donald Trump and the just-as remarkable high-cut ’do of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The two leaders are scheduled to meet in the Vietnamese capital next week for their second summit. “I feel […]