“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 […]

Mick Mulvaney, the White House’s budget director and acting chief of staff, danced around a question Sunday on whether government-contracted employees would be reimbursed for wages they missed during the partial government shutdown. Margaret Brennan, host of CBS’ “Face The Nation,” asked Mulvaney if and when both federal employees and government-contracted workers should expect to […]

Donald Trump boasted over the weekend about his unparalleled accomplishments as president. So, on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel added him to Mount Rushmore as part of his “celebration” show marking Trump’s two years in office ― but he did it for some questionable reasons. Check out Anthony Atamanuik as Trump explaining why he’s been added to […]

In the fallout of a disputed BuzzFeed story alleging President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to deceive Congress on his Moscow real estate project, CNN’s Michael Smerconish said he smelled something fishy from the start. BuzzFeed’s report Thursday, which cited two unnamed federal law enforcement sources as having indicated that the former fixer lied at […]