George Conway, the husband of top White House aide Kellyanne Conway, has taken Donald Trump to task with a fact-check of the president’s false claims about illegal border crossings. Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, ahead of his State of the Union address, that “tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of […]

Steve Carell is reuniting with Greg Daniels, co-creator of “The Office,” but it’s not for a reboot of the show. It’s for something much spacier. The two are collaborating on a workplace comedy for Netflix called “Space Force,” inspired by President Donald Trump’s proposal for a space force as the sixth branch of the military, according to The […]

On Friday night, a video of a group of MAGA hat-wearing teens surrounding and apparently taunting a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, made the rounds on social media. People around the country shared the short clip, condemning the students’ actions and suggesting that this behavior was just par for the course in President Donald Trump’s […]

A Florida man is behind bars after he allegedly threatened to kill his neighbor with kindness. It’s not what you’d think: “Kindness” is what the 30-year-old suspect, Bryan Stewart, calls his machete, according to police. Stewart, of Milton, was arrested on Thursday for an incident that allegedly happened Wednesday evening.  It began when two of Stewart’s neighbors […]

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is getting called out on Twitter after saying he’s considering a “centrist independent” bid for president in 2020 ― a move critics say could help President Donald Trump win reelection.  Saying “our two parties are more divided than ever,” he called on people to “discuss how we can come together […]

The newest member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board is a climate change skeptic whose research has been debunked and who believes that burning fossil fuels is actually beneficial. “There’s a benefit, not a cost, to producing energy from carbon,” John Christy, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told […]

As a Lebanese-American born to immigrant parents, I’ve long been well-versed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and am passionate about both Palestinian justice and a peaceful end to this decadeslong conflict. So I’ve been troubled by recent efforts to silence Palestinian supporters like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, activist Angela Davis and journalist Marc Lamont Hill (which aim […]

When police in Anderson, Missouri, searched two homes on Tuesday, they seized 58 grams of methamphetamines, a gun, a stolen ATV and a stolen horse trailer. Oh, and something else: a dead bald eagle. The bizarre discovery came after the Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team, the McDonald County Sheriff’s Office and the Anderson Police Department served two search […]

Donald Trump infamously told a rally last year that “what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening.” CNN’s Don Lemon turned Trump’s old words against him on Thursday as he examined the president’s claim that U.S. intelligence chiefs had not contradicted him on foreign policy points — despite them being […]

Bill Maher picked apart on Friday the argument made by former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz that both main political parties are to blame for the state of the country. The “Real Time” host explained why Schultz, who is considering a run for president in 2020 as an independent, was wrong — and why Republicans were […]