Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday criticized some of the  memes made to mock her, calling them “so weak.” “It’s like, how do you have a computer that runs both Windows 95 and Twitter at the same time?” she joked during an appearance on Showtime’s “Desus & Mero.” Ocasio-Cortez also said in the interview that […]

Mika Brzezinski poked fun at Donald Trump after he boasted on Twitter about a “just built” section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall ― using months-old footage showing repairs to an existing part of the barrier. “Barack Obama thanks you for servicing the wall he built,” the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” responded to Trump on Twitter Friday. […]

A truck driver accused of killing 11 people and wounding seven during an attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue has pleaded not guilty. Forty-six-year-old Robert Bowers was in federal court Monday and pleaded not guilty to a new indictment that added 19 additional counts. His attorney, Judy Clarke, says the defense is hoping the case can […]

Stephen Colbert celebrated ― and gently mocked ― the growing number of Democratic candidates who are throwing their hats into the ring to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020. “The Late Show” host on Friday got lost in a sea of potential presidential hopefuls, before making an inevitable Where’s Waldo?-themed gag. Check out the clip […]

Multiple Fox News hosts distorted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) latest comments about climate change in a new montage. Media Matters for America, the progressive watchdog group, released a supercut Tuesday showing the conservative network’s anchors twisting Ocasio-Cortez’s statement about young people and global warming that she made during an Instagram livestream. What the freshman lawmaker […]

Rolling Stone magazine pays tribute to four Democratic “Women Shaping the Future” with its new cover. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) features on the front of the March issue, alongside freshman Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.). The publication shared extensive interviews with each of the four lawmakers on its website. The […]

Following backlash over misinformation on its platform, Facebook said Thursday that it will roll out a new plan to help fight the spreading of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. “We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic,” Monika Bickert, vice president of Facebook […]

Sean Hannity sat down with President Donald Trump in an interview that aired Thursday evening, but the biggest news to emerge may have been about the Fox News host himself.  Hannity claimed to have information that contradicted the testimony of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, and at least one lawmaker said it could lead to […]

Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) made a stunning allegation during a Senate hearing this week that a higher-ranking officer raped her during her time in the Air Force. She said she almost left the military because of how officials handled sexual assault cases like hers. “Like many victims, I felt like the system was raping me […]

A 20-year-old black man who was shot dead by police in Vallejo, California, earlier this month after he was found sleeping in his car with a gun in his lap was struck by about 25 bullets, his family’s lawyer said this week. “Overkill is an understatement,” attorney Melissa Nold told NBC News about the shooting […]