Rachel Maddow attempted to make sense of President Donald Trump’s latest “bold idea” on Tuesday night. The host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” noted that Trump had earlier in the day suggested putting on a “Salute to America” with fireworks in Washington, D.C., to mark the Fourth of July ― even though similar festivities […]

President Donald Trump has once again inexplicably heaped praise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.  Trump, who’s in Hanoi, Vietnam, this week for a summit with North Korea, called the country’s dictator a “great leader” and complimented the Hermit Kingdom’s economy.  “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential. Unbelievable. Unlimited,” the president […]

An independent advisory group of evangelical leaders has found that the sexual misconduct accusations lodged against former Chicago-area megachurch pastor Bill Hybels by several women are credible. The women’s allegations of “sexually inappropriate words and actions” by Hybels would have been sufficient to prompt disciplinary action against the pastor if he had not already retired from […]

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A dog named Kingston is back with his family 101 days after he jumped out of their truck as they fled a devastating Northern California wildfire. The 12-year-old Akita was reunited Monday with the Ballejos family, who fled the town of Paradise late last year, Sacramento television station KXTV reported. “When […]

Authorities say an Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he got trapped in quicksand in Utah’s Zion National Park for several hours on Saturday amid freezing conditions. Ryan Osmun, 34, was hiking with his girlfriend, Jessika McNeill, along the park’s “subway route” when they said she tripped in a shallow creek that turned […]

BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — The youngest victim was 6, the oldest 89. Relatives said one extended family lost 10 members. The 23 people killed in the nation’s deadliest tornado in nearly six years came into focus Tuesday with the release of their names by the coroner. They included 6-year-old Armando Hernandez Jr., known as “AJ,” […]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) introduced a new clean-energy proposal Monday that would require the state’s electricity providers to go 100 percent renewable by 2050 “Climate change is an existential threat. We must take immediate action,” Walz said Monday at a news conference. “The new policies will ensure reliable, affordable and sustainable electricity in Minnesota. […]

Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Donald Trump, this week revealed a new investigation into his onetime boss. “I am in constant contact with the Southern District of New York regarding ongoing investigations,” Cohen told Congress on Wednesday. Now, one former head of that office says Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president won’t […]

Uber will not be held criminally liable for a crash last year in which one of its self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona — the first accident of its kind. Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk wrote in a letter Tuesday that there was “no basis for criminal liability for the Uber […]

Chris Evans may be done playing “Captain America.”  But the actor definitely isn’t done with taking President Donald Trump to task, as he demonstrated with two tweets on Monday. Evans, who in recent months has not been shy about using his public profile to criticize Trump, asked why the president continued to confuse weather with […]