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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's newsrooms are pushing back against President Donald Trump with a coordinated series of newspaper editorials condemning his attacks on "fake news" and suggestion that jo......

Drug overdoses killed a record 72,000 Americans last year, driven by a surge in synthetic opioids. The big picture: "The dominant factor is the changing drug supply," epidemiologist Brandon Marshall told the N.Y. Times' Margot Sanger-Katz. The...

Director says scene interpretation depends on viewers' depravity...

Google released an archive of online political advertisements Wednesday, revealing which campaigns are utilizing the world's largest online advertiser....

Far-left New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday declared that America "was never that great" — and then later in the day walked it all......

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska slammed the state of Colorado on Wednesday for infringing upon the First Amendment in order to promulgate a political agenda....

Over its eight seasons, Portlandia introduced us to various kooky characters, many of them played in pairs by stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Some standouts over the past decade include Candace and Toni of the feminist bookstore Women and Women ...

The mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, Joseph Curtatone is boycotting Boston-based brew Sam Adams after founder Jim Koch thanked President Trump for making tax reform happen....

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report Wednesday slamming the Trump administration's handli...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed on Wednesday that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) "strikes fear in the heart" of President Donald Trump....

Some Fox News pundits now say an ex-Marine Corps officer is more dangerous than an ex-KGB officer....

Being left on "read" by the entire group is truly heartbreaking. View Entire Post...

Paul Manafort's lawyers presented their final argument Wednesday, defending the former Trump campaign chairman from 18 charges of tax evasion, bank fraud, and bank fraud conspiracy. Manafort faces up to 305 years in prison if the Eastern Virginia jury...

Comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short, who are currently on a comedy tour together, said they intentionally keep jokes about politics and President Trump out of their shows....

The Five reacted to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) saying during a speech that "we are not going to Make America Great Again... it was never that great."...

Steve Kornacki goes to the board to discuss the results of Tuesday's primaries...

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Mad Maxine Waters turned 80-years-old this week. For her birthday Maxine wants a President Trump impeachment. Maxine Waters wants Trump impeachment for her 80th birthday. https://t.co/gkisuG2cOP — Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) August 15, 2018 President...

Arguments in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's tax and bank fraud trial wrapped up on Wednesday, after the defense opted not to call any witnesses as part of its case....

More people than ever are dying from drug overdoses, with death tolls surpassing 72,000 in 2017, according to preliminary data out Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) won his party's primary for attorney general of Minnesota on Tuesday, just days after allegations of domestic abuse by the congressman......

Amid seemingly perpetual leftist outrage over who is allowed to play what roles, a Hollywood filmmaker has made a casting move so novel that it's hard to determine whether or not it would be considered "woke" by current progressive standards....

Don't support the "femininity" of someone who has achieved nothing as a female. The post Cheering on Christine Hallquist's "Historic" Win in Vermont Is an Insult to Actual Womanhood appeared first on RedState ....

Trump is wrong about tariffs and so was Alex Hamilton....

On Wednesday, the president tweeted a strange birthday message to Maxine Waters:Happy Birthday to the leader of the Democrat Party, Maxine Waters!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 15, 2018Nancy Pelosi also wrote a birthday tweet, suggestin...

From Arizona to Florida, the fate of the Senate could rest with these seven races...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday acted on a threat and revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, citing a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information. Brennan, who served in the Obama administration, had re...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday acted on a threat and revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, citing a constitutional responsibility to protect cla......

The GOP leader was speaking about the midterms and immigration legislation....

Not about that: Isaac Chotiner interviews an author of a laudatory new book about Henry Kissinger and negotiation and politely, yet firmly, refuses to let him sidestep the question of the morality of Kissinger's actions....

We took a look at the evidence for President Trump's claim, which appeared to refer to a period starting in the late 19th century....

Restoring the Church's credibility depends on the bishops' being less lawyerly and more Christian.'...

The Trump administration tore into healthcare provisions in the Senate's latest spending bill, including for increased funding for medical research and to maintain a teen pregnancy prevention program....

Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lauded the efforts of an 11-year-old girl who decided to protest by kneeling for the Pledge......

Philippe Reines Twitter avatar On Wednesday, Sarah Sanders announced President Trump revoked ex-CIA Chief John Brennan's security clearance during a press briefing. The left is losing their minds over this and we couldn't be happier. Philippe Rein...

He is the right man for the job, and the Left will get hysterical...

Hillary Clinton gave an 11-year-old girl a pat on the back Wednesday after the girl made news for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance....

Authorities arrested a Springfield, Missouri, man Saturday for allegedly pointing a gun at a pro-life protester outside of an abortion clinic....

Sarah Wasko / Media Matters Hours after being banned from tweeting for a week, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was conducting a live broadcast from an alternate Twitter account where he doubled down on a previous claim that special counsel Robert Mueller o...

Melissa Joskow/Media Matters Last weekend marked the sequel to 2017's violent right-wing rally in Charlottesville, VA, that left one counterprotester dead and many injured. Unite the Right 2, as the anniversary event was dubbed, was poorly attended by...

A Democratic challenger to Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican congressman so obviously in the pocket of Vladimir Putin that other Republican congressmen joke about how he's in the pocket of Vladimir Putin, is going public over hacking attempts that plag...

Harry Litman tells Katy there is no chance for acquittal in the Paul Manafort trial....

The top political spenders on Google's ad platforms since the end of May include President Trump's political committee as well as individual candidates in competitive races, according to data the company released for the first time on Wednesday . ...

Lawrence O'Donnell What did I do to deserve Trump's mercy He never called me a dog...

On Wednesday, a Turkish court rejected another appeal to release U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson, whose detainment has ignited a trade war between the U.S. and Turkey....

The apparent turnaround after months of stalemate is a surprise outcome of discussions reaching their year anniversary on Thursday....