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Purdue Pharma, the company owned by the Sackler family at the center of the prescription opioid crisis, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to The New York Times. The company is the subject of more than 2,600 lawsuits at both the state and fede...

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Misconduct allegations against the conservative Supreme Court justice have returned to the fore, and Democrats have raised the specter of impeachment....

The employees at the Birmingham National Weather Service outlet are generally apolitical, abstaining from partisan talk in favor of backyard......

President Trump started the week with an early morning-tweet storm suggesting that instead of investigating him, the House Judiciary Committee......

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... A Slight Revision Among my private papers destined for display in the Bill in Portland Maine Library and Mop Closet is a ragged piece of construction paper on which is scrawled my attempt at age 7 (circa March, 1972, below...

Both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed last week that Trump remained open to such talks....

Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly /NY Times: But while we found Dr. Ford's allegations credible during a 10-month investigation, Ms. Ramirez's story could be more fully corroborated. During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident...

Sanctions highlight more than $1 billion in alleged digital thefts....

Former regulators are criticizing deregulation....

The Massachusetts Democrat, who had already introduced a massive anti-corruption bill, is adding some new aspects to her plan....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a sweeping new set of anti-corruption proposals Monday ahead of a rally in New York City, where she will speak a short walk from the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, an infamous 1911 disaster that led to the pas...

Happy Monday! Once again, the Trump World weekend takes us crashing through multiple bombshells. ZOMG! There's further corroboration that Brett Kavanaugh... WAIT! ZOMG! We might be taking military orders from Mr. Bone Saw! And, of course, we'll al...

The beloved British stately home drama is back, and the timing couldn't be worse....

The former GOP presidential candidate looks back at her 2016 run and what makes good leadership....

The Democratic presidential candidate's proposal seeks to limit the influence of lawmakers and lobbyists while expanding worker protections....

Warren's bold plan to crack down on corruption in Washington, explained....

Iran is dismissing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's accusation that it was behind attacks on one of the world's largest oil processing facilities in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Trump says 'Fake News' he would meet with Iran with no preconditi...

2020 presidential candidate, former VP Joe Biden, delivered remarks on race Sunday while commemorating the 56th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The panel discusses....

Tens of thousands of auto workers across the country went on strike Sunday night after negotiations faltered between their union and General Motors. The Morning Joe panel discusses....

On the latest Recode Decode, de Blasio called for antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google, and dismissed universal basic income as a cure-all in the face of job automation....

The #MeToo movement is front and center again....

For the curious nerd in all of us. Can you solve it?...

Climate change is poised to alter the face of global conflict....

What does it say about American politics that the Colorado senator hasn't managed to stand out in the presidential race?...

Migrants hoping to cross legally into the United States wait along the Mexican border, where life is a mixture of instability, violence, and luck....

Presidents are, by definition, "presidential." But Trump has scrambled what that word means....

We look at the story of an informant who, through his access to President Vladimir V. Putin, helped deliver explosive revelations about Russian election meddling in 2016....

Parenting advice on mothers-in-law, a dead cat, and 19th-century life....

Their agenda should not be to restore the national security status quo but to overhaul it....

Though seen as insufficient by many states, the proposed deal with Purdue Pharma hints at public alternatives to for-profit drug companies....

House Democrats have begun the process of impeaching Trump—whether they admit it or not....

We look at the famed drink that has started 1,000 arguments and also the new "Martini Book" by Robert Simonson....

He neither expected nor asked much of his adopted country—basically just the chance to earn a paycheck and be free from government and employer intimidation....

She's sailing; he's staggering. But he's still the frontrunner to be the nominee, and if beating Trump matters, dragging him is an awfully dangerous game....

The social media giant turned to the blocky, endless virtual world for research into natural language processing....

Liberals who call for personal sacrifice to combat climate change aren't helping. In fact, they're hurting....

A crisis hitting the Danish criminal justice system could easily happen here....

Greta Thunberg was dying from depression and starvation when she had a nightmare about climate change that saved her life. It might just save all of us....

MAGA media characters like prankster Joey "Salads" Saladino are trying to make it to Congress—and increase their social media following along the way....

The British pop star returns with her most personal record yet, a dazzling force of next-level sounds combined with serious self-examination....

The 2020 Democratic candidates have one major goal for Afghanistan: Get out. They are struggling to differentiate themselves from a president they say has a feckless, isolationist view of American power....

A new petition asks the court to decide whether Delaware can factor in the political affiliations of judges to try to seek ideological balance on its courts....

Democratic socialists across the country disagree on their 2020 strategy....

Possibly—and very, very slowly....

The president's son also claimed he was quoting the actor Tim Allen, but that's wrong, too....

President Donald Trump and Democratic White House hopefuls have plunged into a new battle over Justice Brett Kavanaugh because they have strong incentives to put the Supreme Court at the epicenter of the election....

Filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg break down the juiciest, most addicting show on TV: Showtime's voyeuristic look inside real couples' brutal therapy sessions....

Trump's rally in New Mexico is an early bid for an upset next year...