Month: April 2019

Stephen Colbert tried to interpret what President Donald Trump told reporters about his proposed border wall. It wasn’t easy.  “We’ve built a lot of wall, a lot of wall, and it’s new wall,” Trump said this week: “Y’know, when we rip down an old wall and then replace it, it’s called a new wall. And…

President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters have long called for the Justice Department to scrutinize decisions made by the FBI related to its 2016 investigation into the Trump presidential campaign — an investigation that the president has repeatedly lambasted as politically motivated. It now appears that Attorney General William Barr is acceding to this…

MUNCAR, Indonesia ― You smell the beach here before you see it. The stench of decay hits you at around 100 yards. A layer of plastic trash several feet thick covers the black sand. Millions of moldy diapers, ratty shopping bags, sauce and sugar packets, degrading detergent bottles, old shoes and toys clump together at…

It’s a real-life version of one of the most feared monsters in horror fiction… only smaller. A lot smaller. On Wednesday, an international team of researchers unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient relative of the sea cucumber. It had 45 tentacles and lurked at the bottom of the seas some 430 million years ago.  They’ve…

Stephen Colbert has a fact-check for President Donald Trump.  Trump on Tuesday blamed President Barack Obama for separating children from their parents at the border, then tried to claim credit for ending the policy.  “President Obama separated children,” he claimed. “They had child separation. I was the one that changed it.” Trump also claimed migrants…

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin scolded Democrats on Tuesday about their request for copies of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, saying they ought to be glad Republicans didn’t do the same. House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) asked the Internal Revenue Service for six years of Trump’s personal and business returns…

Treasure Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) really got into it during a hearing on Tuesday.    Mnuchin wanted to leave and attend another “important” meeting and he vowed to not return to the committee for a planned hearing in May if it didn’t adjourn in time.  “If you’d wish to…

Twitter removed President Donald Trump’s recent 2020 campaign video early Wednesday, after Warner Bros. Pictures said it filed a copyright infringement complaint for “unauthorized” use of music from “The Dark Knight Rises.” Trump’s tweet, uploaded Tuesday afternoon, includes a two-minute dramatic trailer-like video that uses music from the studio’s 2012 film “The Dark Knight Rises.”…

WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration and its defenders in Congress argue that Democrats are breaking the rules in seeking the president’s private tax information. “We should not be in a situation where individual private tax returns are used for political purposes,” Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s private attorneys, said Sunday on ABC News’ “This…

DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki scored a season-high 30 points and then announced his retirement in the 40-year-old’s final home game, a 120-109 victory for the Dallas Mavericks over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night. Nowitzki told the crowd, “As you might expect, this is my last home game.” That was after speeches from Larry…