Category: News

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) denounced the “uncalled for” language used by a college Republican group after it labeled her a “domestic terrorist” in a fundraising email. Such rhetoric, the freshman congresswoman said in a tweet, “puts me in danger.” On Wednesday, Dave Levinthal, a politics editor at the Center for Public Integrity, tweeted a screenshot…

For the first time in the history of humanity, people around the world Wednesday were able to see an image of a black hole 50 million light-years away. The revolutionary image went viral in an instant, as did a photo of Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old who is partly responsible for making the astronomical image happen….

Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, is claiming that the movement for LGBTQ equality is the “greatest threat” to America’s moral fiber. The former presidential candidate and father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders voiced his anti-LGBTQ views in an interview published Friday on The Christian Post, a conservative Christian news website. “The biggest…

If you want to know who exercises real power in American government, take a look at Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks. Over the course of seven relentless hours, lawmakers fell all over themselves to heap praise on the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan…

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…