Now, the project is lead by Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who couldn’t even remember that he wanted to eliminate the department to begin with. So, while the country spends its days watching The Apprentice-style government that Donald Trump has created with actual Nazis, North Korea and Russian hackers, Oliver hopes people can remember that one in three Americans is 50 miles from a festering, ill-contained paperbag of lethal radioactive garbage.

Reed responded to Collins by saying, of Trump: “He’s crazy.” Collins can be heard quietly saying, “I'm worried.”

Paul Callan says that Donald Trump's trolling of Jeff Sessions is likely part of an organized strategy to oust both Sessions and Rod Rosenstein -- to get at special counsel Robert Mueller.

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When a scandal breaks in Washington, what we often discover is not a finely constructed conspiracy with multiple moving parts and a sinister genius pulling the strings, but stunning overconfidence and outright buffoonery. The question that often comes up is “How the hell were they dumb enough to think they could get away with that?” That happens even when you’re talking about very smart people (Richard Nixon, after all, was extremely smart).

President Trump’s sham “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity”—which has received nearly universal opposition from voting rights advocates and state officials—follows the same template that conservative, regressive politicians have followed since the end of the Civil War to undermine American democracy. They seek to manipulate the language of liberty to conceal their true intentions and skew the electoral process in their favor, more often than not facilitating racial oppressio...

For 15 years, Best Buy’s Geek Squad installation and repair service has served as one key advantage over Amazon that the e-commerce giant seemed unlikely to match. But over the last few months, Amazon has quietly been hiring an army of in-house gadget experts to offer free Alexa consultations as well as product installations for a fee inside customer homes, multiple sources told Recode, and job postings confirm. The new offering, which has already rolled out in seven markets without much fanfa...

On Sept. 10, he was buried in a national cemetery in St. Louis. A tombstone bearing his name and the names of eight others missing from the battle was erected over the grave. His mother went home with a folded American flag. But as his comrades and family mourned, Ron Ridgeway sat in harsh North Vietnamese prisons for five years, often in solitary confinement, mentally at war with his captors and fighting for a life that was technically ove

The French comic series "Valérian and Laureline," newly adapted into a summer blockbuster, gave the genre one of its first protagonists to powerfully own her womanhood.

In 2017, 39 percent of Americans said interracial marriage was a good thing for society, up from 24 percent in 2010.

Here's how to watch every Marvel Cinematic Universe property in the perfect order.

The Trump administration says Texas has scrubbed its voter ID law of any potential discrimination and wants a judge who once compared the measure to a “poll tax” on minorities and the poor to resist further action. That stance from the U.S. Justice Department, filed in court Wednesday, continues a reversal from Washington over what critics call one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation. Under former President Barack Obama, the federal government joined minority rights groups in...

The House Appropriations Committee unexpectedly passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations bill last week that would repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. If this effort to revoke the AUMF proves successful, the repeal would effectively limit Donald Trump's ability to use military force against North Korea, Iran and elsewhere.

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Just as the House Republican bill to slash much of the Affordable Care Act moved forward, some lawmakers started trading health care stocks.

Many Senate Republicans avoided the tradition of marching in July 4 parades. Those who did got an earful on health care.

Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts that federal prosecutors say were smuggled into the United States. The arts and crafts retailer will also pay $3 million as part

The Trump administration will soon begin a review that will question the veracity of the climate change science used by President Barack Obama's administration as the basis for environmental regulations.

The Illinois Senate already voted to override the veto and the House is expected to follow suit this week. Lawmakers say it’s beyond late for more bickering with Illinois having already entered its third fiscal year without a budget. Legislators – including 15 Republicans in the House who broke from the governor – say they want to end a crisis that turned Illinois into a national disgrace, drew the intervention of a federal judge, sent university enrollments plummeting, threatened to clo...

As John Oliver pointed out on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group is in the process of buying Tribune Media, a move that would give it more than 200 stations. He said the combined evening news viewership once the deal is complete would average 2.2 million people per night “It’s more than any current primetime show on Fox News including ‘Five Idiots Have The Most Intolerable Dinner Party Ever’ and ’That Guy From College Everyone Hated Has A Talk Sh...

Our leaders should be solving for 1) creating higher-quality jobs and 2) increasing the purchasing power of all Americans. Robotics and AI will generate far more high-quality jobs than the onerous tasks it will render obsolete. To do so, regulation must put in place to accelerate adoption, and people must be trained to design and benefit from these magical systems. Unfortunately, neither candidate appreciated the massive lever robots can provide to not only increase our productivity as a countr...

Green groups have promised in response to mobilize the coastal communities that successfully implored the Obama administration not to open up new areas to drilling, due to fears over the effect of potential oil spills and noise pollution upon livelihoods and wildlife. “Trump’s appalling actions threaten every ocean and coastline in the country,” said Kristen Monsell, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’ll be fighting tooth and nail to make sure his disgraceful adm...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is reportedly “extremely concerned” by four neighboring countries’ demand that Qatar shut down the television news network. - 2017/07/01