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

Looking for a job with the billionaire Koch Brothers? Want to help the Bradley Foundation build right-wing "infrastructure" nationwide to turn red states blue? Look no further than "Talent Market" the nonprofit head hunting firm t ...

Welfare reform briefly became a hot topic on the campaign trail last year when Hillary Clinton was criticized for supporting the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, signed into law with great fanfare by President Bil ...

As Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum noted, the NRA has clearly evolved from being an organization interested in the rights of gun owners, and become “a purveyor of wholesale culture war zealotry.” This video is powerful evidence of this: NRA members aren’t t ...

There could still be a vote soon on Senate GOP legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Democrats warned on Tuesday.

One excuse FCC Chairman Ajit Pai regularly offers to explain his effort to gut net neutrality protections is the claim that open Internet rules have harmed ISPs, especially small ones. During a speech earlier this year, he stressed that 22 small ISPs ...

The figure released by the Congressional Budget Office is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured under the House version of the legislation.

By now, you’ve probably heard the hoopla about a supposed link between vaccines and autism, which comes from a thoroughly debunked study by Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher Oliver calls “the Lance Armstrong of doctors.” Misinformation fro ...

The action means that the administration may impose temporary bans on travelers from six majority-Muslim countries and on all refugees, with exceptions noted by the court.

A Trump-obsessed media and the GOP’s secrecy and speed have stymied the left and put a sweeping conservative bill on the verge of Senate passage.

In his first 100 days in office, Donald Trump has coordinated an unprecedented crackdown on immigration, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into state attacks on undocumented immigrants and funded a brutal expansion of the US deportation infrastr ...

Forget red state vs. blue state. Now the line of separation runs between those who prefer facts to fantasy. In Stephen Colbert’s epic performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner he ironically stated that “Reality has a well ...

You may think the U.S. ranks in the top five on the list; but think again. We’re not even in the top 20. The United States come in at 36, right below Bosnia and Herzegovina, and just barely squeezing into second-to-last place in the category for coun ...

Trump is already well down the road toward executing a plan to get rid of the Special Counsel with deniability. He is setting the stage, and checking off the items on the to-do list. Claim that the investigation is a witch hunt. Check. Trash Rosenste ...

A vehicle hit pedestrians in London's Finsbury Park neighborhood, and there are "a number of casualties being worked on at the scene," according to authorities.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is cooking up a case to stifle further federal support of renewable wind and solar energy. He’s ordered a dubiously sourced staff study that is aimed to paint renewables as an unreliable source for the nation’s electric gr ...

Wednesday’s attack on a GOP sports team in Alexandria, Va., offers yet another lesson about gun control, but party politics have gotten in the way. - 2017/06/16

One man is in custody after he allegedly, fatally shot five people in a three-hour period Thursday (6/15) evening.

In a time when shootings are commonplace, this week didn’t necessarily feel remarkable. It felt normal and that makes me fear for my daughter

A U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, on Friday. A U.S. official said 7 U.S. sailors are unaccounted for.