Politics

Before President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued their joint statement on Tuesday afternoon in Singapore, before the two men met in private at a luxury hotel on the Singaporean island of Sentosa, before they shook hands with all the world watching, this much was true: Kim Jong-un …

President Trump‘s former personal doctor said three men, including a Trump Organization lawyer and the president’s longtime bodyguard, “raided” his office last year and took the president’s medical records. In an interview with NBC News, Dr. Harold Bornstein said the incident took place February 3rd, 2017, two days after the …

You don’t need to explain 4/20 to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is preparing to introduce a bill that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level today. Whether it’s a sincere effort or merely a political stunt to bolster the New York Democrat’s popularity in the early stages of …

ABC aired George Stephanopoulos’ exclusive interview with James Comey on Sunday — the former FBI director’s first since being fired by President Trump nearly a year ago. It was the most highly-anticipated television interview since the adult film star Stormy Daniels revealed to Anderson Cooper that she once spanked the …

Now is a terrifying time to be a sex worker in America. On Wednesday, the president signed into law a new bill – a combination of the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act and the House’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act – which amends Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency …

Max Boot, the noted Washington Post columnist, and “Jeane Kilpatrick senior fellow for National Security Studies” at the Council for Foreign Relations, thinks Donald Trump is betraying American values by meeting with Kim Jong-Un. Such a meeting, Boot says, would mean “giving the worst human-rights abuser on the planet what …

Every morning since the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Manuel Oliver wakes up and puts on a pair of his son’s black basketball shoes. The afternoon of the shootings, Joaquin, a 17-year-old senior, wasn’t answering Manuel’s calls, but Joaquin’s friends were. On Snapchat, they could see where his …

On Thursday, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, addressed the Parkland massacre by rehashing his organizations’ talking points on gun control. LaPierre’s comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference came just over a week after a gunman used an AR-15 to kill 17 teachers and students at …

Nearly 100 years after her grandmother was arrested during a women’s suffrage rally in New York, Vicki Lambert is protesting in something her elder relative might have worn. “This is an authentic 1898 walking skirt outfit that you would wear to go to a charity event, if you were a …

On Tuesday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein made the unilateral decision to release transcripts of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her Republican colleagues had previously refused to release the transcripts, despite calls from Simpson and his colleague, Peter Fritsch, for full transparency. To back up: …