Wednesday, disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly took shots at CNN’s Jake Tapper via Twitter, saying that the ratings of his former colleague are “as low as you can go.” This turned out to be a mistake, as Tapper spun right around and reminded O’Reilly what going low really looks like. “Sean Hannity kicking serious...
Not getting married is the new getting married
According to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics, unmarried couples who live together are staying together longer and having more babies than at any other time in the past. (Cue moral panic about: the Gays; the rise of feminism; the "wussification" of American men; other conservative garbage...
President Obama pushes back against Bernie’s definition of a progressive and sorta-kinda-almost endorses Hillary
One day after Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, President Obama pushed back against the Vermont Independent's assertion that one cannot be both a moderate and a progressive. "Some of my best friends are moderates, but you can’t be a progressive and a moderate at the same...
FBI investigating alleged effort to impersonate White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles
The FBI is investigating claims that someone is pretending to be the White House chief of staff
“We cover both sides”: Fox News host reacts to Donald Trump’s gripes about Bernie Sanders town hall
President Donald Trump offered rare criticism of his favorite cable network after Fox News hosted a town hall event Monday night with one of his 2020 rivals, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on @FoxNews. Not surprisingly, @BretBaier and the “audience” was so smiley and nice....
7 of the most alarming claims in the whistleblower complaint against President Trump
White House officials were immediately spooked by President Donald Trump’s phone call to Ukraine’s president, and their concerns prompted a whistleblower complaint from an intelligence official. The complaint, which was released Thursday morning, details Trump’s efforts to pressure Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and U.S.-based...
Measles cases flare beyond 700 and anti-vaxxers — the apex helicopter parent — are to blame
Leaving Kabul, Afghanistan for the border with Pakistan was like traveling back in time from the 21st to the 5th century. I was there in the spring 15 years ago. The dirt roads from one tiny village to another were pock-marked with deep craters, and enormous boulders the size of...
Stephen Miller hatched secret plan to embed ICE agents at refugee agency for children: report
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller pushed a “secret” plan to embed immigration agents at a refugee agency that cares for unaccompanied migrant children, The Washington Post reports. Miller, who has argued that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) was being exploited by families hiring...
Democrats’ first order of battle in 2025: Doge
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Some towns still don’t have drinkable water months after Hurricane Helene. A full recovery could take years.
The most exciting part of the day at Spruce Pine Montessori School is when the truck arrives to empty the porta-johns. At that point in the afternoon, the kids abandon their toy dinosaurs and monkey bars, throw up their hands, and yell in excitement as they run to watch the...