Calls out GOP frontrunner during nuclear summit.
Wants to keep laws the way they are.
At the request of the FBI.
Against senior al-Shabaab leader.
It was purportedly found on his former property.
Actress Rosario Dawson questioned president's legacy.
Judge axed payment down from $18M.
For partisan reasons.
Rifles and bulletproof armor found.
Not a day goes by without a devastatingly handsome British man talking about his desire to play James Bond. But does all this campaigning actually work?
She did what glamorous actresses so often do—she went for the earnest roles to give herself some acting cred. But she already had wit and style to burn and that was plenty.
Once American whiskey distillers are finished with a barrel they’re sent around the globe for more boozy use.
Donald Trump was 11 years old when the teenage victim of a botched backstreet abortion was found buried in a trash-strewn vacant lot in his home borough of Queens.Trump was still young enough that adults might have lowered their voices, but he was...
Before Roe v. Wade, thousands of women died trying to end a pregnancy. Arlene Thompson, 17, dumped in a vacant lot near Trump’s home, was one of them.
So I see from Twitter that some genius has gone on Zillow and found my house. I think this must’ve happened in response to something I said on the Stephanie Miller radio show on Wednesday, discussing my last column, about how some people can affor...
Yes, I have a nice house—but I don’t vote my self-interest.
Sen. Chuck Grassley was looking for somewhere safe, friendly and familiar as he toured the state this week, so he headed to the deep-red northwest corner of Iowa for three open town hall meetings.After all, where could be better than counties wher...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has been a fixture in Iowa for decades—but Democrats hope his decision to stonewall a Supreme Court nominee finally might knock him from his perch.
After three decades of failing to shrink the federal government by “starving the beast,” a subtler strategy is taking hold: Starve the IRS.This strategy quietly grants tax relief to tax cheats among those business owners, investment partners and l...
When Congress lets big corporations and rich individuals pay less than the law says they owe, they subtly shift the burden of supporting our government down the income ladder.
Mississippi is already one of the worst states for LGBT people in America. Now, it is one signature away from not just allowing, but openly endorsing discrimination.While public attention was squarely focused on the recent anti-LGBT law in North C...
The law would allow open discrimination under the guise of religious protection.
By the time 2012 rolled around, television had played host to Will and Jack. Mitch and Cam were thoroughly modern. Gay characters had become so mainstream that a flashy new NBC sitcom was even dubbing them The New Normal.But for all the talk of wh...
Three years after being called the most realistic and honest portrayal of gay relationships in pop culture, the hit web series ‘The Outs’ is back for a long-awaited Season 2.
Each and every time Donald Trump says or does something completely asinine and outrageous—so every day, basically—his actions are vigilantly defended by one woman: Katrina Pierson.You see, Pierson, a former Ted Cruz associate, is the national spok...
Donald Trump’s national spokesperson is also busy butting heads with the stars of ‘Sisters In Law,’ a reality show airing Thursdays on WE tv about a group of female lawyers in Texas....
There’s that old saying about “April showers…” And Rihanna is doing her part to ensure that this April is going to be a cold one.The video for “Kiss It Better,” itself a sensual bump and grind of a song, hit the Internet Wednesday afternoon, with ...
There will be a lot of talk about nipples in Rihanna’s brand new music video. More interesting, though, is what its artistry represents for her career.
It takes a special kind of woman, like 23-year-old Alycia Debnam-Carey, to forge a promising career out of humanity’s darkest fear: extinction.As the fierce Lexa on CW’s The 100, she commanded a clan of warriors in a world ravaged by a nuclear apo...
‘The 100’ star Alycia Debnam-Carey addresses fans’ anger at Lexa’s fate, TV’s Dead Lesbian Syndrome, and what to expect from Season 2 of ‘Fear the Walking Dead.’ [Warning: Spoilers]
Stephen Colbert tried his best to get Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to weigh in on Hillary Clinton versus Bernie Sanders. But throughout their interview, she seemed far more eager to talk about Donald Trump. Entering the stage to the cheerful strai...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has resisted the urge to endorse a candidate in the Democratic primary. If anyone could get her to break, it would be Stephen Colbert
Ted Cruz makes for an awkward late-night guest. Last March, he squirmed as Seth Meyers grilled him on climate change and same-sex marriage. In September, Stephen Colbert had to instruct his audience to stop booing the Texas senator. What made Cruz...
A mostly uncomfortable conversation with Jimmy Kimmel led Ted Cruz to admit that he might actually like President Barack Obama more than Donald Trump.
Ever since the sharp left turn that was Vice, which transformed the spy outfit formerly known as ISIS into a wacky, cocaine-munching drug cartel, FX’s animated spy-comedy Archer always keeps its fans on edge. The creative nimbleness is thanks to A...
The seventh season of FX’s animated spy series, premiering March 31, offers something new: a hard-boiled detective thriller exploring Tinseltown’s rich and famous.
JUBA, South Sudan — The headlines about United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, the strife-torn neighbor here in the violent heart of the continent, are nothing short of grotesque. There are scores of allegations of child rape...
In the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and around the world, United Nations peacekeepers on a noble mission have shown ignoble behavior.
In the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, the U.S. military is notably short on soldiers, but apparently not on generals.There are at least 12 U.S. generals in Iraq, a stunningly high number for a war that, if you believe the White Hou...
There are only 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq—about what a colonel usually commands. But for this ISIS war, as many as 21 generals have been deployed. Why?
A Moscow court has stripped Russian traffic activist group Stop a Douchebag of its registration and federal funding on orders from the Ministry of Justice last week, the Russian news site Fontanka reported on Wednesday, effectively “liquidating” t...
The popular traffic activist group was caught off guard by the government decision that froze its funds.
ROME — Mohamed Lahlaoui was not supposed to be in Europe when he was arrested in Germany last week on terrorism charges. The 28-year-old Moroccan was deported from the northern Italian city of Brescia back in May 2014 after he violated the conditi...
The country’s increasing number of arrests and connections with the terror group’s operatives has Italians authorities scrambling to connect the dots.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling to recapture the ancient city of Palmyra had a lot of help from above. At least one Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter—Moscow’s answer to the U.S. Army’s fearsome Apache gunship—flew top cover as Syri...
In the battle with ISIS for storied Palmyra, Russian forces unleashed their flying tank.
ISTANBUL — The Obama administration became on Tuesday the latest Western government to move to protect its citizens in an increasingly volatile Turkey, ordering some 700 family members—and almost 300 pets—of military personnel to leave the country...
The U.S. is pulling military families out of Turkey and Israel is urging all citizens to leave the country as soon as possible over concerns of a looming terror attack.
The course of true love, as William Shakespeare observed, never did run smooth.However, even the most imaginative of dramatists would balk at a plot line of a star-crossed lover so desperate to get a message to his lost love that he would hijack a...
When an Egyptian plane was hijacked this morning, security services went into overdrive. However, it soon emerged the man with a bomb had a very personal reason for his dramatic act...
Donald Trump was 11 years old when the teenage victim of a botched backstreet abortion was found buried in a trash-strewn vacant lot in his home borough of Queens.Trump was still young enough that adults might have lowered their voices, but he was...
Before Roe v. Wade, thousands of women died trying to end a pregnancy. Arlene Thompson, 17, dumped in a vacant lot near Trump’s home, was one of them.
As the FBI tells it, Brad Harris became a one-man private death panel as the owner and CEO of a Texas hospice.“You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” Harris texted one his nurses at Novus Health Care Services, as recounted in an FBI search war...
The founder and CEO of a hospice services company instructed nurses to administer fatal overdoses to patients who had ‘been on the hospice service for too long,’ the FBI alleges.
Daniel and Taylor Mahaffey were 20 weeks pregnant and desperately wanted their child, but when doctors informed them a complication meant the fetus had no chance of survival, they just wanted their baby’s suffering to end. Yet because of their sta...
Taylor Mahaffey’s baby started emerging from her womb at 20 weeks—and because of Texas’s fetal-pain law, all the hospital could do was send her home.
The FBI revealed this week that it no longer needs Apple’s help to extract information from the iPhone used by one of the dead San Bernardino killers. A mysterious third party, whom officials have not yet identified, came forward recently with a m...
Now that the FBI has figured out a way to hack into a locked iPhone, Apple wants the feds to pull the same trick a second time, in a different case.
Seizing over six tons of cocaine bound for USA.
The NFL is bluffing.The league tried to strong-arm The New York Times on Tuesday into retracting a front-page exposé of the NFL’s flawed concussion research, even hinting at suing the paper if it didn’t get its way in a six-page letter sent out by...
So far, the league’s tough talk about legal hard hits is just talk.
This post was originally published on Trustmothers.I am 18 weeks pregnant with our little girl. I have known since Christmas Day that we were pregnant with our third child. I have always known I wanted at least three children. My childhood best fr...
To think that a mother is going through what I’m going through, in a state without fair abortion access, is unacceptable.
The FBI revealed this week that it no longer needs Apple’s help to extract information from the iPhone used by one of the dead San Bernardino killers. A mysterious third party, whom officials have not yet identified, came forward recently with a m...
Now that the FBI has figured out a way to hack into a locked iPhone, Apple wants the feds to pull the same trick a second time, in a different case.
Women on Web sends abortion pills to women who cannot otherwise access them. But after Brazilian officials apparently confiscated almost all of their illegal packages, the Canadian group is suspending operations in the country.For women living in ...
While the U.S. loosens restrictions on medical abortions, Brazil is cracking down—and the effects are devastating.
The mistake Donald Trump made when he said that “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions was saying out loud something that is already happening.For proof, look no further than the rush to disassociate him from the an...
Donald Trump didn’t specify what kind of ‘punishment’ women should face for having abortions—but they’re already being punished by ‘fetal homicide’ laws and more.
Whoopi Goldberg has a new title to add to her EGOT: ganjapreneur.The comedian and host of The View announced her own official medical marijuana business Tuesday, a joint partnership with award-winning edibles maker Maya Elisabeth. Aptly named “Who...
The comedian, actress, and ‘View’ host is launching a medical marijuana business Tuesday aimed at a ‘niche’ of chronic pain sufferers—50 percent of all women.
A California woman is speaking out against a Beverly Hills fertility clinic that accidentally destroyed her embryos and, according to a lawsuit, devastated her chances of ever having children.Marisa Yukich, 38, has filed a $7 million lawsuit again...
A California woman is accusing the clinic once sued by Sofia Vergara’s ex of ruining her chance at motherhood after it accidentally discarded seven fertilized embryos.
An evil is coursing through the veins of America.More than 28,000 people died as a result of heroin or illicit prescription drug-related overdoses in 2014—more than any year on record and a one-year increase of nearly 15 percent.The number of hero...
President Obama takes on prescription drug abuse and heroin addiction in a newly announced set of proposals. Will it be enough to stop the epidemic?
Is this the moment when the news media—at long last—has begun to hold Donald Trump to account?And will the Republican frontrunner finally succumb to the accepted rules of politics he had previously flouted—an outcome the Washington establishment f...
Donald Trump has had his roughest media week in the campaign, with journalists finally asking tough questions of the Republican candidate.
Kate Middleton has bowed to the inevitable and is to allow her son, Prince George, to be educated at Wetherby, the same private school Prince William and Prince Charles attended, and long famed among aristocratic Londoners for being the city’s mos...
Princes Charles, William, and Harry went to school at Wetherby—and so will Prince George, alongside some very privileged young people.
Right-wing populist luminary Sarah Palin—who, if all goes according to plan, will be the next Judge Judith Sheindlin—has settled into a long-established career pattern.The 52-year-old former local TV sportscaster, who in 2008 caught lightning in a...
Sarah Palin likes to pass judgment. But does she have the staying power, attention span, and mass audience to be a successful TV courtroom judge?
There is no contest, and no dispute.The best line ever uttered in a reality show was because of Lauren Conrad, so do not expect any dissing of the Conrad here.It came in the magisterial The Hills, which is also the best reality show of all time, a...
The heroine of ‘The Hills’ has left fighting with Heidi and Spencer far behind to reveal how to throw dinner parties. She’ll even plan your wedding.
In November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was on a two-day, five speech tour through Texas, starting in Fort Worth and ending in Austin. He never made it to Austin as the middle stop was, of course, Dallas on Nov. 22.A new opera focuses on the f...
The creators of ‘JFK,’ about President Kennedy’s assassination, hope that their ‘cosmic’ work brings opera to a new young audience.
It goes with more than tonic, and can be mixed in ever more intriguing ways. After years of being banished from craft cocktail bar menus, vodka is once again showing up in classic and modern concoctions across the country.You may be asking yoursel...
After years of hating on vodka cocktails, craft bartenders are finally coming around to the clear spirit.
The setting for Lucy Prebble’s The Effect is simple and stark.The audience at the Barrow Street Theatre, in New York’s Greenwich Village, observes the interior of a clinic, where two attractive young people, Connie Hall (Susannah Flood) and Trista...
Set within a clinical drug trial, Lucy Prebble’s ‘The Effect’ cleverly asks whether our brains can fall in love regardless of chemical interference.
Admiral Cecil Haney says the U.S. still shouldn’t scrap its nuclear weapons.
Polls show The Donald is unbelievably unpopular with women.
Ted Cruz is not Grayson Allen, Grandpa Munster, or Wario. But he kinda looks like them.
Unbelievably, this was not a prank phone call.A woman in Connecticut called 911 to complain that a pizzeria would not return her money after they delivered her the wrong toppings. “I ordered a small pizza—half cheese and half bacon,” the custome...
A pizza shop got a woman’s order wrong. She, of course, called the police.
The Boss danced with his mom at his New York concert.
Apparently there was a lot of thought behind that floppy non-handshake Obama had with Castro.
Seizing over six tons of cocaine bound for USA.
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