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Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton jabbed President Trump over reports he had repeatedly pressed the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son....

Pete Buttigieg, the first major openly gay candidate for president, is campaigning heavily in Iowa, a state that was among the first to sanction gay marriage...

President Donald Trump hosted Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a state dinner Friday night, with guests from both countries....

The White House held its second State Dinner under President Donald Trump on Friday to mark Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's visit to the United States. A number of politicians, officials and celebrities including Attorney General Bill Barr,...

The president and his allies have been pressing Ukraine for months to investigate Joseph R. Biden Jr., complicating relations between the two countries....

At the start of the week, The New York Times was caught in an embarrassing error as it tried to throw a new sexual-harassment allegation at Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh. PolitiFact did not assign any...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren reignited her call for President Trump to be impeached, spurred by a burgeoning controversy over a still-secret whistleblower complaint from within in the U.S. Intelligence Community....

In non-treasonous Trump administration news, the general deplorableness continues. Cue Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and his ongoing anti-LGBTQ bigotry . Carson was visiting HUD offices in San Francisco this week, and managed to piss ...

'There is no there, there'...

On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Beat," Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) stated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants President Trump "in jail," and that putting President Trump in jail is the only way to show that t...

She socked it to him....

A Staten Island woman pleaded guilty Friday to stealing $406,000 from a charity for slain New York police officers, according to the...

Communities up and down the Mississippi River and along its tributaries were hit with massive rains and floods in 2019. As impact of the climate crisis has become reality, these communities need to prepare for the future. But it's not just areas that...

[WARNING: This article contains disturbing content]On Thursday, rapper Slowthai shocked viewers when, during his performance at the Mercury Prize (a British/Irish music award show), he took off his jacket, revealing a t-shirt that read: "F*** Boris.&#...

Fox News' Gregg Jarrett offered a vociferous defense of President Donald Trump, blasting the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower who reportedly filed a complaint against Trump as an "unelected, inferior employee" who has no right to...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged a ban on "military-grade" semiautomatic rifles in an attempt to redirect his campaign after his blackface controversy....

NBC News' Cal Perry travels to Glacier National Park, which is in many ways a climate change marker. "Every time we come, we hope they'll still be as much there the next time. But they're disappearing slowly."...

The president supposedly dangled millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine in exchange for Kiev investigating Joe Biden. That looks a lot like old-fashioned corruption....

Millions of people, young and old, hit the streets across the world Friday in a youth-led protest designed to both demonstrate their frustrations with the climate crisis and invoke their political power on our world leaders. Outlets like CNN and the Los A...

White House hopeful Julin Castro called on House Democrats to impeach President Trump after reports surfaced that he urged the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, his chief political rival in the 2020 race....

At 19 years old, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a veteran among youth climate change activists. And he says now is the time for young people to get involved....

President Donald Trump urged the new leader of Ukraine to investigate the son of Joe Biden...

Fourteen-year-old Alexandria Villaseor has watched her weekly climate strike outside the UN become a global phenomenon...

Three Democratic candidates for president, Julian Castro, Cory Booker and Marianne Williamson, have declared support for the idea of slavery reparations. A number of others have said they'd vote for a bill sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee to creat...

George Conway has co-authored a new op-ed in the Washington Post tonight with former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal warning that if the reporting about President Donald Trump 's call with the president of Ukraine is accurate, "it would be th...

Timeline: Tracking the whistleblower, Trump and Ukraine...

A 3-year-old boy from Florida was found sleeping in a box on a stranger's porch in New York this week, and his parents' rental vehicle was discovered nearby — completely charred with human remains inside. The child's parents are consider...

President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. Even the Senate Republicans are advising against military action in response to that attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities."All of us [should] get together ...

If the mainstream media wants to find out why fewer and fewer people take them seriously, a September 18 article in the Washington Post would be towards the top of the piles of evidence. The very title of the story by Hannah Natanson reflects both the ext...

All the important issues of our day fall under the umbrella of the climate crisis. 17-year-old Jamie Margolin is suing her state of Washington for continuing fossil fuel expansion....

Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Mark Ronson came out as sapiosexual — meaning he is attracted to intelligence or the human mind before gender or appearance....

Congress needs to learn to do a better job of writing laws. That's my conclusion after reviewing the legal debate over whether the Supreme Court should renounce the Chevron doctrine it unanimously promulgated (with three justices not participating) ba...

Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke signaled he is open to expanding the types of firearms that would be confiscated under his administration....

In Greenland, the Today Show host witnesses climate change in real-time when he sees the island's glaciers—or what's left of them....

Democrats are dismantling our justice system -- founded on the presumption of innocence -- to advance whatever political objective or narrative du jour strikes their fancy.This dangerous trajectory should alarm every American.Take far-left Massachusetts R...

The social media giant's founder spent three days engaged in quiet diplomacy with members of Congress and President Donald Trump....

A Lebanese immigrant to the United States allegedly scouted famous American landmarks in cities like New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C. for a potential terrorist attack by the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah....

A young person concerned about climate change joined 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg at a congressional hearing this past week. Jamie Margolin is 17 and part of a lawsuit filed by children against the federal government over climate change. No...

Haven Coleman spends most of her time educating other students and speaking at rallies about climate change. The 13-year-old from Denver says her generation is the first to be affected in the long run....

Levi Camden Draheim is worried his Florida hometown on the beach faces harm from extreme weather and sea level rise. So he's suing the government to do something about it....

When President Donald Trump visits the UN on Monday, many of his fellow world leaders will be participating in a summit meant to address climate change. Trump won't be there....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed Congress as "complicit" in the latest scandal surrounding President Trump's conversations with the Ukrainian president by "failing to act" after special counsel Robert Mueller's report....

The story is inextricably linked to the Democratic front-runner's son, pushing one of the topics that Biden is least comfortable discussing into the spotlight....

Former Vice President Joe Biden is decrying reports that President Donald Trump urged the president of Ukraine to look into his son's business dealings there...

A group of five mothers and children who were ripped apart under the inhumane "zero tolerance" policy have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking compensatory damages for the lifelong, "extraordinary trauma" inflicted on...

President Donald Trump's stance on Ukraine has evolved over the past year from one of general uninterest to a more engaged approach as he has discussed allegations of wrongdoing involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, people familiar wi...

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper President Trump on Friday approved the deployment of US forces to Saudi Arabia after last weekend's drone attacks on the oil sites. "The president has approved the deployment of U.S. forces which will be defensiv...