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Britain's home secretary has pleaded for the calming of extreme political rhetoric and empathized with four U.S. congresswomen of color who were the target of President Donald Trump's tweets...

A Canadian lobbying firm hired by a Venezuelan political party has filed amended paperwork showing that opposition leader Henri Falcn will not make a new presidential run...

Sen. Rand Paul blocked the Senate from voting to reauthorize the fund this week...

The lesson from 2016: Don't be so sure....

Negotiators are in the brink of a deal. Now comes the hard part....

GERALDO RIVERA (FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT-AT-LARGE): Go back to where you came from is the old racist trope that all of us, ethnic or racial minorities, have grown up with at various times. It is unforgivable at this day and age, and I really lament that it ...

PETE HEGSETH (GUEST CO-HOST): Speaking of dehumanization, who's been dehumanized? It's been the ICE agents and the Border Patrol agents whose motives are being impugned every single day. Four thousand people rescued is a fact. We know that's w...

"I know there are a lot of people that are trying to distract us now, but I want you all to know that we are not going to lie down," Omar said at the town hall...

On Monday, federal prosecutors informed a judge that their investigation into Donald Trump's efforts to suppress the stories of adult film star Stormy Daniels and nude model Karen McDougal was ending. The hush money scheme, which has already led to th...

The American flag is bleached white. But some of the boot prints will remain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years....

John Delaney's campaign for president isn't looking... great, we'll say. Axios reported this morning that Delaney's senior staff "sat him down and told him to drop out" of the race by the middle of August, throwing in the towel on ...

Another week of Trump bigotry and the obfuscation of such by Republican officials who are so very afraid of standing up to Trump that they're peeing in their pants. Republicans never were the "strong" party, after all: "I think [Trump'...

Asked about the debt ceiling, Trump whined incessantly about Obama's fiscal record. That really didn't make any sense....

As Buzz Aldrin descended the lander's ladder, Neil Armstrong captured the moment....

It's building an independent board....

Indeed, it works best if you forget the remake even exists....

In morning tweets, the president said reporters should be more focused on the "vile and disgusting" statements by minority congresswomen he had repeatedly attacked....

When he's not moonlighting as President Donald Trump's personal policy advisor, sentient haircut Sean Hannity finds time to bravely lie with impunity—something he did with gusto on his Fox News show Thursday night, when he insisted the MAGA ...

A short story...

The second Democratic presidential primary debates—plural, because there will again be two nights with 10 candidates apiece—are coming up on July 30 and 31, and CNN and the Democratic National Committee have announced the line-ups . July 30 Be...

Season two's delightful soapiness can't make up for its weak, repetitive drama....

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to name Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court justice,......

The Morning Joe panel discusses the president's racist rhetoric this week against Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, how U.S. institutions are holding and why GOP women must have the party from Trump....

During a meeting last week, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official floated a radical cap for the number of......

Trump has spent the last few months obsessing over the idea that House Dems aren't doing anything, but in reality, they keep passing their top priorities....

Because this is a story that won't die, President Trump opened up a predictable new front in his war against Ilhan Omar and the progressive Squad on Friday by attacking the "crazed" media for covering his supporters' racist rally chants at...

Here are five things to watch for in the next Democratic presidential debate now that the lineups have been announced....

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. L...

Trump is forcing conservatives to confront the real reason their base hates Rep. Ilhan Omar....

This viciousness isn't an accident. It's what Trumpism is really about....

Of all the President Donald Trump merchandise available on his reelection campaign website, one product really sucks: straws. "Liberal paper......

Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., discusses DHS Secretary Keving McAleenan's Thursday appearance before the House Oversight Committee and the conditions at the border and why she is calling on members of the public to speak up....

President Donald Trump on Thursday attempted to distance himself from a new chant at his campaign rally, aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn....

This morning, Donnie Deutsch told the 88 million people who watch Morning Joe that Donald Trump is, well, a Nazi. "The parallels are stunning. The parallels are stunning, oh, it can't happen here, it can happen here. I want to challenge people -- ...

So once again, the felon in the White House is off the hook -- not because he's innocent, because the evidence made public yesterday clearly indicates otherwise -- but because it's DoJ policy that a sitting president is immune from prosecution. An...

There are simple fixes that would make it more difficult for scammers to operate....

Officials within the Trump administration have proposed cutting the number of refugees it admits into the U.S. next year to almost zero, according to Politico, which heard of the plan from several anonymous sources....

Democrats and Republicans on the House Intel and Judiciary Committees have been feverishly preparing for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appearances......

A government official said border agents did not know the parents were undocumented at the time of arrest, but not everyone was convinced....

Guatemalan was booted out of the U.S. in 2010 and 2011, but he's accused of killing a mother and her 2 kids in Des Moines, Iowa this week...

PETE HEGSETH (GUEST CO-HOST): In every argument -- and I've been on vacation this past week. But I've been watching this. STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Didn't miss anything. HEGSETH: But every time I turn on the TV or read a newsletter about it, it&#...

States will now get a heads up on inspections....

Long before President Donald Trump attacked 4 Democratic congresswomen of color, they were targets of hateful rhetoric and disinformation online...

Most of the country is entering into the first few hours of a blistering heat wave that will extend well into the weekend. Dangerous combinations of high temperatures and humidity will push the "heat index" (what the temperature "feels like...

Most of the country is entering into the first few hours of a blistering heat wave that will extend well into the weekend. Dangerous combinations of high temperatures and humidity will push the "heat index" (what the temperature "feels like...

Steve Bannon and the conservative group Catholic Vote bought cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic churches in Dubuque, Iowa, in 2018 to target them with get-out-the-vote ads, ThinkProgress has learned. Bannon, a former se...

x Vimeo Video Stop the presses! The President is a racist! Okay, I guess we kinda' sorta' had a suspicion he might harbor racist feelings in his quieter moments. Now that it's official, we can all agree that President Donald J. Trump is racist...

In May of 2011, then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner issued a stark warning letter to Congress: the US government had hit the debt limit and would no longer be able to pay its bills past August 2. That gave Congress exactly 11 weeks before America's w...

The Obama admin wanted to ban a pesticide after it saw "extensive scientific evidence" that even tiny levels of exposure can harm kids. Then Trump took office....

What economists have gotten wrong for the last few decades...