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Chad Copley, 39, is charged with murder in connection to the shooting of a black man in Raleigh on Sunday, Aug 8. In his 911 call, he told the dispatcher he was going to confront “hoodlums” outside his home. He said “I am locked and loaded. I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood.” (Monica Akhtar/The…
Nearly four decades is a long time to be hearing the same stuff about being a woman in power. The nauseating proof comes in the form of a new video that was put together by National Memo, a news and politics website, and posted to YouTube on Thursday. It tracks almost 40 years of Hillary…
President Obama is so disciplined that his wife has teased that he eats precisely seven lightly salted almonds each night. George W. Bush was an exercise buff, obsessed with staying trim by mountain biking and clearing brush at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. But Donald J. Trump is taking a different approach: A junk food…
Apricot variety Donald Trump plans to unveil his bold new economic agenda in a speech today. Many of the worst possible policies, together at last! We live in a nation with levels of economic inequality not seen in nearly 100 years and a financial sector that still has not been fully reformed after its spectacularly…
Donald Trump is a businessman. Businessmen wear suits. It makes sense, then, that in the vast majority of photographs depicting him, Donald trump is wearing a suit. But for someone as hyper-visible and heavily photographed as Donald Trump, surely plenty of photos exist of Trump sans jacket, right? Reader, you could not be more wrong….
Bernie’s Brother, Larry Sanders, at the DNC You Won’t Believe What Hillary Ordered the DNC to do to Bernie’s Brother! It all went down after the DNC, when Larry Sanders stopped the whole show to cast his vote for his brother, and reports are Hillary was FURIOUS. Or, no… that’s some bullshit. What did you…
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Donald Trump’s new “expanded” ban would include not just Muslims, but Christians and Jews from countries with a history of terrorism. “We should temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, which I think is altogether fitting and appropriate,” Pence said. “When you look at the Syrian…
There’s never been much question that TV comedy writers weren’t Trump supporters (with the possible exception of the staff of Saturday Night Live), but The Simpsons made things explicit on Saturday, endorsing Hillary Clinton with an animated parody of her 2008 3:00 a.m. ad. (Technically, the ad was titled “Children,” because of the sleeping children…
During a 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, I served presidents of both parties — three Republicans and three Democrats. I was at President George W. Bush’s side when we were attacked on Sept. 11; as deputy director of the agency, I was with President Obama when we killed Osama bin Laden in 2011….
By John Moore/Getty Images. Amid calls from Donald Trump’s allies and advisors to apologize and move on from his self-destructive spat with the parents of a Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq, people close to the presidential nominee’s campaign are beginning to question whether anyone but Trump is in charge, and Republicans are looking…