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In preparation for what would become the deadliest mass shooting in American history, Omar Mateen bought an .223 caliber AR-15-style assault rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, law enforcement officials said. Related: Hillary Clinton calls for renewed assault weapons ban: they’re a ‘weapon of war’ The shooters in December’s San Bernardino terror attack also used…
A 21-year-old man wielding two handguns shot former “The Voice” contestant Christina Grimmie after a Friday night concert in Florida, and then fatally shot himself, police said Saturday. Grimmie, 22, died from her injuries from the shooting, which happened around 10:30 p.m. ET at The Plaza Live in Orlando. The singer had opened for…
Juan Hernandez’s blood on his shirt and his friend’s hat after Hernandez was assaulted outside a Donald Trump rally in San Jose, Calif. (Courtesy of Juan Hernandez) SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Last Thursday, I left work about 5 p.m. and drove to the San Jose Convention Center to hear Donald Trump speak. I’ve been voting for…
It was a bad time for Sen. Cory Gardner to be caught in an elevator with a reporter. Donald Trump had just referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as “Pocahontas” — again — and the Republican freshman from Colorado was struggling to figure out how to respond. “I think people need to be treated…
The Democratic primary is essentially over, and we are so, so tired. This is a relief for news site/Daily Show chronicler Salon.com, which for more than six months now has been publishing two articles over and over again. These can fairly be summed up as “Bernie Sanders Is Good, and Hillary Clinton Is Bad” and “What If Hillary Clinton Is…
Today, Elizabeth Warren issued a thorough and brutal attack on Donald Trump’s credibility. Predictably, Trump was asked about Warren’s comments in a press conference later that day. Trump, asked about Elizabeth Warren, “who’s that, the indian? You mean the indian?” — Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) March 21, 2016 This follows similar comments Trump made to Maureen…
On Thursday, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal released mammoth reports documenting Donald Trump’s alleged failures to pay his bills full. In hundreds of court filings from more than 30 states, the newspapers found businesses owners, contractors and employees who claimed Trump and his companies refused to pay what they owed. According to USA…
This is the paradox of Hillary Clinton: She has achieved something no one else in the history of American politics has even come close to doing, yet she is widely considered an inept, flawed candidate. These two things are not unrelated. Twice now we have thought that it should have been easy for Clinton to…
Jetpack Open Graph Tags Someone stumbled upon a preference of Google’s not to offer “crimes” as a suggested search term following a person’s name. Unsurprisingly, the same sort of folks who think Obama has a secret birth certificate are sharing a conspiracy video. Vox explains why this is silly: Choose any famous American who has…