President Donald Trump called into Hannity on Thursday night. As is usually the case whenever the president and his favorite Fox News personality convene on the air, the “interview” was extremely long — about 45 minutes this time — and incredibly terrifying. Goaded by Hannity, Trump railed against Special Counsel …
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On Friday, President Trump tweeted a video featuring out-of-context remarks Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) made about 9/11 juxtaposed with graphic images from the terrorist attack. In just three days, it has received nearly 100,000 retweets and over a quarter of a million likes. At one point, Trump had the tweet …
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UPDATE: President Trump on Friday confirmed the Washington Post‘s reporting, tweeting that the administration is currently giving “strong considerations” to transporting detained migrants to sanctuary cities, a proposal Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already rejected twice. Original post below. *** President Trump’s supporters have tried to own the libs by …
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UPDATE: The Louder Than Life festival announced its full 2019 lineup, including Slipknot, Ice Cube, Marilyn Manson, Stone Temple Pilots, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Melvins, Andrew W.K., the Crystal Method, GWAR, Die Antwoord, A Day to Remember, Godsmack, Dropkick Murphys, Suicidal Tendencies, Anti-Flag, Redd Kross, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Halestorm, Three Days …
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President Trump seems confident he’s going to be re-elected in 2020. He also seems prepared to challenge the results should a Democrat unseat him. While speaking Tuesday night at a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser, the president implied that the 2018 midterm elections were rigged in favor of Democrats, who …
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When Rolling Stone compiled our list of the 50 Greatest Grunge Albums, the MVP was clearly Soundgarden. Five of the band’s records made the cut — everything they released from their debut, Screaming Life, through 1994’s Superunknown — and two of those LPs placed in the top 10. Their 1991 …
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On April 27th, TBS will air Samantha Bee’s second-ever Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. While historian Ron Chernow regales guests at the real event in Washington, D.C. — after a furor about jokes made at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ expense last year, he is the first host in 16 years …
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From Elizabeth Holmes to the college admissions scandal, we’ve found ourselves awash in stories of grifters lately. But we perhaps reached Peak Scammer Obsession last summer with the tale of Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, an aspiring socialite who managed to convince the New York City elite that she was …
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) rolled out the most ambitious policy plan of her presidential campaign —and arguably of any 2020 candidate — when she called for breaking up of the nation’s three tech giants: Facebook, Amazon and Google. Amazon’s e-commerce sales made up almost half of all U.S. online spending …
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Even though the e-cigarette industry is incredibly lucrative one, there’s a lot we really don’t know about vaping. But because there’s some evidence to suggest it’s marginally better for you than smoking tobacco, many people will do it in places where they would probably never smoke cigarettes, even though it …
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