House Dems boost spending in key California races

The House Democrats' campaign arm is ramping up its spending in key California races three weeks out from the primaries, including plans to go up on the air in the race for retiring GOP Rep. Darrel Issa's seat. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's independent expenditure has purchased $410,500 on broadcast and $113,900 on cable in the San Diego media market, according to a source familiar with the media competitive.

Little Women for the Instagram Generation

The new PBS adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic is a festival of flower crowns, artful bohemia, and Andrew Bird. It's hard to describe the aesthetic of PBS's new two-part miniseries Little Women other than to say it's Louisa May Alcott by way of Blake Lively's dearly departed rustic Americana lifestyle-website, Preserve .

From Ice Cube to Black Cube

Trump team sends mixed signals to Europe - National security adviser John Bolton on Sunday carefully doubled down on President Donald Trump's threat that European countries could be sanctioned by the United States if they continue to be involved with Iran. 'This Week' Transcript 5-13-18: President Trump's national security adviser John Bolton - MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC NEWS: Let's talk about that with the president's national security advisor, John Bolton.

Hogan Gidley’s Big Lie: We Are Now Respected, We Are Now Feared, We Are Now Beloved

Sweet jesus, I don't know what they're passing around in the West Wing, but it's some serious stuff for people to be this out of touch with reality. Or they've just taken a page about of Goebbel's book on " The Big Lie ": "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

Famous Chinese general inspires porn star’s lawyer for Trump battles

Michael Avenatti has been a ubiquitous presence on cable television and late night talk shows since taking on as a client the woman who may now be the best-known XXX-rated movie star in America In the stranger-than-fiction reality show that is the Trump presidency, Anthony Scaramucci, the fast-talking New York investment banker known as the "Mooch", barely lasted one episode. But Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, has emerged as a star in the ever-evolving drama engulfing the White House.

In wide-open 2020 presidential field, Democrats are road-testing…

The Gazette is Colorado Springs's most trusted source for breaking news, sports, weather, obituaries, politics, business, art, entertainment, blogs, video, photos. From left: Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz., Sen. Bernie Sanders , and Sen. Kamala D. Harris The future of the Democratic Party has been booking late-night TV gigs, waking up for morning drive-time radio and showing up at watering holes in rural counties to try out new material.

Cher, 71, speaks candidly about getting older

Trump approves disaster aid for Hawaii's Big Island as aerial photos show huge fissures in the land and lava swallowing homes, as thousands more are told to get ready to flee Kilauea eruption 'BOYCOTT Waffle House': Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr calls for protest against 'racist' chain after series of shocking attacks on black customers are caught on camera 'I don't get involved with pimps': Rudy Giuliani lets rip on Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti after he challenged him to a TV debate A secret scribble on a birth certificate that convinced Hall of Fame pitcher he was a Kennedy lovechild: Adopted Orioles legend finally finds out the answer to the riddle of his birth at age 72 with a DNA test 'He's my soulmate': 'Stalker' who sent man she went on ONE date with 65,000 texts insists she's 'not crazy but in love' Two Navy SEAL team leaders in Africa are being investigated over ... (more)

National Democrats back Rohrabacher challenger in effort to avert top-two lockout

National Democrats announced Friday that they would back businessman Harley Rouda in the crowded field to unseat GOP Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, hoping to avoid being locked out of a targeted race that could prove pivotal to the Democrats' effort to retake the House. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Friday added Rouda to its Red to Blue program, tantamount to an endorsement in the race for the 48th Congressional District, which extends from Laguna Beach to Seal Beach.

Meghan McCain wonders how White House staffer who mocked her dad can ‘still have a job’

Meghan McCain, the daughter of six-term Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, once again had to use her platform as a host of ABC's The View to defend her father, who is currently under treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer. Thursday, multiple media reports said White House communications staffer Kelly Sadler dismissed concerns about McCain 's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel, saying, "It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway."

A porn star, an oligarch and corporate CEOs: Who’s who in the Stormy Daniels-Michael Cohen saga

What began as an investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russian agents seeking to influence the 2016 presidential campaign has now spun off into a soap opera-like detour into a tabloid sex scandal - but with high stakes for President Trump and his inner circle. The cast of characters of this new drama includes a pornographic actress, Trump's New York "fixer," celebrity lawyers, corporate CEOs and a Russian oligarch.

Joe Scarborough Blasts Trump Team: – They’re Not Smart…

Joe Scarborough knows the answer for why Trump officials and their allies on Capitol Hill continue to stumble from one blunder to the next - they're not very smart. The "Morning Joe" host made his pronouncement on Wednesday as the show was reviewing the payments that Trump attorney Michael Cohen received from various companies in exchange for insights into his former boss.

Inside Mexico’s violent drug cartel operations fueling heroin addiction in the US

Up a dusty road, in a sun-dappled field in northwest Mexico, a small team of workers bent over, quietly tending to the crops on a farm. But hidden in between the legal crops of corn and garbanzo beans are fields of pretty purple flowers that have become the root of an American catastrophe.

Some inside White House balk at Giuliani’s role

Some White House officials and a source close to President Donald Trump's legal team continue to balk at Rudy Giuliani's media blitz following his first eyebrow-raising interview last week with Fox News host Sean Hannity. Senior administration officials are complaining they are still in the dark about when and where Giuliani will pop up on their television screens, one senior White House official said.

Trump considers benching Giuliani from doing TV interviews

Rudy Giuliani, center, an attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, leaves after speaking at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy at the Grand Hyatt, Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Washington. Rudy Giuliani, center, an attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, leaves after speaking at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy at the Grand Hyatt, Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Washington.

Iran nuclear deal, Cannes Film Festival, Google I/O conference: 5 things to know Tuesday

President Trump will disclose his plans for the future of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, as his hard-line advisers urge him to kill the deal and allies around the world push him to stay in. Under the agreement signed in 2015, the United States and others withdrew economic sanctions on Iran in return for it agreeing to give up the means to make nuclear weapons.