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Once upon a time, in comic book land, there was a planet called Bizarro World, a strange place where up was down and down was up and beauty was ugly and ugly was beauty. In one installment, a salesman was doing a brisk business selling "Bizarro Bonds," hawking them to potential customers with this pitch: "Guaranteed to lose money for you."
When we were growing up our folks encouraged us to use our imaginations. We made boxes into forts, a playing card hitting the spokes of a bike made it a motorcycle, and we could create worlds in our minds that were fun.
A man in the United States illegally was convicted Friday of killing two Northern California deputies in a case that helped fuel the national immigration debate. Luis Bracamontes was found guilty of murder in the shootings of Sacramento County sheriff's Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County sheriff's Detective Michael Davis Jr. in 2014.
Former vice president Al Gore was in town Wednesday for a talk at Tufts University. He took time to speak to Globe environmental reporter David Abel about the challenges of addressing climate change in the Trump era.
White House officials knew about Porter's abuse allegations and scrambled to protect him - Senior aides to President Donald Trump knew for months about allegations of domestic abuse levied against top White House staffer Rob Porter by his ex-wives, even as Porter's stock White House Reportedly Knew About Porter Abuse Allegations Before Reports - When White House staff secretary Rob Porter announced Wednesday that he would resign following allegations of domestic abuse, the White House was still circulating statements defending Porter.
White House officials knew about Porter's abuse allegations and scrambled to protect him - Senior aides to President Donald Trump knew for months about allegations of domestic abuse levied against top White House staffer Rob Porter by his ex-wives, even as Porter's stock In new statement, Kelly says he was 'shocked' by Porter allegations and condemns abuse - More than 24 hours after issuing a statement defending staff secretary Rob Porter amid abuse allegations, White House chief of staff John Kelly said in a second statement that he was 'shocked' and condemned domestic abuse.
More specifically: The GOP-passed tax plan that led companies to announce bonuses that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed as "crumbs" compared with "the bonus that corporate America received" may be popular enough that it can lessen the danger of Republicans being wiped out by a blue wave in this year's midterm elections. Near Cincinnati on Monday, President Donald Trump compared Pelosi's "crumbs" comment to Hillary Clinton referring to half of Trump's supporters as belonging in a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential election.
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In this file photo from January 2016, Rep. John Martin, D-Eagle Lake, speaks with House Minority Leader Ken Fredette, R-Newport, at the State House in Augusta. During his first term in office, Gov. Paul LePage became famous - or perhaps infamous, depending on your perspective - for his brash rhetoric and personal attacks, but in light of his success, the question becomes "Is it working?" There's no denying Maine's political discourse has become more uncivil.
Midterm elections in the U.S., whose intelligence community accused the Kremlin of meddling in the 2016 election to support President Trump, are a target of a repeat effort, Tillerson told Fox News in an interview from Bogota, Colombia. ""There are a lot of ways the Russians can meddle in the elections, a lot of different tools they can use," he said.
As Washington barrels toward another immigration showdown, the fate of nearly two million people brought to the US illegally as kids, who face the loss of work and study privileges and even deportation again rests on the President. The repeated tussles over the fate of people protected by the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have shown that only the President has the weight and political capital to ultimately frame a deal on treacherous political ground and to sell it to grassroots GOP voters.
In an interview this week, former San Antonio Mayor Julin Castro gave the strongest indication yet that he's interested in running for president in 2020. Castro, a Democrat who led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, told NBC News that he has "every interest in running."
'Seeing Allred' examines the life and work of Gloria Allred, the controversial women's rights attorney behind a slew of high-profile cases. Famed women's rights attorney Gloria Allred provides an update on her lawsuit against President Trump.
Comedy and Massachusetts politics may seem like entirely different worlds, but comedian Jimmy Tingle doesn't see it that way. The Boston comedian, who is breaking into the political scene with a Democratic run for lieutenant governor, says the large crowds, meet and greets, and conversations about various social issues translate well from comedy to politics.
On November 21, 2016, Michael Sainato at the New York Observer presented an overwhelming number of examples of 2015-2016 collusion between the press and the Hillary Clinton campaign. It serves as a definitive rebuttal of any claim that the press wasn't in the tank for Mrs. Clinton.
Democrats are just about as likely as Republicans to say they plan to vote in this year's congressional elections, a break from the two previous midterm elections, in which Republicans were significantly more inclined to vote, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted in January. Democratic congressional leaders hope anti-Trump sentiment can boost the party to regain control of the House and possibly the U.S. Senate, and the poll finds many fellow partisans feel a similar urgency.
President Donald Trump struck a variety of false notes in his big speech to Congress this past week and followed up with a curious coda - a plain-as-your-face exaggeration about the TV audience that tuned in for it. TRUMP: "Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech.
How Donald Trump fell out with hip-hop stars, except for Enimem - some of his biggest and pettiest disses recalled From crossing Snoop Dogg after he backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election to saying he drew bigger crowds than either Jay-Z or BeyoncA , the US president has not held back - but Eminem gets a pass "Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!" Trump wrote on Twitter. Jay-Z is hardly the first hip-hop artist to face Trump's wrath; in fact, the president has been quarrelling with big-name artists since before he decided to dabble in politics.
Maricopa County's controversial former sheriff who's now a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate has given several interviews to a publication that traffics in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Joe Arpaio, whom President Trump pardoned last year after he was convicted of criminal contempt of court in connection with a federal civil-rights case, declined an opportunity Wednesday to distance himself from the extremist material.
DON'T GET COCKY: Trump Makes Quick Work of Re-Election Fundraising. "President and his super PAC appeal to supporters big and small to build massive war chest-faster than any prior White House occupant."