Eight of Turkey's most respected human rights defenders were arrested last week, along with two information technology trainers from Sweden and Germany. All ten of those arrested are still in police custody but have not been charged with any crime.

TV commercial director Paul is having a bit of a personality crisis. His friend John, who fancies himself as some sort of guru, suggest trying LSD.

I ADMIT that I was taken in, too. The news was so clear and so simple, its acceptance so uniform, that I too accepted it unthinkingly.

Israel lobby groups' response to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton's recent support of Palestinian rights suggests they believe previous criticisms backfired. Israel lobby groups' response to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton's recent support of Palestinian rights suggests they believe previous criticisms backfired.

As the news about a former Russian intel operative at Trump Jr.'s meeting exploded, Morning Joe's Mike Barnicle asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham why the Trump family is more of an issue in this presidency. "This seems to be a bit different, this particular family issue in the Trump presidency.

Two nights ago on Hannity, Kellyanne Conway played her little word game , but in the middle of that stupid exercise she slipped. And Chris Hayes goes on to say that the Trump team's insistence that they gained nothing from the meeting and afterwards neither Team Trump nor the Russians pursued the matter of "dirt on Hillary Clinton" any further, even though the channel of communication was clearly wide open after that.

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events A portrait of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is held by his mother, Nataliya Magnitskaya, as she speaks during an interview with the AP in Moscow on Nov. 30, 2009. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who attended the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., has for years been working to overturn the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 U.S. law that barred Russian officials suspected of human rights abuses.

Gov. Terence McAuliffe , right, speaks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau before he addresses session on the global economy at a gathering of the National Governors Association in Providence, R.I., on Friday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an impassioned defense of free trade here Friday, appealing to the nation's governors to help spread a positive message ahead of the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement demanded by President Trump.

Moveon.org is at its best when they use real life testimonials to support the benefits of the ACA. Sedona, Arizona resident, Jeff Jeans, learned the benefits of the Affordable Care Act under the worst circumstances.

A report from The New York Times highlighted how an ongoing, years-long trend of right-wing media figures praising Russian President Vladimir Putin has helped President Donald Trump downplay the fast-growing Russian scandal surrounding himself, his family, and his administration. Right-wing media has long been obsessed with Putin's masculinity and authoritarian tendencies.

The opioid epidemic rages all around us. Its fires, far from abating, are feeding on themselves.

One thing I will never understand is liberals who are desperate for validation from prominent conservatives. Oh, you think Trump is bad, do you? Here's the fucking Nobel Prize.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to attach North Korea sanctions legislation to a popular Russia-Iran sanctions bill, a move Democrats see as a delaying tactic. House Republican leaders want to attach a bill increasing sanctions on North Korea to legislation to restrain the president and stiffen punitive measures against Russia and Iran, a last-minute wrinkle that could further delay the bill's progress through Congress.

I ADMIT that I was taken in, too. The news was so clear and so simple, its acceptance so uniform, that I too accepted it unthinkingly.

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi and a number of House Democrats gave a press conference Friday calling for Jared Kushner's security clearance to be "revoked immediately" given past and recent revelations of his contacts with foreign nationals. Pelosi joins a growing number Democrats in Congress including Rep. Ted Lieu Rep. Carol Shea-Porter Rep. Don Beyer who have vocalized their support for rescinding Kushner's security clearance.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses while speaking with the media after a series of listening sessions about campus sexual violence, Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Washington. CREDIT: AP/Alex Brandon On Thursday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said the stories of those claiming to be wrongly accused of campus sexual assault "are not often told."

NBC is now reporting that another unnamed person was at the meeting: a known Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counter intelligence officer. NBC EXCLUSIVE: Also in DJTJr mtg: "a former Soviet counter intel officer who is suspected .

A new analysis by the Tax Policy Center finds that the tax cuts included in the Trump administration's outline for tax reform released in April could cut federal revenues by as much as $7.8 trillion over 10 years, and that the benefits would go almost exclusively to the top 5 percent of earners. The package, the TPC finds, would overwhelmingly help the wealthy.

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump speaks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , left, and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan during a meeting at the White House. His promise to gut Obamacare - and thereby make good on seven years of GOP promises - now teeters on the verge of collapse, with one more Senate Republican defection sufficient to seal its fate.

South Korean soldiers look toward the North Korean side along the DMZ that divides the two countries. Despite the rhetoric from the Trump administration about military confrontation with North Korea, the common theme of many U.S. experts on North Korea is that the U.S. presidential administration MUST conduct a dialogue with North Korea-and quickly! Military confrontation is NOT an option according to the experts.