Joy Reid joined Chris Hayes tonight to discuss the current state of the Republican party, and what it will take to cleanse the nation of their devotion to an incompetent oligarch, and more. Reid said, "This is a Republican Party that is built on resentment and a sense of victimhood, a sense of persecution, almost a persecution complex almost 40 years, 50 years, going back to the Civil Rights movement when they felt persecuted by the world," She imagined that he could collude with Iran next and find a way for GOP voters to defend it, adding that elected Republican officials would too, because they also are all for collusion when it benefits them.

Billy the Kid was a murderous thug who achieved the Old West fame that eastern urban Americans were just eating up in the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in Manhattan, of all places for a western murderer to be birthed, in 1859, his father died at some point early in his life and his mother moved to Indianapolis.

A Republican donor and operative from Chicago's North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show. In a room at a Rochester hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives, Peter W. Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, which includes a statement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring.

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events About 190 fact-checkers from 54 countries attended the fourth annual Global Fact-Checking Summit, July 5-7, 2017. This is a report on the fourth Global Fact-Checking Summit, which Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Fact Checker attended.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his American counterpart Donald J. Trump consulted on a number of bilateral issues on Wednesday, including cooperation in Syria and Iraq. Trump says he was in France to attend Bastille Day and commemorate the centenary of the entry of the US into WW I. It seems fairly obvious, though, that while his Paris trip was not planned to get out of town during the controversy of Don Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer represented as having dirt on Hillary Clinton, at the least it came as a welcome escape from the Washington feeding frenzy.

The Catholic Church, much in the manner of a modern corporation, is a sprawling edifice of operations and functions. To hold part of it accountable for abuses - against human, bank account, or country - has presented a formidable legal obstacle.

"He's a good boy," President Trump said of his scandal-engulfed son, in remarks that started off the record and then became on the record, apparently because he liked them so much. "He's a good kid.

I've always been a little skeptical that there'd be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about Donald Trump, Jr., however, is tantalizingly close.

More than ever before, the Arab region now registers an unprecedented youth population growth while facing huge challenges such as extremely high unemployment rates -more than half of all regional jobless population-, and inadequate education and health provision, in particular among young women. These challenges come amidst increasing population pressures, advancing drought and desertification, and alarming growing water scarcity, all worsening as a consequence of climate change.

Has there ever been a nation as dedicated to preparing for doomsday as the United States? If that's a thought that hasn't crossed your mind, maybe it's because you didn't spend part of your life inside Cheyenne Mountain. That's a tale I'll get to soon, but first let me mention America's " doomsday planes ."

As the date for a Baghdad summit on unity nears, the cracks are showing. It seems the country's Sunni politicians can't even get together to discuss their possible unity, in post-Islamic State Iraq.

It was on this day, July 13th, in 1978 that the first issue of fanzine Sniffin' Glue was published. Featuring articles on the Ramones and the Stranglers, it is considered ny many as the first fanzine to be completely dedicated to punk rock It's creator and editor was former bank clerk Mark Perry.

Indeed, the young are tethered to a slumber land of no ideas or ideals. Shackled to the beasts of debt and endless add on Capitalism.

As a candidate and now as President, Donald Trump has smashed the gauges that once tracked the normal temperature, pressure and wind speed in the climate map of American politics. Now when it feels like the barometer is plunging, we can only watch and wonder: Who can predict what's coming next, with so many broken indicators? Yet certain old ways survive.

Every day we are faced with numerous choices, some relating to practical issues and others based on more complex psychological demands - how to react, what to say and do. Whilst on the face of it choices appear to have been made, in the main we react habitually; many, if not all, of our decisions proceed from the past, and are, in fact, unconscious, conditioned responses to the challenges of the day.

The Trump administration's grotesque attempt to reduce or destroy the wonderful national monuments created in the last twenty years has at least taken two monuments off the chopping block. We can at least be allowed to enjoy the Hanford Reach in Washington and Craters of the Moon in Idaho.

This story would be funny if it weren't true. Our President* has another imaginary friend.

Yesterday, ProPublica published a story about Donald Trump's personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz, and the fact that he didn't have a security clearance and wasn't particularly interested in getting one. Rachel Maddow mentioned that story on her show last night, and as a consequence of that, a concerned stranger sent an email to Kasowitz suggesting he might want to resign rather than find himself left "as a footnote" to Trump's miserable presidency.

After several reporters wondered aloud if he would be in contempt of court, Sessions turned in his security clearance form to the federal court demanding it a day late. The document released was a heavily redacted version of the form showing one entry.