This is absurd: American taxpayers are paying through the nose to collect on defaulted student debt in a shady system that doesn't help anyone but the profiteers. We can do better.

Each of White Hills has been a progression and an exploration of modern psych, doomed out metal and the clanging of machines. Their latest album, Stop Mute Defeat , is not exception.

Fox News host Sean Hannity attracted widespread condemnation for pushing conspiracy theories about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer, but it wasn't his first time promoting or entertaining such wild claims on air. From claiming that the NFL's Colin Kaepernick protested the national anthem because he "may have converted to Islam" to implying that former President Barack Obama is a terrorist sympathizer, here are some examples of Hannity embracing conspiracy theories.

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, is now considered a "subject of interest" by the FBI... MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... Kansas legislators have reached a new low in meddling.

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, is now considered a "subject of interest" by the FBI... MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... Vice President and guy who always swears he was out of the room when everyone else on the president's senior team did all those things the FBI is now investigating Mike Pence is, four months or so after being sworn in, already heading back to the campaign trail.

It may not be the most dramatic scandal facing Donald Trump this week, but the US president has been accused of branding his US commercial properties with a stolen coat of arms. Trump's heraldic arms is a near-identical copy of one registered in 1939 by Joseph Edward Davies, the New York Times reported.

Sean Hannity reached new depths of phony-baloney sanctimony last night as he blatantly disrespected the wishes of the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich - and had the gall to do so while making a big show of sympathy for the Rich family. Sean Hannity told his viewers he will not stop "investigating" or "asking questions" about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich despite two requests from the family that he and others stop promoting conspiracy theories about Rich's death.

When Donald Trump tweeted his ridiculous "covfefe" tweet last night, there were more than a few journalists concerned that maybe he'd had a stroke on the toilet while tweeting at midnight. Many people, myself included, figured he'd delete the tweet and post what he actually intended to say shortly after sending the first.

New analysis, adds fuel to an ongoing debate over the costs of insuring all Californians-a debate sure to reverberate nationally. extraordinarily popular , California's single-payer bill-the Healthy California Act-would also cut costs while providing coverage for all.

Hillary Clinton spoke at the annual Code Conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif., on Wednesday. The 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee discussed the lessons she learned from the election, "weaponized information" and more.

The unsayable in Britain's general election campaign is this: The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. Critical questions - such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist "assets" in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst - remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal "review."

Today, the White House signaled that Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. The USA will join Syria and Nicaragua, the only other nations on the planet that refuse to participate in the international agreement to take action on climate change.

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"The past is a foreign country," L.P. Hartley famously wrote as he opened The Go-Between . There is a pretty tristesse in the line, as Hartley intended, and it holds if the topic is lost love, the joys and errors of youth, all the roads not traveled.

Acting Assistant Secretary of State Stuart Jones had a... ummm... errr... ahh... hard time answering this relatively straightforward question. Sometimes a nearly twenty-second pause by a top U.S. diplomat reveals much more than words could about the troubling lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia and the special relationship the United States retains with the repressive Gulf monarchy.

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events In the Wednesday edition of President Trump's early-morning musings on Twitter, he weighed in on something he apparently saw on "Fox and Friends": His former adviser Carter Page's letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee. So now it is reported that the Democrats, who have excoriated Carter Page about Russia, don't want him to testify.

I wrote about Trump's bffs using his talking points and the GOP hawks' sudden loss of interest in national security for Salon this morning: Despite all the testimony from American intelligence and law enforcement officials confirming that the Russian government was behind the hacking of Democratic Party and Clinton campaign official John Podesta's emails, President Donald Trump still insists that the whole controversy is a plot by Democrats to explain away their defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier this month he's said he still wasn't convinced.

President Trump's first National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, has agreed to provide documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee as it investigates Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This deal occurs as Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen refused to provide information to a House intelligence committee and Trump's former White House staffer Boris Epshteyn was contacted for information by that committee.

The AP is reporting that Donald Trump has been handing out his cell phone number to world leaders and asking that they ring him up. The notion of world leaders calling each other up via cellphone may seem unremarkable in the modern, mobile world.

C&L readers likely know that the UKIP, the pro-Brexit party that lied their way to electoral success one time , are for all purposes the Monty Python Silly Party. And a woman who was kicked out of the Silly Party because her chief of staff inflated her expense reports has now proposed.... There is no death penalty in England, because they are a civilized country.