Coptic Christians in Egypt have been attacked while traveling on pilgrimages and bombed while praying on Palm Sunday , amid an accelerating series of attacks over the last decade. The interrelated challenges of violence, economics and discrimination have led to the increasing departure of Christians from the Middle East.

A Guanajuato, Mexico lawyer was looking for a way to soothe his native country's collective frustration and rage towards the newly-installed U.S. leader, Donald Trump. Antonio Battaglia had just about had enough of the labels he associated with his nation and its citizens.

It is quite extraordinary to read today's coverage in Britain's supposedly left-liberal newspaper the Guardian . In the "man bites dog" stakes, the day's biggest story is the astounding turn-around in the polls two weeks before the British general election.

Meghan Keneally, ABC News: Former Sen. Joe Lieberman sent a letter to President Donald Trump yesterday withdrawing his name from consideration for FBI director, citing a potential conflict of interest.

In a meeting with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, WaPo reveals that Jared Kushner asked that a private, encrypted back channel be set up to the Kremlin. The report is based on a leak to a WaPo reporter from last December, which the paper has only recently managed to verify.

Two people were killed in a stabbing on a MAX train Friday when they tried to intervene as a man yelled racial slurs at two young women who appeared to be Muslim, including one wearing a hijab, police said. Officers arrested the suspect as he ran into the neighborhood near Providence Portland Medical Center in Northeast Portland, Simpson said.

You ever see a song title somewhere and think that's familiar but you don't recall tune goes? Then when you hear it you're all like "Ah! That's why it seemed familiar." This song was one of those moments for me recently.

Not longer after Trump decided to ineffectually fire a whole boatload of cruise missiles at Syria, I co-authored a piece on why "Trumpian Unpredictability" is no virtue. Thus, for the United States, unpredictability carries enormous risks.

MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... Technology policy is complicated. Far too complicated for your average Republican House member, who has been really preoccupied anyway for the last month not having a clue how healthcare policy works.

Dani Mathers earned fame posing as a nude model. She gained notoriety on the other side of the camera when she snapped a photo of an unwitting and unwilling subject -- a naked 71-year-old woman in a gym locker room.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters. Those contacts included two phone calls between April and November last year, two of the sources said.

Trump budget cuts deeply into environment, toxic cleanup; Landslide buries icon CA highway; Chinese wind co. to retrain US coal miners; PLUS : Pope gift, message to Trump... Global Seed Vault flooded by melting perma-frost; Antarctica going green ; Swiss vote to accelerate renewables; PLUS : Trump's budget slashes, burns environment... Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton; Also: Two big election-related SCOTUS decisions, & this week's US House Special Election in MT... The VP claims he was kept in the dark by Team Trump on key issues regarding disgraced former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.

MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... Amateur MMA fighter Greg Gianforte won the special election to fill Montana's lone House seat last night, despite being charged with criminal assault for bodyslamming a reporter the day before. As Daily Kos Elections noted , " ," it's not clear how much the assault affected voters, if at all.

It was a well-known ballad about Camelia the Texan -- a woman who smuggles drugs into the United States and then murders her lover in a jealous rage -- that got Los Tigres del Norte into trouble. The wildly popular band played the song -- one of their many hits chronicling the lives of drug smugglers -- during a packed performance Sunday afternoon in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua.

Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, son-in-law and confidant to then-President-elect Trump, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials.

The thing about Rodrigo Duterte is that for an authoritarian like Trump, he says things that like Trump would like to say himself but can't yet. And you know President Pussy Grabber loves this.

President Donald Trump on Thursday delivered a speech at NATO headquarters in which he did not explicitly endorse Article 5, which outlines a policy of collective defense among all members of the alliance. While this might seem like a small oversight to casual observers, Brookings Institute fellow and top foreign policy scholar Tom Wright said Trump's refusal to endorse Article 5 has rendered his entire foreign policy trip a "failure."

In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial -- the gold-standard design -- a component of marijuana called cannabidiol reduced seizures in children with a rare and devastating form of epilepsy. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, provide the first solid evidence that marijuana can be used to treat epilepsy, something some patient groups and advocates have argued for years.

Quoted in the trade publication "Rigzone" Boehner said he never imagined Donald Trump would be President: Boehner said he's been friends with Trump for 15 years, golfed with him and even said if he was having a bad day, Trump would be the first person to call and check on him or offer a pat on the back. "But president? I just never envisioned him in that role," he said and also suggested that Trump not be allowed to tweet overnight .

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows , - who played a pivotal role in including state waiver options in AHCA - hadn't read the full report yet, but initially said he saw it as "good news." When reporters pointed out the portion of the CBO report saying individuals with preexisting conditions in waiver states would be charged higher premiums and could even be priced out of the insurance market - destabilizing markets in those states - under AHCA, Meadows seemed surprised.