John Oliver Warns France Not to Make America’s Presidential Mistake

Passionate about dance, Stephanie's love of reality television and celebrity entertainment began with "Dancing with the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance." She has since discovered the wonders of the "Real Housewives," the Kardashia... Donald Trump's approval ratings continue to plummet, and while he insists those poor numbers are all the work of 'fake news,' it's clear that a lot of people do not approve of his administration.

American cleared by Egyptian court

An Egyptian court on Sunday cleared Aya Hijazi, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen who has been held in detention for nearly three years, of charges over accusations related to a nongovernmental organization she founded to aid street children. A courtroom in Cairo broke into cheers after the judge dropped all charges against Hijazi, her Egyptian husband and the six other defendants in what human-rights groups called a weak case driven by defective evidence.

Border plan leaves Americans looking in

President Donald Trump's border wall proposal leaves some Americans on the "Mexican side" -- technically on U.S. soil, but outside a barrier built north of the river separating the two countries. Landowners in the Rio Grande Valley, the sunny expanse of bilingual towns and farmland that form the southernmost point of the U.S.-Mexico border, already live on the other side of a border fence erected several years ago.

Border wall could leave some Americans on ‘Mexican side’

The last time U.S. officials built a barrier along the border with Mexico, they left an opening at the small road leading south to Pamela Taylor's home on the banks of the Rio Grande. Taylor hadn't been told where the fence would be built, and she doesn't know now whether officials are coming back to complete it.

Will free college offer catch fire? NY details raise doubts

In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appear onstage together during an event at New York's LaGuardia Community College. It's the hope of proponents such as Sanders and Hillary Clinton, who made debt-free college a key talking point in their Democratic presidential campaigns, that New York's first-in-the-nation free tuition program for middle-class students will spread to other states.

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Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... This week 564 Kogs posted 1248 stories of which 1212 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 3812 recommending readers; 790 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 448 by 30 or more, and 164 by 100 or more. Commenters visited 1246 stories; 666 had 10 or more commenters, 283 had 30 or more, and 69 had 100 or more.

Trump: Why are people still talking about my taxes?

US President Donald Trump lashed out at the protesters who took part in marches across the country yesterday to demand that he release his tax returns, declaring on Twitter that "the election is over!" Trump's comments followed a nationwide Tax March that drew thousands of people to dozens of cities on the country's traditionally recognised deadline to file taxes, April 15. As a candidate, Trump declined to voluntarily release his tax returns - a practice followed by other presidential hopefuls since the 1970s - claiming he couldn't do so because he was under audit. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton hammered him on the subject.

Border Wall Could Leave Some Americans on Mexican Side

The last time U.S. officials built a barrier along the border with Mexico, they left an opening at the small road leading south to Pamela Taylor's home on the banks of the Rio Grande. Taylor hadn't been told where the fence would be built, and she doesn't know now whether officials are coming back to complete it.

Trump’s choice: populism or corporatism

The real division in American politics today is no longer right or left, but rather between populism and an increasingly dominant corporate ruling class. This division is obvious within the Trump administration, elected on a nationalist and populist program but increasingly tilting toward a more corporatist orientation.

This week in the war on workers: How far did union households swing toward Trump?

Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Did Donald Trump really make major inroads with union households ? Sociologists Jake Rosenfeld and Patrick Denice take a look at the data and conclude that the story is more complicated than the headlines have made it out to be. In 2016 the partisan split among union households was smaller than at any time since Ronald Reagan's re-election in 1984."

Clinton won in 40 of New York’s 63 Senate districts, but GOP coalition remains in control

Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Daily Kos Elections' project to calculate the 2016 presidential results for every state legislative seat in the nation hits New York, a heavily Democratic state, but one where a coalition of Republicans and rogue Democrats run the state Senate. You can find our master list of states here , which we'll be updating as we add new states; you can also find all our data from 2016 and past cycles here .

Interest in where and when Trump may attend church services

In this Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania walk to their vehicle after attending church service at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House in Washington. At Washington churches, presidents have long been seated in the pews.

seceding from the Union

Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and if a state says: 'I don't want to go there, because that's suicide, they have a right to back out. They have a right - people have a right to not commit economic suicide... ...Texas says go to hell, Washington, which by the way has been said before.

Anti-gay group accusing others of name-calling and inciting violence forgets it’s done just that

Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... McEwen to uncover this fuckery from the Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ organization that is one of the groups targeted by Eliminate Hate , "a new initiative designed to bring attention to anti-LGBTQ hate groups and the propaganda and actions they take against" the community. ADF didn't quite appreciate this.

One of Trumpcare’s creators has a hard time defending his work back home

Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Rep. Greg Walden , chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is one of the leaders responsible for Trumpcare. There are two committees taking the lead, and one of them is his, and he's been right there in the middle of crafting-if you could call it that-the so-far failed plan.

Trump reportedly ‘very upset’ that Amanda Knox supported…

President Donald Trump is "very upset" that Amanda Knox, the American college student who sparked an international firestorm after being accused of murder in Italy, supported Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a Friday report in The New York Times. In a 2010 interview with KOMO-TV, Trump offered financial support for Knox's family in the case.

WashPost’s Hornaday: ‘Tech-Savvy’ Obama Responsibly…

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday penned a column for Friday's paper reviewing President Trump's first 100 days as if it were a movie, blasting him as dangerous for using friendly outlets to distract from his administration lacking any "core, coherent polic[ies]" that could end in "a train wreck." On the flip side, the liberal journalists swooned over Trump predecessors like John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, defending their use of the media to push their agendas because "those presidents were also readers, sometimes even bona fide scholars, their references rooted in an understanding of history, political theory, economics and literature."

Republicans in a funk: Washington Post opinion

In this April 1, 2017 file photo, Republican GOP congressional candidate in the 4th district Ron Estes votes with his wife Susan Estes at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Republicans escaped a special House election in Kansas with a single-digit victory in a district where they have romped in the past, an early warning sign for the GOP at the start of Donald Trump's presidency.