In this photo provided by HBO, host Bill Maher, left, listens to Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart News, on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, in Los Angeles. NEW YORK – While conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos insulted comics Lena Dunham, Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, his appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” was relatively tame – at least until the television cameras were turned off.
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Man dies after breaching security at Honolulu airport
A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people. A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people.
Montana officials alarmed as they fight surge in meth use
A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people. Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheik” convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, has died.
White House Fires Security Aide for Criticizing Trump Administration
The White House dismissed a senior national security aide after he criticized President Donald Trump and administration officials, a senior official said Saturday, the latest problem for the president as he struggles to assemble a security team.
Trump to Interview Four Security Adviser Candidates on Sunday
MELBOURNE, Fla.-President Donald Trump plans to interview four candidates for the job of national security adviser on Sunday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said. Mr. Trump-who is spending the weekend in Florida, where he is holding a rally Saturday-will speak with Army strategist Lt.
Lawmaker Answers to Hometown Critics at Town Halls
Rep. Tom Reed easily won re-election last year after being one of the first congressional Republicans to endorse President Donald Trump. On Saturday, he drew huge, often angry crowds in this small-town area as he tried to sell a Republican agenda that the president’s victory made possible.
Arpaio successor pulls back on immigration holds in jails
In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, then Democratic Maricopa County sheriff candidate Paul Penzone speaks to supporters during an election party in Phoenix. Penzone who defeated Arpaio in the November election announced Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 that he is ending a policy that keeps immigrants locked up in his jails past their release date to give federal authorities extra time to launch deportation proceedings.
Legacy of Roe v. Wade endures after death of woman who sued
In this July 28, 2009 file photo, Norma McCorvey, right, the plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit Roe v. Wade, speaks up as she joins other anti-abortion demonstrators inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Norma McCorvey, plaintiff in Roe. v. Wade abortion case, dies
Norma McCorvey, known as ‘Jane Roe,’ the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion, has died, a priest close to her family said Saturday.
Heritage Foundation Panelists Criticize Pro-trans Bathroom Policies
Members of a Heritage Foundation panel on Thursday sharply criticized efforts to allow transgender people to use bathrooms and other facilities based on their gender identity. Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, moderated the panel that was titled, “Biology Isn’t Bigotry: Why Sex Matters in the Age of Gender Identity.”
Real Estate Consequences of the GOP Tax Reform
The Trump Presidency is off to a very lively start, and tax reform is one of the big issues. Last summer Speaker Paul Ryan put out a plan called ” A Better Way ” that set forth a number of significant changes to the U.S. tax code.
Chelsea Clinton Attempts To Get Witty On Twitter – And Gets…
Man, I’m sure that when Chelsea Clinton pulled this on Twitter, she thought she was being uber clever. I’m positive that elusive synonym she was seeking on Twitter was ‘Donald Trump’.
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President Donald Trump widens his search for a new national security adviser this weekend amid concerns in Washington that the forced resignation of Michael Flynn leaves the White House unprepared to face any sudden foreign policy crisis. Trump is expected to interview several candidates to replace Flynn, whose short tenure ended when he was asked to resign after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his pre-inauguration calls with the Russian ambassador.
Kellyanne Conway attacked by alma mater president
Turf war for control over drug trafficking routes in isolated Colombian jungles leaves thousands of terrified indigenous families starving to death The president of Kellyanne Conway’s alma mater appears to be none too pleased with her performance as a counselor to Donald Trump. In a letter dated February 12 titled ‘On Lies and the Truths We Must Tell,’ she wrote : ‘Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Trinity Class of 1989, has played a large role in facilitating the manipulation of facts and encouraging the grave injustice being perpetrated by the Trump Administration’s war on immigrants among many other issues.’
Bono praises Mike Pence at Munich Security Conference
Good Morning America Showdown! Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan spark rumors of on-set tension after photos emerge of pair in animated talk during taping Girl, 17, who was feared to have been abducted by sex traffickers in Las Vegas is FOUND a day after her distraught mother released a video plea for her return 550lb woman, 75, is found with her skin MOLDED to her chair after being left to sit in the same place for months ‘Shaping and spreading a skein of lies’: Kellyanne Conway attacked by her alma mater’s president in scathing letter rebuking Trump administration The ultimate sacrifice: Heartbreaking moment a grieving widow meets her hero Green Beret husband’s coffin on the airport tarmac – leaving scores of plane passengers in tears Teacher-turned-stripper who ‘slept with her 17-year-old student hundreds of times’ is sentenced to three months in jail and must register as a sex … (more)
Trump calls U.S. media ‘enemies of the American people’
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump called the free and independent U.S. press “enemies of the American people,” and a leading U.S. senator said “that’s how dictators get started.” Trump used Twitter to deride three major television networks, the leading U.S. newspaper and a cable news channel, all of which have covered his actions as president, including signing an executive order on immigration that was overturned by the courts and accepting the resignation of his national security adviser following reports that he talked to Russian officials during the presidential campaign.
McCorvey, who was at center of Roe v. Wade, dead at 69
Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” at the center of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, has died. She was 69. Journalist Joshua Prager, who is working on a book about McCorvey, says she died Saturday morning at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas.
A morning in Alaska’s little-known federal immigration court
On Friday morning, a dozen people waited in the hallway of a federal building near downtown Anchorage to find out whether they had a future in the United States. Alaska does not have its own full-time federal immigration judge.
Nobody Knows Anything
“Republicans seized her microphone,” writes the New York Times . “And gave her a megaphone.”
Norma McCorvey, who was at center of Roe v. Wade, dead at 69
Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday. She was 69. McCorvey died at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas, said journalist Joshua Prager, who is working on a book about McCorvey and was with her and her family when she died.
New Republic author suggests Trump may have an STD
Trump Derangement Syndrome is in full swing, particularly at liberal outlets. Efforts to discredit the new president’s executive orders, speeches and various policy initiatives are understandable.
Paul Ryan Has a Plan to Take Away Insurance from Tens of Millions of People
Hey, no one said Speaker Ryan wasn’t a smart guy. Anyhow, the Republicans have published an outline of their proposal for an Obamacare replacement.
‘I Think We’re Done’: Joy Reid Cuts Off Guest for ‘Incredibly Offensive’ Remarks
Joy Reid abruptly cut off a guest on her show this morning after remarks he made that she called out as “incredibly offensive.” Former Republican congressman and current Newsmax host J.D. Hayworth was debating immigration with Reid, actress Rosie Perez , and journalist Maria Hinojosa .
Texas election officials: hundreds of Texans may have voted improperly
State election officers are now contemplating whether to ask local prosecutors to bring criminal charges for the violations of the election laws. The Texas voter ID law, which required voters to show one of seven forms of identification to cast a ballot, was stepped back in August, allowing individuals to vote by signing an affidavit stating they faced an impediment to obtaining one of the seven forms of authorized identification.
CNN’s Don Lemon Walks Off Show After Guest Accuses Him Of Reporting Fake News
CNN has come under heavy fire from many people for reporting fake news including President Trump who called CNN ‘very fake news’ at his last presser . CNN can dish it out, but they can’t take it! After bullying Trump and colluding with Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election cycle they are finally getting a dose of their own medicine.
Republicans, Where’s the Backbone?
Desperately seeking those GOP politicians who will stand up against a know-nothing bully who holds the highest office in the land. Congressional Republicans, we watched you at the White House Thursday.
US Sen. Markey joins congressional delegation to Mexico
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey has joined a congressional delegation on a trip to Mexico to discuss immigration, economic development, and climate change. The Massachusetts Democrat left Friday evening with Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin and Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, both Democrats.
China Is Finally Putting The Screws To North Korea
It is suspending all coal imports from North Korea, the Ministry of Commerce said Saturday, without going into specifics as to why it was taking action. Coal exports are a primary source of income for the reclusive state.
Dem rep: Steve Bannon ‘is a stone cold racist’
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Friday accused President Trump’s senior adviser Steve Bannon of being “a stone cold racist and a white supremacist sympathizer.” Jeffries on Friday told MSNBC that any meeting between Trump and the Congressional Black Caucus must exclude Bannon.
Jonathan Milne: If we as a nation find Senator Scott Brown’s…
Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been in the spotlight ever since he was named America’s Sexiest Man by Cosmopolitan. OPINION: They say that if a diplomat says yes, he means maybe.
Switcheroo: newspaper publisher threatens to sue politician for libel
A Colorado state senator disparaged his hometown paper, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, as “fake news” . The publisher of the family-owned newspaper then responded with an editorial that struck a threatening tone: “see you in court.”
Pentagon officials: Russian actions a ‘test of the new administration’
Moscow recently deployed a banned land-based cruise missile, dispatched a spy ship up the Atlantic coast and buzzed an American warship in the Black Sea. The developments raise the question of how the new White House occupant will address Russian assertiveness and whether, after complimenting Russian President Vladimir Putin and playing down Russia’s adversarial relationship with the US, Trump will resort to any confrontational responses.
Shaheen part of delegation to Munich Security Conference
Shaheen is part of a 16-member bipartisan Congressional delegation led by Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. They’ll be attending the annual Munich Security Conference on Saturday and Sunday.
AP Exclusive: Hundreds of Texans may have voted improperly
Texas election officials have acknowledged that hundreds of people were allowed to bypass the state’s toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law and improperly cast ballots in the November presidential election by signing a sworn statement instead of showing a photo ID. The chief election officers in two of the state’s largest counties are now considering whether to refer cases to local prosecutors for potential perjury charges or violations of election law.
Contenders crowd potential 2018 political field in Ohio
For Republicans, that means working to avert a collision in 2018 among three high-profile gubernatorial hopefuls. For out-of-power Democrats, the challenge is to find any available candidate with the political clout and statewide name recognition to win the governor’s race.
The Latest: Pence meets leaders of Iraq, Iraqi Kurds
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WATCH As Milo Spars With ‘Real Time’ Panel, With Larry Wilmore…
Well, if you love the ‘F’ word , you’ll love this story. Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on ‘Real Time’ with Bill Maher yesterday and it was, I suppose, entertainment.
Trump set to hold campaign rally in Florida Saturday
At least 4 people have died after a powerful storm caused flash flooding in southern California.Two people were killed in two separate car accidents in San Di… — Mike Pence affirmed the United States’ support for NATO and urged Russia to deescalate violence in eastern Ukraine while speaking Saturday at the Munich Secu… “We were very pleased to see the Senate finally confirm Scott Pruitt as the new administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency . Our thanks go out to Nebraska Se… Final Day Of State Wrestling Is Underway.
Ap Fact Check: The audacity of hype
In the Washington week that wasn’t, President Donald Trump’s new administration whirred like a “fine-tuned machine,” piling on big-league accomplishments at a pace never before seen. Immigration agents newly empowered by Trump’s call to secure borders sent hordes of bad foreigners back home, validating a president who won the most lopsided Electoral College victory since Ronald Reagan.
Hundreds Form ‘Human Wall’ in Mexico to Protest Trump
The demonstrators held up flowers and colored flags reading the “Peace” and waved to residents of the neighboring town of El Paso, Texas. Hundreds of people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico formed a “human wall” at the edge of the Rio Grande on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.