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There will be no heartbreak for the North Carolina Tar Heels this time. A year after losing on the first buzzer-beating three in NCAA men’s basketball championship history, the Tar Heels are back on top, defeating Gonzaga 71-65 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona in front of a crowd of 76,168. It’s UNC’s […]

Happy Equal Pay Day! April 4 symbolically marks how much longer full-time working women need to work to earn the same pay that men earned the year before. “The wage gap really impacts women across their career and lifespans,” said Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for Workplace Justice at the National Women’s Law […]

There will be no heartbreak for the North Carolina Tar Heels this time. A year after losing on the first buzzer-beating three in NCAA men’s basketball championship history, the Tar Heels are back on top, defeating Gonzaga 71-65 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It’s UNC’s sixth title and first since 2009. In […]

There will be no heartbreak for the North Carolina Tar Heels this time. A year after losing on the first buzzer-beating three-pointer in NCAA men’s basketball championship history, the Tar Heels are back on top, defeating Gonzaga 71-65 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It’s UNC’s sixth title and first since 2009. In […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the Justice Department to undertake a comprehensive review of all police reform activities, including any existing or contemplated consent decrees, according to a memorandum released Monday. The directive from the nation’s top law enforcement officer comes at a critical time for several major cities, including Baltimore and Chicago, which […]

Democrats know that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is likely to respond to a filibuster of Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination by invoking the “nuclear option” and changing the way the Senate works forever. They just don’t care. “The filibuster is such a silly, non-intuitive tactic that most people don’t even believe it exists,” Markos […]

While it’s not clear who carried out the deadly attack on the St. Petersburg metro, there are two groups that have both the capability and the intent to carry out large-scale terrorist attacks in Russian cities. First, there are Chechen separatists who have mounted a wide range of terrorist attacks in Russia. The Russians have […]

President Donald Trump is donating the $78,333.32 salary he has earned so far to the National Park Service. “It’s straight up. Every penny that the president received from the first quarter,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer told journalists at a White House press briefing Monday. Spicer handed a check to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Tyrone […]

The government wants more time to decide if spouses of H-1B visa holders should be granted the right to work. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security requested another 180 days to review a rule that allows H-4 visa holders to apply for work permits. Implemented under the Obama administration in 2015, the permit is […]

What do you get when you combine two of the most iconic Internet brands? One incredibly bland corporate name. Yahoo and AOL are expected to form a new company under Verizon called Oath. The new company is expected to launch this summer after Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo is completed. Tim Armstrong, the head of AOL […]

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes dismissed claims from top Democrats that he is colluding with the White House, and said House investigators talked scheduling with former national security adviser Michael Flynn before his request for immunity. “I don’t really listen to what anyone says,” Nunes said Monday when asked about Rep. Adam Schiff’s accusation over […]

With 41 Democrats now supporting a filibuster of Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, we are looking at the end of the talk-a-thon as we know it. I wrote earlier Monday about how eliminating the 60-vote threshold to end debate on Supreme Court nominations is just another step down the slippery slope of the […]

Chicago police have arrested two juveniles in connection with a group sexual assault on a teenage girl that was broadcast on Facebook live. The teens — a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy — face charges including aggravated criminal sexual assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography, police said in a statement. The 14-year-old, who […]

Before Donald Trump can build his promised wall between the US and Mexico, he will have to take private property from thousands of US citizens – a land grab that is expected to prompt years of legal battles, cost tens of millions in taxpayer dollars and delay construction. A CNN analysis of lawsuits filed the […]

A marijuana advocacy group in the nation’s capital plans to target members of Congress on Capitol Hill with two separate protests this April. The first protest will take place on April 20 — 4/20, the pot holiday — from “high noon” til about 5 p.m., Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller, co-founders of the group DCMJ, […]