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If there’s one thing the Iowa Caucus proved, it brought out the worst social media lies. One Washington Post reporter warned Tuesday that it will only get worse the closer we get to the election. It all started with President Donald Trump’s super PAC and allied group Judicial Watch broadcasting false information about voter fraud […]

As the coronavirus outbreak spreads, fueling rumors and misinformation, a petition to cancel all classes in one US school district for fear of the virus has garnered nearly 14,000 signatures. The online petition posted on Change.org urges the Alhambra Unified School District located east of Los Angeles and with a heavily Asian population, to basically […]

This Monday night, the Justice Department took President Trump’s side in his ongoing battle to resist Congressional subpoenas for his financial records. Addressing Supreme Court justices, DOJ lawyers said lawmakers must meet a higher bar when seeking a sitting president’s personal records, Roll Call reports. “The cases, set for March 31 oral argument, center on subpoenas […]

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is taking heat from key allies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the “peace plan” he helped design spirals further down the drain. While the plan had previously been praised by the Israeli government even as it was widely panned by neighboring Arab governments, the Washington Post reports that Yesha […]

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is taking heat from key allies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the “peace plan” he helped design spirals further down the drain. While the plan had previously been praised by the Israeli government even as it was widely panned by neighboring Arab governments, the Washington Post reports that Yesha […]

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani still hasn’t found any concrete evidence of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden, but that isn’t stopping him from trying. In an interview with NPR, Giuliani encouraged President Donald Trump to continue his investigations into the former vice president, which he vowed would expose massive corruption by the former vice […]

According to a report form The Intercept this weekend, the Navy SEALs commander who clashed with President Trump over his pardons of convicted war criminals will be stepping down from his post this coming September, a year earlier than his scheduled departure. Special Warfare Rear Adm. Collin Green was a 1986 graduate from the US […]

USA Today reporter Jill Lawrence recalled what it was like, more than 20 years ago, to wander around Iowa with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). In 2020, however, she hardly recognizes him and other Republicans who’ve sacrificed their dignity and principles to President Donald Trump. “What I remember most from that day was a dramatic back […]

CNN’s John King Tuesday afternoon reported live on-air he was receiving messages from aides of rival campaigns that Vice President Joe Biden was considering filing an injunction against the release of the results from Monday’s Iowa Caucuses. Citing the “the breaking news rush,” King is now calling his decision to report those rumors was “stupid.” […]

President Donald Trump goes to his State of the Union speech Tuesday gloating over the Democrats’ chaotic Iowa caucuses, sure of acquittal in his impeachment trial, and more optimistic than ever of reelection. The Republican is turning what could have been the darkest week of his presidency — with years of scandals crescendoing into only […]

Officials at ACRONYM, a firm that invested in the company behind the disastrous mobile application used to report vote totals in the Iowa Democratic caucus, have been trying to scrub their ties ever since the app led to a system-wide reporting meltdown on Monday night. The Daily Beast reports that ACRONYM has deleted a blog […]

Are popular songs today happier or sadder than they were 50 years ago? In recent years, the availability of large digital datasets online and the relative ease of processing them means that we can now give precise and informed answers to questions such as this. A straightforward way to measure the emotional content of a […]

Trumpism has inspired a long list of prominent conservatives to leave the Republican Party after many years, from journalist George Will to former GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough to former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. And similarly, Ed Adams — known for his work as a Republican precinct committeeman in Marion County, Indiana — announced his resignation from […]

President Donald Trump reportedly flew into a rage during the 2016 campaign after his lengthy and rambling statement on birtherism was edited down to something more concise and coherent. The Trump campaign wanted Trump to disavow the birther conspiracy theory that had launched him on his way to the Republican nomination, but he instead dictated […]

White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump is not expected to talk about his impeachment when he gives his annual State of the Union Address Tuesday night. Gidley made the remarks to Fox News prior to Tuesday night’s speech. “I read the speech but the word impeachment is […]

This Tuesday, a nonpartisan watchdog group filed a Hatch Act complaint against Jared Kushner, alleging that he violated the Hatch Act during a CNN interview this Sunday, where he “advocated on behalf of the Trump campaign while appearing in his official government capacity on behalf of the Trump administration.” “Jared Kushner, like so many other […]

Republican party Sinn Fein have surged into first place with just days until Ireland goes to the polls in a general election, according to a new survey. Sinn Fein were at 25 per cent, ahead of opposition party Fianna Fail on 23 per cent, the final Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll said on Monday night. […]

Whether President Donald Trump was being investigated by Democrat-led committees in the U.S. House of Representatives or by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, a name that has often come up in connection with the president is Deutsche Bank — an institution known for dealing with businesses that other large banks shy away from. And […]

The Iowa Democratic Party in a call with the candidates’ campaigns has announced it will release the “majority” of the results from the more than 1700 precincts at 5 PM ET Tuesday. NEWS: Iowa Democratic Party tells campaigns it plans to release the majority of the results by 4 p.m. today — Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) […]

A white woman was caught on video refusing to ride the elevators at an upscale apartment building in Bethesda, Maryland after she saw that a black man was also on the lift. Yesha Callahan, a writer for Essence magazine, shared video of the incident on Monday. So my son lives in an upscale high rise […]

A Latino father who was describing racism faced by his young son in school was told to “stay in Mexico” by a white man at a meeting that was intended to be about inclusion and diversity. MLive.com reports that Saline, Michigan resident Adrian Iraola this week told attendees at a Saline Area Schools meeting about […]

An Arizona sex offender was charged with making a threatening phone call to Rep. Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry. Jan Peter Meister, a registered sex offender from Tucson, was identified through phone records as the caller who left a threatening message on Schiff’s office voicemail, according to court documents. Police played the message for […]

In the wake of the embarrassing debacle that delayed the result of the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took to Twitter and suggested that something sinister was afoot. “What are the odds that: most anticipated poll of the year (@DMRegister) is cancelled; voting system completely crashes. ….and it has nothing to do with a […]

“Their use anywhere, anytime, and by any actor remains completely unacceptable to the European Union.” The European Union on Tuesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to roll back restrictions on the American military’s use of landmines despite the deadly history of the weapons around the world. Virginie Battu-Henriksson, spokesperson for the E.U.’s […]

A court in central Germany on Tuesday rejected a case calling for a local church associated with Protestant firebrand Martin Luther to remove an ancient anti-Semitic carving from its wall. Widely known the as “Judensau” (Jews’ sow), the 13th-century bas relief on the church in eastern German town Wittenberg depicts a rabbi peering into a […]