
Vester Lee Flanagan, aka Bryce Williams, murdered two former colleagues at a TV news station in Roanoke, Virginia, last Wednesday morning. A couple hours after the shooting, ABC News received a 23-page fax outlining Flanagan’s views and motives in his own words.
by John Sexton31 Aug 2015, 7:44 PM PST0

Just days after she compared her Republican rivals to terrorists and Nazis, Hillary Clinton told a Hamptons fundraiser crowd that campaigns should not be about “insults.”
by John Sexton31 Aug 2015, 11:46 AM PST0

A day after Hillary Clinton compared GOP candidates to terrorists, she has likened an opponent’s plan to deport illegal immigrants to the Nazis.
by John Sexton28 Aug 2015, 2:24 PM PST0

Vester Lee Flanagan, the Virginia shooter who worked at WDBJ under the name Bryce Williams, accused co-worker Alison Parker of racism after she used the phrase “out in the field” to describe a reporter who was on assignment.
by John Sexton28 Aug 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

Ashley Madison, the website which encouraged people to cheat on their spouses by connecting with other willing cheaters online, attracted millions of paying male customers but only a tiny handful of women.
by John Sexton27 Aug 2015, 10:23 AM PST0

Politics makes us stupid. That was Ezra Klein’s thumbnail version of a dilemma social science says exists at the core of all political journalism.
by John Sexton26 Aug 2015, 5:15 PM PST0

The feud between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly heated up again Monday night as Kelly returned to air after a 10-day vacation. Trump took to Twitter saying he liked the show better while Kelly was away and suggesting her vacation was the result of their previous dust up (something Fox denies). Trump also retweeted others criticizing Kelly, including one person who wrote, “The bimbo back in town. I hope not for long.”
by John Sexton26 Aug 2015, 9:39 AM PST0

Last week, Politifact Georgia decided to fact-check a tweet by a pro-life group called Alliance Defends. Every statement the group made in the tweet was factually accurate, but Politifact gave the claims a “Half-True” rating.
by John Sexton25 Aug 2015, 6:05 PM PST0

Since 2010 the Department of Homeland Security has had responsibility for monitoring the cyber-security of government agencies, but it appears DHS may not have been aware of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
by John Sexton24 Aug 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

A review of emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private server has revealed dozens of instances in which she sent and received a type of information which is “born classified,” according to the government’s own rules.
by John Sexton21 Aug 2015, 12:30 AM PST0

A spokesman for Platte River Networks, the company which handled Hillary Clinton’s email server after she left the State Department, says the company turned the server over last week at the FBI’s request.
by John Sexton20 Aug 2015, 10:08 PM PST0

A new report at Bloomberg cites an unnamed official with knowledge of the FBI’s ongoing investigation who says there is already some indication that Clinton’s aides at State summarized classified sources in emails sent to her.
by John Sexton20 Aug 2015, 4:07 PM PST0

Wednesday afternoon, Hillary Clinton’s Twitter feed highlighted a Politico story in which Republican candidate Jeb Bush used the phrase “anchor babies.” “They’re called babies,” Hillary tweeted in response.
by John Sexton19 Aug 2015, 6:05 PM PST0

Under a side deal reached with the IAEA, Iran will be able to use its own experts and equipment to inspect sites believed to have been used in the past for nuclear weapons research.
by John Sexton19 Aug 2015, 12:11 PM PST0

After a townhall appearance in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton was asked if she had attempted to “wipe” her server. She replied, “What, like, with a cloth or something?”
by John Sexton18 Aug 2015, 4:31 PM PST0

Is it time for Democrats to panic yet? Hillary Clinton’s social media mentions are running 75% negative thanks in part to the investigation surrounding her private email server.
by John Sexton18 Aug 2015, 3:35 PM PST0

The State Department now says it has so many documents that are responsive to the initial request that it will need to issue a group of them every 30 days until all 17,855 have been released. State adds that it is unable to even estimate how long the total production will take.
by John Sexton17 Aug 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

The State Department sent a safe to Hillary Clinton’s lawyer in early July in an effort to ensure a thumb drive containing classified emails was being stored securely. The unusual move by State came to light Friday, more than a
by John Sexton14 Aug 2015, 1:07 PM PST0

After news broke this week that Hillary Clinton’s private email server had Top Secret information on it, Hillary’s campaign sent out a 13-paragraph email seeking to soothe worried supporters. The email concludes the whole story is “nonsense” and encourages readers
by John Sexton13 Aug 2015, 3:09 PM PST0

On July 30, a local Colorado newspaper called the Silverton Standard & the Miner published an op-ed by a concerned geologist which seems, at first glance, to have anticipated the EPA-caused disaster which made national news a week later.
by John Sexton12 Aug 2015, 8:31 PM PST0

Did Hillary Clinton choose to turn over her private server or did the FBI ask her for it? Contrary to the suggestion of some early reports, it’s not clear what prompted Hillary’s sudden change of heart.
by John Sexton12 Aug 2015, 5:29 AM PST0

Black Lives Matter spokesman Deray McKesson was asked about the DOJ investigation into the death of Mike Brown, an example of the kind of fair, independent inquiry into police shootings the movement claims to support. McKesson’s response was to minimize
by John Sexton11 Aug 2015, 2:38 PM PST0

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, the New York Times published a video in which three individuals–Johnetta Elzie, DeRay McKesson and Zellie Imani–discuss their history of Twitter activism inspired by the case.
by John Sexton10 Aug 2015, 4:49 PM PST0

President Obama personally leaked news that Senator Chuck Schumer had decided to oppose his Iran deal, even after Schumer personally asked the President not to mention it until he could make an announcement Friday.
by John Sexton7 Aug 2015, 5:29 PM PST0

Carly Fiorina was almost universally acclaimed the winner of the Fox News debate Thursday night. She was also the only candidate who drew the attention of the Democratic National Committee on Twitter during the debate.
by John Sexton6 Aug 2015, 5:30 PM PST0