President Barack Obama had to console an elementary school student in Baltimore on Friday after the student failed to come up with the correct answer to “2 minus 1” when Obama asked students basic arithmetic questions. Obama replied to the
Bob Costas backtracked on his recent suggestions that CBS golf announcers should use airtime during their coverage of The Masters to talk more about the history of exclusion at Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club. He made his
Showing his disdain for NRA members, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas mocked those who attended the NRA Convention in Houston earlier this month and said today’s defenders of the Second Amendment were not people the country’s founders had in mind when
On Saturday, Vito Lopez, a New York state lawmaker accused of repeatedly molesting his female aides and making sexual comments about a 14-year old intern, announced he will resign from office on Monday. The announcement came one day after those
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is reportedly getting ready to use the so-called “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules so that 60 votes are no longer needed to break a filibuster. According to the Washington Post, President Barack
On Friday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Congress that the Obama administration would rather risk default than negotiate with Republicans in Congress over raising the debt limit. He said the Treasury Department will begin taking “extraordinary” measures to avoid default
Ken Venturi, the former professional golfer and broadcaster who was best known for memorably winning the 1964 U.S. Open while nearly collapsing on the course from heat exhaustion at Congressional, passed away on Friday at the age of 82. Venturi’s
On Friday, Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) told outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller that his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee had been “offensive” and expressed outrage that nothing bad will happen to Miller because of what he deemed the
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) blistered outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on Friday at a House Ways Means Committee hearing and said it was difficult to conclude that he did not mislead the Committee last year about how the IRS
Steven Miller, the outgoing acting IRS Commissioner, conceded on Friday that the IRS did not have a streamlined process to target tax-exempt applications from groups that had words like “progressive” or “organizing” in their names, in contrast to how the
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s longtime confidante and wife of disgraced former Congressman and soon-to-be New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, did not disclose that she consulted for outside groups while still employed by the State Department. According to reports in the New
A new “Buycott” application allows consumers to boycott all products tied–even indirectly–to companies like Monsanto or the Koch Brothers. According to Forbes, Ivan Pardo, a 26-year-old based in Los Angeles, is the main person behind the app, which can be
President Barack Obama spent a mere four minutes Wednesday addressing an Inspector General’s report that concluded the IRS inappropriately targeted conservative and Tea Party groups. Obama did not take any questions from reporters; he said he would at a press
A day after the Inspector General released an audit that found the IRS inappropriately targeted Tea Party and conservative groups, President Barack Obama on Wednesday again lectured Congress on bipartisanship, warning members of Congress that their actions in the coming
Teammates of a black international soccer superstar who had racist chants hurled at him last weekend during a European soccer match will reportedly wear blackface in their next match to protest the racism against their star player. Didier Drogba, the Ivory
When he announced he was going to retire at the end of this season, New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said he would make an effort to meet with fans and employees in every road ballpark on his farewell tour
A day after marshals at the Players Championship accused Tiger Woods of lying about having been told Sergio Garcia had hit his ball on the second hole during the third round, other marshals said on Tuesday Woods was “basically” telling
In his final season in the Major Leagues, Mariano Rivera, the game’s all-time saves leader, is off to a blistering start, converting his first 16 save opportunities and on pace to break the all-time single-season saves record. After getting his
After getting knocked out of Monday’s game after running into the right field scoreboard at Dodger Stadium, Washington Nationals superstar Bryce Harper said he is not going to change a thing about how aggressively he plays the game after some
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanded “no more stonewalling” from President Barack Obama regarding the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups. McConnell called on Obama to “make available, completely and without restriction, everyone who can
When the IRS targeted an Ohio woman’s Tea Party organization and asked her to send the agency the books the group read in 2010, she sent the IRS a copy of the Constitution. Marion Bower said that the IRS targeted
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested Monday that Democrats use the IRS to overturn Citizens United by passing the DISCLOSE Act or amending the Constitution to restrict political speech. In an appearance on MSNBC, Pelosi said, after conceding the IRS’s
On Tuesday, White House Spokesperson Jay Carney claimed that President Barack Obama and other White House officials were unaware that an independent inspector general had been investigating the IRS about whether it targeted conservative groups until they read about it
After Tiger Woods won his second Players Championship on Sunday and Sergio Garcia claimed he had been the “victim” in his flap with Woods over the weekend, a Players marshal revealed that Woods’s account of what happened on the second hole in
On Monday night, after reports surfaced that the Justice Department–and, more specifically, Attorney General Eric Holder–approved subpoenas to obtain the phone records of reporters from the Associated Press, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the White House was shocked to
