Climate change is real, predominantly man-made and more urgent a threat than ever before, claims the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is
Fueling speculation that she is running for president in 2016, Hillary Clinton appeared at a New Hampshire rally in her first visit to the state since her loss to Barack Obama in 2008. Hillary was in New Hampshire to stump
Friday’s crash of the Virgin Galactic space-plane in California was, of course, a tragedy. One test-pilot was killed and another seriously injured. But there is, at least, a silver lining: There’s no need to worry about another possible issue concerning
“Daily Show” co-founder Lizz Winstead blamed “redistricting” and the media for the woes of Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis (D) on Friday’s broadcast of “The Reid Report” on MSNBC. After Winstead and Reid laughed at a clip of “Daily Show”
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas media landscape experienced some upheaval on Friday, when the Texas Tribune announced that their partnership with the New York Times was coming to an end, days after an announcement that the Times was entering into
Now that nurse Kaci Hickox is defying a quarantine in Maine by riding her bicycle in front of news cameras, the White House is softening its approach to states with their own quarantine policies. Earnest repeated that Obama supported policies
Like President Barack Obama, former basketball great Michael Jordan is a big fan of the links. While he loves golf, Jordan doesn’t seem to think much about how Obama plays the game. In fact, in a recent interview, Jordan slammed
A Dutch start-up called Blendle is taking global the equivalent of “a penny for your thoughts” by pioneering a Spotify-style market for copyright journalism. To begin to touch a world of seven billion people, Blendle just raised $3.8 million in a first
The New York Times mocked an NRA ad that shows a rape victim speaking up for her right to bear arms for self-defense. The ad features Kimberly Weeks–a “survivor of violent crime”–telling gun control proponent Michael Bloomberg that he “[does] not
A family from Milford, Connecticut who visited Nigeria for a family wedding earlier this month has filed a federal lawsuit that claims their third-grade daughter was unfairly banned from school amid fears of her Ebola exposure while in Africa. According
They have done it again. For the twenty-third time, the New York social gathering known as the United Nations General Assembly has voted to “condemn” the United States for its embargo on Cuba, and for the 23rd time, few, if
Despite a ton of free elite media attention, the new Wendy Davis memoir, “Forgetting to Be Afraid,” is flopping just as hard as the Democrat abortion extremist’s bid to be the next governor of Texas. According to Slate, since its
If you have ever been to or traveled through Arnolds Park, Iowa, chances are you have seen or at least heard of Mrs. Lady’s Mexican Food. Known for it’s large portions and low prices, this family-owned, cash-only restaurant has become
The New York Times reports that former “Meet the Press” host David Gregory will move online to Yahoo for election night coverage. This is a one-time deal but it’s not unreasonable to assume it’s a testing of the waters for
Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times reporter James Risen took to Twitter Tuesday to reminisce about the good old days when he did what the mainstream media condemns James O’Keefe for doing: going undercover to break news and report a
Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy ‘s line of attack against Democrat Mary Landrieu in Louisiana hasn’t changed much throughout the race and the latest USA Today poll suggests it’s working, at least in the sense it may get Cassidy into a one-on-one run-off
Sunday’s “Meet the Press” accomplished something I thought you could only see in religious cults and Womyn’s Studies classes: gathered five people together who completely, 100% agreed on a hot button political topic. The issue is outside money in politics.
Filings by Connecticut’s Democratic Party show that it has funneled money into the state senate race of Ted Kennedy Jr. (D), the son of the United States senator and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, through a loophole inserted
Further information has been established about New York City ax attacker Zale Thompson, suggesting that the man who tried to kill two police officers was a left-wing radical who hated white people, in addition to possessing well-documented Islamist sympathies and
DALLAS, Texas — Nowhere is a debate on fracking more fractious than in Texas, where the oil and gas industry is king and has done a lot to fund the state’s healthy emergency reserves (“Rainy Day Fund”) and public education. Right
Healthcare experts say a vexing problem that puts patients at risk is playing out nationally: the computer systems American hospitals and doctors’ offices use to send and store a patient’s medical records can’t talk to one another. Worse, when Americans
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — Bracing for a difficult election in just over a week, whenthey could lose control of the Senate, Democrats exasperated with the WhiteHouse are already moving to pin blame on President Obama, whomRepublicans have
Frank Mankiewicz, the politico-turned-journalist who made National Public Radio (NPR) what it is today, died on Thursday evening. He was remembered by the New York Times as the press secretary for Robert F. Kennedy and the campaign manager for George McGovern.
President Barack Obama attended a private $32,400-a-seat Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the home of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on Thursday as news hit that Dr. Craig Spencer had been rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan and tested for Ebola–tests
This article originally appeared in the New York Times. Canadian authorities identified the gunman in the deadly shooting Wednesday of a soldier guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Canadian born in 1982. Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau, who had a
