Bette Midler renewed an allegation of 1970s sexual misconduct against Geraldo Rivera on Thursday, a day after Rivera called the news business “flirty” amid Matt Lauer’s dismissal by NBC.
Rebecca Nagle, a Cherokee woman, in an opinion piece posted to the Think Progress site, chastises Sen. Elizabeth Warren – not so much for falsely claiming to be part Cherokee to advance her career at Harvard University – as for failing, time and again, to lend visibility to Native peoples in the Ivy League, in government, or in American society generally.
A U.S. government agency confirmed in a letter to the Clarion Project that an investigation into a terror-linked Islamist cult named Muslims of America (MOA) is ongoing.
Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died Thursday. He was 87.
David Catanese writes in U.S. News & World Report that when President Trump once again derisively nicknamed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “Pocahontas,” he ripped open an old campaign controversy that “even some Democrats say she mishandled during her 2012 campaign.”
With just two weeks to go until the Alabama senate special election on December 12, CNN announced that former White House Chief Strategist and Breitbart News Executive Chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, will campaign with Republican candidate Judge Roy Moore to help him in his bid to defeat Democrat Doug Jones.
An aspiring actress who met Harvey Weinstein by chance in 2014 detailed in tears Tuesday how she said the media mogul made her stand in front of a mirror in his hotel room in Cannes, France, while he stood behind her, groping her and forcing her to perform a sex act after pretending to be interested in her career.
Alec Baldwin mixed his Emmy-winning impression of President Donald Trump and the advocacy of a serious Democratic activist Monday, headlining a state party banquet in Des Moines.
Jay-Z is the leader of the 2018 Grammy Award nominations in a year where the top four categories are heavily dominated by rap and R&B artists, giving the often overlooked genres a strong chance of winning big.
On Monday night, embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore held his first rally since sexual misconduct allegations rocked his campaign. The rally “had the atmosphere of an old-fashioned religious tent revival,” with the county’s GOP leader characterizing Moore’s race as “a spiritual battle,” Eric Velasco reports in Politico.
The New York Post’s Maureen Callahan penned a scathing takedown of Girls star Lena Dunham Monday, after the actress and self-styled feminist apologized for publicly accusing a young woman who claimed she had been raped of lying.
Pixar’s ‘Coco’ sang its way to the fourth best Thanksgiving weekend ever with an estimated $71.2 million over the five-day weekend, a total that easily toppled Warner Bros.’ ‘Justice League.’
The Washington Post lamented Friday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is dramatically changing his Department of Justice while the media has been distracted by the “Russia story.”
On Monday. November 20, Breitbart News surpassed its total number of pageviews from the year 2016, making 2017 the biggest year ever for web traffic to the conservative news site. Breitbart.com currently has over 2.2 billion pageviews and counting for 2017, exceeding 2016’s 2.18 billion total pageviews, according to Google analytics.
Beyond the slick, Hollywood-style cinematics, the Islamic State is targeting Western recruits with videos suggesting they, too, can be heroes like Bruce Willis’ character in “Die Hard.”
Ashley Parker writes at the Washington Post about the President’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, the subject of some derision as his power and prominence in the administration have waxed and waned.
In a now-deleted article at NBC News, Jonathan Allen and Keri Geiger wrote that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon is planning primary challenges to both of Mississippi’s incumbent establishment Republican senators.
In a wide-ranging interview with Mike Morones of Recoil Magazine, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s former national security deputy advisor, discusses was the “fake news industrial complex” and the obsession over alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin’s Russia — an allegation that Gorka calls “pure fantasy.”
Jonathan Easley writes at The Hill that conservatives are calling for Robert Mueller to recuse himself from the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore “is running against the GOP establishment in Washington,” James Arkin reports at RealClearPolitics.
Matthew Rozsa pens an op-ed at Salon with the headline, “Here’s your leftover turkey: The case for Hillary Clinton 2020.” The sub-headline reads, “What better way to honor the holiday than with a spiteful argument for yet another Clinton candidacy?”
Elfego Baca writes in the American Spectator that the threat a Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama Roy Moore would pose to establishment Republicans such as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would not be a lack of moral character, but quite the opposite.
Democrat Doug Jones has a chance to win the Alabama Senate seat once held by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions – but only if the national party keeps its distance as he tailors his far left positions to voters in that red state:
A few weeks ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a Soviet-style five-year plan for China’s progress at the Communist Party congress in Beijing. Despite his talk of global cooperation, the themes were familiar socialist boilerplate about Chinese economic and military superiority to come.
Last month in Saudi Arabia, 11 princes along with a number of current and former government officials were arrested by a newly announced anti-corruption committee headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
It was a once-in-a-decade display of American firepower.
Every year, the day before Thanksgiving, the fire department in the Washington, D.C., suburb where I live posts a “Keep Your Family Safe this Thanksgiving” bulletin on its website, offering tips about how to avoid injury during the holiday.
Conservative AL Today contributor Apryl Marie Fogel wrote an op-ed Monday chastising mainstream media “slight of hand” used to “shame and bully conservative voters” into voting for liberal Democrat Doug Jones over Judge Roy Moore in Alabama.
Massachusetts’s Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors ate with the pilgrims and gave birth to the Thanksgiving tradition, have brought the once-dead language spoken at that historic meal back to life, according to a Thursday report by the United Kingdom’s Independent newspaper.
Derek Robertson reports in Politico, “a new study finds that after last year’s scorched-earth presidential campaign, Americans could barely stand to look each other in the eye.”
An investigation of Paul Manafort’s travel records and activities spanning nearly a decade reveal even closer ties than previously known between Trump’s former campaign manager and Russian officials – a fact which has led some experts to believe that “the Kremlin’s emissaries at times turned Manafort into an asset acting on Russia’s behalf.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is once again at odds with President Trump. This time over support for embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
David Cassidy, the teen and pre-teen idol who starred in the 1970s sitcom “The Partridge Family” and sold millions of records as the musical group’s lead singer, died Tuesday at age 67.
Alex Eisenstadt writes in Politico that President Trump has doubted the validity of the accusations against Roy Moore and conflates them with those Trump himself was subjected to toward the end of his campaign.
Peter Hassan writes in the Daily Caller that Rep. Bob Brady is under FBI investigation for allegedly paying a campaign opponent to drop out of a race:
If you had to create a conservative American politician in a test tube, you might come up with Mike Pompeo, the director of the CIA.
As the Middle East is facing fresh fissures, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the Qatari foreign minister, is visiting Washington to bolster his country’s standing particularly with the Trump administration.
Paul McLeod and Lissandra Villa write for Buzzfeed News that Rep. John Conyers has been alleged in four signed affadavits of making unwanted sexual advances toward former female staff members:
The GOP establishment’s hope of floating a write-in candidate in the Alabama Senate race to thwart Republican nominee Roy Moore is dead, reports Andrew Desiderio in the Daily Beast, noting that “Mitch McConnell threw a hail mary. And like most hail marys, it failed.”
Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama “Touched by an Angel,” has died at age 86.
