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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) scoffed at the idea of reparations during his weekly press conference Tuesday, saying that slavery was part of America’s distant past, and pointing as evidence to the election of former President Barack Obama — so…

Aaron David Miller is a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and author of "The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President." Miller was a Middle East negotiat…

The U.S. has deployed American computer code into Russian systems operating the nations power grid, the New York Times reported on Saturday, as part of the Donald Trump administrations efforts to deploy cybertools more aggressively. According to the Times, w…

Jon Snow has (sort of) issued the apology that every “Game of Thrones” fan who signed that viral Change.org petition (demanding the final season be remade) was likely waiting for. A convincing “deepfake” video that YouTube channel Eating Things With Famous P…

President Donald Trump, who turns 73 on Friday, may receive an unexpected (and unwelcome) mocking birthday message this week while watching Fox News. “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” has bought ad space on two of the widely watched conservative network’s mo…

(WASHINGTON) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel. The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rig…

Lawyer George Conway is lobbing criticism again at President Donald Trump, arguing in a scathing Washington Post op-ed Wednesday that the president has practically invited impeachment proceedings to begin.  In the opinion article, written with former Acting …

DETROIT  Sasha Obama, the youngest daughter of former President Barack Obama, graduated from an exclusive Washington, D.C., high school Tuesday. Speculation is that her next schooling stop will be 500 miles west, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. …

President Donald Trump is 72. The Democratic frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, is 76, while the runner-up, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, is 77. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren turns 70 next week. Here’s some bad news for all of them: Nearly 40…

The Red Sox brought their beloved former designated hitter David Ortiz back to Boston Monday night to receive further medical treatment for a gunshot wound. The retired slugger, known by his nickname "Big Papi," was shot in the back at a bar in his native …