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NBA Commissioner: NC Law 'Problematic' But Keeping All-Star Game, For Now
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league for the moment is keeping its 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte despite its disappointment with North Carolina's new law banning transgenders from using restrooms that don't match their biological sex. → Read More
'Human-Centered' PP Redesign Aims to Improve 'Patient Experience'
Battered by a wave of negative publicity from a 2015 series of undercover sting videos that showed the organization engaging in the selling of body parts from aborted fetuses, Planned Parenthood is hoping to upgrade its "patient experience." → Read More
Judicial Watch Doc: US Army Gave Soldiers White Privilege Training
White privilege gives Caucasians the luxury of obliviousness to the problems of racial minorities, a U.S. Army briefing to 400 soldiers of the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia asserted, according to documents obtained by watchdog organization Judicial... → Read More
Earle Mack Launches Super PAC to Draft Paul Ryan
Businessman and former ambassador Earle Mack is the man behind a super PAC created to draft House Speaker Paul Ryan to run for the Republican presidential nomination, the New York Times reports. → Read More
Notre Dame Awards Prestigious Laetare Medal to Biden, Boehner
The University of Notre Dame says it is making a statement against a "toxic political environment" by honoring Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and Republican former House Speaker John Boehner with its coveted 2016 Laetare Medal. → Read More
MSNBC Talks Up Trump KKK Ties, Cuts to Black Supporter
MSNBC host Tamron Hall was left at a loss for words Monday when a discussion of Donald Trump's alleged backing by white supremacists mistakenly cut to a black supporter of the real estate billionaire who said "we need to stop with all the racist stuff and all the race-baiting." → Read More
Pro-PP, Pro-Abortion GOP Operatives Attack Trump's Pro-Choice Past
News reports this week revealed that Marlene Ricketts, whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, has donated $3 million to the new anti-Donald Trump Our Principles PAC founded by Katie Packer Gage, deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. → Read More
Michael Hayden to Trump on Waterboarding: 'Bring Your Own Damn Bucket'
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden is warning Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump that the agency has no interest in returning to the controversial days of waterboarding captured terrorists. Multiple investigations, grand juries, presidential condemnations,... → Read More
Clinton Backer McAuliffe to Obama: 'What Can We Do to Help You Push' TPP?
Virginia Gov. and long-time close Bill and Hillary Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe expressed his strong support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact at a function with President Barack Obama Monday. Obama was taking questions from the National Governors Association... → Read More
GOP Sen. Mark Kirk Bucks Party, Backs Vote on Obama High Court Nominee
Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk referenced a stroke that almost killed him at the age of 52 while revealing Monday that he supports President Barack Obama's right to nominate a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In an opinion piece published in... → Read More
Tea Party Group Founder Who Dumped Trump for Jeb Reverses Course
Tea party group founder Ken Crow garnered media attention last week by announcing that he was spurning Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump for the sagging candidacy of Jeb Bush. → Read More
Rubio Calls Out Trump, But Skips 60 Percent of Foreign Policy Hearings
Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday challenged GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to "step up and outline his foreign policy vision," but a review shows the Florida senator has skipped a whopping 60 percent of congressional hearings on the issue. → Read More
Laid-Off Workers File Class-Action Suit Against Disney Over H1-B Visa Abuse
Two former IT employees at Walt Disney World in Orlando who were laid off after being forced to train their foreign replacements have filed federal lawsuits against the entertainment giant and two other companies, claiming a conspiracy to oust them in favor of cheaper labor... → Read More
Unmanned Black Hawk Helicopter Teams With Ground Vehicle in Exercise
Carnegie Mellon University and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, are working together on developing an autonomous Black Hawk helicopter. → Read More
Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Scoops for Sanders With 'Bernie's Yearning' Ice Cream
Popular ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen has made on his own initiative a flavor of ice cream in honor of Vermont senator and Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. → Read More
DNC's Wasserman Schultz on Critics: 'I Have the Skin of an Alligator'
Embattled Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she is striving to block out the increasingly strident voices excoriating her over her job performance, emphasizing that she plans to serve her full tenure. → Read More
CNN/ORC Poll: Sanders Pulling Away From Hillary in Iowa
Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened an 8-point lead in Iowa over Democrat presidential rival Hillary Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll released Thursday. → Read More
Oil Billionaire Pickens Wants Commission to Vet Candidates for President
Calling it his big idea for 2016, billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens has called for the creation of a bipartisan screening committee that vets presidential candidates like we do anyone else applying for a job and recommends the best candidates possible. In a posting on... → Read More
IRS Mistakenly Issued $46 Million in Tax Refunds Due to Glitch
Citing a computer "programming error," a Treasury Department internal audit has found that the Internal Revenue Service incorrectly issued $46 million in tax refunds for the tax year 2013. → Read More
State Dept. Looks at Monitoring of Visa Applicants' Social Media Accounts
In light of the San Bernardino terror attacks that killed 14 people, the federal government will explore the possibility of more closely monitoring the social media accounts of visa applicants to the United States, a State Department spokesman says. It's safe to assume... → Read More