Politics

On Friday night HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher defended former vice president Joe Biden, who has been hit with multiple allegations from women who’ve accused Biden of acting physically inappropriate with them in the past. During his monologue Maher joked, “Biden is still at large. Women are being urged …

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee teed up a set of subpoenas Wednesday morning with an eye toward obtaining a full, unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report on 2016 election interference and any conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign. The subpoenas would also cover …

WASHINGTON — In the latest end-of-week news dump on the Mueller beat, Attorney General William Barr told congressional leaders Friday to expect a redacted version of the Mueller report by “mid-April, if not sooner.” Barr stated that the full report — not to be confused with Barr’s brief, four-page write-up; …

The mass murder of 50 worshippers inside two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques could not deter President Trump from his appointed rounds. On Friday, he did not consider postponing or even de-emphasizing a ceremony in the Oval Office marking his first veto, rejecting the Congressional block on his dubious national emergency …

Right-wing Australian Senator Fraser Anning threw punches at a teenager after the boy smashed an egg on Anning’s head while he spoke to the media on Saturday. The video of the incident has since gone viral, with #Eggboy trending number one on Twitter today. The egging was prompted by the …

President Trump has some bold thoughts on airplane technology. “Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly,” the president tweeted Tuesday morning. “Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, …

Hillary Clinton will not seek a rematch with Donald Trump. The popular-vote winner from 2016 told reporters for News 12, a Hudson Valley station in New York, that she is not a going to be a candidate in 2020: “I’m not running,” Clinton said — but quickly added: “I’m going …

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) launched his presidential campaign with a rally in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised in a rent-controlled apartment by his mother and immigrant father. In a speech delivered at Brooklyn College, where he was a student for a year, Sanders emphasized his personal story, a …

President Trump will meet with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday. It will be the second time Trump has met with the North Korean dictator since taking office, the first coming last June when the two leaders convened in Singapore. Trump emerged from that summit speaking breathlessly about the …

This is the fifth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is inAntarcticainvestigatingthe effect ofclimate changeon Thwaites glacier. Aboard the Nathanial B Palmer, the research vessel and icebreaker I’ve hopped on for a two-month journey to Antarctica, there is much talk about how the fate of the civilized world …