The acclaimed filmmaker makes the liberal's case for watching Fox News
You don't see this every day: Four-star Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward is under investigation for burning through hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on lavish travel and hotels, according to The Associated Press' Lolita C. Baldor, and as a result, Ward is just biding his time in what's basically a timeout.
Today, real estate mogul, Reality TV star, birth certificate verifier, and theater critic Donald Trump discovered that attacking liberal bloggers doesn't have quite the same effect as attacking, say, going after moderate Republicans.
Nine days ago Ben Lawsky was a no-name financial regulator working for the state of New York, but now he's the front page protagonist behind the largest money laundering settlement in U.S. history.
The anti-Obama campaign slogan "you didn't build that" has reached its inevitable extension into the foreign policy arena. But this may be its worst application yet.
Joe Biden's middle class patois was in rare form today as he puffed up his NASCAR bonafides on the campaign trail.
Executives at Standard Chartered may "strongly" deny they laundered $250 billion of Iranian government cash since 2001, but it seems they're still willing to cut a check to make the bad headlines go away.
Hillary Clinton either suffers from a severe form of anhidrosis or uses way better antipersperant than the rest of us, since, apparently, she never sweats. Ever.
As the battle for Aleppo continues, Syrian rebels and President Bashar al-Assad are ramping up outreach to their respective allies.
Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and the woman most often credited with building it into an international empire, has died, according to the magazine's publisher, Hearst Corporation.
Jesse Jackson, Jr. is letting his doctors do the talking and on Monday they gave their diagnosis: The Illinois congressman, who's been on a medical leave of absence since June 10, is undergoing treatment for bipolar II depression.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon may have spent months crusading against regulations that would've saved his bank some $6 billion in losses, but he's not going to stop crusading. Why not? Allow Dimon to explain: "It’s a free. Fucking. Country.”
At a press briefing, Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum confirmed to reporters that two people have died following the shooting in a residential neighborhood near Texas A&M: Brian Bachmann, a Brazos County Constable, and an unidentified civilian. The alleged shooter has also been reported killed.
The Justice Department's botched gun-smuggling program Fast & Furious is no longer the exclusive obsession of Republicans and gun owners. Turns out, advocates of marijuana legalization want in on the conspiracy too.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi amassed an incredible amount of power Sunday after sacking several key security chiefs. Is Egypt's first elected president steering the country toward autocracy?
In a rumor receiving a lot of push back, Breitbart.com's Mike Flynn claims that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has accepted a speaking slot at next month's Democratic convention, citing an anonymous "high-ranking Republican official."
A lot has changed since the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and some things have stayed the same, but today marks a new milestone in the months since the ban on gays serving openly in the military was repealed: The appointment of the first openly gay general.
Democrats are planning on enlisting "several" wayward Republicans to help turn out the vote for President Obama at next month's Democratic National Convention, but who will it be?
With its egghead wonks and buttoned-down lobbyists, Washington, D.C. has practically nothing in common with the retro-cool youth retirement community known as Portland, Oregon: Until now.
Former Secretary of State James Baker attempted to shield Bob Zoellick, the new head of Mitt Romney's national security transition team, Thursday night following blistering criticisms from neocons that Zoellick is insufficiently pro-Israel and opposed the Gulf War.
In today's snapshot of state-sponsored propaganda, Iran still thinks the Jews hijacked the Olympics.
To get a sense of how rapidly beltway opinion on Syria is shifting, look no further than the debate over a no-fly zone in the country.
Donald Trump is a pretty popular guy. So popular, in fact, that he may not be able to attend this month's Republican National Convention in Tampa, he tells The New York Times' Jeremy Peters.
CNN botched an exposé about white power rock bands by including the group Hatebreed (not a white power group) among a list of white supremacist bands. CNN eventually posted a correction but not before its fans made an impassioned defense: Sure this band has hate-filled songs, but not racist, white supremacist hate-filled songs!
If you're the editor of a free commuter newspaper that few outside Australia have probably heard of, what's the best course of action when the world's most repressive regime picks a fight with you? As one private citizen from Alaska might say, "Don't retreat, RELOAD!"
The Paul Ryan vice presidential buzz has reached a deafening amplitude this week with the Romney campaign telling numerous reporters that the Wisconsin congressman is at the top of the shortlist.
America's least favorite mercenary firm got another black eye on Tuesday when it admitted to key facts behind 17 federal criminal charges.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, we survey the Olympics coverage from propaganda outlets around the world.
The idea that you can visit a doctor and become worse, seems like an outcome belonging to medieval times, but an investigation in The New York Times shows how profit incentives can drive hospitals to recommend more excessive procedures for patients even if the procedures are unnecessary and risky.
It may not seem like it now, but the dealings of HCA Healthcare, the largest U.S. hospital operator, could be one of the biggest political stories of August.
NASA may only consume 0.5 percent of the federal budget, but it generates practically all of Uncle Sam's viral marketing buzz.
The deadly cross border-attack on the Sinai peninsula late Sunday is night is testing the ties between the newly-elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the Israeli government.
The death of the Senate's cyber security bill, one of President Obama's top national security priorities, saw a combined push by two unlikely allies: Privacy advocates and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Lots of things keep Julian Assange's mom up at night, but an increasingly nagging thorn in her side is Fox News national security analyst KT McFarland.
In the last month, reports of underground drug tunnels from Mexico to the U.S. have enraptured the press.
The Mitt Romney endorsement the RNC won't by hyping this news cycle comes courtesy of porn star Jenna Jameson who announced at a San Francisco strip club Thursday night that she's "very looking forward to a Republican being back in office."
Just as United Nations Special Envoy Kofi Annan calls it quits, world powers are beginning to assert themselves more forcefully in Syria.
Back in 2009, Glenn Beck was obsessed with making White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein the next Van Jones. Now, the mostly-unscathed legal scholar is leaving on his own terms as he returns to Harvard Law School, Politico's Mike Allen reports.
In today's tour of state-sponsored media: Chinese media combat drug doping rumors, North Korea's Olympic coverage gets meta and Hong Kong parents have a bone to pick with Beijing.
Only one thing is certain in Syria following the resignation of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan: It will be impossible to find a more seasoned diplomat to fix the mess it's in.
Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of Gawker hired to give The New York Observer and its website a kick in the pants in 2011, is out as editor-in-chief, the weekly newspaper announced Thursday.
Nobody knows how to resolve the crisis in Syria and that includes Kofi Annan, who will resign as the United Nation's special envoy for Syria on August 31, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Thursday.
Did you catch the scary swings in the market yesterday? Turns out they were caused by a computer glitch that ended up costing a single trading firm $440 million.
Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions are BORING, but less so when compared to watershed cultural moments like Bob Dylan going electric.
The former secretary of State shares her scorn for anecdotal ledes and talk radio
Just because a bill receives bipartisan support, doesn't mean it's any good.
In a sign that Syrian rebels are starting to adopt the same gruesome tactics as Syrian security forces, a video has surfaced today which appears to show rebels executing four Assad loyalists.
London Mayor Boris Johnson may be literally dangling on a zip line at the moment, but at least he has the rumored support of Rupert Murdoch to become Britain's next prime minister.
Did you hear that? That's the sound of 620 million Indians putting their candles back in storage.
Those declaring the Tea Party "dead" may want to look at what just happened in Texas last night: A Tea Party candidate who was at 2 percent in the polls at the outset of his campaign, easily won the state's Republican Senate nomination.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, an Iranian truck driver gets her close up, a stamp dealer explains how he became an accidental propagandist for North Korea and Russia Today panders to a key Kremlin ally.
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