Obama To Speak After Meeting With National Security Team
President Barack Obama will deliver a statement Wednesday morning. The president will speak after meeting with his national security team. This is developing... Check back for more... -- This feed and...
View ArticleObama Makes Impassioned Plea For Calm After Paris Attacks
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Americans to "uphold our highest ideals," including the freedom of religion, in the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks on Paris by the...
View ArticleToddler Tries To Say 'Where's The Fork,' Comedy Happens
A 2-year-old attempting to ask "Where is the fork?" sounds more like our salty -talking uncle. This should go over big at Thanksgiving dinner. Bon appetit, kid. Also on HuffPost: -- This feed and its...
View ArticleGOP Donors Have No Plan To Stop Trump
When Donald Trump landed in Ohio this week, he got a taste of the meager Republican super PAC efforts aimed at him: a 47-second Web video clipping together some of his most provocative comments and a...
View ArticleGOP Threatens To Disrupt Obama's Climate Agenda At Paris Summit
WASHINGTON -- Republicans in Congress are threatening to disrupt a key piece of President Barack Obama's pledge to combat global warming, just days before world leaders begin climate negotiations in...
View ArticleRNC Struggles to Find Proper Place in 2016 Race (video)
By Jordan Stephen The 2016 election cycle is likely to be remembered as the presidential contest that largely ignored the rulebook. For outsider candidates, such as Republican front-runners Ben Carson...
View ArticleThe GOP Tried To Be More Inclusive After 2012. What Happened?
Poor Reince Priebus. After Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama in 2012, Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee, touted his shiny new 100-page report on reinventing the GOP at the...
View ArticleTrump and Carson Defend Waterboarding, Again. It's Not as Bad as It Sounds
In a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump said he would "absolutely bring back" waterboarding, which he described as "peanuts compared to what [America's enemies] do to us." Not to...
View ArticleThe Black Friday Backlash Has Only Just Begun
So, that happened: Black Friday, once the day retailers celebrated finally being "in the black," has for a long while been known for something much worse -- an annual post-Thanksgiving retail Bacchanal...
View ArticleAt The Paris Climate Talks, Media Coverage Takes A Turn
THE 2015 UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE SUMMIT kicked off in Paris this week on a somber but defiant note, as world leaders...
View ArticleThe Media Salivates When Criminals Are Republican
Ted Cruz joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday to discuss media coverage of the latest gun tragedy that left three dead at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. The 2016 Republican...
View ArticleThe Media 'Salivates' When Criminals Are Republican
Ted Cruz joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday to discuss media coverage of the latest gun tragedy that left three dead at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. The 2016 Republican...
View ArticleObama Cautions Against 'Demonizing' Planned Parenthood
President Barack Obama spoke out on Planned Parenthood following what appears to be a politically motivated shooting at one of the health care provider's clinics in Colorado last week that left three...
View ArticleWe Must Preserve A World ‘Worthy Of Our Children’
President Barack Obama kicked off the climate conference in Paris on Monday by urging global leaders to take lasting action on climate change before time runs out. “The knowledge that the next...
View ArticleMy Successor Has To Take Climate Change Seriously Or They'll Have No Credibility
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday that world leaders are united behind the science of climate change, and whoever succeeds him in the White House must do the same if he or she expects...
View ArticleGOP candidates hunker down as primary race escalates
The race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination enters a new and urgent phase this week after an already brutish stretch in which the dominance of Donald Trump and Ben Carson has exasperated...
View ArticleEnvironmental Group Assails 'Polluter-Friendly' Obama Trade Deal
WASHINGTON -- The Sierra Club on Wednesday released on the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, concluding that the landmark trade deal would be a significant setback in efforts to combat...
View ArticleCoverage Of Marco Rubio's 'Zipper Problem' Signals Shift In Campaign Journalism
NEW YORK -- There’s no concrete evidence Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has a secret family, took romantic trips with a Tallahassee operative, or committed any act of infidelity. But BuzzFeed gave oxygen...
View ArticleAs an Independent Voter and Former GOP Activist, Hillary Has Won Me Over
For most of my career in politics, I was the ultimate Republican team player, always falling in line to support the team's candidate. In 2012, I was the most prominent openly gay advocate for Mitt...
View ArticleActual Strategies From A Leaked GOP Memo -- We Didn't Make These Up
The Washington Post obtained a private memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee which details campaign strategies should Donald Trump be chosen as the Republican presidential nominee. To...
View ArticlePA GOP Chairman Rob Gleason Named Chairman of the Committee on the Call...
(Source: Republican Party of Pennsylvania) From left: PA GOP Republican National Committeeman Bob Asher, PA GOP Chairman Rob Gleason and PA GOP Republican National Committeewoman Christine Toretti...
View ArticleHere's What Happens On Google After A Mass Shooting
The well-rehearsed reactions to mass gun violence in the United States are playing out yet again following the murders of 14 innocent people in San Bernardino, California. As usual, politicians offered...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Pushes For Gun Control After San Bernardino Shooting
Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Thursday that Congress ought to take action to stem gun violence in the wake of the latest mass shooting. Wednesday's massacre,...
View ArticleObama Has Done 'Some Pretty Stupid S**t' Around The World
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) accused President Barack Obama of making foreign policy decisions without thinking about larger consequences and said the president has done "some pretty stupid shit"...
View ArticleJohn McCain, Master of the Media
It was vintage John McCain. He offered his unvarnished opinion about a host of domestic and international issues at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast last Wednesday, ranging from his opposition to...
View ArticleCongress Sets Date For Obama's Last State Of The Union Address
WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has been invited to deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress on Jan. 12, aides to House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan...
View ArticleBen Carson Visits Refugee Camp, Says Middle Eastern Countries Should Absorb...
AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has visited a camp for Syrian refugees and suggested they should be absorbed by neighboring Middle...
View ArticleWhat's Really Happening at COP21
If global warming was an enemy army besieging Paris, and the 21st UN Climate Summit the defenders, there is no sign outside that the siege is being lifted.� It's in the mid-50's here, a full 10 degrees...
View ArticleTed Cruz Pledges To 'Kill The Terrorists' In New Ad
Republican presidential hopeful and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is airing a pair of new ads in the early caucus state of Iowa, touting his leadership qualities and determination to defeat the so-called...
View ArticlePresident Obama And Hillary Clinton Met For Lunch At The White House
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had an informal lunch at the White House on Monday with Hillary Clinton, his former...
View ArticleHere's How Senate Democrats Plan To Beef Up Domestic Security After The San...
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats plan to unveil a package of proposals this week to tighten domestic security in the wake of the mass shooting in California that killed 14 people and...
View ArticleWatch Magic Happen When A Train Conductor Directs Yale Glee Club
A railroad conductor proved his skills aren't limited to trains when he broke from his normal duties to partake in a different kind of conducting -- leading the Yale Glee Club in a gorgeous rendition...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When You Tell Someone They're Beautiful
You're beautiful. These two little words can carry a lot of meaning. Chicago filmmaker and actress Shea Glover, who is currently a student at Pace University, tested that meaning when she conducted an...
View ArticleFormer Governor Mitt Romney to Headline NRCC’s 2016 March Dinner (NRCC -...
(Source: NRCC - National Republican Congressional Committee) At this morning's Republican Conference meeting, Speaker Paul Ryan announced to his colleagues, alongside NRCC Chairman Greg Walden and...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Republican Party's 2016 Death Spiral
Donald Trump, the Republican Party's frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination, is now promising if he's elected to close down Mosques, track Muslims with a database, and stop them from entering...
View ArticleHouse GOP, Obama Administration Finally Agree On A Response To The Paris Attacks
WASHINGTON -- After last month's terror attacks in Paris, there was broad agreement in Congress that lawmakers needed to do something -- anything. For days, Republicans successfully argued that the...
View ArticleHouse GOP And The Obama Administration Finally Agree On A Response To The...
WASHINGTON -- After last month's terror attacks in Paris, there was broad agreement in Congress that lawmakers needed to do something -- anything. For days, Republicans successfully argued that the...
View ArticleTrump Is the GOP's Frankenstein Creation
Two things happened within 24 hours of each other that almost certainly caused GOP leaders even more nervous anxiety over GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. One was his very Trump-like...
View ArticleIf Republicans Can't Stand Up to Trump, How Can They Stand Up to ISIS or Putin
During the 2008 primary campaign, then-Senator Hillary Clinton challenged then-Senator Barack Obama to "reject" Minister Louis Farrakhan. Obama had previously "denounced" Minister...
View ArticleFox Business Network Will Host Another Republican Presidential Debate
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Fox Business Network said on Tuesday it would host another Republican presidential debate next month, following one it held in November that earned praise from candidates...
View Article9/11 Advocates Accuse GOP Of Sabotaging Health Bill
WASHINGTON -- Advocates for a new 9/11 health bill are heading back to Capitol Hill Wednesday amid concerns that House Republicans will sabotage the measure with increased cuts and a poison-pill...
View ArticleThe Political Bullet Trump Won't Dodge
"It goes against everything we stand for and believe in," said former vice-president Dick Cheney, referring to Donald Trump's proposed ban on all Muslims entering the country. And when you've lost...
View ArticleMitt Romney Could Stop Donald Trump. Seriously.
CONCORD, N.H. -- The last man standing in the way of Donald Trump's increasingly viable path to the Republican presidential nomination may not be one of his 2016 rivals, but rather a reassuring face...
View ArticleObama Sends Welcome Note To Syrian Refugee Coming To America
A Syrian scientist who shared his devastating personal story on the popular blog Humans of New York received a note of encouragement from one enthusiastic reader: President Barack Obama. HONY, which...
View ArticleConnecticut Governor To Block People On Watch Lists From Buying Guns
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) announced Thursday he intends to sign a "common sense" executive order prohibiting individuals on government watch lists from buying guns. "This is a moment to seize...
View ArticleHUFFPOST HILL - Trump, Nihilism Holding Steady
Republican leaders floated the idea of a brokered convention, though we’re pretty sure the only thing about the convention that can be brokered at this point is whether Big & Rich will perform....
View ArticleGOP preparing for contested convention
WASHINGTON — Republican officials and leading figures in the party's establishment are preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to sit atop the polls...
View ArticleBen Carson Threatens To Leave The GOP
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson may consider an independent bid for the White House, angry over a report on...
View ArticleA Super PAC Was Actually Fined For Breaking The Rules
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission last month for illegally re-airing a commercial in 2012 that had been produced by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Better late than never. In 2012,...
View ArticleGOP Establishment Preparing for a Brokered Convention Behind Closed Doors
Thursday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” The Washington Post’s Bob Costa reported the so-called Republican Party establishment is now officially preparing for a brokered...
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