Clinton slams Republicans’ “outrageous” obstruction on Scalia’s replacement: Obama is president “like it or not” "Elections have consequences" Sophia Tesfaye Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 5:56 AM UTC 0 Elections Video, Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump calls Ted Cruz out as the “single biggest liar” in the GOP presidential field Calling Cruz a "nasty guy," Trump says "now I know why he doesn't have one endorsement from his colleagues" VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 5:04 AM UTC 0 Elections Video, GOP Civil War
Jeb! attempts to defend Bush family legacy during GOP debate: “While Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a national security apparatus to keep us safe” Jeb tried to get snappy with Trump and The Donald hit back by, again, blaming Jeb's brother, W, for 9/11 VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 4:42 AM UTC 0 Elections Video, Trump, Donald Trump
Republicans open GOP debate with insistence Obama’s Supreme Court nominee be blocked: “It’s called delay, delay, delay!” Every single candidate demands the next president, not Obama, nominate Justice Antonin Scalia's successor Sophia Tesfaye Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 2:35 AM UTC 0 Elections
Republican senator accidentally tweets picture of a Justice Antonin Scalia impersonator to mourn his passing UPDATE: Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's *staff* may want to double check before hashtaging Scalia's death Sophia Tesfaye Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 1:23 AM UTC 0 Elections Twitter, twitter fails
Report: President Obama to rebuff GOP’s demands to block Scalia’s successor, vows to nominate a SCOTUS replacement CNN reports the President is prepared to go to battle with Senate Republicans who are already calling for a freeze Sophia Tesfaye Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 12:54 AM UTC 0 Elections President Obama, Justice Scalia
Ted Cruz leads Republicans’ rush to demand Justice Scalia’s SCOTUS replacement be named by next POTUS, not Obama Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell immediately politicize successor search; Harry Reid calls on Obama to send a nominee Sophia Tesfaye Saturday, Feb 13, 2016 11:45 PM UTC 0 Elections Antonin Scalia
Trump lashes out at “very political” Pope Francis for daring to visit Mexico “I don’t think he understands the danger of the open border that we have with Mexico" Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 12, 2016 2:48 PM UTC 0 Elections Mexico, pope francis
Planned Parenthood just delivered Carly Fiorina’s failed presidential campaign the best send-off ever Sorry Carly, "it turns out you can’t flat-out lie to the American people" Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 10:53 PM UTC 0 Elections Twitter
Will tonight’s Democratic debate finally mention abortion? In five debates, not one single question has been asked. Will tonight's be any different? Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 10:44 PM UTC 0 Elections Abortion, Women Voters
Trump-loving Alex Jones compares Bernie Sanders to Hitler and calls for his supporters to have their “jaws broken” The right-wing conspiracy theorist has taken on an ugly obsession with Sanders as he rises to challenge Trump VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 9:53 PM UTC 0 Elections Infowars, right-wing extremism
President Obama pushes back against Bernie’s definition of a progressive and sorta-kinda-almost endorses Hillary "Trying to find common ground doesn't make me less of a Democrat or less of a progressive" Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 5:32 PM UTC 0 Elections President Obama
Ted Cruz’s top Nevada supporter spent the night negotiating for the Bundy clan in Oregon standoff State legislature Michele Fiore traveled to Oregon to calm down the holdouts who live-streamed the FBI negotiation Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 3:10 PM UTC 0 News Ted Cruz, Nevada caucus
“This adds insult to homicide”: Cleveland sues Tamir Rice’s family for ambulance fees after cop fatally shot him Rice's mother calls the city's callous actions "harassment" Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 1:25 PM UTC 0 Elections tamir rice, Cleveland
Bernie Sanders explains on “The View” that he is “disappointed in President Clinton” "Let’s keep it on the issues," Sanders implores as he describes to the ladies how he plans to win going forward VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016 8:00 PM UTC 0 Elections Video, Bernie Sanders, The View
Bernie Sanders shifts to face black voters with a crucial nod from Ta-Nehisi Coates and a one-on-one with Rev. Al Sharpton Sanders won in New Hampshire by the largest margin in history but Nevada & South Carolina are not 90 percent white VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016 4:57 PM UTC 0 Elections Bernie Sanders
Johnny Depp gives Donald Trump the Funny or Die treatment in surprise biopic The "Art of the Deal" 50-minute spoof also stars Patton Oswalt VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016 4:30 PM UTC 0 Elections Video, Comedy, Funny Or Die
Bill Maher blames Sarah Palin for Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party: “She was the immaculate misconception” In a new interview, the HBO comedian also explains how Bernie Sanders can win in the South VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 10, 2016 3:10 PM UTC 0 Elections celebrity endorsements
Paul LePage demands credit for his racist rhetoric: “I had to go scream at the top of my lungs about black dealers coming in” to get more DEA agents So much for the Maine governor's claim that his warning of "guys with the name D-Money" wasn't a racist dogwhistle Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016 10:09 PM UTC 0 News Paul LePage, Racism, Maine
Bernie Sanders slams “overt partisanship” of GOP leaders who rejected Obama’s final budget before it was even released For the first time in history, Congressional Republicans refuse to even hold a hearing on the President's budget Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016 8:37 PM UTC 0 Elections Bernie Sanders, GOP
Now he says he’ll miss Obama, but here are 7 of David Brooks’ worst critiques of the President "I'll miss Obama" the conservative NYT columnist finally admits as he realizes the depth of his party's doom VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016 6:03 PM UTC 0 Elections New York Times, David Brooks
“He’s possessed by a demon!”: Retching hecklers attempt to perform an exorcism on Ted Cruz Cruz laughs off the campaign interruption by joking that the protestors were sent by Bernie Sanders VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016 2:24 PM UTC 0 Elections Exorcism, Ted Cruz, Comedy
Rudy Giuliani rips Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime as an “outrageous … attack on police officers” The former New York mayor told Fox News that middle America deserves "decent wholesome entertainment" instead VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Feb 8, 2016 9:57 PM UTC 0 Media Video, Rudy Giuliani, Fox News
Yet another post-Iowa poll shows Sanders and Clinton tied nationally After his close loss in Iowa, Bernie Sanders wipes away Clinton's more than a 2-to-1 advantage to close the gap Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Feb 8, 2016 6:44 PM UTC 0 Elections Polls, Reuters, Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump boasts he’s tough enough to reject Syrian refugee children: “I can look in their faces and say you can’t come” Trump returns to fear-mongering in New Hampshire, warning that a five-year-old "could be a Trojan horse" Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Feb 8, 2016 4:52 PM UTC 0 Elections Donald Trump, syrian refugee
“We don’t want that crap”: Sanders repudiates sexist “Bernie Bro” supporters “Anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things — we don’t want them” Sophia Tesfaye Monday, Feb 8, 2016 3:54 PM UTC 0 Elections bernie bros, Bernie Sanders
Ted Cruz’s Benghazi moment: Ben Carson slams his rival for shrugging off accusations of cheating in Iowa Carson says Cruz's half-hearted apology is akin to Clinton's "What difference does it make" Benghazi testimony VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 5, 2016 9:38 PM UTC 0 Elections Benghazi, Iowa caucus 2016
Hillary Clinton’s more than 30 point lead vanishes in new poll: Sanders now virtually tied with Clinton nationally It may just be an outlier *or* a sign of Sanders' growing appeal Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 5, 2016 8:28 PM UTC 0 Elections Polls, Hillary Clinton
“Fox & Friends” female host questions if Clinton’s campaign of “bra-burning is going to play this year” Clinton's claims to be outside of the "establishment" are laughable, but such quick pivots to sexism make her point VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 5, 2016 3:52 PM UTC 0 Elections fox & friends, Fox News
Fox News’ Jesse Watters stalks another college campus to mock Bernie Sanders’ young supporters Watters pesters University of Oregon students about socialism and quizzes their knowledge of Fox News Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 5, 2016 2:41 PM UTC 0 Elections The O'Reilly Factor
Republicans hate-watch the #DemDebate: “There will be some fun general election campaign ads from this” Sexist jokes of a Clinton cackle and lame cracks about Sanders socialism abound Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 5, 2016 4:41 AM UTC 0 Elections Twitter, MSNBC, GOP
“Mom and Dad are fighting!”: Bernie and Hillary’s first one-on-one debate quickly turns into a slugfest and leaves Twitter in shock A debate over who's a real progressive and "artful smears" livens up the #DemDebate and heats up social media Sophia Tesfaye Friday, Feb 5, 2016 3:10 AM UTC 0 Elections MSNBC, 2016 democratic debate
Marco Rubio complains that President Obama is “always pitting people against each other” after his first-ever visit to a mosque Donald Trump piles on to question why Obama even "feels comfortable there" VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Thursday, Feb 4, 2016 2:12 PM UTC 0 Elections Religion, Anti-Islam, Islam, Mosque
Cruz responds to Trump’s Iowa recount demands, blames media for Carson kerfuffle: “Reality just hit the reality star” Cruz mocks The Donald's "Trumpertantrum" and encourages him to join Bernie Sanders in contesting caucus results Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016 8:25 PM UTC 0 Elections Ted Cruz, GOP Civil War
Colbert sticks it to Trump: “These are your New York values — Oh, you came in second? Go f*ck yourself!” "Late Show" has a laugh at the Donald's Iowa loss VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016 7:42 PM UTC 0 Elections Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Video
Criminal charges filed over massive methane leak in California Los Angeles County prosecutors announced charges against Southern California Gas Co. on Tuesday Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016 5:12 PM UTC 0 Sustainability misdemeanor, Methane
Citing fraud, Donald Trump calls for Ted Cruz’s caucus victory to be nullified: He “didn’t win Iowa, he stole it” Trump joins Ben Carson's protest of voter fraud following Iowa caucus losses Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016 3:10 PM UTC 0 Elections GOP Civil War, Iowa caucuses
Sanders campaign flooded with donations after Iowa caucus — $3 million raised in 24 hours 40 percent of donors gave to Bernie for the first time this week Sophia Tesfaye Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016 1:34 PM UTC 0 Elections Bernie Sanders
Ted Cruz admits fault, apologizes to Ben Carson for spreading false rumors of his demise But even in his apology, Cruz called his campaign's move "fair game" VIDEO Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Feb 2, 2016 8:06 PM UTC 0 Elections Video, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz
Hillary Clinton jumps on America’s next Flint: Campaign looks to put the spotlight on Jackson, Mississippi, as lead levels spike Like with Flint water crisis, Clinton beats Sanders to the punch addressing water contamination in low-income area Sophia Tesfaye Tuesday, Feb 2, 2016 7:09 PM UTC 0 Elections Flint water crisis
