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UPDATE, June 25th: The New York Times is reporting that the National Rifle Association is ending production of live programming for NRATV, meaning that going forward employees of the PR firm Ackerman McQueen like Dana Loesch “will no longer be the public faces of the NRA.” The news, though not …

On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel discussion turned to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s recent reversal of his support for the Hyde amendment, a law that bans federal funding for abortion. California freshman congresswoman Katie Porter went right after Biden, saying he’s playing politics with a serious …

Ackerman McQueen is biting the hand that feeds it. The longtime PR firm for the National Rifle Association is counter-suing the gun group for a staggering $100 million, alleging the NRA is dishonestly attempting to sever business ties — for the benefit of the gun group’s top-dollar legal firm. The …

Don McGahn was supposed to appear before Congress on Tuesday. He was legally required to, in fact. He didn’t show. President Trump instructed the former White House legal counsel to defy the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena to answer questions that have risen since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s …

“The President is actively and willfully endangering the life of a member of Congress,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted in reaction to President Donald Trump’s taking to Twitter on Friday and posting a video mix of Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) referencing 9/11 alongside graphic video of the burning World Trade Center …

Filing taxes is not fun. Congress wants to keep it that way. On Tuesday, ProPublica reported that the Taxpayer First Act passed last week by the House Ways and Means Committee includes a provision that makes it illegal for the IRS to create an online tax filing system. Why would …

The victimization of white America put forth by conservatives and right-wing media has taken hold, according to the results in a new poll from Hill-HarrisX. A whopping 75 percent of registered Republican voters said that white Americans face discrimination. A majority of Independents, 55 percent, sided with Republicans and said …

Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday was by turns explosive and chilling, as the president’s former fixer detailed crimes he committed to help put Trump into office, and warned the world, in his closing statement, that Trump might not leave the White House without a fight: “I fear that if he loses …

Until now, the Russian infiltration of the National Rifle Association has looked like a sidecar to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election. The prosecution of Maria Butina, the lifetime NRA member who in December pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges of seeking to act …

As of January 12th, the United States will be without a fully functioning government for the longest stretch in the nation’s history. The milestone will come a day after 800,000 federal employees did not receive their paychecks —and as hundreds of senior Trump appointees enjoy a bump to theirs — …