Media darling Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for spending too much time in front of the television cameras. In a Wednesday interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, the Arizona senator accused Schumer of holding hearings on Arizona’s controversial immigration law just to get…
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart took a break from the endless cycle of Republican primary election coverage to look at a news story that appeals to the sci-fi geek in all of us, asteroid mining. A group of billionaires, including tech executives and pioneers…
Steve Kornacki, senior writer for Salon, on Wednesday night told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that former Massachessuts Gov. Mitt Romney was going to have a hard time “etch-a-sketching” away from his support for controversial immigration laws. Romney has previously called Arizona’s immigration policies “a model” for the country and had appointed…
Gil Paar, a veteran living in Racine, Wisconsin, said he upset to learn on election day that he couldn’t use his Veteran Identification Card to vote. In a video produced by the United Steelworkers, Paar explained that when he tried to vote in a school board election, he was told…
Rep. Francisco Canseco (R-TX) claims that he was assaulted by a TSA agent during a pat-down at the San Antonio International Airport. “The agent was very aggressive in his pat-down, and he was patting me down where no one is supposed to go,” Canseco told local network KENS 5. “It…
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on Wednesday said that Democrats had a chance to take back the U.S. House because voters’ opinion of the tea party movement had soured. “Here is why we lost in 2010,” he told CBS News political director John Dickerson.…
During a media ethics inquiry on Wednesday, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch described David Cameron’s disabled son as “retarded” while trying to praise the British Prime Minister as a family man. In the wake of a hacking scandal at News Corp.’s now-defunct News of the World, Lord Justice Brian Leveson…
Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters in North Carolina after reports that he will end his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast April 25, 2012. …