A device exploded near the SKAI TV building in the Greek capital early on Monday, smashing windows on six floors and causing extensive damage to the interior but no injuries. SKAI is one of Greece’s biggest TV stations and part of a media group...

Overall, the various scandals involving Donald Trump, his associates and Russian agents tend not to bring to mind sexy spy thrillers so much as screwy comedy. One theme, however, would fit just as comfortably in classic film noir as in absurdist...

It is 176 years since Charles Dickens, the journalist, social reformer and novelist, was horrified by the depth of poverty when he came to visit the Five Points Section, of “Gangs of New York” fame, in lower Manhattan. Today, Dickens would find...

Budget Director and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who has been lobbying hard to permanently replace John Kelly as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, may have had his chances derailed by the revelation that he referred to Trump as...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she would be leaving the White House at the end of 2018 after serving for two years in the administration. She leaves behind a legacy of lying to such a degree it’s become a farce. Credibility from the...

Former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance thinks that Donald Trump’s “evolving” stories about Russia, campaign finance, obstructions of justice, James Comey, Michael Cohen and everything else shows that he’s probably guilty....

Michael Cohen’s former lawyer Lanny Davis appeared on MSNBC’s “Kasie DC” to tell-all about his experience working for a man under attack from President Donald Trump and GOP allies. He began by saying that the only reason...

Republican women are trying to get their party to care about the growing gender divide in their party, but their efforts aren’t looking great. According to a Washington Post report, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) warned the number of women in...

The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the extent of the 2016 election meddling at the hands of the Russians. According to a copy obtained by the Washington Post, Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda...

A group of MSNBC political analysts feared President Donald Trump has become a “cornered badger” on political issues looming on the horizon. During a Sunday discussion about the “wall,” the panel recalled the...

Republican officials have a few weeks left in the legislative session for 2018, but some haven’t been showing up to vote after the lost their seats in the November midterm elections, the New York Times reported. While that might not cause...

During an MSNBC panel discussion on Donald Trump’s overwhelming caseload of legal woes, a GOP strategist claimed they won’t impact the president’s fortunes because many voters regard special counsel Robert Mueller’s...

In the 2016 election, Trump got 81 percent support from white evangelical Christians, and a study by Clemson sociologist Andrew Whitehead and two colleagues (Salon story here) found that “the ‘religious vote’ for Trump was...

Matthew Whitaker flew to Dallas last week to deliver his latest speech since U.S. President Donald Trump installed him as acting attorney general, an appointment embroiled in criticism and court challenges. In the aftermath of the blow-up,...

More than 40 people were injured in an explosion on Sunday at a bar in Sapporo in northern Japan, Kyodo news agency reported. There was no immediate word on the cause of the blast, which the agency said had caused a number of buildings to...