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WATCH: Trump supporter rips up Latino protester's sign at Iowa tailgate event

A woman who reportedly was a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was seen over the weekend tearing up a sign that was being held by a Latino protester.

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Ben Carson: Taking in Syrian refugees is just ‘trying to be politically correct’

GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson declared on Sunday that people in the United States wanted to take in Syrian refugees because it was "politically correct," which he warned would put the country "at risk."

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Fox News host: 'Everyone benefited' from putting more blacks in prison for drugs in the 1990s

Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued over the weekend that "everyone benefited" after the incarceration rate for non-violent drug crimes increased in the 1990s.

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CNN host calls out Scott Walker backing Koch 'special interests' while defunding Planned Parenthood

Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker was grilled on Sunday over the hypocrisy of his close ties to the Koch Brothers while fighting "liberal special interests" such as public unions and Planned Parenthood.

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WATCH: Jimmy Fallon tries to out-Trump Trump: 'The only one qualified to interview me is me'

Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon stepped into Donald Trump's shoes -- and hair -- as he played the real estate mogul's mirror image during a sketch before their regular interview on Friday.

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Bill Maher: Ben Carson ‘is brilliant and a total f*cking idiot at the same time’

Real Time host Bill Maher and his panel addressed the upswing of Ben Carson's presidential campaign during the show's "overtime" discussion on Friday.

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Bernie Sanders: Wall Street will pay taxes for speculation, 'whether they like it or not'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) vowed on Thursday that he would stay connected to his supporters should he be elected president, which would help his administration make sure to hold Wall Street accountable.

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Mike Huckabee: Dred Scott decision 'is still the law of the land' regardless of 14th Amendment

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee argued on Wednesday that the 1857 Supreme Court ruling which declared that blacks did not have a right to be citizens was "still the law of the land" even though the 14th Amendment overturned it.

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NC county scrambles to provide marriage services after all magistrates refuse to perform same-sex weddings

All four magistrates in North Carolina's McDowell County have been barred from performing any marriages for six months after they used the state's religious exemption law to opt out of performing same-sex weddings.

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Viewers vow boycott after Rupert Murdoch buys NatGeo: 'Cash triumphs over conservation, conscience'

Angry National Geographic fans vowed to boycott its magazine and cable channels after Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox purchased the non-profit.

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'Go back to your country, Bin Laden': Elderly Sikh severely beaten ahead of 9/11 anniversary

Police in Chicago's Darien suburb said that they were investigating a possible hate crime after an elderly Sikh American was assaulted by a man, who referred to him as a "terrorist" and "Bin Laden."

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Huckabee defends freezing Cruz out of Kim Davis rally: 'This was our event ... he didn't call us'

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee accused Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday of trying to crash his rally on behalf of Kim Davis, acknowledging that his team prevented Cruz from speaking to the media, Buzzfeed reported.

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Louie Gohmert compares Planned Parenthood to baby-boiling scheme in bizarre rant

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) awkwardly invoked the Old Testament in order to condemn Planned Parenthood during a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday.

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