Politics

A mostly-white fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania has apologized for including a dark-skinned blow-up sex doll in its Christmas card, and said that the stunt was intended to be a joke about Beyoncé.

Jon Stewart came away from The Daily Show on Monday with a greater appreciation for former Vice President Dick Cheney's boss after watching Cheney's interview with NBC host Chuck Todd.

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday advised an elderly man in failing health to "stick with it" after he asked God to be his doctor.

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Monday used a hostage crisis at a Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney to lash out at liberals who she said made the CIA into "bad guys" for using torture on detainees.

A Pennsylvania man said that he was shocked over the weekend when a bartender used the N-word instead of his name on the receipt for his food.

CNN host Chris Cuomo on Monday told Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) that he got a "minus" for wanting to ban assault weapons when American might need them to stop terrorists like the man who took hostages in Australia.

A Texas police officer was placed on administrative leave on Friday after he reportedly used a Taser on a 76-year-old man after the suspect had already been forced to the ground.

As former Vice President Dick Cheney argued on Sunday that the CIA's aggressive interrogation of terrorism suspects did not amount to torture, the man who provided the legal rationale for the program said that in some cases it had perhaps gone too far.

Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday asserted that individuals should be able to donate unlimited amounts of money to candidates because billionaires Charles and David Koch were needed to overcome the power of media personalities like Barbara Walters.

Republican strategist and former senior advisor to President George W. Bush argued on Sunday that the CIA's use of waterboarding on detainees could not be considered torture because it was "designed" to let the victim live.

The Fox News morning show Fox & Friends edited a video clip of Rev. Al Sharpton to make it seem that demonstrators had chanted calls to kill police officers during his speech on Saturday, even though the two pieces of video were from two different cities.

The Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill Saturday night that drew opposition from both Democrats and Republicans, avoiding a possible repeat of the government shutdown two years ago.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow called out retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on Friday for standing in the way of a bill that would provide more resources for suicide prevention programs for veterans.