Politics

Wednesday morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough and panel ripped into Texas freshman Sen. Ted Cruz and his intention to shut down the federal government to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Scarborough called Cruz a "train wreck" and "completely ignorant," while Daily Best editor Tina Brown compared him to a member of the "Taliban."

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Tuesday advised a viewer who he suspected was being tormented by "demons" to "burn the house down," move or get an exorcism.

Fox Business host Stuart Varney on Tuesday accused the AARP of signing hungry seniors up for food stamps as part of a "buy-the-vote campaign" to benefit President Barack Obama.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama and Democrats, not Republicans, were the ones trying to shut down the federal government because he insisted on funding a health care reform law that was passed in 2010.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) has asked for city funds to be made available to him to pay for his legal fees in the sexual harassment lawsuit against him, KGTV-TV reported on Monday.

Lon Snowden, the father of National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden, on Monday revealed that he and his legal team had attempted to worth with the U.S. Department of Justice to find a way for his son to come home, but talks had broken down.

Some have condemned Robin Thicke's new song "Blurred Lines" as sexist and even "rapey," but the singer said on Tuesday that the track was actually a feminist manifesto.

A school district in Arkansas is responding to last year's tragic school shooting in Connecticut by arming more than 20 teachers and other employees.

A disabled Hawaii man is suing Delta Airlines after he says that the company forced him to crawl across the airport tarmac three times and only offered him cardboard so he would not get his suit dirty.

A Fox News guest recently suggested that New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (D) had continued to send illicit communications to multiple women online because he could not be sexually attracted to a wife who was "connected with Islamists."

Scotland Yard said that a 21-year-old man was arrested in London on Sunday for sending rape and murder threats to a female activist on Twitter.