Politics

MSNBC host Chris Matthews slammed the celebratory tone of the first day of the National Rifle Association's (NRA) annual convention on Friday.

The mother of one of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting told Bill Moyers on Friday she and the other parents bereaved in the December 2012 attack were not discouraged by the Senate's refusal to pass an amendment expanding background checks on gun purchases.

Republican strategist Brad Blakeman on Friday said that President Barack Obama was complicit in encouraging criminal activity because he supported contraception for young women.

At a fundraiser for the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden said that many sexual assault victims fear getting "raped again by the system," CBS News reported on Thursday.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell under President George W. Bush, on Thursday warned that the chemical weapons that were reportedly used in Syria could be a "Israeli false flag operation" because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was running an "inept regime."

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck responded to a shooting at Houston's largest airport on Thursday by suggesting that it had been a plot to "set up" gun owners like the the burning of German's parliament -- or Reichstag -- in 1933, which Nazis exploited as a pretext to suspend constitutional rights.

Thursday night on Bravo TV's "Watch What Happens Live," host Andy Cohen welcomed MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show." Cohen showed Maddow several photos of celebrities and asked her to say the first question that she would ask each of them if they were guests on her show.

The Opa-Locka Police Department in Florida on Wednesday argued before an arbitrator that one of their own officers deserved to be fired -- for the sixth time -- because he left his department AR-15 assault-style rifle with a friend.

Democrats in North Carolina say they could have defeated a bill to repeal renewable energy subsidies on Wednesday if Republicans had not pushed it through committee without counting the votes.

Texas pastor Jeffrey Dale Williams of the Church of Corinth was arrested and jailed Wednesday on charges of "attempted sexual performance of a child" for trying to coerce an underaged girl into taking off her clothes. According to Dallas-Ft. Worth's WFAA, Williams' attempted seduction of the high schooler was captured in a two-hour audio recording.