Politics

Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, who has become increasingly popular in conservative circles, offered an explanation, if not a real apology, for remarks earlier this week equating the LGBT community with pedophiles.

Conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck warned viewers of his Internet channel Thursday night that a set of public education standards encouraging math and language development is actually a massive global conspiracy designed to help the Chinese and, somehow, Muslims, take over the United States.

Conservative radio host Dana Loesch on Thursday argued that classifying certain guns as assault rifles was silly because "if you stab someone with a spoon it can be qualified as an assault weapon."

A Michigan judge says that he was just trying to flatter his mistress when he referred to his courtroom as "tatted up, overweight, half-ass English speaking, gap tooth skank hoes."

The hosts of Fox & Friends on Friday lashed out at President Barack Obama, who they said took a "cheap shot" by reminding Americans that Congress had taken no action on gun control in the months after the killings in Newtown, Connecticut.

A CBS analyst Doug Gottlieb is apologizing after telling an all-black panel that he was giving "the white man's perspective" during coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament on Thursday.

Police in Cottonwood Heights are searching for an assault rifle that was stolen Wednesday from the vehicle of a top Utah gun lobbyist, who called for more guns in schools after the shooting deaths of 20 children in Connecticut last year.

On Thursday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed a recent accident in a Texas "fracking" site and showed photos of the scene.

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday became the latest conservative voice to promote the conspiracy theory that the government was buying millions of rounds of ammunition to use against the American people.

Millionaire former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that he's relieved to be back living "a normal life" following his 2012 loss.

A Michigan committeeman with the Republican Party says that he posted an article on Facebook about the "filthy lifestyle" of LGBT people because it was "worth sharing."

Fox News host Steve Doocy says that the White House may have been able to keep White House tours open during automatic budget cuts caused by so-called "sequestration" if the federal government had not wasted so much money on "puppets."

The president of the Catholic League has had enough of HBO's Bill Maher mocking his religion.