Politics

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday questioned if former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) even had the "competence" necessary to be the secretary of defense.

Saturday morning on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes," host Chris Hayes addressed an invitation he received to speak at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Hayes said that he would be happy to appear at the conference if the Republican LGBT group GOProud would be included among the co-sponsors of the conference.

On Rachel Maddow's Friday show, the host discussed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and whether he bears any similarity to the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who instigated a communist witch hunt in the 1950s.

"Birther" activist and attorney Larry Klayman is threatening to sue Respect Arizona, the group behind a recall effort aimed at controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. According to the Associated Press, Klayman's freshly established group, Citizens To Protect Fair Election Results, insists that the recall effort is "unconstitutional" and that it will hinder Arpaio's ability to serve the state and its people, but the challenge may not stand up to legal scrutiny.

Current TV host John Fugelsang lambasted Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and contributor Lisa Daftari for their segment linking the Al Jazeera America network with terrorist "sleeper cells" in Detroit.

"Focal Points" talk show host Bryan Fischer was seriously disappointed Friday about word that backup quarterback Tim Tebow has bowed out of speaking at a Dallas Baptist church known for its pastor's virulent anti-LGBT viewpoints.

Police in Clarkstown, New York have confiscated a cache of high-powered weapons and body armor from a man who was arrested for posting death threats against against many Democratic politicians and every liberal supporter of President Barack Obama.

On this week's edition of "Moyers and Co.," host Bill Moyers spoke with economist Richard Wolff about the U.S. minimum wage, and how raising it would not just benefit workers at the bottom end of the economic spectrum, but rather the entire economy.

Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be allowed to open fire on suspects from helicopters after the recent killing of two immigrants.

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Thursday insulted a group of student libertarians by calling them "pussies" for pushing for drug legalization and then found herself being booed when she insisted that LGBT people should only marry members of the opposite sex.

A depressed Florida man shot his wife and two children before killing himself after closing his hot air balloon business and facing losing his job as a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector because of automatic budget cuts known as "sequestration."

Appearing Thursday night on Current TV's "The Young Turks," filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, behind the new film "Snitch," explained that his movie is based on true events brought about in part by Reagan-era drug laws.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night ripped into a bill in Indiana that would require women to undergo to trans-vaginal ultrasounds twice if they wished to terminate their pregnancy.