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	Report: Trump’s Charitable Donations Only a Small Fraction of What He Claims by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	President Obama Calmly Explains Why Brexit Doesn't Mean Trump Will Win by Tommy Christopher In the aftermath of the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, the media has pushed hard at the narrative that the same anger and frustration about foreigners that fueled that vote could be a sign that the candidacy of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could ultimately succeed. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep that was apparently filmed by a myopic film studies undergrad, President Obama attempted to allay some of those fears by acknowledging some of the similarities between Britain and the United States, but also some key differences. Read More »

	Benghazi Report: Even State Dept Officials Were Horrified by Susan Rice's TV Appearances by Alex Griswold Then-U.N. Ambassador and current National Security Advisor Susan Rice was lambasted by Obama administration critics when she went on all five Sunday morning shows in the wake of the 2012 Benghazi attack and blamed a YouTube video for the attack. But included in the newly-released Benghazi Committee report is the revelation that even within the Obama administration, State Department officials were flabbergasted by Rice's appearances. Read More »

	Kimmel Debuts New Trump Hotels Commercial: 'We're Really, Really Sorry About Everything' by J.D. Durkin It's touch to work for a Trump hotel in 2016. Read More »

	Report: Obama Skipped Intelligence Briefing the Day After Benghazi Attacks by Alex Griswold According to the upcoming report from the House Benghazi Committee, President Barack Obama skipped his daily intelligence briefing the day after the Benghazi attacks. Read More »

	Sam Bee Says Brexit Shows the Importance of Trump Losing 'In a Fcking Landslide' by Ken Meyer* Samantha Bee explained last night that the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union is a warning that Donald Trump can, in fact, win the American election through the power of nationalist rhetoric. Read More »

	'I Want an Apology From Gays!' Catholic League's Donohue, Cuomo Spar Over Pope's Comments by J.D. Durkin And it got worse from there. Read More »

	Dems Mistakenly Reveal Absurd Amount of Money Clinton Friend Got For ‘Consulting’ by Rachel Stockman Read More »

	Everything's Totally Great in Rio You Guys: Man With Water Bucket Tries to Extinguish Olympic Torch by J.D. Durkin Proenca was arrested at his home shortly after the incident, and charged with intent to cause material harm. Read More »

	Al Qaeda Advises Followers to Kill Whites, Avoid Targeting Minorities by Alex Griswold In the most recent edition of Insipire magazine, published by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror group urges its U.S. followers to avoid targeting minorities in domestic terror attacks. Read More »

	Trump's Newest Senior Advisor Deletes Hysterical History of #SleazyDonald Tweets by J.D. Durkin As a top operative for the Cruz campaign, he regularly bashed Trump, who at the time was their fiercest primary rival. Read More »

	Trump’s Attorneys Point Finger at Clinton Email Lawsuit in Trump University Case by Rachel Stockman Read More »

	Bill Kristol Isn't Ready to Leave the GOP Like George Will Did by Josh Feldman Bill Kristol made it clear today that unlike George Will, he has no plans to leave the Republican party. Read More »

	Stick Figures Get Brutally Dismembered, Killed in LA Metro PSAs by Josh Feldman LA Metro officials clearly had some, er, disturbing ideas in mind when they concocted their latest safety campaign. Read More »

	'Good Riddance': Huckabee Slams George Will for Leaving the GOP, Rejecting Trump by Ken Meyer Mike Huckabee is saying that conservatives like George Will who are still #NeverTrump are false Republicans who should hurry up and get lost. Read More »

	O'Reilly on George Will Leaving the GOP: Does Anyone Care? by Josh Feldman Read More »

	Limbaugh: Hillary as Nominee Shows Democrats 'Don't Care How Corrupt Their Leaders Are' by Josh Feldman Rush Limbaugh said today that Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee is proof that the entire party has stopped caring about whether their leaders are corrupt. Read More »

	Tucson TV Reporters Charged After Their Four-Month-Old Child Allegedly Ingests Cocaine by Lindsey Ellefson Lisaius' bio has been removed from the website of his employer, KOLD. The future of the couple is unclear, but at least the baby is expected to make a full recovery. Read More »

	EX-NFL Player: I've Had Speaking Engagements Cancelled Because I Support Trump by Josh Feldman Retired football player Herschel Walker told TMZ Sports today that his public support of Trump has lost him speaking engagements. Read More »

	Conservative Watchdog Files Ethics Complaint Against House Dems for Sit-In by Sam Reisman The conservative watchdog group Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) has filed a complaint against House Democrats for their sit-in last week, alleging that the Democrats violated protesting a lack of action on gun control. Read More »

	Is Google Getting Ready to Run Public Transit? by Sam Reisman Google's parent company, Alphabet, is running a secret project to take over public transit in cities across America, according to a report in The Guardian published Monday. Read More »

	Glenn Beck Slams CNN's Amanpour Over Brexit Coverage: 'Stop Dividing!' by Josh Feldman Glenn Beck scolded CNN's Christiane Amanpour today for repeatedly invoking "xenophobia" in discussing the views of the pro-Brexit campaign. Read More »

	Trump Spox Gives Truly Confusing Interview on Muslim Ban: It’s Not About All Muslims! by Josh Feldman Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson appeared on CNN earlier this evening and gave a truly confusing interview attempting to explain the particulars of the Muslim ban policy. Read More »

	Undercovered: Alleged Genocide in Myanmar, and the World is Silent by Sam Reisman The persecution endured by the Rohingya in Myanmar since 2012, when local Buddhists began relegating them to refugee camps, has become classifiable as a genocide. Read More »

	Top UK Pol: 'Putin Behaved in a More Statesman-Like Manner Than Obama' Amid Brexit by Josh Feldman One of the top United Kingdom politicians who pushed for the Brexit really went after President Obama for meddling today. Read More »

	Hamilton Fans Use #Ham4StoptheSham on Twitter to Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling by Lindsey Ellefson The tweets featured applicable lyrics and choreography from the musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton. Some called for the Senate to vote on President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Read More »

	Guess How Many Dems, GOPers Are Dissatisfied With the Nominees They Got Stuck With by Josh Feldman Wanna take a guess how many Republicans and Democrats are dismayed that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are their standard-bearers? Read More »

	The Three Worst Parts of Thomas’ Dissent in the Texas Abortion Case by Elura Nanos Read More »

	Memo to George Will, Bill Kristol, and All GOP 'Never-Trumpers': Good Riddance! by Matt Schneider While many continue to greet Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican party with hysteria, confused as to why anyone could support him... Read More »

	Hillary: 'I've Thought a Lot About' People Saying I'm Untrustworthy by Josh Feldman Hillary Clinton today addressed the criticism that a lot of voters have for her––she's simply untrustworthy. Read More »

	CEO Of Largest Private Prison Corporation Says He’ll Be ‘Just Fine’ With Trump or Clinton by Lindsey Ellefson That sort of jaded thinking represents the distrust that has propelled outsiders like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to the tops of polls over the last few months. Read More »

	Scott Brown Challenges Elizabeth Warren to Take a DNA Test by Lindsey Ellefson Response to the suggestion from Brown, who ran and lost in New Hampshire after being defeated by Warren, have not been entirely kind. Read More »

	Anti-Trump Conservative Challenges Trump to a 'Real Fight' and to Prove That He's a 'Badass' by Sam Reisman Steve Deace, the conservative #NeverTrump stalwart and erstwhile Ted Cruz campaign surrogate, appeared on MSNBC Monday to challenge Donald Trump to prove that he's a "badass" and open up the Republican National Convention. Read More »

	This Is Really The Actual Advice Sarah Palin Gave For Trump's VP Selection by Tommy Christopher If there's been a common theme to the Republican presidential election campaign, aside from overt racism, it has been lowered expectations, and it doesn't get any lower than the ones proposed by former future Vice President Sarah Palin for this year's running mate. During a fun-filled panel at this weekend's Politicon convention, Palin was asked to weigh in on the qualities that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ought to look for in a potential vice-presidential pick. Read More »

	'Vile': The Daily Show’s SCOTUS Abortion Tweet Stirs Up Some Twitter Outrage by Josh Feldman The Daily Show tweeted a joke about the Supreme Court's abortion ruling today that is going over, um, not so well. Read More »

	Dems’ Benghazi Report Exonerates Hillary Clinton and President Obama by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	Andrea Mitchell Says Hillary and Warren 'Did Seem Like Magic on That Stage' by Tommy Christopher Monday morning saw the first-ever appearance of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tag-teaming it on the stump, and at least one journalist was impressed. Longtime NBC News correspondent and host of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports Andrea Mitchell probably exploded a few conservative media watchdog heads when she introduced former White House adviser Anita Dunn by observing that " it did seem like magic on that stage." Read More »

	Fox News Dominates All Other News Outlets on Facebook by Josh Feldman You might not be aware of this if your media/Facebook diet is more liberal, but Fox News is actually the most-engaged news outlet on Facebook. Read More »

	Democrats' Benghazi Report Includes More Trump References Than Two of the Dead Americans by J.D. Durkin The sprawling report from the Democrats includes one peculiar fact hidden deep within its 339 pages. Read More »

	President Obama Stacks Cheerios and Makes a Friendship Bracelet in Video for BuzzFeed by Josh Feldman President Obama has participated in a goofy BuzzFeed video before, but somehow his new one out today ups the ante in some big ways. Read More »