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In his impassioned address in the wake of Thursday’s horrible shooting at an Oregon community college, President Obama issued a challenge to the media. “Have news organizations tally up the number of Americans who’ve been killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and the number of Americans who’ve been killed by gun violence, and post those side by…
div.fin_story_menu Story Photos Photos » ROSEBURG, Ore. – A man who rushed to try and stop the shooter on the Umpqua Community College campus Thursday is now recovering at the hospital. Army veteran Chris Mintz, 30, was shot 7 times when he tried to stop the gunman in Thursday’s mass shooting….
No amount of murder seems likely to result in gun control any time soon. So let’s do what we can to stop the lunacy—by reserving the limelight for the vet who rushed Thursday’s shooter. Think of Chris Mintz, who was shot while rushing a killer on his son’s sixth birthday. Forget the zero and remember…
This post has been corrected. Each time there’s a Republican debate, the GOP field is one person smaller, making us optimistic that the party will settle on its nominee in only 14 more debates. Or, at the rate of once per month, next November — shortly after the general election. The next debate is being hosted…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said this week that he doesn’t think the Washington Redskins should change their name, adding he doesn’t believe the pro football team’s name is offensive to Native Americans. “I don’t think they should change it,” he said in an interview with ABC’s Rick Klein and ESPN’s Andy Katz. “But again,…
More big Donald Trump news today: Now that he’s finally found a Bible verse he likes (even if it doesn’t exist), he is doing his very best to suck up to the wackiest fringes of the evangelist movement. Not necessarily the biggest figures on the Christian Right, but the hucksters and “Prosperity Gospel” crazies, the folks who…
In a video and interview publishing Tuesday, Carl Icahn shares Donald Trump’s criticism of the U.S.’s failure to overhaul taxation and immigration and raise interest rates. Icahn backs Trump’s calls to end carried-interest loopholes and rules that encourage corporations to relocate overseas and avoid repatriating profits. “I would say it’s an endorsement. I think at…
On the opening day of Trump Plaza in Atlantic City in 1984, Donald Trump stood in a dark topcoat on the casino floor celebrating his new investment as the “finest building in the city and possibly the nation.” Thirty years later, the Trump Plaza folded, leaving some 1,000 employees without jobs. Trump, meanwhile, was on…
Donald Trump spoke with CBS’s Scott Pelley on Sunday’s edition of “60 Minutes” and then promptly attacked his interviewer on social media, adding Pelley to the long list of journalists Trump has lashed out against during this campaign cycle. Trump appeared excited enough for the interview that aired alongside an interview with Russian President Vladmir Putin…
Many Stephen Colbert fans worried that his move to CBS and to a market requiring a more mainstream audience would deflate his sharpness. Leaving Comedy Central and an audience of just over 1 million for a network and an audience three times as large was certain to carry with it an adjustment. There would be all…