Jimmy Fallon picked apart the news that Joe Biden had joined the Democratic race for the White House on Thursday. First, the host of “The Tonight Show” mocked Biden’s announcement video, which he likened to that of a mortgage broker. Fallon later referred to some of the inappropriate touching allegations leveled at the former vice president […]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Tuesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold Mark Zuckerberg personally accountable for Facebook’s privacy failures, in addition to whatever separate penalty it may levy against the social media company itself. In a letter to the FTC, the senator made clear from the start he thinks Zuckerberg is to blame […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his bid for the White House on Thursday after months of speculation. The longtime politician is already an immediate front-runner among the crowded Democratic field, where some 20 members of the party have announced bids to unseat President Donald Trump next year. Unlike other Democrats grappling with their recent […]

Phil McGraw, host of the “Dr. Phil” TV talk show, doesn’t think parents snared in the college admissions bribery scandal were really trying to benefit their children. “They’re not buying their kids an education, that’s not what it’s about. I don’t think it has anything to do with the education,” McGraw said in an interview with […]

A federal judge has ordered the pre-trial release of a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant that prosecutors called a “domestic terrorist” and accused of plotting to “murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.” Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested in mid-February and was charged with drug possession and possessing firearms while being addicted […]

Anita Hill, the law professor whose landmark testimony against now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is credited with transforming Americans’ understanding of sexual harassment, said Thursday that she is unsatisfied with Joe Biden’s apology to her.  The interview she gave to The New York Times was published the same day Biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 […]

A state representative in Iowa is leaving the Republican Party because he says he can no longer support President Donald Trump and the views of the GOP. Rep. Andy McKean announced he was switching parties during a press conference on Tuesday in which he called the president a “poor example for the nation.” McKean is […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign won’t accept donations from federal lobbyists ― but a fundraiser scheduled for the first day of his campaign also shows the limitations of such a pledge. Biden is set to attend a fundraiser Thursday night at the Philadelphia home of Comcast executive David Cohen, according to an invite […]

State lawmakers in Maine approved a bill on Thursday meant to end “food shaming” students who cannot afford to pay for meals at school. The bill forbids public schools to identify or in any way stigmatize a student who either cannot pay for a school meal or owes money for previous meals. It bans the school […]

A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked a Trump administration cutoff of U.S. subsidies for poor women obtaining birth control from Planned Parenthood and other clinics that offer abortion services or information to patients, according to the state attorney general. The preliminary injunction bars enforcement nationwide of a policy due to go into […]