Donald Trump’s golf habit has already cost taxpayers at least $102 million in extra travel and security expenses, and next month will achieve a new milestone: a seven-figure presidential visit to another country so he can play at his own course. U.S. taxpayers have spent $81 million for the president’s two dozen trips to Florida, […]

Warning: spoilers for “Game of Thrones” below. Emilia Clarke studied speeches given by dictators, including Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler, to help her prepare for that epic address she gave as Daenerys Targaryen in the final episode of “Game of Thrones.” The British actress said she “watched a lot of videos” of dictators and powerful leaders […]

Warning: spoilers for “Game of Thrones” below. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) felt let down by the “Game of Thrones” finale. They criticized the way in which HBO’s epic fantasy drama ended on Sunday in a video that Warren, a Democratic presidential hopeful for 2020, shared to Twitter. Warren said she […]

The U.S. State Department issued a warning to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, saying Washington and its allies would respond swiftly and “appropriately” if recent allegations of Assad’s chemical weapon use were proven true.  Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the U.S. has been paying close attention to the military operations of Assad’s forces in northwest […]

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday made a sweeping promise to focus her first 100 days in office if she wins the 2020 presidential election on a wide-ranging set of progressive proposals to support children and families. The ambitious agenda, which Gillibrand is calling the “Family Bill of Rights,” includes promising parents a right to maternal […]

Lawmakers in 15 states have introduced so-called “fetal heartbeat” legislation this year to ban abortion as soon as a doctor can detect cardiac activity in an embryo, which typically happens at around six weeks into a pregnancy. But doctors say that not only is that cutoff completely arbitrary, it’s also based on the false premise […]

“This is a great time to be alive,” Theresa May declared, with the closest she gets to political passion. But as her audience of bemused accountants – all six stories of them – pressed their noses against the glass atrium, they looked like tourists at a zoo watching a strange creature slowly breathe its last. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a 29-year-old man in the fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles. Eric Ronald Holder Jr. was indicted on one count of murder, two counts each of attempted murder and assault with a firearm, and one count of possession of a firearm by a […]

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is turning into a different kind of “war on Christmas” as consumers can now expect to pay more for their holiday decor. The Trump administration just increased tariffs to 25% on a wider category of goods, including holiday lights. And that means this Christmas could be a whole lot […]

CNN’s Chris Cuomo said Democrats need to look at the political reality of launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. “It’s an unknown, alright,” said the host of “Cuomo Prime Time” on Tuesday. “And there is a real risk of making the bully in this so far, this president, look like a victim if you overreach […]