The press has a problem, and it seems to be getting worse. Whether through bias, sloppiness, or sheer panic, the mainstream media has dropped its standards since President Trump was sworn in.
Rather then adjusting adeptly to Trump’s easy relationship with the truth and his tendency to abuse members of media, by dialing up their standards, a significant number of journalists have tripped over themselves recently to repeat every bit of gossip and half-cocked rumor involving Trump and his administration.
The rush to get these supposed scoops out in the open, whether in print, on television or on social media, has, of course, produced a rash of shoddy reporting.
Now this isn’t to say that all coverage of this new administration has been slipshod. Rather, it’s to say that there has been a disturbing and unusually large number of stories that have turned out either to be overhyped, inconclusive, half-true or flat-out incorrect. There have also been a number of reports whose sourcing is so thin, that to believe them would be to take a major leap of faith.
The one thing that these reports have in common is that they fail to provide readers with a clear and indisputably accurate picture of what is really going on at White House. The press’s most important role is to shine a light on those in power. Bad reporting only muddies the waters, and it gives powerful people more room to do as they please. After all, whom are you going to believe: the guy at the top or the newsroom with a recent track record of botched reporting? We didn’t get to the point where people find the press less credible than the Trump administration by some freak accident. We’re keeping a database of all these media misfires as they occur, and we’ll be updating this list whenever some new bit of crummy journalism appears. Depending on whether reporters settle down and treat their supposed scoops with greater care, this database may turn into a four- or eight-year project. Starting in order of most recent, here is our best effort at a complete list of the shoddiest media misfires since the Jan. 20 inauguration: Feb. 11: An Olympic Never-Mind
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The Claim: Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban ensnared American-born Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad. The Source: Ibtihaj Muhammad in an interview with Popsugar, Time magazine’s Motto, the Independent, the Daily Mail, the New York Daily News and the Hill. The Facts: Muhammad claimed in an interview on Feb. 7 that she was detained “just a few weeks ago” by U.S. Customs agents, who held her for more than two hours without any explanation. Reporters ran with her claim, tying it to Trump’s recent executive order temporarily barring immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries. Few journalists bothered to corroborate her story. On Feb. 11, Muhammad clarified the alleged incident occurred in December 2016. Barack Obama was still president at that time. Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2017. His immigration order was signed into law on Jan. 27. “Thanks to all who reached out regarding the December incident at customs. I will continue be a voice for all impacted by profiling & bigotry,” she said in a tweet.
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A Customs official who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed in an interview the Washington Examiner on Feb. 13 that Muhammad had indeed been detained – in December 2016. Feb. 10: A Fact-Checking Gone Wrong The Claim: Trump wrongly accused the New York Times of pushing “fake news” after the paper published a story alleging he hadn’t talked to Chinese President Xi Jinping in months. The Source: Journalist Twitter (here, here, here and here, among others) The Facts: The Times published a report on the evening of Feb. 9 alleging Trump hadn’t spoken with the Chinese president since November 2016. The story’s original headline read, “China’s President, Stung by Taiwan Call, Is Said to Shun Trump.”
Later that same evening, Trump spoke with Xi by phone. The Times updated its online report accordingly, amending significant portions of the story to note the president’s Thursday evening call Xi. The report’s headline was updated Thursday to read, “After Silence From Xi, Trump Endorses the ‘One China’ Policy.” However, due to a deadline mix-up and inclement weather, the Times did not update its national print edition before it went out to subscribers. That version of the story still claimed Trump hadn’t spoken with Xi. As the president is notoriously fond of hardcopy, it’s fair to assume he received and read the print edition that claimed incorrectly he had not spoken with Xi. Trump tweeted at 8:35 am on Feb. 10, “The failing @nytimes does major FAKE NEWS China story saying ‘Mr.Xi has not spoken to Mr. Trump since Nov.14.’ We spoke at length yesterday!” Members of the press pounced, and many tried to fact-check Trump’s tweet with screen grabs from the updated online version of the Times’ story. But the facts here lean more in Trump’s favor. The Friday print edition claimed incorrectly that the president hadn’t spoken with Xi. The president responded Friday morning to the story. Journalists then tried to “gotcha” Trump with the online edition of the report, but fact-checking him with a retroactively updated version of a story that appeared differently in print doesn’t seem the way to go. The online version of the Times’ story carries no editor’s note or clarification noting that it has undergone significant changes. Feb. 9: Trump Backs the Gang of Eight? The Claim: Trump is ready to get behind the Gang of Eight immigration bill, a piece of legislation that he has vigorously opposed since a little before his entry into the 2016 GOP primary. The Source: Politico’s Seung Min Kim. The Facts: Trump assured a group of senators in safe and businesslike terms that he’d at least hear them out on the immigration bill, according to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. “We were trying to explain the [Gang of Eight] bill,” the senator told MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt. “[Trump] says, ‘well, I know what amnesty is, and I’m totally opposed to amnesty.'” “I said, ‘but this, this 10-13 year pathway forward — that you have to play by the rules.’ He said, ‘well I want to see it.’ So he was very anxious to see it. He says, ‘I know what amnesty is.’ And I said, ‘sir, I don’t think you’re going to find this amnesty at all.’ [Trump] is open — he is open to reviewing this piece of legislation. He says, ‘well you’ve got to start working on it again,’ and I says, ‘absolutely we will,'” Manchin said. Feb. 9: Do You Know The Dope Man? The Claim: President Trump’s father had a pair of racist ads produced in the late 1960s for a potential run for mayor of New York City. The Source: Longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal and the London Review of Books. The claim took off in press circles on Feb. 9. The Facts: The ads mentioned in Blumenthal’s essay for the London Review of Books are fakes. Fred Trump never ran for NYC mayor, he never had commercials made up for him and the videos mentioned by Blumenthal were created and posted online last year by an art project group called the “Historical Paroxysm.” The group specializes in producing “found footage from alternate realities.” Though this bogus story isn’t about the current president or a member of his administration, it was still used against him before it was eventually disproven. It therefore earns a spot on this list of botched Trump White House reporting. Feb. 9: Doesn’t Smell Right The Claim: During a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump was confused by references to New START, the 2010 treaty imposing limits on the number of warheads deployed by the U.S. and Russia. The Source: Reuters. The Facts: Though the story has not been disproven, the bit about Trump being unfamiliar with New START rings hollow. First, the claim hinges entirely on anonymous sources. That’s never a good sign. Secondly, as the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman noted, Trump talked privately with officials about New START four weeks before his call with Putin. The anonymously sourced claim that he didn’t know about the treaty doesn’t smell right. Feb 7: Yemen Has Had Enough The Claim: “Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions.” The Source: The New York Times, CBS News, the Daily Mail and others. The Facts: Several newsrooms published reports stating Yemen had ordered U.S. Special Operations to cease anti-terror operations on its soil. These stories relied entirely on anonymous U.S. officials. The Associated Press threw cold water on this narrative on Feb. 8 with an on-the-record quote from a Yemeni government official. “Yemen continues to cooperate with the United States and continues to abide by all the agreements,” Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdul-Malik al-Mekhlafi told the AP, stressing that earlier reports alleging his government had ordered U.S. forces to cease operation were simply “not true.” Feb. 7: A Grizzly Tale The Claim: Newly confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos thinks school administrators should carry guns because you never know when a bear might attack. It’s a narrative that won’t die. The Source: The Washington Post, repeating what many others have claimed since mid-January. The Facts: DeVos said during her confirmation hearing that there should be no blanket federal policy regulating guns in schools. Asked by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., whether she supported federal solutions to this issue, she responded by saying she doesn’t think it should be left up to Washington. She argued that states and localities are best suited to make these judgments, and she said federal policies tend to overlook the individual needs of individual schools. This is what DeVos said: “I think that’s best left for states and locales to decide. I would refer back to Senator Enzi, and the school he was talking about in [Wyoming].” “I would imagine there, that there’s probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies,” she added. This is hardly the same thing as saying she thinks schools should be armed against possible bear attacks. Feb. 5: Turn Out the Lights The Claim: Trump’s team is in way over its head. They don’t know where the doors in the White House lead or where the light switches are located. Also, the president likes to lounge around in a bathrobe while watching television. The Source: The New York Times. The Facts: This isn’t an example of a story that is clearly false or misleading. Rather, it’s an example of a report with major sourcing issues. Though the story is not obviously incorrect, and it’s possible its authors have provided readers with genuine information, the story’s sourcing is so thin that it should give readers pause. By not providing their audience with clear sources, and by not even citing who is responsible for the Trump administration details until several paragraphs in, the Times is asking an awful lot of its readers. Feb. 4: Bannon vs. Kelly The Claim: White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon tried recently to order around Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly over the issue of Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries. Kelly reportedly pushed back hard, telling the Trump confidant that he had no authority to issue orders to DHS. There was supposedly an in-person confrontation between Bannon and Kelly at the DHS headquarters, as well as words exchanged during a 2:00 a.m. conference call. The Source: The Washington Post. The Facts: We’ll let this Washington Post editor’s note, which appeared subsequently, speak for itself: The article has been updated to reflect comments from White House press secretary Sean Spicer. The article previously stated that Stephen K. Bannon visited Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly’s office on Jan. 28. Spicer said Bannon did not make such a visit. He also said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Bannon did not participate in a 2 a.m. conference call on Jan. 29. The article also previously stated that President Trump approved a pause in executive orders pending new procedures. According to Spicer, it was White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, rather than the president, who approved the new procedures, but not a pause. Feb. 3: A Secret Service Purge? The Claim: Certain manager-level Secret Service personnel were forced to resign last week, and they were escorted suddenly out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The Source: The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons. The Facts: An agency spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner that the claim is “absolutely false.” Clemons himself backtracked later, and said on social media that he meant to say that it was the White House Chief of Information Security who was “forced to resign.” “I have confirmed that the Chief of Information Security at White House forced to resign. Was error in tagging him as Secret Service,” he said. “It is the [Chief of Information Security] function, at minimum, in [White House] that saw forced resignations last night. These folks work w/ @SecretService but not of Secret [Service].” Interestingly enough, the Secret Service’s official Twitter account responded to Clemons’ online clarifications by claiming he was still incorrect. The Secret Service account also claimed Clemons never contacted them for comment. Feb. 2: Trump Meets Putin The Claim: Trump’s team switched off recording devices during the president’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Source: Raw Story and Ilan Berman, vice president of the Foreign Policy Council. The Facts: Berman actually just speculated during a panel discussion on the reason there was no readout of Trump’s call with Putin. He offered, by way of speculation, that perhaps White House staffers had switched off the recording devices. Raw Story saw his suggestion after it was tweeted out, and they published a report titled, “Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording.” But contrary to Berman’s suggestion, there is indeed a readout of Trump’s call with Putin, although it’s vague and short on details. Second, White House calls are generally not recorded, and they haven’t been since the time of Richard Nixon, according Yahoo’s Oliver Knox. Third, as Berman stated repeatedly after the Raw Story report was published, he was only speculating about the readout. By his own admission, he has no idea what actually happened. Raw Story has updated its story to note that no one knows what they’re talking about. On that they are correct, in part. Feb. 2: Payback For Putin The Claim: The Trump administration had eased restrictions on Russia so that U.S. companies can go into business with the Federal Security Service, which is the successor of the dreaded KGB. The Source: NBC News’ Peter Alexander. The Facts: Alexander ultimately debunked his own claim, tweeting a note of clarification that read, “Source familiar w sanctions says it’s a technical fix, planned under Obama, to avoid unintended consequences of cybersanctions.” The New York Times’ Peter Baker noted elsewhere that the proposed fix was indeed in the works long before Trump took office. “Treasury action on Russian sanctions was a technical fix initiated by career officials when Obama was still in office, not a Trump move,” he said. Feb. 2: Gorsuch In College The Claim: “As a student, SCOTUS Nominee Gorsuch Supported Gays and Opposed Campus Military recruiters.” The Source: NBC News. The Facts: NBC News misunderstood its source material. The college newspaper referenced in the NBC story contained an editing error that confused reporters, and caused them to credit Gorsuch for an article he didn’t write. The error wasn’t that hard to spot. The NBC story has been updated so that it’s now a different report entirely. Feb. 2: Black History Month The Claim: Trump changed the name of “Black History Month” to “National African American History Month.” The Source: TMZ. The Facts: This did happen, but not under Trump. Past presidents, including Barack Obama, have referred to it as “National African American History Month.” Feb. 2: Ryan Dodged a Question? The Claim: Speaker Paul Ryan declined to answer a question at a press conference about Trump’s allegedly contentious phone call with the Australian prime minister. The Source: CNBC’s John Harwood. The Facts: Speaker Ryan declined to answer a question about former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his ongoing feud with the president. Feb. 1: Mexican Invasion The Claim: Trump threatened to invade Mexico during a phone call with Mexican president Enrique Pena. The Source: The Associated Press. The Facts: The AP reported that Trump allegedly told Pena the U.S. military would do something about Mexico’s “bad hombre” problem if Mexican authorities couldn’t. CNN then published a report disputing AP’s characterization of the call. The Mexican government stated later that no such thing was said during the phone call between Trump and Pena. The White House claimed the same. The AP reported later that a White House official said Trump was only kidding. The Washington Post published a story on Trump’s calls that relied heavily on the AP’s initial characterization of his conversations with world leaders. The Post later stripped its article of all references to the AP’s claim that Trump threatened to invade Mexico. It’s entirely possible that neither government is shooting straight, and that Trump sort of threatened military action. But newsrooms don’t seem to have any idea what actually happened, and the inconclusive and contradictory reporting has only made things more confusing. That’s a failure of journalism that typically results when you claim to know more than you know. Feb. 1: Aussie You The Claim: Trump pitched a fit during a phone call with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, which ended with the U.S. president abruptly hanging up on the prime minister. The Source: The Washington Post. The Facts: Like Trump’s call to Mexico, no one seems to have any hard knowledge of what actually happened. After the Post reported that the phone call went terribly wrong, journalists went wild on social media. Then the clarifications and walk backs started pouring in from Australian and American officials. Turnbull himself disputed the press’ coverage of the call, and he said Trump “did not hang up.” Like reports on Trump’s call with Mexico, it’s entirely possible that the White House and the Australian PM are being less-than-honest about the nature of their conversation. But we really have no idea, and the Post’s thinly sourced story doesn’t clear anything up. Feb. 1: Worlds Apart The Claim: Melania Trump will continue to live in New York City, even though her husband is taking up residence in the White House. The Source: Us Weekly, The Hill, Daily Mail. The Facts: Melania Trump will divide her time between New York City and Washington, D.C., at the end of the school year, her advisor, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, told CNN. The clarification came only after groups like Us Weekly ran headlines like, “First Lady Melania Trump May Never Move Into the White House.” The Feb. 13 edition of celebrity gossip magazine was published with the headline, “SEPARATE LIVES.” Also, it’s worth noting that Melania Trump stated during the election that should would split her time as first lady between D.C. and New York City. She explained at the time that it would be for the benefit of their son, Barron. Feb. 1: Fascist Club The Claim: Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, founded and presided over a group in high school called the “Fascism Forever Club.” The Source: The Daily Mail. The Facts: Gorsuch did no such thing. His claim in his senior yearbook to have created and presided over such a club during his four years at Georgetown Prep was just a gag, a bit of self-deferential humor regarding his conservatism and his frequent back-and-forths with his left-leaning teachers. The whole thing was “a total joke,” Steve Ochs, who teaches history at the elite high school, told America Magazine. “There was no club at a Jesuit school about young fascists,” added Ochs, who served as student government advisor when Gorsuch was a junior and senior. “The students would create fictitious clubs; they would have fictitious activities. They were all inside jokes on their senior pages.” Jan. 31: The Deadly Travel Ban The Claim: An ailing woman died in Iraq because of Trump’s immigration executive order. The Source: Fox 2 Detroit. The Facts: The Detroit man, Mike Hager, claims Trump’s executive order killed his mother. There’s nothing to corroborate this claim. A local imam said later that Hager lied about his mother dying as a result of the travel ban. Hager’s mother allegedly died five days prior to the order going into effect. As of this writing, there is nothing to prove Hager’s claim. There is also very little corroborate the imam’s assertion. The closest we have to proving the imam’s claim is the fact that Hager has stopped replying to Fox 2’s requests for comment. Jan. 31: Twitter Trolling The Claim: In an attempt to keep Trump’s SCOTUS nominee a secret, the White House set up two separate Twitter accounts for Judges Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman. The Source: CNN’s Jeff Zeleny. The Facts: Zeleny is responsible both for the claim and the eventual correction. “White House is setting up Supreme Court announcement as a prime-time contest: @JusticeGorsuch and @JusticeHardiman identical Twitter pages,” the CNN reporter tweeted. He followed that up with this embarrassing clarification, “The Twitter accounts of @JusticeGorsuch and @JusticeHardiman were not set up by the White House, I’ve been told.” Jan. 31: What’s a Tank? The Claim: “A fleet of tanks drove around Kentucky this weekend flying a Trump flag.” The Source: Vice. The Facts: A group of approximately eight Humvees was spotted on Jan. 29 near Louisville, with the lead vehicle flying a large Trump campaign flag. The convoy was associated with an East Coast Navy SEALs unit. The U.S. Navy has launched a formal inquiry, a Naval Special Warfare Group spokeswoman told the Lexington Herald-Leader. The convoy vehicles were based at Fort Knox. Though the incident raises real questions about martial decorum and an apolitical military, it’s hard not to get distracted by just how many things Vice managed to screw up in its headline. Jan. 31: Secret SCOTUS The Claim: Trump managed somehow to keep his SCOTUS nominee a secret until he made the announcement at 8:00 pm on Jan. 31. The Source: The Washington Post. The Facts: The story is just flat-out wrong. News that Trump had picked Judge Gorsuch was scooped first by the conservative news site Townhall. The Independent Journal Review was close behind, claiming in a post of its own that it had two anonymous sources confirming the pick. National Review followed suit with sources of its own. Each individual report came out hours before Trump formally announced his SCOTUS nominee. Jan. 31: A Retroactive ‘Gotcha’ The Claim: Trump greatly undersold the number of people who were affected by his immigration executive order. The Source: The New York Times. The Facts: Trump claimed in a tweet on Jan. 30 that, “Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage.” The Times published a story on Jan. 31 titled, “721 People (not 109) Were Denied Entry Under Trump.” The problem with the Times report is that it attempts to fact-check Trump with DHS data that became available only after the president’s Jan. 30 tweet. Further, the Times report didn’t even paraphrase Trump accurately. The report’s original opening paragraph stated incorrectly that Trump referenced the number of individuals who “were denied entry into the United States.” That is incorrect because Trump used specific DHS figures to say 109 people had been detained, not denied entry. The Times has attached a correction to its story, but it still fails to mention the timing and context of the president’s Jan. 30 remarks. Jan. 28: Never Mind The Claim: The Justice Department “had no input” on Trump’s immigration executive order, and the federal agency was reportedly left in the dark when the law was drafted. The Source: CNBC’s John Harwood. The Facts: Harwood said on social media, “senior justice official tells [NBC News] that Dept. had no input. Not sure who in WH is writing/reviewing. Standard [National Security Council] process not functioning.” But then Harwood tweeted a clarification about an hour later, stating, “new info from [NBC’s Pete Williams]: another DOJ official says proposed immigration order was reviewed by department lawyers before it was issued.” Acting Atty. Gen. Sally Yates later stated that attorneys at DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel did approve the order as lawful on its face and properly drafted. Jan. 27: Big Hands The Claim: Trump’s team digitally altered a White House photo to make the president’s hands appear larger than they really are. The Source: The New York Observer’s Dana Schwartz, who admitted later she had only been kidding. The Facts: The White House did no such thing, as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump noted almost immediately after Schwartz’ claim went viral on social media. Schwartz eventually deleted all her tweets about the supposedly doctored photos. She argued that her joking remarks on Twitter aren’t the same thing as reporting facts. Jan. 26: A Chilling Phone Call The Claim: Trump “pressured” and “ordered” the National Park Service director into digging up photos of the president’s inauguration crowds. The Source: The Washington Post. The Facts: Once you make it past the tendentious headline, the story is about how the president requested photos of his inauguration from the one federal agency that would have them. That’s the entire story. Jan. 26: The State Department Debacle That Wasn’t The Claim: The U.S. State Department’s “entire senior administrative team” has resigned en masse in protest of Trump The Source: The Washington Post. The Facts: Four mid-level State Department officials were told their services were no longer needed, which is common during White House transition periods. As is customary, the four officials tendered their resignations. They were accepted. That’s a long way off from what the Post initially reported. Jan. 24: Gag Order The Claim: The Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to silence scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Source: The Associated Press, BuzzFeed and dozens of reporters on social media. The Facts: The federal agencies, which were instructed in memos to halt all “public-facing” documents temporarily, said the press oversold the story. “I’ve lived through many transitions, and I don’t think this is a story,” one senior EPA official told the New York Times. “I don’t think it’s fair to call it a gag order. This is standard practice. And the move with regard to the grants, when a new administration comes in, you run things by them before you update the website.” The agency’s communications director, Doug Ericksen, added, “We’re just trying to get a handle on everything and make sure what goes out reflects the priorities of the new administration.” A USDA spokesman said separately, “This is what has happened at the transition of every administration … it’s just a pause.” Jan. 20: Melania And a Conflict of Interest? The Claim: Melania Trump is using the White House website to “promote” her business interests. The Source: The Washington Post. The Facts: The White House website includes a brief biography of first lady and former model Melania Trump. That bio lists some of her professional accomplishments, which includes launching a line of jewelry and posing for several major magazines. This is hardly the scandal promised in the Post’s headline. The word “promotes” suggests some sort of abuse of the White House website for personal gain and/or profit. If not, then who the hell cares? Jan. 20: MLK Is Still There The Claim: The Trump transition team removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office. The Source: Time magazine’s Zeke Miller. The Facts: The MLK bust was never moved. It was merely obstructed from Miller’s line of vision. The Time magazine reporter, who claimed in his pool report that the bust had been removed, quickly corrected his mistake. Unfortunately, the initial claim had already been repeated by several of his colleagues on social media and took on a life of its own. Jan. 20: Website Down? The Claim: The Trump administration has removed several important issues pages from the White House website, including pages for climate change and LGBT rights, signaling they may ignore these topics in the future. The Source: The Washington Post, CBS News, the Hill and others (mostly reporters on social media). The Facts: The White House website is normally wiped clean with each new administration. The older pages are archived elsewhere. This is how it was done during the transition periods between presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and between Bush and Barack Obama. There is nothing at all unusual about pages disappearing, despite reports suggesting otherwise. This database is a work in progress. It will be updated constantly. If you feel there is an example missing from this list, please send me a note at: badams@washingtonexaminer.com.
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Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding over $100 billion in taxes…
Zookeeper killed by tiger in enclosure at Hamerton Zoo Park in the UK
Slouching Towards Healthcare Reform
Watch: Horse battles gator at Florida park
TODD STARNES: Victory! Teacher fired for giving student a Bible — gets job back
Judge allows Oregon resident to be genderless
Drug company exec: 'We're hated' for a reason
We can pursue Earth Day's goals without endangering freedom
Turkey arrests more than 1,000 'secret imams'
Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
Illinois House of Representatives overrides gov's veto of $36B budget
Perry nomination raises Dem concerns that Trump plans to gut Energy Dept.
MEDIA BUZZ: Study finds Trump coverage overwhelmingly negative
Here's how Trump trashed Obama's deportation policy
PUTIN SLAMS ACTION US airstrikes in Syria an 'aggression,' Kremlin says
‘Iceball’ planet discovery
'Customized Learning' Means Every Student Learns Something Different
Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires
Blue-State Scrooges
Obama to supporters: 'Don't mope'
DNA CONNECTION? Cops: Spit on sidewalk ties man to 2 LA killings
Trump vows to leave his businesses by Jan. 20
A Memorial Day for Every American Soldier
The Constitutional Rights of the Unborn
More than 4 million sign up for Obamacare
$20 million for tragic death
'BIG MORALE BOOST' George H.W. Bush gets special visitor at hospital
Meet the Dutch girls who seduced Nazis — and lured them to deaths…
Video: Brother of Cleveland murder victim attacks killer in courtroom
South Korea responds to reported vessel hijacking off Somalia
COMEY WITH ME Report: Ex-FBI head didn't want to be alone with Trump
'OUT OF OPTIONS' Accused Facebook killer faced financial issues
Eric Trump cancels auction with Ivanka due to conflict of interest
A FINAL LIFELINE Syria's secret caves serve as makeshift hospitals
Joint Chiefs preparing new plan to defeat Islamic State
Only one former president has RSVP'd to Trump inauguration
Video emerges of assassination of Kim Jong Un's half brother
Police Investigating Tiny Hidden Cameras Found In HYATT Hotel Rooms…
Is this the future of travel?
Faces of the heroes…
TRUTH OR DARE? Trump's 'armada' claim undermined, leaving South Koreans leery
SURVEY: Average Person Feels 'Too Old' To Work Out Regularly At 41…
Obama: 'We will' retaliate against Russia for hacking
Robot manufacturers warned 'bug in AI code' will lead to murder sprees…
Trump vows to 'liberate our towns' from 'vile' MS-13 gang
Harvey Weinstein Proves Why the Left Really Hates Trump
Boeing’s Contract with Iran Harms National Security
'UNACCEPTABLE' ISSUE IG: VA suicide hotline still plagued with problems
Jerry Brown: If Trump closes NASA, California will 'launch its own damn satellite'
LIZ PEEK Memo to Dems: Hating on Trump is not a platform
No More Cheating: Time to Apply the Rules of the Game to Politics
Historic bombers in pictures
Obama renominates FCC Democrat in his final two weeks
What your poo color means
Tim: Why faith matters
ARKANSAS BLOCKED Judge halts planned executions of 7 inmates
Obama 'hopeful' this Christmas that 'progress' will continue
Massive fire engulfs Raleigh apartment building under construction
SUPREMES WILL HEAR TRUMP CASES…
Woman falls off California bridge while taking selfie
SUPREME SHOWDOWN Republicans deploy 'nuclear option' on Gorsuch after filibuster
Snubs, Surprises…
Justice Department seeks uniform standards for halfway houses
The Leaven of Political Football
Ex-Rep. Corrine Brown guilty on fraud, tax evasion charges – VIDEO: Rep. Corrine Brown indicted in fraud case
Man spends 6 hours waving US flag over highways
Pro-Clinton operative thinks her campaign was too easy on media
Debunking dating at 50
Obama claims inequality falling even as income inequality soars
SNAP: Mother Upset With Son's Haircut Slams Car Into Barber Shop…
Sharing the NATO Arrangement
Springsteen: Is Trump competent enough to be president?
Woman killed by feral hogs outside home: 'One of worst things I've ever seen'…
The European Union Would Love to Control Your Internet Use
Conway: 'Why do you care' about Trump's 'Hamilton' tweets?
SEASON'S BEATINGS: Brawl involving hundreds of teens at NYC mall…
Paul Krugman: Say goodbye to the US 'we knew and loved'
In Jefferson County, Colorado, George Soros found 'justice was not for sale'
OBAMA 'OBSTRUCTED' Trump says predecessor bungled Russia probe
ISIS moves its capital in Syria
Coal Is Here for the Long Haul
Manhunt for Wisconsin suspect wanted for stealing guns, threatening politicians
Last Week’s Reality Check About Liberalism and Entitlements
White House decides against releasing visitor records
'Still my president' – Democrats are still fundraising off Obama
Reality show villain Omarosa joins the Trump White House
Texas authorities fear missing 13-year-old girl in grave danger
HIGH STAKES IN FRANCE Macron or Le Pen: Voting in tense election begins
Putin slams new sanctions, says they will 'complicate' Russia-US ties
FACEBOOK rumor about white vans spreading fear across USA…
Pelosi wistful for Romney — does she regret casting him as a racist, sexist bigot?
US Chamber of Commerce 'encouraged' by Trump business focus
WATCH: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for first meeting with Trump
Reimagining the Democratic Party
