President Donald Trump , who for years led the birther movement questioning the very legitimacy of Barack Obama ’s presidency, says he believes his predecessor likes him. “It’s a very strange phenomenon: We get along,” Trump told Bill O’Reilly in an interview for Fox News broadcast Monday. “I don’t…

A young Chicago mother serving time in an Indonesian prison after her dead mother was found stuffed in a suitcase in Bali has issued a troubling statement in a series of YouTube videos saying she alone was responsible for the murder. During the three-part video, Heather Mack, 21, exonerates her…

Gina Ferazzi via Getty Images Judge Alex Kozinski isn't assigned to the three-judge panel considering a federal court's halt of the travel ban. LOS ANGELES ― A federal judge who sits on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is set to rule on a block of President Donald Trump ’s refugee ban,…

this is y'all woke palestine queen? Gigi out here mocking Asian people. i would say she's cancelled but she never started. rat @GiGiHadid pic.twitter.com/b6wj5k1sXE — z (@zainzayns) February 5, 2017 Supermodel Gigi Hadid has found herself at the center of the internet’s attention once again ― but…

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of deliberately minimizing coverage of the threat posed by the Islamic State group, saying news outlets “have their reasons” for not reporting what he described as a “genocide” underway at the hands of the group. The…

This article first appeared in The National Book Review : Why? Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes W.W. Norton & Co. 432 pp. Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? And why did it all unfold so quickly? There have been -- with good reason -- no end of books about the Holocaust, but Why?…

Democrats may have gotten their brains beaten out last year, but it's Republicans who are experiencing a brain drain. Educated Americans are horrified by Donald Trump. He is not just oblivious to facts but proud of it. ``We won with poorly educated,'' Trump said after the Nevada caucuses last year.…

Story highlights A military raid went after a top al Qaeda boss, a source told CNN The raid led to the first combat death under President Donad Trump Washington (CNN) A senior US military official told CNN Monday that intelligence collection wasn't the only objective of the recent military raid in…

The devastating “Saturday Night Live” caricature of Sean Spicer that aired over the weekend, played by Melissa McCarthy, did not go over well internally at a White House where looks matter. | POLITICO Screen grab As the press secretary for a President who's obsessed with how things play on cable TV,…

LONDON — Invited just days after his inauguration to make a state visit to Britain , President Trump is expected to travel to London this year to meet Queen Elizabeth II amid all the pomp and ceremony the British can muster. But on Monday it seemed that Mr. Trump may have to do without one of the…

As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in Syria, Amnesty International says. A new report by the human rights group alleges that mass hangings took place every week at Saydnaya prison between September 2011 and December 2015.…

The Senate is poised to vote on Betsy DeVos’s confirmation as secretary of Education at noon Tuesday, with Vice President Pence possibly casting a tie-breaking vote backing President Trump’s controversial Cabinet pick. Republicans have only 50 votes behind DeVos with the defections of GOP Sens.…

President Donald Trump signs an executive order Feb. 3, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP) PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — President Trump said he might pull federal money for California as a "weapon" as state legislators debate whether to adopt…

Story highlights Trump's team has been more intent on quashing stories about turf wars and internal conflict than actually resolving them "He got to the job by drinking rocket fuel, and now people are wondering if he can sit down and delegate and be a responsible executive" Washington (CNN) As…

Yep. Some would say that Lady Gaga's halftime show was on fire. (Photo: Matthew Emmons, USA TODAY Sports) Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show — while not overtly political — contained some social commentary just below the surface. In the very beginning of her performance, the pop artist sang…

Arafat Ashegaa, right, with his wife, Zahrah, and their infant son, Ayhm, arrived from Yemen at Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sunday. Mr. Ashegaa is American, but his wife is a Yemeni citizen who was recently granted a visa to join him here. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times…

Tesla and SpaceX , two brainchildren of billionaire business magnate and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk , have joined more than 100 other companies in opposing President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration, company officials confirmed to The Huffington Post. In an amicus ― “friend of…

MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images President Donald Trump will doubtlessly continue to add more new phrases to the American political lexicon throughout his term in office. This weekend ― in an interview on Fox aired as part of the Super Bowl extravaganza, no less ― Trump made a downright astonishing…

Imagine one minute that you’re soaring through dreamland, on the back of a magical dragon no less, and the next, you’re jerked awake by what sounds like a dying hippopotamus. It may be better if that irritating noise was, in fact, coming from a wild animal, but more often than not, it’s escaping…

Mere hours after President Donald Trump claimed Western media underreported acts of terrorism, the White House on Monday released a curated list of 78 violent incidents from the past three years to back up those allegations. However, several, including the attacks in San Bernardino , Orlando , Paris…

Hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency officials are urging the Senate to reject Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency that once employed them. In a letter , released Monday, 447 former EPA employees say Pruitt’s record raises “serious questions” about his…

Credit: Kevin C. Cox via Getty Images Tom Brady's jersey from Super Bowl LI has gone missing. It’s been mere hours since Tom Brady helped the Patriots stage the comeback of the year at Super Bowl LI , but someone’s already pulled an even bigger upset: the quarterback’s jersey has gone missing.…

The New England Patriots are taking on the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday in Super Bowl LI . The NFL championship game is happening in Houston this year, and tens of millions of people are expected to tune in for the showdown, the commercials and Lady Gaga ’s halftime performance. Read live updates on…

Some down payment assistance programs can be hard to get through. They have a ton of qualifications that you need to fulfill, they have certain caps,and a million other things besides. The Pima Tucson Homebuyers Solution program, however, is not one of these. Sure, it has qualifications you have to…

The city of Tucson and Pima County has combined forces with each other to help give a down payment assistance program for those who qualify. These homebuyers can buy a home in Tucson in Arizona and in Pima County, also in Arizona. Those eligible must be purchasing homes inside of these 2 areas. The…

The temporary ruling from Judge James Robart appeared to be the most sweeping legal rebuke to the order since President Donald Trump issued it a week ago. | Getty Seattle jurist's sweeping order comes hours after Boston court seemed to bless president' s anti-terror immigration halt. President…

Some down payment assistance programs can be hard to get through. They have a ton of qualifications that you need to fulfill, they have certain caps,and a million other things besides. The Pima Tucson Homebuyers Solution program, however, is not one of these. Sure, it has qualifications you have to…

Heavy snow and avalanches have killed dozens of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Afghanistan nearly 100 have lost their lives in the past three days - including 16 in overnight avalanches just north of the capital Kabul. Thirteen people were killed in an avalanche in northern Pakistan, nine of…

Do you need down payment assistance? Do you live in Arizona? The Pima Home Buyers Solution is a great program from the government designed to help new homebuyers get into a great home. They help with your down payment by giving you some extra cash to fund the start of your payments. Great plan,…

The people at the Pro Football Hall of Fame always seem to be jerks about letting in wide receivers — ask Art Monk or Andre Reed — but, I mean, we’re talking about T.O. here! Terrell Owens was once again snubbed from the Hall of Fame, in his second year of eligibility. He found out Saturday. And if…

The Homebuyers solution program in Pima, Tucson ( click here for a video) is easily one of the best programs you’ll find anywhere to get the down payment assistance you need. I recently signed up with this program and was able to move into a home I knew I could afford, but couldn’t quite get enough…

Do you need down payment assistance? Do you live in Arizona? The Pima Home Buyers Solution is a great program from the government designed to help new homebuyers get into a great home. They help with your down payment by giving you some extra cash to fund the start of your payments. Great plan,…

Chelsea Clinton went on the attack on Twitter against Kellyanne Conway’s made-up “ Bowling Green Massacre ” to justify President Donald Trump ’s immigrant ban — and Conway bit back. “Very grateful no one seriously hurt in the Louvre attack ... or the (completely fake) Bowling Green Massacre. Please…