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With a little more than a fortnight to go before the government shuts down once more in the absence of a budget deal, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has publicly touted bringing a debt ceiling deal into the mix of border security negotiations. This should really go without saying, but adding even more brinkmanship into Republicans’ common sense compromise is a terrible call. For one thing, Democrats successfully called President Trump’s…

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Over the past few decades, the American public has become more socially liberal on most issues. It has reversed its opposition to gay marriage and marijuana legalization and grown unsupportive of the death penalty. But there’s one issue that’s effectively stagnated, evenly dividing the electorate, with no signs of budging: abortion. Twenty years ago, 56 percent of the country favored legal abortion. Today, that number is 57 percent, with minimal…

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was awarded more than $580,000 in damages and medical expenses on Wednesday in his lawsuit against the neighbor who tackled him and broke several of his ribs in a dispute over lawn maintenance. A jury in Bowling Green, Kentucky, deliberated less than two hours before delivering the award to the Republican lawmaker who had been attacked while doing yard work at his Kentucky home. Paul had…

It’s hard to comprehend temperatures of minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s much, much colder than the temperature the standard home freezer keeps food at (which is around zero). At -20°F vodka freezes and boiling water will instantly turn to snow if thrown in the air. Combined with wind, this kind of cold causes frostbite to set in on exposed skin in just minutes. It’s a temperature comparable to the weather…

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Tuesday’s testimony was linked to the release of the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment,” a report to Congress that ranks threats to American national security from around the world and provides the public with an unclassified and up-to-date summary of the most pressing threats. Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, had told lawmakers that North Korea’s leaders “ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival.” He said that there…

The company’s weekly updates are sent to its store locations, where management initials the document, “essentially agreeing to deploy whatever instructions the update holds,” said one shift supervisor, who reached out to HuffPost after a callout on Twitter. 

Video Conference committee to begin negotiations on border security funding after government reopens A bipartisan committee of House and Senate lawmakers met for the first time on Wednesday afternoon, aiming to work out a deal on border security. But Democrats and Republicans both dug in over whether new physical barriers are a necessary element. Though both sides expressed optimism they could reach a deal that would stop the government from shutting down again, Democrats…

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Video When can Venezuela expect ousted President Maduro to step down? Asymmetrica CEO Vanessa Neumann says that constitutionally opposition leader Juan Guaidó is the new president of Venezuela. Several liberal Democrats are speaking out against the Trump administration’s stance against Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro — even describing the support for opposition leader Juan Guaido as a “US backed coup” — despite bipartisan support elsewhere for the administration’s actions. The Trump administration announced last…

The tequila, for the record, was what Colbert called “that liberal George Clooney tequila,” referring to the actor’s Casamigos brand. 

More than 36,000 pounds of chicken nuggets are being recalled after Tyson Foods said it received complaints about rubber material in their product. The company said the recall impacts its 5-pound plastic packages of Tyson White Meat Panko Chicken Nuggets. According to a recall notice posted on the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service website, the affected products were produced on Nov. 26 and have a “BEST IF USED BY”…

The massive cold weather front descending over the Midwest this week has commentators straining for analogies (“Deep Freeze,” “Arctic Outbreak” and “Ice Age”) and at least some people wondering what has become of global warming. President Donald Trump and radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh seemed bemused by the notion that the climate is warming at a time when most of America will be hunkering down against sub-freezing temperatures. But climate authorities,…

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Video Over 2,500 cases of potential citizenship fraud being investigated by US immigration officials The Texas secretary of state confirmed on Tuesday that it is working with election officials to winnow down the list of tens of thousands of registered voters going back to 1996 that the state’s attorney general said on Friday were noncitizens, after a fierce backlash from liberal groups that questioned the accuracy of the claims. Officials in the state made the bombshell…

Video Is there a chance for a peaceful transfer of power in Venezuela?  About 20 tons of gold from Venezuela’s central bank was ready to be hauled away Tuesday on a Russian airline’s Boeing 777 that landed in Caracas a day earlier, a Venezuelan lawmaker wrote on Twitter. The destination of the $840 million in gold bars was unknown, but a source told Bloomberg News that it represented about 20 percent of the…

In one of his signature on-air rants Monday, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson railed against special counsel Robert Mueller as a danger to democracy, claiming last week’s arrest of Roger Stone was an over-the-top show of force. “Nobody controls Robert Mueller,” Carlson said. “Mueller can send armed men to your home to roust you from bed at gunpoint just because he feels like it, and there’s nothing you or anyone else…