Ex-Clinton volunteer slammed, loses job, after swipe at widow of fallen SEAL  —  A former Hillary Clinton volunteer drew swift condemnation — and lost his job — after mocking the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL who was honored by the president during his congressional address Tuesday night.

House Republicans Announce Only Republicans Are Allowed to See New Health-Care Plan  —  Yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan boasted that his party would follow a deliberate, transparent process to repeal and replace Obamacare.  “This is how the legislative process is supposed to be designed …

The Worst Performance of Trump's Presidency Now Belongs to the Press Corps  —  The media's reaction to his speech to Congress was shameful.  —  By the time Mitt Romney selected him to be his running mate in 2012, Paul Ryan (then chairman of the House Budget Committee) had already cultivated …

7 in 10 Speech-Watchers Say Trump Boosted Optimism  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's first address to Congress received largely positive reviews from viewers, with 57% who tuned in saying they had a very positive reaction to the speech, according to a new CNN/ORC poll of speech-watchers.

CNN Reports That It Got Played On Its Not-So-Anonymous Immigration Scoop From Trump  —  SARA MURRAY: Let's just change gears entirely and talk about the bait and switch that the president pulled when it came to immigration yesterday.  He had this meeting with the anchors, he talked about a path to legal status.

Beau Biden's widow having affair with his married brother  —  MORE FROM:  —  The widow of Joe Biden's late son Beau Biden has started a romantic relationship with her former brother-in-law, Hunter Biden, the former Vice President's younger son.  —  Hallie Biden, who was devastated …

Republican PAC pumps cash into Georgia to defend Tom Price seat  —  WASHINGTON  —  A Republican super PAC will spend $1.1 million on television ads against the Democrat trying to turn a special election in Georgia into America's first referendum on President Donald Trump.

Immigrant detained after press conference  —  Moments after an immigrant spoke out about her fears of deportation, she was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.  —  Daniela Vargas, 22, was detained by ICE agents Wednesday, shortly after speaking at a news conference …

The State of Trump's State Department  —  The flags in the lobby of the State Department stood bathed in sunlight and silence on a recent afternoon.  “It's normally so busy here,” marveled a State Department staffer as we stood watching the emptiness.  “People are usually coming in for meetings …

World exclusive: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ set to make Disney history with gay character  —  Disney's live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast has quickly become one of the most eagerly anticipated movies in history, smashing records when its first trailer racked up more than 127 million views in just 24 hours last November.

GOP lawmaker: ‘Poorly dressed’ Democratic women wore ‘bad-looking white pantsuits’  —  A Republican congressman who is potentially eyeing a Senate run mocked Democratic women on Wednesday for wearing white at President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.

2017 OneYear SeismicHazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes … - © Seismological Society of America  —  ABSTRACT  —  We produce a oneyear 2017 seismichazard forecast for the central and eastern United States from induced …

Will Disney's Bob Iger Run for President in 2020?  Hollywood Friends Are Nudging  —  Iger told THR in June that “a lot of people have urged me to seek political office,” and now he's considering the prodding for him to lead the Democratic ticket.  —  Disney CEO Bob Iger already runs the world's most successful media company.

Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5°F  —  An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.

Trump Administration Sets Off Alarm Bells By Pulling Nominees To Regulatory Commissions  —  The deconstruction of the administrative state is underway.  But expect Senate Republicans to push back.  —  WASHINGTON The Trump administration has begun pulling pending nominees …

White House: Conway acted ‘without nefarious motive’ in Ivanka Trump plug  —  White House plugs Ivanka Trump's brand  —  The White House has concluded that Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, was acting “without nefarious motive” when she plugged Ivanka Trump's products in a TV interview …

The Swamp Takes Aim at Seb Gorka  —  A series of hit pieces is part of an effort to take down the White House counterterrorism adviser.  —  They've taken down General Michael Flynn.  The former Trump national-security adviser resigned under fire when a false narrative …

Watch the hilarious ad that could doom the House Republican tax plan  —  Meet the “everything tax.”  —  Major retail chains have been grumbling for months about a House Republican proposal to replace the corporate income tax with a new kind of broad consumption tax, known to wonks …

Bill Nye's Embarrassing Face-off with Tucker Carlson on Climate Change  —  It didn't end well for the ‘Science Guy.’  —  Climate-change alarmists who have been largely unchallenged by the media over the past decade have finally met their match in Fox News host Tucker Carlson.  And it ain't pretty.

House Democrats fire two IT staffers amid criminal investigation  —  Two House Democrats this week fired technology staffers linked to an ongoing criminal investigation, more than a month after the couple in question was barred from House computer networks.  —  Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) …

Where females fear to tread: KATIE HOPKINS reports from Sweden, the Scandi-lib paradise where terrified women have vanished from the streets and a conspiracy of silence and self-censorship on immigration buries the truth  —  By , KATIE HOPKINS FOR MAILONLINE  —  I didn't come to Sweden for the riots.

CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Unveils Plan to Dominate Digital: New Shows, a $25M YouTuber and Donald Trump (Of Course)  —  Amid his feud with the president ("We all know the truth"), Zucker is taking his battle for TV news dominance online with a monthly audience of 100 million and a strategy …

Bomb Threats To Jewish Centers Were Made Using “Spoofing” And Voice-Masking Technology  —  Investigators believe the perpetrators responsible for the latest wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish centers and schools around the US used sophisticated technology to shield their identity.

Oldest fossil ever found on Earth shows alien life on Mars is likely  —  It's life, but not as we know it.  The oldest fossil ever discovered on Earth shows that organisms were thriving 4.2 billion years ago, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Rubio is asked to leave Tampa office over disruption from weekly protests  —  TAMPA — Vocal crowds of demonstrators making weekly visits to the Tampa office of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio have gotten the Miami Republican booted from the building.  —  The owner of Bridgeport Center, a gleaming …

Van Jones on Trump: ‘He became President of the United States in that moment, period’  —  (CNN)Shortly after President Donald Trump addressed a Joint Session of Congress for the first time since taking the oath of office, CNN's Van Jones called one particularly moving moment from the speech …

Rep. Stephen Lynch Says Media Has Treated President Trump Unfairly  —  BOSTON - Democratic Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts said President Donald Trump's address to Congress was a “significant shift” from previous rhetoric coming from the White House, adding also that the president …