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For those of you who don't know who Scott Cawthon is, he is an indie game developer, a devout Christian, and the developer of Five Nights at Freddy's. Scott Cawthon was harassed into retirement from game development last month. I put together this short video that explains why gamers were upset...

India Walton claims upset in Buffalo mayoral race; Byron Brown pins hopes on absentees India B. Walton, the community activist barely known to many Buffalo voters just months ago, shocked four-term incumbent Byron W. Brown in Tuesday's Democratic primary for mayor in what may rank as the most...

This is in a history textbook for middle-schoolers used in Louisiana. I'm surprised they don't call it "the war of Northern aggression".

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — ProPublica You probably are taxed at a higher rate than most billionaires. As Warren Buffett put it in 2011: “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.”

If a police officer can justify shooting or killing someone because "they had a gun", did that person really have the right to bear arms?

Energy researcher Daniel Kammen stepped down this week as a science envoy for the U.S. State Department. In a public resignation letteraddressed to President Donald Trump, Kammen lambasted the president’s response to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also lamented what he...

A quarter of the members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, whose purview includes national cybersecurity, have resigned. In a group resignation letter, they cited both specific shortfalls in the administration’s approach to cybersecurity, and broader concerns that Trump and his...

President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio President Trump has pardoned controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a misdemeanor criminal contempt conviction. Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt earlier this summer for defying a judge's order that his deputies stop detaining...

President Trump is dropping plans to create an advisory group on infrastructure, a day after two other business panels were dissolved. The president has faced a backlash from business leaders over his remarks this week on white supremacists. A White House official said the infrastructure...

Carl Icahn relinquished his role as “special adviser” to President Trump on regulatory reform on Friday afternoon, capping a tumultuous week for the president’s circle of business counselors. Carl Icahn quits role as ‘special adviser’ to Trump

Most of President Trump’s evangelical advisers have stood by him this week following much criticism over his response to violent clashes in Charlottesville, even as several CEOs left business advisory councils and members of his Committee on the Arts and Humanities have announced they are...

A group of nearly 300 of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's college classmates from his Yale 1985 graduation class are urging him to resign, in an effort to distance himself from President Trump's remarks on violence in Charlottesville, Va. The letter, says Mnuchin has a "moral obligation" to...

All 16 of the prominent artists, authors, performers and architects on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned on Friday, the latest group to protest Donald J. Trump’s defense of white nationalists after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. 16 Members of...

President Trump’s relationship with the American business community suffered a major setback on Wednesday as the president was forced to shut down his major business advisory councils after corporate leaders repudiated his comments on the violence in Charlottesville this weekend. Trump...

Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: “Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin.” The adviser, George Papadopoulos, offered to set up “a...

No single issue has been a greater animating force for the Republican base over the past decade than immigration — except maybe the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). And with the failure of GOP health care efforts in Congress and sliding poll numbers this summer, the Trump White House seems...

Washington (CNN)Federal investigators exploring whether Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian spies have seized on Trump and his associates' financial ties to Russia as one of the most fertile avenues for moving their probe forward, according to people familiar with the investigation...

You could almost hear the intake of breath from Republicans and all sorts of establishmentarians this week. The reason: their hope that Donald Trump can transition from rabble rousing billionaire to purposeful president with the installation of retired Marine Gen. John Kelly as his chief of...

THE BIG IDEA: President Trump’s attacks on Republican senators are finally catching up with him, and Lisa Murkowski will not be bullied. -- A last-ditch effort to keep the Obamacare repeal push alive went down by a vote of 51 to 49 in the wee hours of Friday morning, with three GOP members...