Something terrible happened on Halloween night in the San Francisco suburb of Orinda. A raucous house party in a mansion erupted into chaos when one or more people began shooting. When it was all over, five people were dead and others sustained serious injuries. There have still been no arrests. What sets this apart from

Ever since the bombshell 2017 New York Times report about strange, unidentified craft flying in our military airspace, a number of pilots have been coming forward with their own stories. Many were military pilots of fighter jets or members of their shipboard support crew, but an increasing number of commercial pilots have been going public

Warren claims her tax hikes aren’t going to cost the middle-class anything, but some of her fellow Democrats worry it could cost the party seats in Congress. Politico reports that moderate Dems are dreading having to explain $20 trillion in new taxes to voters: The most-vulnerable Democrat in Colorado’s state House, Bri Buentello, is dreading

There seem to be another one of these stories cropping up every week. The state of California has been waging a war on the gig economy for quite a while now and they may wind up winning, assuming they can drive the companies involved (along with most of their workers) out of the state. Uber,

Blizzard’s annual gaming convention, Blizzcon, kicked off today at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. As expected, there were protests over the company’s mistreatment of a Hong Kong gamer who made a comment supporting freedom in Hong Kong during a live-stream. The protesters gathered outside of the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday afternoon, the first

Have you seen this term floating around? Latinx is supposed to be a gender-neutral version of Latino/Latina. It’s supposedly more inclusive because it doesn’t separate people into the now forbidden binary categories of men or women, so it has been championed by the woke left. But it turns out Latinos/Hispanics don’t really like it very

The myth of Joe Biden’s ascendancy has begun to unravel, especially in Iowa. For most of the year, the former VP has dominated in national and state polling for the Democratic presidential nomination, but his polling has sputtered recently. Today’s New York Times/Siena poll knocks Biden all the way down to the fourth position —

A few days old but still newsworthy, as it may be the first new tax in modern American history to be proposed by Senate Republicans. Well, one Senate Republican. Who represents a state that dominates college basketball, weirdly enough. If college athletes are going to make money off their likenesses while in school, their scholarships

I thought the “Katie Hill, feminist martyr” news cycle would arrive sooner, but it’s here now in any event. Thanks to Katie Hill herself. I will never shirk my responsibility for this sudden ending to my time here. But I have to say more, because this is bigger than me. I am leaving now because

Maybe there was a quid pro no? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Fox News Channel’s Martha MacCallum to address reports that some mentions of the Bidens had been excised from the transcript of the call between Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Pompeo continued to insist that he never heard anything approaching a quid

Well, in one poll. Not in the polling average, which is a better indicator of the true state of the race. But it’s noteworthy that Gabbard would lead her in any poll at any stage of the race given widespread predictions that Harris would contend seriously for the nomination and that Tulsi would be a

The economy seems to be losing some overall steam in today’s advance estimate of economic growth for the third quarter, but the real problems might be in the details. The gross domestic product grew at only a 1.9% annualized rate, the third time in the last four quarters that it hit at or below 2.0%.

Perhaps this informant deserves the $25 million just for the guts it took to stick around. A Sunni Arab insider provided the key to unlock an operation to capture or kill ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Washington Post reported last night, adding to a legend that includes a panty raid and plenty of other

My question is inspired by this strange op-ed from the unlikely duo of Anthony Scaramucci and Lanny Davis. You know all about Mooch; Davis, as you probably know, was a longtime Clinton crony who ended up representing Michael Cohen during his Trump-fueled legal troubles last year. Not a pair of guys whom you’d expect to

The whole thing is just eight double-spaced pages (with very narrow margins) so dive in. The good news for Republicans is that two — and maybe three — of their core complaints about the House process are being addressed here. One: They objected that there was no formal vote authorizing the inquiry. This resolution, affirming

The eyes of Texas — and Politifact — are on Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and his attempts to eat his cake and have it too on firearms confiscation. The Houston Chronicle and its partner Politifact Texas reported last night that O’Rourke’s claim that “I’m not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns” is a flat-out lie. The rating

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson created a stir over his refusal to attend President Trump’s speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s annual convention. Johnson said it didn’t “line up with” the city’s core values, or his own, either. “With some of our communities under seige, it just doesn’t line up with our

Early Mondy morning the Getty fire near Los Angeles began burning homes in Brentwood and burning up to the edge of the 405, one of southern California’s biggest freeways. Because of high winds, as many as 10,000 structures are under threat: A brush fire fanned by Santa Ana winds erupted in the hills above the

While this was entirely predictable, the media pushback on President Trump’s announcement of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has really been something to see. It was already starting on cable news yesterday morning before the President had even finished taking questions about how the ISIS leader died like a dog, but deep-diving think pieces

The Trump administration may have broken federal law by not informing Congress about the operation taking out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. FOX’s Chris Wallace pressed Vice President Mike Pence this morning on why the administration didn’t let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi know about the raid (video starts 9:53 in). [embedded content] Pence dodged the

Several Democrats had to hit reverse yesterday from their criticism of Donald Trump’s use of the word “lynching” to describe the impeachment push against him. Within hours, research showed that some of the same Democrats stampeding toward microphones to excoriate Trump used the term to describe criticism against other Democrats in the past. That includes,

At first blush, the new NBC/Survey Monkey poll on impeachment and removal if Donald Trump tells pretty much the same story as the others since the eruption of Ukraine-Gate. In this case, Americans split evenly on the question, 49/49, which is more or less in line with all of the others. Democrats overwhelmingly support impeachment

One of the constant media themes over the past couple of years has been the story of how terrible Donald Trump’s trade wars with various countries – particularly China – have been for farmers in the midwest. They are allegedly further angered by the President’s “favors” to the oil and gas industry in the form

As the House impeachment inquiry spins away in secret but hardly in quiet, Donald Trump and his allies are starting to notice a silence that’s been out in the open. They apparently expected Lindsey Graham to use his perch as Senate Judiciary chair to push back against the House effort, but up to now Graham

Maybe that cease-fire yesterday wasn’t quite as permanent as Donald Trump suggested. In fact, Defense Secretary Mark Esper admitted earlier today in Brussels, the Turks are making the situation in Syria exponentially worse. “Turkey has put us all in a very terrible situation,” Esper told a conference before a NATO summit, and is “heading in

It’s too early for congratulations, Donald Trump admits, but his presser this morning definitely had the look of a victory lap. Trump announced that the temporary cease-fire between Turkey and the Kurdish forces in Syria has now been made permanent in a new agreement. Trump insisted that his decision to abruptly withdraw from the contested

Has the White House begun to realize it needs to answer the populist resentment against Wall Street as well as the Beltway? Earlier today, Reuters reported that the Department of Justice has started taking serious steps to pursue anti-trust actions, at least against the tech giants. The administration added a deputy Attorney General, with a

Perhaps this difference in the latest Morning Consult poll highlights the political dangers of putting popular concepts into hard reality. Donald Trump campaigned energetically on the argument that the US had overextended itself into too many places and needlessly entangled itself in foreign conflicts without any direct benefit. On that point, Trump finds two-thirds of

You’ve probably heard the word “lynching” a bunch of times today. It started this morning when President Trump used the word in a tweet about impeachment: So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness

How can that be? Those two trends in CNN polling would appear to be at least somewhat contradictory, but that neglects the impact of the magic elixir of American politics — partisanship. For the first time in CNN’s series on impeachment, support for Donald Trump’s removal from office has hit 50%, at the same time