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Posted at 9:00 am on June 14, 2017 by Grant Gambling Last night, Oliver Stone was interviewed by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Stone’s new Vladimir Putin Showtime series where he spent 20 hours interviewing one of the most reviled figures in geopolitics.

Posted at 8:38 pm on June 15, 2017 by Teri Christoph There hasn’t been an update on injured Republican congressman Steve Scalise for almost an entire day. Media had earlier confirmed that Scalise had undergone another surgery today and President Trump had indicated this morning that Scalise was in more danger than previously thought. MedStar Washington Hospital Center has finally issued a new update, and they have some good news. Let’s hope that there are many more reports of him improving!

Posted at 10:23 pm on June 15, 2017 by Joe Cunningham The Department of Homeland Security is officially doing away with Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, commonly referred to as DAPA, according to a release sent out this evening. Here is the release, courtesy reporter Jamie Dupree. The memo announces the rescinding of DAPA, along with canceling an expanded version of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which had granted an extended work authorization of three years, versus the two years DACA’s original plan granted.

Posted at 11:15 pm on June 15, 2017 by Jennifer Van Laar As we’ve often seen, if you belong to a group the Democrat party considers one of its constituencies (women, minorities, LGBTQ) and you have the audacity to believe in conservatism, a special ration of hate is reserved for you. Over Pride weekend, Orange County Democratic Party Vice-Chair Jeff LeTourneau lost his ever-loving mind when he heard that a person gathering signatures for a recall petition against Democrat state Sen. Josh Newman was gay.

Posted at 11:30 pm on June 15, 2017 by Joe Cunningham On a day when the people of Congress were to stand together to show the world that tragedy won’t completely tear them apart, congressional staffers could not keep their cool for just one baseball game.

Democrats soundly defeated the GOP in the annual Congressional Baseball Game Thursday night 11-2, but the score wasn’t the focus of the game that evening. Democrats and Republicans both talked about the importance of unity throughout the game, which took place one day after a gunman opened fire at a GOP baseball practice, injuring five including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). The Democrats gave the GOP their trophy to keep in Scalise’s office during his recovery.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) told CNN Thursday that President Trump will own his defense secretary's decision to send 4,000 additional troops to retake parts of Afghanistan from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). "I believe Jim Mattis will make a great decision on Afghanistan," McChrystal said hours before the announcement.

Alex Jones on Thursday released secretly-taped audio of his interview with Megyn Kelly three days before the official airing was supposed to occur on NBC.  Jones, a conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder, offered a preview of what was going to be released in a 2-minute, 20-second video clip that appears to include off-the-record conversation with the former Fox News host in Kelly. The interview is set to air Sunday. "I've never done this in 22 years, I've never recorded another journalist," Jones said in a Twitter video.

The Justice Department issued a statement Thursday night warning the media and other Americans against believing anonymous sources, and warning that the Justice Department doesn't confirm statements from unnamed officials. "Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous 'officials,' particularly when they do not identify the country - let alone the branch or agency of government - with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote Thursday. "Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegat

Democrats won the annual Congressional baseball game Thursday night, but this year the focus of the charity event had nothing to do with winners or losers. The game has been played almost every year since 1909, but Thursday’s contest held an extra layer of significance: A day earlier, a gunman had stalked the suburban baseball field where members of the Republican team were practicing.