‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement  —  Video: “I am Chelsea Manning.  I am female,” explains the Army private via a statement read on TODAY Thursday.  Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for leaking classified government documents.

GOP poll finds strong opposition to government shutdown  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE  —  A new poll done for Republican members of Congress has found huge public opposition, and solid opposition among Republicans, to the idea of shutting down the government over the issue of funding Obamacare.

Justice Department to File New Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Voter I.D. Law  —  The Department of Justice announced today that it will file a new lawsuit against the State of Texas, the Texas Secretary of State, and the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety …

Tom Coburn: Obama “Getting Perilously Close” To The Standard For Impeachment  —  “If it continues, I think we're going to have another constitutional crisis in our country in terms of the presidency.”  —  View Video ›  —  Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday …

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign  —  San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to resign as part of a deal reached this week with city officials, NBC 7 News has learned.  —  Filner, spotted leaving City Hall with packing boxes Wednesday night, will formally vacate the office following …

No, Chris Lane is not Trayvon Martin!  —  The white conservative media thinks it's found its “Trayvon Martin in reverse, only worse.”  Are you kidding me?  —  The white conservative media believes it has its own Trayvon Martin in the case of Chris Lane, an Australian baseball player …

Speaking in Raleigh, Colin Powell blasts North Carolina voting law  —  UPDATED: With Gov. Pat McCrory in the audience, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.

Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College  —  President Obama plans to announce a set of ambitious proposals on Thursday aimed at making colleges more accountable and affordable by rating them and ultimately linking those ratings to financial aid.  —  A draft of the proposal …

Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax  —  One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter …

White House to hold roundtable on bisexual issues  — Stumble upon something good?  Share it on StumbleUpon  — Send via Email  — Send this page to Print Friendly  —  The White House is set to hold a roundtable on bisexual issues (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key).

Nasdaq Market Halts Trading  —  Large Chunk of U.S. Stock Market Paralyzed by Technical Problem  —  A trading halt on the Nasdaq Stock Market neared an hour after an unexplained technical issue, paralyzing the market for thousands of securities and raising new questions about the robustness …

Rasmussen Reports Announces a Change in Management  —  For Immediate Release  —  Asbury Park, NJ, August 22, 2013 — The Rasmussen Reports, LLC Board of Directors today confirmed that founder Scott Rasmussen left the company last month.  In part, the move reflects disagreements over company business strategies.

Sparks fly after Sen. Marble's ‘chicken’ comment in poverty hearing  —  DENVER — Democratic lawmakers couldn't believe their ears as they listened to Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, deliver a long soliloquy explaining that more blacks and Hispanics live in poverty, in part, because of fried chicken.

Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’  —  Faulty seals on the storage tanks at Fukushima are said to be the source of the most recent leak  —  A nuclear expert has told the BBC that he believes the current water leaks at Fukushima are much worse than the authorities have stated.

Some Newly Uncovered Nixon Comments on the Subjects of Jews and Black People  —  Richard Nixon was like many a Millennial (or middle-aged politician) who's gotten busted for sending racy emails or sexts — even though he knew everything he was saying would be archived forever, he still said really inappropriate things.