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More than 150 years after Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” the party that he helped to found is hopelessly divided against itself, at least when it comes to appointing a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The issue came to a head last week when Sen.... Read Original Article

Sen. Marco Rubio refused to answer questions on Thursday about whether he thought Donald Trump could keep America safe or serve as a good role model for children.

When reporters at a press conference in Naples, Florida, asked Rubio about the Republican presidential nominee, he did his best to avoid alienating both the factions of the GOP that adore their candidate and those that despise him.... Read Original Article

Michael Moore is distancing himself from Donald Trump’s recent praise, saying that the Republican presidential nominee is mischaracterizing both what he said and his latest documentary, “Michael Moore in TrumpLand.”

Appearing on Fox News with Megyn Kelly on Thursday night, Moore took issue with Trump who said that he agreed with Moore’s statement that the Republican’s campaign is “going to be the biggest fuck you ever recorded in human history.... Read Original Article

A 100-year-old African American woman was nearly denied her right to vote in North Carolina.

According to her nephew, Grace Bell Hardison “loves to vote. She will not miss election time.” But weeks before early voting started in North Carolina, she was informed that her voter-registration status was being challenged, according to a report from The Nation Thursday.... Read Original Article

Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the right-wing militants who last winter engaged in an armed takeover of a federally owned wildlife sanctuary in Oregon, were acquitted Thursday.

The militants, along with five co-defendants, were all found not guilty of federal conspiracy and weapons charges in their trial. Team Bundy had insisted that they were merely protesting the federal government and did not pose a threat to the general public, a contention with which the jury apparently agreed.... Read Original Article

Walmart is adding so-called “holiday helpers” to its 4,500 American stores for the holiday season.

In what is perhaps an effort to continue improving its chronically weak customer satisfaction scores, Walmart is inviting employees to be “holiday helpers” by wearing yellow vests, Santa hats, and red sashes and assist consumers in reducing check out time.... Read Original Article

During an earnings call on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he has three main goals for his electric car company while getting in a healthy dose of smack talk against various competitors.

Musk’s three main goals for Tesla are to make sure that the Model 3, the fourth car to be launched in the company’s history, is finished on time and can be priced at an affordable rate; to advance Tesla’s autonomous vehicle software, which has been criticized for being unsafe; and improving the company’s high-energy battery pack for its cars.... Read Original Article

Rocker Ted Nugent referred to Hillary Clinton as a “devilbitch” in a Facebook post that came moments after sharing a campaign video for Republican Donald Trump in which the performer was featured.

“The devilbitch hates everything good about America! VOTE TRUMP!” Nugent declared while promoting an National Rifle Association attack ad against the Democratic nominee Clinton.... Read Original Article

Donald Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin is well-known, but soon he and the despot may share something else — a deep antipathy from the Russian feminist punk art collective known Pussy Riot.

In their NSFW new music video, “Make America great again,” Pussy Riot depicts a dystopian future in which Trump has been elected president.... Read Original Article

Chipotle is planning on revamping its menu, customer service, and marketing strategy in order to reverse the negative trend that has afflicted the company since last year’s e. coli outbreak, according to a corporate call with Wall Street analysts on Tuesday.

The new strategy includes adding desserts to Chipotle’s menu, altering their digital ordering system so as to provide faster service, and advertising their brand in a more aggressive fashion, one that will almost certainly include the franchise’s first ever nationally televised ads.... Read Original Article

Twitter is ending vine, the company wrote Thursday in Medium post.

“Nothing is happening to the apps, website or your Vines today,” Twitter wrote. “We value you, your Vines, and are going to do this the right way. You’ll be able to access and download your Vines. We’ll be keeping the website online because we think it’s important to still be able to watch all the incredible Vines that have been made.... Read Original Article

Hillary Clinton hasn’t even been elected president yet, but the Republican head of the House Oversight Committee is already determined to mire her in lots of investigations.

“It’s a target-rich environment,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz said during an interview in the suburbs Salt Lake City. “Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up.... Read Original Article

In response to Donald Trump’s threats that the general election will be “rigged,” the Trump campaign has been pushing for a voter-watching squad. That plan is now coming under fire.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a request that a federal court hold the Republican National Committee in contempt of court for violating a consent decree proscribing the types of voter intimidation that Donald Trump is now encouraging, according to a Talking Points Memo report Wednesday.... Read Original Article

During a soon-to-be-controversial interview with Good Morning America that aired Thursday morning, Donald Trump deflected criticism that he has focused more on his business ventures than winning the election and insisted that he knew more about military situations than experts and veterans’ families.

“I built one of the great hotels of the world.... Read Original Article

WikiLeaks has released a 2011 memo by top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band which revealed him using his firm, Teneo, to pressure many of the corporations that donated to the Clinton Foundation’s charity to also privately enrich the former president.

In a memo written for the law firm Simpson Thatcher, Band bragged about how Teneo managed to raise “well over $150 million, much of it from people who did not know President Clinton when he was in office.”... Read Original Article

Sen. Ted Cruz is suggesting that Senate Republicans may decline to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year.

“There will be plenty of time for debate on that issue; there is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices,” the senator from Texas told reporters while campaigning for Republican candidates on Wednesday.... Read Original Article

The campaign of Donald Trump, who has been complaining that the election is rigged against him, is admitting that he’s doing everything he can to suppress voters who won’t vote for him.

A senior official admitted that the campaign has “three major voter suppression operations under way,” according to a report from Bloomberg, which focused on the campaign’s “Project Alamo,” a digital database and get-out-the-vote foundation.... Read Original Article