Why did some internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emails discuss The Young Turks and Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings? Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz discuss on TYT. Read more here from Jason Leopold of Truthout: http://truth-out.org/news/item/10634-dhs-on-rolling-stone-reporter-michael-hastingss-ows-report-he-can-be-provocative-help-him-understand-our-mission Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://bit.ly/TYTonYouTube Like Us on Facebook: Follow Us …

“the International Volleyball Federation announced back in March that it would no longer require women’s beach volleyball players to compete in bikinis. For the first time ever in Olympic competition—beach volleyball joined the program in 1996—female players will be allowed to wear shorts and sleeved, midriff-concealing tops. The new regulations …

“Warning: The video attached that has just been obtained by the media can be quite disturbing to some viewers. As written earlier, a restaurant owner in the Logan section of Philadelphia was arrested and charged on Thursday with multiple counts of animal cruelty after Police observed the actions on video…Images …

“Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) and former 2012 GOP presidential hopeful doesn’t think the Freeh report tells the whole truth on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more here from Tyler Kingkade on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/santorum-blasts-freeh-report-psu_n_1710702.html Support …

“Sarah Palin on Tuesday disagreed with Dick Cheney’s assertion that the Republican Party had made a “mistake” by putting her on the 2008 ticket and then mocked the former Vice President Dick Cheney for shooting his friend in the face in 2006…”.* Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz discuss on The …

“…Monday he [Mitt Romney] gave a speech in which he very clearly said that Israel’s economic success relative to the Palestinians came down to “culture.” It turns out, we later learn, that he said exactly this in a 2010 book. So it’s not something that just flew out of his …

“Nearly 600,000 people have confirmed their participation in Mike Huckabee’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, per the event’s Facebook page. The former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister organized the event to express support for the fast-food chain in the aftermath of backlash sustained due to anti-marriage-equality remarks made by Chick-fil-A’s president and …

“Mitt Romney’s plan to overhaul the tax code would produce cuts for the richest 5 percent of Americans — and bigger bills for everybody else, according to an independent analysis set for release Wednesday. The study was conducted by researchers at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a joint project of …

Sarah, an 11-year-old cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo, set a new world speed record this summer during a shoot for National Geographic magazine. She first earned the title of world’s fastest land mammal in 2009 when she covered 100 meters in 6.13 seconds, breaking the previous mark of 6.19 seconds …

Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta set a new world record in the 200m breaststroke with a time of 2:07:28, just holding off Michael Jamieson, local British hero. American Nathan Adrian edged out Aussie James Magnusson ever so slightly to add to Team American Rebecca Soni went ahead and set a new 200m …