“Dennis Rodman is headed back to North Korea to help train its Olympic basketball team for an invitational game to be staged in Pyongyang early next year, in spite of the political drama currently unfolding the isolated nation. Last week, leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle and supposed mentor, Jang Song …

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“Bill O’Reilly has come to the defense of fellow Fox News host Megyn Kelly, insisting that Santa Claus “was a white person” and putting an ideological spin on the controversy she set off…”.* Also, was Jesus white? Finally, did a Salvation Army bell ringer outside of Wal Mart wage war …

“A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s phone records dragnet is unconstitutional, but does it vindicate Edward Snowden’s leaks? Glenn Greenwald and CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin clashed over that very question with Anderson Cooper Monday night, with Toobin arguing that Snowden had plenty of options other than leaking …

“Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree dissolving state-run news agency RIA Novosti and state-owned Voice of Russia radio, and appointed ultraconservative television anchor Dmitry Kiselyov to head a newly-formed media conglomerate…In an article published on the RIA Novosti website, which is still functioning, the agency called the …

We’re seven months away from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil., but no time like the present to preview the draw and offer up some analysis and predictions leading up to the planet’s premiere football tournament. KickTV’s Jimmy Conrad and Matt Ufford of SB Nation do just that, beginning with …

“Republican leaders and several hard-right groups are displaying the classic signs of a political divorce, including bitter name-calling and reprisals against one another. The recent eagerness of House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lash out at groups that have given them fits has unshackled others …

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