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“Democrats are now the party that can't tell the difference between Anthony Weiner and Al Franken,” said Bill Maher at the close of Real Time on Friday night. He went on to bemoan the increasing rigidity of the Left and the increasing, well, liberalism of the Right. “Once upon a time the Right were offended by…

Bill Maher's penultimate Real Time before the holidays packed a wallop. Maher began by trying to have a civil conversation with Jenna Ellis, a Senior Legal Advisor for the Trump 2020 campaign. He thanked Ellis for being brave enough to be on the show. He then tried to allow her to state her case. Ellis ran through a…

Bill Maher lit into Amy Coney Barrett and the Catholic Church, saying the prospective Supreme Court justice has been “”groomed since birth” to overturn Roe v. Wade. As the Real Time host began tonight’s show-ending monologue about Barrett, he joked that he had nothing against Catholics “except my entire upbringing.&#8221…

The Republican version of a new pandemic economic stimulus package should arrive next week, reports indicate, as Senate GOP leaders and the White House claim to have reached agreement on what they will propose on Monday. The $600 federal unemployment benefit ends tomorrow, leaving the millions of unemployed people…

It won't confirmed until the Democrats have their National Convention in August, but tonight Joe Biden finally locked in the party's nomination to take on Donald Trump in November. Having been the last man standing in the primaries after a commanding Super Tuesday performance that saw main rival Bernie Sanders…

The Democratic National Committee announced the first four Democratic debates of 2020. CNN and The Des Moines Register will host a debate on Jan. 14 in Des Moines ahead of Iowa's caucuses; ABC News, WMUR-TV and Apple News will host in Manchester, NH, on Feb. 7, ahead of the vote there; NBC News and MSNBC, in…

UPDATED with statement from Sen. Kamala Harris: Just weeks away from the next Democratic debate in her home state, Sen. Kamala Harris of California is ending her presidential campaign — a surprise decision after her bid for the White House in 2020 faltered. Harris informed her staff of her decision to suspend her…

A hot air mass will be moving in to the Weather Channel, as the network plans a primetime special featuring conversations with presidential candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties about climate change. 2020: The Race To Save The Planet will air on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 8 PM ET and feature interviews…

Ten presidential candidates took to a New York stage Wednesday for a special CNN climate crisis town hall, and over the span of seven hours, they outlined grand plans for a sustainable future, ambitious targets for zero emissions by mid-century, and plenty of warnings of the existential threat of environmental…

California Congresswoman Katie Hill says there’s a reason the Democratic National Committee decided to block Fox News from hosting any 2020 presidential primary debates — Democratic viewers have no interest in watching the channel. “I think we know that there are basically no Democrats who watch Fox News, so to me…

Sebastian Gorka no longer is a Fox News contributor. Details remain murky, in much same way they were murky when Sorka left the White House back in August of 2017, claiming to have resigned, warning “forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House," though insiders…

A portion of the US government shuts down at midnight. That’s the final decision for this evening, as the Senate and House of Representatives have both adjourned until noon on Saturday, when they will meet again in an attempt to hash out a budget compromise. The shut-down is the third this year and comes as both sides…