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Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.
After waging a lengthy turf war with the federal Bureau of Land Management and offering his thoughts on the current state of "the Negro," Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided his views no longer align with the Republican Party.
Actor Seth Rogen and director Judd Apatow were up in arms Monday about a Washington Post column that linked their work to Elliot Rodger, the shooter who recently killed six people before taking his own life near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Several veterans groups tore into the ranking Republican on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee over the weekend, after the senator chided the groups for not taking a stronger stand against Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.
The father of one of the victims of a mass shooting near the University of California, Santa Barbara placed the blame for his son's death on politicians once again Monday, invoking the 2012 elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Monday's holiday didn't stop panelists on the Fox News show "Outnumbered" from tackling the issues of the day, including Senate Democrats' effort to put pressure on the National Football League to change the team name of the Washington Redskins.
"Oops!" is an understatement -- the White House exposed the name of the CIA's top spy in Afghanistan on Saturday during President Barack Obama's surprise visit with U.S. troops.
A Mississippi judge allegedly slapped a young mentally disabled black man earlier this month at a flea market and yelled "run, n----, run," the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported Sunday.