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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.
President Barack Obama sounded the alarm on midterm elections again Thursday, warning that the party's candidates will get "clobbered" in November unless they encourage their constituencies to get out the vote.
Abe Lincoln was no "Washington stiff," so he wouldn't have had a problem with reaching out to "regular folks" through a Funny or Die video, President Barack Obama said Thursday.
Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps died before midnight Wednesday at age 84, his children Tim Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper confirmedto Kansasnews outlets.
A New Jersey teenager apparently obsessed with 1 World Trade Center managed to bypass security and sneak onto the roof of the tower early Sunday for an epic photo session, the New York Post reported.
President Barack Obama may be a tad sore about having his record for the most-retweeted tweet in history broken by Ellen DeGeneres and a cast of Hollywood stars.
A Virginia state senator who referred to the problem of expanding Medicaid in the state as a "tar baby" said Wednesday that he didn't mean anything "racial" by the term.
As Texas Democrats zero in on Attorney General Greg Abbott's (R) stance toward the gender wage gap, a campaign spokesman said that if Abbott were governor he wouldn't sign legislation making it easier for women to bring a pay discrimination suit.