Earlier we heard that very weird story of a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who had allegedly confessed to some involvement with that 2011 triple murder before being shot by an FBI agent during questioning. The latest report says “it was no longer clear whether Todashev lunged at the agent with a knife.” Read More
Army Sergeant charged with secretly videotaping and photographing nude female cadets in the bathrooms at West Point.
We asked newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner whether he’d asked the Clintons for their endorsement. Here’s what he told us.
With so much other stuff going on with tornados and the FBI shooting in Florida and all the scandal talk that I suspect most of you have still heard about this. But in case not, in England yesterday two men, apparently Britons of African ancestry (they spoke with British accents) attacked an off duty soldier in broad daylight and decapitated him. Read More
A TPM reader checks in from the Boy Scouts of America’s national meeting in Texas, where the national council will vote today on whether to lift the ban on gay scouts: Read More
RNC Chair Priebus: You don’t plead the fifth if you’re innocent. Watch.
NY Gov. Cuomo: “Shame on us,” if New Yorkers elect Anthony Weiner Mayor.
Maine’s Tea Party Gov. is moving out of the State House over an argument about a flat screen TV.
A friends who’s a member in good standing of the DC scandal bar chimes in on his take on the IRS scandal …
Here’s how I see the IRS scandal at present. The biggest problem is that no one really knows the facts. Russell George is a nice and honest guy, but any IG who would let a supervisor sit in all the interviews w/her subordinates isn’t really ready for prime time. He also probably didn’t do a world class job on email review etc.