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Last night's "Saturday Night Live" was full of great impressions, starting right away with the cold opening. Abby Elliot broke out her spot-on Rachel Maddow in a sketch where she interviews John Boehn

Last night's "Saturday Night Live" did one of the best parodies of the controversial TSA pat-downs yet, turning flyers' fears of unwanted touch into a commercial for a sensual experience. What starts

POPE BENEDICT XVI: “IT IS THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF NATIONS TO GUARANTEE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OF THEIR CITIZENS REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OR THEIR ABILITY TO PAY.” At an

MADISON, Wis. — A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, i

Democrats still searching for a silver lining to the waxing they took last Tuesday can cheer up a bit. According to a new poll, the public may already be experiencing a bit of buyer’s remorse about th

IN ONE INSTANCE, BUSH RELATES THE POIGNANT DETAILS OF A MEETING BETWEEN AFGHAN PRESIDENT KARZAI AND A TAJIK WARLORD ON KARZAI’S INAUGURATION DAY. EXCEPT BUSH DIDN’T WITNESS IT BECAUSE HE WASN’T THERE

Middle School football in Texas. One team performs this amazing trick play and scores. What do you think? Fair or foul?

LEGENDARY MUSIC ICON QUINCY JONES VISITED THE COLBERT REPORT AND SHARED HIS WONDERFUL STORIES ABOUT WORKING WITH MUSIC GIANTS LIKE RAY CHARLES AND SINATRA AND HIS GRAND NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITH LUCILLE

Rachel Maddow, Nov. 9, 2010—IT WAS CALLED THE “SAVE OUR STATE” AMENDMENT TO THE OKLAHMOMA CONSTITUTION. SAVE OUR STATE FROM WHAT? FROM SHARIA LAW. Munir Awad, council of American-Islamic Relations

The votes are (mostly) counted. The Republicans have clearly and decisively won. But did the Democrats actually lose? They lost the election, certainly. And many of them lost their jobs. But the po

POLITICIANS AND PRESIDENTS HAVE TRIED AND FIALED FOR DECADES TO ENACT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. THIS TIME THEY SUCCEEDED. THEY WEREN’T GOING TO GET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. IT COST TH

On Thursday's "AC360," Anderson Cooper debunked the false story about the supposedly enormous price tag for President Obama's ten-day tour of Asia, and slammed conservative politicians and pundits for

Like any team that loses, even dethroned champions, they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get right back into it. There is another vote in two years.

Rachel Maddow and historian Michael Beschloss take a long look back at the historic accomplishments of the Democratic Congress. They showed they valued policy over politics.

WASHINGTON, October 29, 2010 -- There may be something rotten at McDonald's -- and it's not a year-old Happy Meal. The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a handbill in employees' paych

“MR. PROFITT: YOU HAVE ASKED THAT I APOLOGIZE TO YOU. THIS IS NOT THE APOLOGY YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BUT I DO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. YOU AND I ARE BOTH HUMAN BEINGS AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. THESE TWO FA

Midterm elections are an embarrassment of riches for fact-checkers — this year more than others. With Democrats fighting desperately to keep control of the House and Senate, and a torrent of money fro

I confess, I find it dispiriting to read the polls and see candidates, mostly Republicans, leading in various midterm races while promoting many of the very same ideas that got us into this mess. Am I

An off-duty police officer who got into a shootout with an armed robber as the officer was getting her hair done in a beauty salon in Brooklyn on Saturday night shot the gunman’s revolver out of his h

Jon Stewart and his news team talked about the controversy surrounding Juan Williams' firing from NPR over his comments about Muslims. Samantha Bee explained that the comments were "direct violations

A TROUBLING SIGN FOR DEMOCRATS HEADING INTO THE ELECTION IS THE TAX CUTS THEY PASSED HAVE LARGELY GONE UNNOTICED. IN A RECENT POLL FEWER THAN 1 IN 10 KNEW THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAD LOWERED T

RACHEL MADDOW: One of the unusual, unexplained things about this year's election is the absence of "Macaca' moments. There have been a lot of times when candidates say extreme things about race. But

NPR’s decision on Wednesday to fire Juan Williams and Fox News Channel’s decision on Thursday to give him a new contract put into sharp relief the two forms of journalism that compete every day for Am