Paul Ryan—the lovable Republican, who cares in theory about poverty. Right? My friends, I’m afraid that the only thing Paul Ryan demonstrably cares about is breathtaking levels of pro-Wall Street doublespeak.

Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields today posted images of bruises allegedly left on her arm by Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who grabbed her after she attempted to ask Trump a question about affirmative action Tuesday night.

Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski is in hot water after a video of him apparently lamenting the state of LGBT equality was posted on the internet Tuesday. Speaking to a group of Christian pastors in February regarding public prayer at city council meetings, Nowakowski said:

Glenn Beck’s The Blaze has the exclusive story of how its own founder no longer thinks Matt Drudge is a cool guy, possibly because Matt Drudge has been spending too much time around Alex Jones. The Drudge-Jones alliance, Beck said, may explain negative coverage of Marco Rubio on The Drudge Report.

As American fast food breakfast innovation reaches new heights, Taco Bell’s new $1 breakfast menu manifests our nation’s deepest desire: “people really wanted bacon and they wanted it in breakfast items that cost $1.”

Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently visiting President Barack Obama at the White House. Below please find a gallery of photos from the leaders’ joint statement on climate change this morning. As The New York Times notes, this is the first time a Canadian leader has visited Washington in 19 years—how lucky! We are truly living in North America’s Belle Époque.

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed a female Breitbart reporter so hard he left bruises on her arm. But Breitbart’s official response suggests a media outlet more concerned with protecting its relationship with Trump than with protecting its own reporter.

Last week, Gawker received an anonymous tip attempting to stoke moral outrage within at least one of us, in hopes that we’d share it with the world. We receive quite a few tips of this nature, but the difference here was that the outrage was so obviously counterfeit, and so clearly calculated to get us to promote the object of that counterfeit outrage.

The New York Post must be feeling awfully proud of itself today. After devoting yesterday’s front cover to publicly shaming a homeless woman for keeping a fleet of shopping carts to hold her things, the paper has succeeded in getting the police to come and throw those things in the garbage. Great job, everyone.

At last night’s Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a group of protestors were being peacefully led out by security when a Trump supporter stood up and sucker-punched one of the protestors as he was walking by. The unprovoked attack was captured on video from multiple angles.

A new study shows that the way that CEOs of large corporations are paid is a thoroughly corrupt, disgusting, despicable process more akin to the Mafia than to a well-run business. I’m paraphrasing.

It’s day four of the Bollea v. Gawker Media jury trial in St. Petersburg, Fla. and, if you can even believe it, it’s streaming live and you can watch it right here.

“Anyone can aspire to be President of the United States, but few have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club,” Richard Nixon reportedly once said. But for a kid growing up in Sonoma County, California near the Bohemian Grove, the club’s ultra-exclusive campground, getting a service job there was easy.

Tonight’s Democratic debate featured the first explicit question on climate change (from a moderator) of the primary season, despite the fact that last year was the warmest in the United States on record. This winter has also been the warmest on record.

At tonight’s Democratic debate on Univision, moderator Karen Tumulty asked both candidates—point blank—whether or not they believed that noted racist Donald Trump was, in fact, a racist. The candidates’ collective response: Welllll.......

Donald Trump was joined at his press conference on Tuesday by a silent pile of meat—and we’re not just talking about Chris Christie. No, it was actually a pile of steaks, which Trump referred to as “Trump steaks.” Confusingly, the actual “Trump Steaks” business no longer exists.

Now that blogs are dead and everything is apps, even the great American political tradition of Capitol Hill staffers anonymously gossiping about each other (and the interns) has had to adjust: Enter Cloakroom—Yik Yak for Congress.

On Wednesday, prosecutors unveiled new charges against 19 of the 25 defendants indicted in connection with the Malheur wildlife refuge occupation. Some of those accused could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges and given the maximum sentence for each.

William F. Powell, a 27-year-old waiter at the IHOP in Downtown Brooklyn, was arrested recently for allegedly giving out about $3,000 in free beverages to customers over a seven-month period. He faces charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and petit larceny, for the crime of being a cool waiter.