Brendan O'Connor · 01/18/16 08:00PM

“You don’t need to have filed a thirty-six-million-dollar suit against law enforcement to be detained, denied basic rights, and have evidence planted on your person or property. Among other things, simply being black can suffice.”

RNC Cuts Ties With NBC, Cries Over Wet Pee-Pee Diap

Brendan O'Connor · 01/18/16 06:55PM

Seeking more hard-hitting questions, the Republican National Committee has decided to pull February’s “Super Tuesday” debate from NBC News, CNN Money reported, and will partner with CNN instead. The RNC debate committee voted unanimously to end NBC’s involvement.

Three Americans Kidnapped in Baghdad: Reports

J.K. Trotter · 01/18/16 11:32AM

At least three Americans were kidnapped by militants in southern Baghdad on Saturday, according to several American and Iraqi news outlets. An unnamed official of the city’s police force confirmed the group’s disappearance to The Washington Post on Sunday evening, but their precise identities, and why exactly they were kidnapped, were initially unclear:

Declassified Documents: U.S. Military Bombed the Nazi Germany Oil Refinery That Fred Koch Helped Build

Andy Cush · 01/18/16 10:42AM

Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from the book: allied forces bombed the refinery during World War II.

Welcome to the Donald Trump MLK Day Speech Disaster Liveblog

Ashley Feinberg · 01/18/16 10:32AM

Today at 10:30 a.m., in the year of Lord 2016, Donald John Trump, Sr. will take to the stage at weaponized Christianity training institute Liberty University to give a speech about... something. Presumably Martin Luther King, Jr. will be involved, as will one of Donald Trump’s favorite books, the Bible. And of course, freedom.