The Run-up: Media As Referee? Not Anymore

Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.

Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.

Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters. In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.

Forty-plus years ago, Yorkshire was quintessentially English. Today, the jihad gains power.

Reuters tries to pin something onto Trump, claiming that he's somehow involved in "massive fraud."

The drag queen community goes mainstream and it's not a pretty picture.