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The former vice president had a somewhat confusing answer when asked about his political future.

Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, who built a massive house with staircases to nowhere and over 100 rooms. Some believe it was designed to confuse the ghosts that dwell inside.

The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says that she believes in “both sides of the science” regarding climate change.

Meet Cheech! The internet can't get enough of this Texas pup's goofy smile.

California's top judge wants to do away with the state's cash bail system, which critics say keeps poor people behind bars while wealthier suspects can pay for their freedom.

I wrote this last night.

30 years ago today, John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness was released.

That means that 30 years ago tonight, I was at the AMC 10 in Burbank.

Today, that part of Burbank is filled with businesses and chain restaurants and street performers. 30 years ago, there was the theater, a parking garage, a Fuddrucker’s (that’s still there and still terrible), and not much else. It was quiet when you went outside, especially after a movie that started late.

We went to a show that started around 10 or 1030pm. The air was cool, and it was so foggy, we couldn’t see the streetlights, just their glow. I went with three of my friends, who were all older than me and could drive. We listened to Van Halen in the car.

I remember that the movie wasn’t what I wanted it to be, and I was disappointed. It wasn’t scary, and the effects seemed cheesy. I wanted it to scare me the way The Thing scared me, and it didn’t do that. But it was foggy as hell that night, which is something that doesn’t happen in Burbank very often, and that made the post-showing silence especially eerie, and worth the drive. The walk to the car was more satisfying to me than the movie was.

On the way home, we went on streets instead of the freeway, because it would take us longer to get home that way, and that’s what being out at night with your friends is about when you’re fifteen. We listened to Some Great Reward on the way home. I lamented that the girl I had a huge crush on would never know I existed, and my friend, Ryan, told me (as he always did) to go talk to her or shut up about it forever. We drove through Glendale and Montrose, and on the way up the hill to my house, we drove out of the fog. I remember looking out toward Los Angeles when we got out of the car, and seeing that blanket of fog, broken by the Verdugo mountains, glowing orange from the streetlights beneath it. I remember wishing the movie had lived up to the atmosphere. I remember wishing that I’d asked Hailey to go with me to the movie.

Tonight, it’s hot and dry outside, and I am in the home I own, that I bought with my wife. I drove my Mini today and listened to Depeche Mode. My wife is asleep in our bed. Our son is asleep in our guest room. I feel like that teenager I was thirty years ago isn’t even a real person, just a foggy memory that’s painful to visit more often than it is not.

A lot of my teens blurs together, because I worked all the time and I was so unhappy, I spent my twenties trying to forget them. But this is one of the things that I can remember pretty clearly, because of the fog.

The fog. In literary symbolism, we use fog to represent mystery, the inability to see clearly, and uncertainty. It’s interesting to me that the fog is the only reason I can remember anything about that night, thirty years ago, and that tonight I can recall so much of it so clearly.

Time is weird. Memory is weird. Life is strange.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the war of words between President Trump an Sen. Bob Corker was not a topic of discussion during the GOP lunch

It's sure to be a memorable Howloween!

A two-day hearing will be held at the State Capitol starting Tuesday in an effort to decide if California is ready for universal health care and who would be paying for it.

It's Digaster longmani, an Australian species that can grow to over 3 feet in length.

All five former living US Presidents attended "Deep from the Heart: The One America Appeal" at Reed Arena at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Trump, in his comments, referenced Franklin's proposal that the Constitutional Convention begin each day with prayer as part of a list of public appeals to or recognitions of God, offering it as evidence that this is a religious nation. Franklin, Trump said, "reminded his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention to begin by bowing their heads in prayer." And that much, I suppose, is true.Click through to read more!

This is conservative Christian logic. It's not supposed to make any sense.

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The Gold Star father who made headlines last year after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention has a new memoir, An American Family, about growing up in Pakistan and coming to America.

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The former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has no idea how laws work.

Of all the reasons I despise Donald Trump, his pseudo-Christianity isn't high on the list.

This isn't a legal issue, but it certainly is an ethical one.

The "rhythm method" isn't effective.But the Trump administration doesn't care about science or facts, so here we are.

Americans really love their Chick-fil-A.

Why We Must All Fight for the Dream Act.

By repealing DACA – Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals – Trump has endangered both these young immigrants and the economic security of America.

In 2012, the Obama  administration created DACA as a temporary way to address the needs of young people who came to America as infants or toddlers, and know no other country.  

To apply and qualify for DACA, these young people had to risk entering the system by giving their identifying information. Once approved, they were granted two years of “deferred action” on deportation, with the promise that they could reapply every two years indefinitely.

This allowed “dreamers” to go to college, get a job, and pay taxes without fear of deportation. DACA was never perfect, but for 800,000 immigrant youth it meant freedom from fear and an opportunity to fully contribute to the country they were raised in. 

But now these young people are threatened with deportation. 

For no reason. These young people are not taking jobs away from native-born Americans.  Even the conservative Cato Institute has said that the economic cost of cancelling DACA would be $200 billion over ten years.  And that’s just direct costs. The Center for American Progress estimates that if we lost these young workers the U.S. gross domestic product would shrink by $433 billion over the next decade.

The moral case is even more compelling than the economic one.

These kids grew up in America. To enter the DACA program they already had to step forward and show that they were contributing  to their communities and then prove it again every two years to stay in the program. It is immoral to now put them in the crosshairs of deportation.

This is just the latest effort by Trump to play to his base and divide us, but we must not allow that. Americans of all races and creeds must push congress to pass the Dream Act, and allow these young people to become American citizens – without the Act being a bargaining chip for more border security or anything else. 

These DACA young people are our neighbors, our colleagues, and our classmates. They represent the the best of the dream that my parents and most of our ancestors had when they came to America:  To make a better life for themselves, and for their kids.  Trump’s attempt to divide us and fuel our differences along racial and ethnic lines is an attack on the America I believe in, and we must not let it stand.  

That’s why the DACA fight is my fight, and why I stand with the dreamers – and I hope you will too.

This makeup artist makes already beautiful women feel even better about themselves.

"I thought 'How is he going to eat or drink?'...Or, you know, pay, if he needs to pay his water bill or anything."

Sacramento leaders make pitch for second Amazon headquarters

This video, filmed by from a drone, shows a community in Santa Rosa decimated by the fire.

A congresswoman claims that Trump told the widow "he knew what he signed up for," but the president says that was "totally fabricated."

Dolly says she used to regret not having kids with husband Carl Dean.

At the California Capitol, sexual harassment training has been mandatory for lawmakers and staffers since 1992 in the Senate and 1993 in the Assembly. Yet despite the rules, requirements and protocols put into place, there are still stories of abuse. In an open letter sent to the Los Angeles Times, 140 women who work at the Capitol, including lawmakers, lobbyists and staffers, outlined many incidents of groping, touching and inappropriate comments by men -- highlighting a culture of sexual harassment in the legislature.

The Florida woman is standing by her claims, but she says it shouldn't detract from what she's done on Earth since then.