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This is unbelievable—and yet not. United States intelligence officials are "quietly" asking the House and Senate to cancel public hearings on this year's World Wide Threats Assessment, the report outlining the major risks to United States security as...

Below you’ll find Daily Kos Elections’ calendar of major-party filing deadlines, primaries, and runoffs for the 2020 elections. Note that the dates listed in the first three columns below are for each state’s congressional and state primaries. The last...

All Stories Build Worlds Umberto Eco started with a river. A river has to have a bank. Two, to be precise, or it’d be an ocean. But we’re making this river freshwater, so...two banks. Okay, so ...

The famine months begin. In a year may our Blue Xmas be less so. The winter solstice, hiemal solstice or hibernal solstice, also known as midwinter, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. It happens twice yearly,...

I put my feet up on the coffee table and sighed, sipping my coco. There was a fire in the fireplace and a Freddie curled up in my lap. The lights on the tree blinked merrily, and everyone was warm ...

It’s party season.  What shall we wear?  Festive, elegant, funny, funky? perfect princess!

George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 as the unarmed black teenager was walking in the gated community his father’s fiancee lived in. Trayvon, who was on his way back from the store,...

In a major win for animal rights, the Senate unanimously passed a bill making animal cruelty a federal felony. Next step for the bill? Donald Trump’s desk. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act is a very necessary expansion on the 2010...

I saw this story pop up around midnight that, if verified by other sources - including one of the new whistleblowers they’re reporting a source told them had nothing to do with the Ukraine saga - would explain Trump’s sudden withdrawal of U.S. forces...