Outside the Beltway

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

With Martha McSally pulling off a decisive win, Arizona Republicans managed to avoid the disaster that likely would have occurred had either Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio won last night.

Just hours before Senator McCain died, one of the candidates running for Jeff Flake’s Senate seat claimed that the McCain family released a statement about the late Senator’s health to hurt her campaign.

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has suspended football coach Urban Meyer for three games over his handling of allegations of domestic violence by an Assistant Coach dating back to 2015.

Congressman Keith Ellison won his party’s nomination for Minnesota Attorney General notwithstanding last-minute allegations of abuse against a former girlfriend.

The Republican Party’s nominee for Senator in Virginia really is as bad as you’ve heard, probably worse.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party’s Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they’ll be the ones who end up paying the price.

Make it so!

One of the biggest names in Hollywood stands accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women in yet another ground-breaking report by Ronan Farrow.

Don Blankenship, who came in third in the Republican Primary in West Virginia earlier this year, is moving forward with plans to run as a third-party candidate in the General Election.

The Thai SEALs have completed an amazing rescue effort with success.

A police officer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who tased an apparently compliant African-American man will not be disciplined by his department, and probably won’t face charges either.

The 34-year-old Facebook tycoon is now worth more than 87-year-old Warren Buffet.

Federal law protects internet companies from liability for statements written by others.

An idiot climbed the monument, wasting police resources and ruining the day for hundreds of visitors.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

Another incident involving what clearly seems to be the inappropriate use of force against an African-American man.

A Pittsburgh area police officer has been indicted on homicide charges after a video emerged that appears to show him shooting a fleeing suspect in the back

The White Male Great American Literary Novelist for the 21st Century is not a fan of modern realities.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

The dean of conservative columnists argues that the Republican Congress must be taught a lesson.

The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.

President Trump has unblocked Twitter users, but at the same time his lawyers are appealing the ruling that he can’t block Twitter users.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when he conducted a search on a vehicle parked in a Defendant’s driveway without a search warrant.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

American companies are struggling to comply with the EU’s new privacy regulation, with many outlets choosing to simply block access abroad.

A Federal Judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from reading his tweets.

The Internet is a global platform. Should every country’s laws apply to everyone using it?

New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg found himself on the receiving end of an Internet firestorm this week. His case raises some interesting questions about Internet vigilantism.

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

Some good news from North Korea.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

In a new book, Senator John McCain makes an announcement that everyone was anticipating.

Solving the problems created by neighborhood-based schools isn’t going to be easy.

Overnight, we moved to content encryption. Here’s what that means for you.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Mark Zuckerberg’s second day before Congress was somewhat more contentious than the first, but at the end of the day it’s still unclear that more regulation is the answer to the issues raised by recent Facebook “scandals.”

President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Governor Rick Scott has entered the race to challenge Bill Nelson in Florida, creating what is likely to be one of the most closely watched races of the year.

You many have noticed the array of images and links under the footer of post pages. Here’s what it is.

Another early-morning edition of Late Night OTB.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.