Nick Ciccone

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a decades-old agency that is supposed to work to ensure a cleaner, healthier environment for Americans. President Donald Trump appointed Scott Pruitt to head the agency in February 2017 to much criticism f…

After years of being accused of similar crimes but never convicted, Bill Cosby, 80, was found guilty Thursday, April 26, of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 14 years ago, in a high-profile retrial case. People jumped to to Twitter to share th…

It's no secret that you can tell a lot about American presidents from their archived speeches. But with the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) — a time-honored tradition that affords journalists to take a night off from speaking truth to power…

It's the day everyone but President Donald Trump waits for every year. The White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) — a time-honored tradition that affords journalists to take a night off from speaking truth to power and mingle with D.C. staffers an…

As far as federal courts are concerned, the Trump administration is not having a successful week. Teen pregnancy prevention grants got saved from the Trump administration in court, according to published reports. Still, the administration has the pot…

Ever since September 2017, when the U.S. Attorney General announced that an Obama-era immigration provision known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) would be rescinded, recipients of the program have remained totally in limbo. The lates…

French President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his three-day tour of Washington on Wednesday, April 25. Macron and his wife, Brigitte, spent the evening at the White House Tuesday night as part of the Trump administration's first state visit and state d…

Kanye West has aroused suspicion about his political leanings ever since President Donald Trump was elected. The world-renowned rapper and music producer rejoined Twitter last week, and that same suspicion became even arous-ier. Kanye West's tweets a…

Over the past few years, it's been great to see talented, low-key famous comedians getting the high-profile gig of hosting a public roast of the president and his administration at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Luckily, this year's front-wo…

President Donald Trump is getting a little ahead of himself with his latest self-praising tweetstorm about North Korea, in which he said that North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal. So, did North Korea agree to denuclearization? Trump's tw…

Presidents take vacations just like the rest of us. And why shouldn't they? It's a rough job. Despite the fact that they're completely different leaders and first families, Donald Trump's and Barack Obama's family vacations both seem pretty leisurely…

More than 40 years after the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in 1973, there's still a need for protective LGBT legislation to be passed. It's 2018, and lawmakers across the country are wo…

Time magazine published its annual list of the world's most influential people on Thursday, April 19. In it, the Parkland, Florida students-cum-gun-reform activists got a pretty high-profile shoutout. President Barack Obama praised the Parkland stude…

President Donald Trump has tools at his disposal to force an ouster of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which would effectively interrupt ongoing investigations into his former campaign officials' alleged ties to the Russian government. Whether he wil…

As if 2018 couldn't get any weirder, the weirdest event of the season is quickly approaching — the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Again, it appears, President Donald Trump will not attend, but there's a brand involved this year that you might no…

Michael Cohen, a former employee of the Trump Organization and the president's personal counsel, has a long history of being a loyal confidant to the president. But is Michael Cohen a Republican? Trump's personal lawyer reportedly voted for Barack Ob…

It was every pilot's worst nightmare. After an engine blew out on Dallas-bound Flight 1380 on Tuesday, April 17, ripping a hole in a side of the plane, she began calmly coordinating an emergency landing in Philadelphia. The day after the incident, pe…

Generally speaking, it’s easy to stand out. Some people wear loud colors or raise their voice when they want to be noticed. Others — by flashing a smile with a bit of food in their teeth or tracking toilet paper around the office — stand out despite …

It has been said that Michael Cohen would take a bullet for Donald Trump, and a newWall Street Journal report suggests that Cohen's dedication might also extend to Trump's eldest son who bears the same name. In the latest news to come out about the T…

The James Comey media blitz has begun. The former FBI director's highly-anticipated new memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, comes out Tuesday, April 17, and will be followed by a month-long book tour — likely to President Donald Tr…