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Speaking to USA TODAY, Johnson, 45, fleshed out some of the still-murky details, acknowledging there's still a lot to be worked out. But Johnson says he would eye the 2020 presidential election. "That would probably be the case, yes," he says. But "this actually never came from me," the actor points out. "It started (with) a piece in The Washington Post, and there was this kind of groundswell." It didn't hurt that the report made clear in the headline that Johnson "could actually win." People got excited about the prospect. And that has pushed Johnson.

Gene Simmons is being sued by a woman who says the Kiss bassist groped her and made “unwanted, unwarranted sexual advances” during an interview she conducted last month, according to legal documents obtained by TheWrap. The radio and television broadcaster (identified as “Jane Doe”) is suing for sexual battery, gender violence, battery and assault.

Christmas Carols played with guns

To all gravy-sucking piglets: DIE, you heathen bastards, DIE

Five months before North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006, U.S. intelligence officials sent a report to Congress warning that secret work also was underway on a biological weapon. The communist regime, which had long ago acquired the pathogens that cause smallpox and anthrax, had assembled teams of scientists but seemed to be lacking in certain technical skills, the report said. "Pyongyang's resources presently include a rudimentary biotechnology infrastructure," the report by the director of national intelligence explained. A decade later, the technical hurdles appear to be falling away. North Korea is moving steadily to acquire the essential machinery that...

When a beachgoer gave a cracker to a seagull, it turned into a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds".

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing demands for him to resign, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will make an announcement on Thursday. That's the word from the Democrat's office on Wednesday. Franken's support among his fellow Democrats is collapsing as a host of female Democratic senators called upon him to quit. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., all called on Franken to step down.

A week after NBC fired Matt Lauer, the ousted anchor is still reeling. “He is weak and broken and ashamed by his own admission,” one of Lauer’s former Today show colleagues tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “He is my friend,” the colleague adds. “He is human, and he is flawed. But is he going to use his power to be a predator on women? Until I see solid evidence of that, I just can’t believe it. We don’t know the details.” Lauer, 59, was terminated after the network received a “detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior,”...

PBS has a plan for replacing Charlie Rose's late-night interview program, and it starts with Christiane Amanpour. "Amanpour," the acclaimed journalist's existing program on CNN International, will be aired by PBS stations "on an interim basis," the public broadcasting network said Monday. The network said it is also "finalizing plans for a second public affairs program to follow 'Amanpour' on PBS in the 11:30pm half hour time slot, rounding out the hour."

SALT LAKE CITY — President Trump is expected to announce a historic reduction to Bears Ears National Monument on Monday, a sprawling region of red rock canyons in Utah that has been at the center of a national fight over how much land a president can legally set aside for protection. The Trump administration plans to announce that he will shrink the monument by between 77 and 92 percent, according to statements from the office of Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah. It would be the largest reduction of a national monument to date, and it comes as the administration...

The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, is being confined to his house by soldiers who surrounded his official and private residences, as well as other government buildings. Sources suggest Grace Mugabe, who was being positioned to eventually take over from her husband, has left Zimbabwe for Namibia. The sacked vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was reported to have returned to Zimbabwe on Wednesday morning from South Africa, where he fled after being stripped of his office. The president of neighbouring South Africa, Jacob Zuma, said he had spoken to Mugabe, who was “fine” and that he was sending special envoys to meet...

It read like something straight out of "The Onion". "Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections." So spake Mitt Romney, would-be King of the Establishment Republicans. This one sentence shows a complete betrayal of all American mores and morals. In every walk of life -- law, elections, even reputations -- Americans have cherished the concept that one is innocent until proven guilty. This shows how dangerous Establishment Republicans are. They are every bit as dangerous as the most liberal Democrat.... and if given enough freedom to act, they would happily join Democrats in rounding up and killing...

It read like something straight out of "The Onion". "Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections."So spake Mitt Romney, would-be King of the Establishment Republicans.This one sentence shows a complete betrayal of all American mores and morals. In every walk of life -- law, elections, even reputations -- Americans have cherished the concept that one is innocent until proven guilty. This shows how dangerous Establishment Republicans are. They are every bit as dangerous as the most liberal Democrat.... and if given enough freedom to act, they would happily join Democrats in rounding up and killing Conservatives.Right now,...

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) is a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San Jose State University in San Jose, California. Entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" – that is, deliberately bad. Here is my entry this year: Mackel the Dread Pirate said aloud: "Counting treasure is tedious work. I wish we had a coin counting machine like those bill counting machines in the banks in Hoboken, New Jersey" -- even though he had never been to Hoboken, New Jersey (where our story takes place), nor...

I am going to try a new concept. Everyone has heard of crowdfunding. I'm trying something new: Crowdauthoring. Everyone add their observations, thoughts, and images. I have this as the premise: Remember the old hippy/Vietnam war poster: "What If They Had a War and Nobody Came?" Well on November 4th, Antifa held a revolution, and this is the outcome:

I would like to share this EXTREMLY FUNNY exchange between bagster and I. bagster turns out to be as quick and witty as I, and it is not often I find an equal on the internet. Kudo's, bro. And thanks for the laughs! As any internet pissing match occurs, it happened all by accident. It got more uproarously funny with every exchange. With no further ado, here it is: China's Hunt for Guo Wengui Kicks off Manhattan Caper Worthy of Spy Thriller 10/24/2017 12:09:48 PM PDT · 39 of 52Lazamataz to bagster Oh, they are indeed inscrutable. Also, they have...

The Pennsylvania State Police bomb squad was called after an armor-piercing tank round was found by a jogger. The jogger flagged down police Sunday afternoon to report finding a strange object along the banks of the Susquehanna River in an area called Front Street River Walk in Harrisburg. “Officers identified the object as a possible tank Sabot projectile,” a police spokesman said. "The area was secured and notification to the Pennsylvania State Police Bomb Squad was made.”

In the wake of the Weinstein allegations of sexual misconduct, I've noticed Hillary Clinton blasting President Trump for being an 'admitted sexual assaulter' for his comments in a locker room about being able to 'grab women by the [kitty-cat]'. Leaving aside that this is not admitting the conduct, but noting the ability, the brazen hypocracy of her stating this -- what with the track record of her rapist husband, Bill Clinton -- is mindboggling and leaves me gobsmacked. However, I am a helpful person, and wish to give her a script she can follow for the next press conference. In...

Bursts of solar winds caused a huge sparkling region on Uranus, scientists observed this by using Hubble space telescope. Electrons that come from various origins such as solar winds, the planetary ionosphere and moon volcanism, when charged in the form of streams caused this, researchers from the Paris Observatory used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe this on Uranus. They were able to catch it in powerful magnetic fields and, controlled it into the upper atmosphere, where set off spectacular bursts of light when made interactions with gas particles, such as oxygen or nitrogen.

Historically, taking a knee has always been an act of submission. One took a knee when the King entered the room. One took a knee when being knighted. One took a knee during parts of a religious ceremony. I am delighted that such people as Sheila Jackson Lee and the various players of the NFL are taking knees. They are acknowledging that they are inferior to us, and that they are subservient. Thanks, folks. I mean, it was obvious already, but I like that you acknowledge it.