Report: Company tells radio hosts stop stolen election talk

January 11, 2021 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The ownership group for several talk radio hosts across the country, including syndicated figures like Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, says its personalities need to tone things down...

ICE head denounces political vitriol, apologizes for tweet

By COLLEEN LONGNovember 15, 2018 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told senators Thursday that employees' morale has suffered because of the bitter political climate, and he apologized for sending a tweet in 2015 that suggested renaming the Democratic Party as the "NeoKlanist" party.

Conservative publisher wants nothing more to do with Times

By DAVID BAUDERSeptember 4, 2017 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A company that publishes books by Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and other conservative authors says it wants nothing to do anymore with The New York Times and its best-seller list.

Regnery Publishing said on Monday it will no longer recognize the Times' accounting of book sales, meaning its writers can no longer claim to be "New York Times best-selling authors." That's a big deal in the book business.

Sessions on Hawaii remark: ‘Nobody has a sense of humor’

April 23, 2017 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions says "nobody has a sense of humor anymore."

That's his assessment after drawing ire for seeming to dismiss the state of Hawaii as merely "an island in the Pacific."

Last week, Sessions criticized a federal judge's ruling in Hawaii that blocked the Trump administration's immigration ban.

Hawaii lawmakers criticize Sessions’ island judge remarks

By AUDREY McAVOYApril 21, 2017 GMT

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's Democratic lawmakers on Thursday criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions after he expressed amazement on a radio show that a "judge sitting on an island in the Pacific" could stop the president's travel ban.

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono responded by trying to give Sessions a civics lesson on Twitter, saying Hawaii has been a U.S. state for 58 years.