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(Screen shot of now-deleted Tweet from Alexander Nazaryan's Twitter account)

Newsweek apologizes after writer compared Cruz to Nazis

Becket Adams · January 6, 2016 7:31 pm

The Washington Post's fact checker clarified Wednesday afternoon that he had not been fooled by a parody Twitter account. (Screenshot)

WaPo’s fact checker: No, I wasn’t tricked by a parody tweet

Becket Adams · January 6, 2016 6:00 pm

Samuel L. Jackson called Donald Trump out for cheating during golf games. (AP Photos)

Samuel L. Jackson accuses Trump of cheating at golf

Joshua Axelrod · January 5, 2016 8:13 pm

Rapper Wale wants to be on a presidential ticket with Jim Harbaugh, head football coach at the University of Michigan. (AP photos)

2020 presidential ticket: Jim Harbaugh and Wale?

Joshua Axelrod · January 3, 2016 11:46 pm

"Hillary said that guns don't keep you safe," Trump tweeted. "If she really believes that she should demand that her heavily armed bodyguards quickly disarm!" (AP photos)

Trump: Clinton should disarm her guards if she hates guns

Curt Mills · January 3, 2016 6:31 pm

"Oh for heaven's sake Dana, can't a girl ever have a little bit of fun?" Fiorina said to CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" Sunday morning. "That was a tongue-in-cheek tweet." (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP file)

Carly Fiorina brushes off concerns about pandering tweet: ‘Can’t a girl have a little fun?’

Kyle Feldscher · January 3, 2016 3:11 pm

Barbara Bush had called out women who support Trump for president on Friday. (AP Photos)

Trump on Bush: ‘A sad case’

Curt Mills · January 2, 2016 3:10 pm

Fiorina takes heat for Rose Bowl pandering

Fiorina takes heat for Rose Bowl pandering

Sarah Bedford · January 2, 2016 12:10 am

Comedian Bill Cosby is helped as he arrives for a court appearance in Elkins Park, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Bill Cosby’s New Year’s Eve message backfires

Daniel Chaitin · January 1, 2016 2:44 am

Politwoops tracks deleted tweets from politicians. (iStock photo)

Site will track politicians’ deleted tweets in 2016

Kelly Cohen · December 31, 2015 4:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

The top 10 pop politics moments of 2015

Joshua Axelrod · December 31, 2015 3:32 pm

Today, as part of our continued efforts to combat abuse, we're updating the Twitter Rules to clarify what we consider to be abusive behaviour and hateful conduct," Twitter said in a blog post on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Twitter clamps down on ‘hateful conduct’

Rudy Takala · December 30, 2015 4:43 pm