Joseph Murray

A straight reporter who trolled the Olympic Village trying to get hook-ups from gay dating apps is under fire for engaging in what some charge is unethical, if not yellow, journalism. Using apps like Bumble, Grindr, Jack’d and Tinder, Daily Beast reporter Nico Hines arranged numerous hook-ups with closeted gay Olympians and shared the details – with pretty transparent identifiers – in his published article.

“I support and endorse our Speaker of the House Paul Ryan,” Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters in Green Bay. The fact that the Republican nominee had endorsed a Republican Speaker of the House was newsworthy was just another reminder that 2016 is anything but conventional.

After Donald Trump has endured days of media backlash in a feud with the parents of a fallen U.S. solider of the Muslim faith, Republican generals are opting to leave a man behind.

After facing their Waterloo in Indiana, establishment Republicans and Cruz conservatives refuse to face reality. Like a petulant child who is denied a Happy Meal, self-interest and pride have taken the place of the duty owed to their party, their country. This, however, cannot be tolerated.

Republican President George W. Bush led America into a war to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but the GOP’s presumptive nominee continues to buck his party by refusing to support that decision. Speaking in North Carolina on Tuesday, Donald Trump exposed the folly of an Iraq war that turned Iraq into a breeding ground for radical Islam.

The excuse for this preposterous theater is that Trump says the state’s voters have the right to balance their own disputes over bathroom privacy, the two sexes and accommodations for transgender people’s sometimes-indeterminate sexuality.

Hillary Clinton was grilled by the feds for hours concerning her emails and her husband Bill had a private meeting with the Attorney General supposedly overseeing the investigation — but the media is feverishly focused on a single Trump tweet showing a six-point star.

Quoting Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump became the first major party candidate in decades to embrace economic nationalism. Trump, in a policy speech delivered in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, proclaimed “it’s time to declare our economic independence once again.”

We Americans have July 4th, and the Brits now have June 23rd.

Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” criticism of Elizabeth Warren shows how diversity has paralyzed the Democrat Party.

Talking on Fox & Friends Monday, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said that “we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind.” Trump was chastising President Barack Obama for policies that invite acts of terror like the recent attack in Orlando.

The residual disdain the LGBT community holds for the religious right prevents it from seeing the pure hatred it faces from radical Islam.

“It is with great sadness that I share we have not 20, but 50 casualties,” Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said Sunday. Dyer was addressing a dazed nation that was learning a gay night club called Pulse was ground zero for what the media called the deadliest “mass shooting” in U.S. history.

Stuart Stevens, in an attack on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s willingness to utilize tariffs, tweeted Wednesday night that Hillary Clinton “is more conservative on trade & foreign policy.”

“This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made. I think it’s inexcusable.” What mistake had the presumptive Republican nominee made that he earned the rebuke of an ally?

Lyin’ Ted couldn’t stop Donald Trump. Little Marco failed miserably. Low-energy Jeb didn’t even raise his fists.

Humiliated. Embarrassed. Heckled. These were some of the words used in headlines describing a ruined performance of the National Anthem by San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus at a Padres game last weekend.

“Leave it the way it is.” Those were the words of GOP front-runner Donald Trump at the end of April when he was asked whether transgender Americans should use the restroom of their choice.