New York's elections laws are outdated and limit access to voters, leading to a record number of complaints during the state's presidential primary in April, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman charged Tuesday.

Schneiderman said his office received 1,500 calls from upset voters during the April primary because New York doesn't allow for same-day registration and doesn't let voters easily change parties.
New York also has a closed primary system, meaning people can't vote in a primary unless they are registered in the party.

"Here in New York we seem to have made it much, much harder to register to vote than it needs to be," Schneiderman said at a Capitol news conference, "and this year’s elections shone a harsh light on the realities of New York registration and voting systems."

Hillary Clinton intends to keep her campaign organization together for the next four years and run again for president in 2020.

“She’s convinced that, sooner than later, the voters will come to their senses and realize they made a horrible mistake by putting [Donald] Trump in the White House,” a source close to Hillary told Ed Klein Confidential. “She’s sure the voters will beg her to get in the race and she says, ‘I’m going to run again in 2020.’”

Not all her advisers agree. In fact, several of them believe Hillary is in a bad way—deeply depressed, drinking too much, and delusional about her chances of making a successful run for the White House four years from now when she’ll be 73 and in shaky health.

But these advisers are afraid to dash Hillary’s presidential dreams and send her into an even deeper depression.

Hillary Clinton is one of 2016's "least influential people," according to a list posted Wednesday on GQ.

The list is described as a "comprehensive, anger-fueled list of everyone who ruined our year."
Author Drew Magary ripped into the Democratic nominee for losing to President-elect Donald Trump.

"It's Donald Trump!" he wrote. "I genuinely doubt whether that man can tie his own shoes, and he still beat her."

On the evening of June 24, 2016 Frank Baker’s life changed.  At around 10:00 p.m., Frank, a 52-year- old longtime citizen of St. Paul, was driving home after work.  He parked his Jeep near his home and sat there alone talking on his cell phone.  Officer Brian Ficcadenti, who had been sent to the area to investigate a reported fight, arrived.  Instead of a fight, Ficcadenti saw Baker whom he claimed matched the description of one of the suspected fighters because he was “a black male with dreadlocks wearing a white t-shirt.”

Immediately after parking his squad car near Frank’s Jeep,  Ficcadenti let his K-9 partner, Falco – a large German Shepard, out of his squad car, and then ordered Frank out of the Jeep.  Frank complied.  Nonetheless, Ficcadenti unleashed Falco on Frank and the dog viciously attacked Frank from behind, tearing into the flesh, muscles and tissues of his leg.  While Falco dragged Frank around on the ground and continued to maul him, four more St. Paul police officers arrived.  One of them was Brett Palkowitsch.  While Frank was lying on the ground, Palkowitsch viciously delivered three kicks to Frank’s ribs as Falco continued to tear into Frank’s leg.  The kicks broke a number of Frank’s ribs and collapsed both of his lungs.  The three other officers stood by.  They did not intervene to stop either Palkowitsch or Falco from brutalizing Frank.

National Security Agency (NSA) inspector general George Ellard, an outspoken critic of whistleblower Edward Snowden, personally retaliated against another NSA whistleblower, Adam Zagorin reported at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) on Thursday.

An intelligence community panel earlier this year found that Ellard had retaliated against a whistleblower, Zagorin writes, in a judgment that has still not been made public.

The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.
So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.

The income gap in the U.S. is the biggest that it has been since the 1920s, while income inequality has steadily increased over the last several decades, a new report found.

The paper, published by EPI for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), analyzed IRS data of income inequality trends between 1917 and 2012 and found that the top 1 percent of taxpayers have seen their incomes grow after the Great Recession alarmingly faster than the rest of Americans have in every single state except West Virginia.

Mayor de Blasio was hit with over $47,000 in fines for violating campaign finance regulations — including having his campaign pick up the tab for a makeup artist for his whole family and a trip to Washington D.C. with his son.

De Blasio tried to get his publicly financed mayoral campaign to pick up the bill for a 2010 trip to Washington D.C. with his son Dante in honor of the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.

De Blasio said it should be picked up by the campaign because the rally “was an opportunity” to show Dante, who is half black, “as a visible manifestation of how the [C]andidate’s life experience was resonant to the spirit of the occasion.”