Hillary Clinton says she believes that the Russians have “got their eye on somebody who’s currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.” In a recent interview, Clinton didn’t MORE
Trump boasted about how swimmingly things are going in Syria and claimed “new progress against Islamic State extremists in Syria.” He also said Europe will take in ISIS prisoners who originated from their countries. After MORE
U.S. prosecutors aren’t done with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who figured prominently in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. In what could be an offshoot of Mueller’s work, federal authorities MORE
NASA reached a milestone on Friday morning when two Americans ventured out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller: The astronauts, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, had undertaken the first all-female spacewalk. MORE
Fighting continued Friday morning in a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight. Shelling and gunfire could be MORE
UN chemical weapons inspectors have announced they are gathering information following accusations that burning white phosphorus was used by Turkish forces against children in Syria earlier this week. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) MORE
“Things have gone from very, very bad to much worse.” Both Rick Perry and Mick (“I hardly knew the guy”) Mulvaney have until today to produce documents. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper is scheduled to MORE
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis fired back at his former boss at the Alfred E. Smith dinner on Thursday night. “I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the world’s greatest overrated general,” joked Mattis, who MORE
According to recent documents ProPublica discovered, Trump did ‘cook the books’ just like his lawyer, the fixer, Michael Cohen claimed before he went to prison. Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald MORE
We live in perplexing times when the U.S. president saw “very fine people” among neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we have a television network that traffics in racism and conspiracy theories. Our world MORE
Amid behind-the-scenes details of his explosive reporting on Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators claims that American Media Inc. (AMI), the MORE
It looks like Energy Secretary Rick Perry, described by colleagues as one of the “three amigos” on U.S. policy on Ukraine, will step down at the end of the year, President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday. MORE
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledges that military aid was withheld from Ukraine over Trump’s desire to investigate allegations of assistance to Democrats in the 2016 election by foreign countries. “Did he also MORE
Here are just a few of the things that happened within the past couple of days: From “What the Fuck Just Happened Today” and its sister site “Current Status“. Someday we’ll look back on the MORE
President Trump will host next year’s Group of 7 meeting next June at Trump Doral, his luxury resort near Miami, the president’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, told reporters on Thursday. “It’s almost like MORE
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday he had reached a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a ceasefire in northern Syria to end an eight-day-old Turkish offensive against Kurdish-led forces. The deal MORE
A little over a year ago, a grip of Democratic senators penned a letter to the Department of Justice with a simple request: review whether or not Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal Nosferatu-cum-lawyer, was in compliance with MORE
EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he opposed Trump’s request to run Ukraine policy through his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. He testified that he contacted Giuliani at Trump’s direction after a May 23 meeting. “Mr. Giuliani MORE
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican senators Wednesday to be ready for an impeachment trial of President Trump as soon as Thanksgiving, as the Senate began to brace for a political maelstrom that would engulf MORE
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that he was “encouraged” by a House resolution formally opposing President Trump‘s troop drawback but that he wants “something stronger.” “I believe it’s important that we make a MORE
A senior US delegation faces the mammoth task of pressuring Turkey to halt its offensive in north-east Syria or face sanctions, hours after Donald Trump said his country had no stake in defending Kurdish fighters MORE
US troops bombed their own anti-ISIS headquarters as Turkey-backed fighters closed in during Trump’s hasty retreat Sources: Business Insider: WSJ: The US military destroyed its own anti-ISIS headquarters in Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, to MORE
Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition MORE
After President Trump gave Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the green light to invade northern Syria last weekend, thusunleashing chaos in the region, Trump wrote him a very strange letter, obtained by Fox Business’s Trish Regan. MORE
President Trump had a “meltdown” and called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-Calif.) a “third-rate politician” during a meeting with congressional leaders on the situation in Syria, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer(D-N.Y.) told reporters after they left meeting. MORE