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
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
As House Democrats continue their impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s efforts to leverage foreign aid for political favors, among his most ardent defenders, as usual, are Trump’s adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric. “Why didn’t @JoeBiden recuse himself MORE
Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, the fourth the Democratic National Committee has held so far, was big. It was long — three hours that sometimes felt much longer — and absurdly crowded, with 12 candidates onstage, MORE
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan announced that he will be the majority investor in the nation’s only 24-hour news network aimed at African American viewers, giving the network a deep pocket as MORE
The combination of rage, threats, professional promises and vulnerability that Harvey Weinstein used to secure the silence of women he allegedly sexually attacked is described in a newly disclosed interview between one of his accusers and Ronan Farrow, the journalist who exposed the Hollywood mogul. MORE
“I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” John Bolton told Fiona Hill to tell White House lawyers Mr. Bolton got into a tense exchange on July 10 with Gordon MORE
US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion Source: An estimated 50 nuclear bombs stored at a US airbase in Turkey have become potential bargaining chips in the tense relationship between Washington and Ankara MORE
In a sense, Watch Over My Parents was created by accident. The service began in 2013, after a heat wave, when a number of overburdened city halls asked their local post offices to check on MORE
Long before President Donald Trump lied about the path of a hurricane and threatened the leadership at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he nominated the former CEO of AccuWeather to serve as its administrator. In MORE
China Wants More Talks Before Signing Trade Deal With Trump Source: The U.S. and China have emerged from last week’s talks with different takes on what’s in the accord and how close they are to MORE
From the looks of things, Rudy Giuliani has been the real secretary of state from Day One of the Trump administration. From Ukraine to Turkey to Iran to Foggy Bottom, Giuliani has left his mark. Who MORE
Donald Trump said on Friday that Kevin McAleenan was stepping down as the acting secretary of homeland security. The president said McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. MORE
A Kansas middle school girl who formed her fingers into a gun and pointed it at several of her classmates after another student asked her who would she would kill was arrested and charged with a felony. MORE
After Facebook was implicated in the 2016 election wreckage, the company made strides to shore up the platform against future harms to our democracy. But now, Facebook is sabotaging its own efforts through a new MORE
Time for a feel good story. When Shauna Darcy first brought Ruby home, the plan was to have Ruby act as a service dog to help her with anxiety, depression and agoraphobia. Ruby was an MORE
Representative Xochitl Torres Small in an op-ed announced her support for formal impeachment inquiry Until today, U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-NM, belonged to a small group of Democrats in the House of Representatives who did MORE
Two environmental groups say they’ll sue northwest Indiana steel company ArcelorMittal if the government doesn’t make it pay for environmental violations. In August, the company’s Burns Harbor facility discharged excess cyanide and ammonia into the MORE
One of Richard Nixon’s lasting gifts to the language was to popularize the American use of “stonewall” as a verb. Discussing whether to allow White House aides to testify before the Senate Watergate committee, Nixon MORE
Facebook will not remove a Trump ad from its pages, given its new politician “Fake News” green-light policy: Facebook’s updated advertising rules could allow politicians to post ads that contain falsehoods without violating any of MORE
Source: Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Rees-Mogg pointed to the investor’s record as a financial contributor to anti-Brexit movements – which was seized upon as an echo of antisemitic tropes of the Jewish MORE
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves MORE
During a two-hour hearing, Beryl Howell, chief judge for the U.S. District Court, challenged the Justice Department to explain its “extraordinary position” of trying to block lawmakers from seeing the special counsel’s grand jury materials, MORE