After pleading guilty twice to lying to investigators about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador, Trump just granted a full pardon to convicted criminal General Michael Flynn. NYT:
***An update to a recent News Views article: The U.S. government has concluded that Iran was behind a series of threatening emails arriving this week in the inboxes of Democratic voters, according to two U.S. MORE
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively allowed the government to stop the census count immediately, blocking a lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to continue gathering census information in the field until the end MORE
A federal appeals court declined Wednesday to block a subpoena from a New York grand jury for several years’ worth of President Donald Trump’s tax records, a further legal setback in his efforts to keep his returns MORE
From the back seat of a stretch limousine heading to meet the first contestants for his new TV show “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump bragged that he was a billionaire who had overcome financial hardship. MORE
A tense scene unfolded on Sunday afternoon at a home in Fort Lauderdale owned by Brad Parscale, former Trump campaign manager. Police were called to the home after Parscale’s wife reported that Parscale had guns MORE
Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all MORE
“I intend to follow the Constitution and precedent in considering the president’s nominee. If the nominee reaches the Senate floor, I intend to vote based upon their qualifications.” -Willard Romney Sen. Mitt Romney said he MORE
On March 30, Scarf Lady predicted we would reach 100-200 thousand deaths ‘If we do things together, well, almost perfectly.’ The United States has now lost more than 200,000 lives to the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts MORE
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of MORE
Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned from the U.S. Justice Department probe – at least partly out of concern that the MORE
Moments ago, Joe Biden issued a statement condemning the violence that has erupted in numerous cities across the United States. The deadly violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable. Shooting in the streets of MORE
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday evening that the House will be called back from August recess — likely on Saturday, Axios is told — to act to “save the Postal Service.” “To save the Postal MORE
Joe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday. Picking Harris, who is 55, will also MORE
If COVID-19 wasn’t bad enough…. A large explosion rocked the port area of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Tuesday, injuring thousands and causing widespread damage in a densely populated part of the city. At least 2,500 MORE
The move is an escalation of political tensions between the world’s two largest economies. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the directive to close China’s consulate general in Houston was made to protect American intellectual MORE
Daniel Lewis Lee, a convicted killer, was executed Tuesday morning in the first federal execution in 17 years after the Supreme Court issued an overnight ruling that it could proceed.Lee was pronounced dead by the MORE
In Trump v. Vance, the Supreme Court has ruled that a subpoena to a sitting president does not have to meet a heightened standard. In other words, the president is not above the law and MORE
The 538 people who cast the actual votes for president in December as part of the Electoral College are not free agents and must vote as the laws of their states direct, the U.S. Supreme MORE
Last week, Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, both announced on Twitter that they were moving to a new social media platform. “I’m proud to join @parler_app — a platform gets what free MORE
The Supreme Court has ruled on a Louisiana law that should not stand and reaffirms abortion rights. The opinion was written by Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena MORE
Actor Danny Masterson, best known for his role on “That ’70s Show,” was charged with three counts of rape, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Wednesday. Masterson was arrested at 11:30 a.m. PT on MORE
The former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after he resisted arrest and ran off outside a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant will be charged with felony murder and aggravated assault with a MORE
In an essay in The Atlantic, former Secretary of Defense, Marine General James Mattis called Trump a threat to our Constitution. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and MORE
(KNSI) – Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington says the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested. Harrington says there will be a formal press release later today. He says he MORE