The 10 richest Americans have a combined wealth of well over half a trillion dollars, and we will be feeling their influence in the 2020 election. Of course, Mike Bloomberg, number 6 on this list, has the MORE
Attorney General Billy Barr has reportedly told some people that he may quit his post over Trump’s tweeting about Department of Justice matters, an administration official told the Associated Press. The administration official requested anonymity MORE
Before departing for California (lucky youse guys!) Trump told reporters that he has the right to interfere in the US Justice system as the chief law inforcement officer, typically the unofficial title of the Attorney MORE
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting a full pardon to former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. related to a decades-old corruption charge, the White House said Tuesday. DeBartolo, who presided MORE
Tuesday morning before boarding Air Force One, Trump called Rod Blagojevich’s sentence “ridiculous.” “We have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump said. “He served eight years in jail – a long time. I watched MORE
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to send Border Patrol “SWAT”-like teams to assist ICE in sanctuary cities in an effort to track down undocumented immigrants. DHS acting Secretary Chad Wolf said Border Patrol MORE
Until last spring, the organization had insisted it never knowingly allowed a predator to work with youths. But in May, The Associated Press reported that attorneys for abuse victims had identified multiple cases in which known predators were allowed to return to leadership posts. MORE
“For all the focus on Ukraine and the impeachment trial and all that, to me, there are portions of the manuscript that deal with Ukraine, I view that like the sprinkles on the ice cream MORE
Philadelphia U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, who heads the independent Federal Judges Association, said the group “could not wait” until its spring conference to weigh in on a deepening crisis that has enveloped the Justice MORE
Vandals hit Plymouth Rock and other landmarks in town overnight. The vandalism comes as Plymouth prepares to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower. Crews had the famous rock cleaned up MORE
When the Democratic Party took control of the Virginia State Legislature in 2018, they promised the people they would enact sensible gun legislation. Instead, the Virginia State Senate voted to kill a bill on Monday MORE
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a Shawnee State University professor who alleged his constitutional rights were violated when he was disciplined for refusing to identify a transgender MORE
Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted a great photo of Air Force One at the Daytona 500, but it turned out to be a 2004 photo of George W. Bush’s visit to the NASCAR race. MORE
While the focus now is on the Jackson area, the heavy rains and flooding has affected a much larger swathe of the state. State emergency management officials said Sunday that they had received preliminary damage reports from 11 counties connected with the severe weather that hit the state starting on Feb. 10. MORE
Federal prosecutors are weighing new charges against associates of Rudy Giuliani in connection with a company that paid him $500,000, according to people familiar with the investigation. Prosecutors with the US attorney’s office for the Southern District MORE
Levels of food insecurity in Britain are among the highest in Europe. More than four million children in one of the richest countries in the world are growing up in poverty, their access to adequate MORE
Nelson Gibson is refusing to undergo his dialysis treatment after staffers at a Port St. Lucie hospital told him he would have to leave his calming cardboard Donald Trump image behind. Gibson says he won’t MORE
On Fox News Friday, anchor Bret Baier asked McConnell if Democrats’ statements about those bills were true and whether they could move forward. McConnell confirmed that it was the case, but also said that proposed legislation would be rejected. MORE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talked to CNN on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, and rejected Trump’s claim that his country is corrupt. He is ready for his next phone call with Trump and looks MORE
White House Memo Justifying Suleimani Strike Cites No Imminent Threat https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/politics/white-house-memo-suleimani-strike.html A new report sent to Congress about the drone strike that killed Iran’s top general contradicted the original justification the administration provided. House Foreign MORE
The Trump administration is seeking to unveil its follow-up tax cut plan in September that would likely make a number of tax cuts permanent and possibly a 10% tax cut for middle class Americans, White MORE
The Department of Justice has told lawyers for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that he will not face criminal charges for allegedly lying to investigators about a leak to the media, McCabe’s attorneys said MORE
“While this is obviously a sad milestone after 163 years of family control, McClatchy remains a strong operating company and committed to essential local news and information. While we tried hard to avoid this step, MORE
In an exclusive interview, Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that President Donald Trump “has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case” but should stop tweeting about the Justice Department because MORE
Jim Jordan attended a hearing on the coverups of sexual harassment, and left after an hour after it started. A House Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial sexual harassment featured the testimony of Olivia Warren, a MORE