Erik Mercer, a Maine social worker, unexpectedly found himself in the same airport terminal as Collins. What started as a civil conversation between a concerned voter and his elected representative has become a catalyst for MORE
How the Sinaloa Cartel Bested the Mexican Army Source: Cartel gunmen were everywhere. They openly drove in trucks with mounted machine guns, blockaded streets flashing their AKs and burned trucks unleashing plumes of smoke like MORE
Boris Johnson suffered yet another Brexit setback as UK lawmakers voted to delay approval of the UK Prime Minister’s departure deal until Parliament has passed the legislation required to enact it. Johnson must now ask the EU for MORE
A multiyear State Department probe of emails that were sent to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private computer server concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees, according MORE
The Trump campaign sent off a ‘sternly worded’ letter to CNN threatening to sue the network for biased reporting. In the letter, attorney Charles Harder, representing Trump and his campaign stated, “Never in the history MORE
Last month Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a boycott against Israel’s channel 12 for producing the HBO mini-series “Our Boys.” He described it as anti-Semitic and slandering Israel internationally. This month I watched “Our MORE
In September, Billy Foister, a 48-year-old Amazon warehouse worker, died after a heart attack at work. According to his brother, an Amazon human resources representative informed him at the hospital that Billy had lain on the floor MORE
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