Month: February 2020

The Education Department has opened investigations into Yale and Harvard universities in an ongoing review that has found American universities failed to disclose billions in funding from foreign countries like Saudi Arabia and China, materials reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show. In a letter to Harvard dated February 11, the Education Department requests that

A federal judge has denied Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone a new trial after he made a request for one under seal, according to a notice from the court. Judge Amy Berman Jackson made her ruling known on Wednesday, her first public response following the withdrawals of all the prosecutors on the case the day

Roger Stone, a longtime friend and adviser to President Donald Trump, made a request for a new trial under seal, arguing his case should be reheard because one of the jurors should not have been allowed to be on the panel, according to a partially redacted order. A federal judge has denied Stone’s request, according

A former adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and a longtime friend of Roger Stone confirmed Wednesday that he is leading an effort to have the former Trump associate pardoned. The “Pardon Roger Stone” group was organized to raise money for Stone and his family, collect signatures in favor of a pardon and create

The Iowa Democratic Party, in letters sent Wednesday to the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, agreed to begin a partial recanvass that both campaigns asked for earlier this week. The decision comes more than a week since the Iowa caucuses, marred by faulty technology and arcane rules, descended into chaos. It took the

The 2020 New Hampshire primary is in the books, and one of the messiest primaries in recent history seemingly got even messier. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did win as expected. He remains the national front runner in polling and fundraising. But Sanders got just 26% of the vote and finished barely ahead of former South

President Donald Trump’s decision to abruptly withdraw a Treasury Department nomination for Jessie Liu, the former US attorney who headed the office that oversaw Roger Stone’s prosecution, was directly tied to her former job, CNN has learned. While head of the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, Liu inherited many of the major ongoing cases from

Congressional Republicans downplayed the involvement of President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr in the sentencing of Trump’s longtime confidant Roger Stone, saying they see no reason for the investigations that Democrats are demanding. The mostly muted reaction from Republicans to the Justice Department’s move undercutting career prosecutors‘ recommended sentence for Stone of up

While the political world has already moved on from New Hampshire — here we come, Nevada! — there’s a ton of data from the first-in-the-nation primary which can give us some insight into what Democratic voters want and who they think best represents their interests. I went through the exit polling out of New Hampshire

Virginia’s Democratic-controlled Senate has passed legislation that would grant temporary driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. The measure, SB 34, which passed on a near-party-line vote of 22-18, would allow taxpaying Virginians who can prove their identities and that they know how to drive to obtain one-year driver’s permits. It’s the latest progressive action taken by