US citizen detained in Egypt for more than 6 years has died
A US citizen who once begged for President Donald Trump’s help has died after more than six years in an Egyptian prison. Mustafa Kassem died of…
Continue ReadingPolitics
Impeachment will sideline some 2020 candidates at exactly the wrong time
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to hold the articles of impeachment may or may not affect the format of the Senate impeachment trial, but…
Continue Reading Fact check: Trump falsely claims to have ‘saved’ pre-existing conditions protections
President Donald Trump has long sought, unsuccessfully, to kill the Affordable Care Act, which established an unprecedented level of protection for…
Continue Reading
Warren says Sanders told her a woman could not win in 2020: ‘I thought a woman could win; he disagreed’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday night said that 2020 rival Sen. Bernie Sanders told her during a private meeting in December 2018 that he did not…
Continue Reading Attorney General William Barr says Pensacola base shooting ‘an act of terrorism’
The shooting at a Naval air base in Pensacola, Florida, last month was an act of terrorism motivated by “jihadist ideology,” Attorney…
Continue Reading Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can’t win, sources say
The stakes were high when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren met at Warren’s apartment in Washington, DC, one evening in December 2018. The…
Continue Reading The White House tweeted a super weird snow photo on an abnormally warm day
The high temperature in Washington, DC, on Sunday was 70 degrees. It was downright balmy. (I wore a T-shirt and shorts to take down our Christmas…
Continue Reading Key GOP senators say they are open to witnesses but won’t decide until after opening arguments
High-profile Republican swing vote Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Monday she likes to dig into the facts of a matter she is considering.…
Continue Reading Trump asks Supreme Court to allow public charge rule to go into effect
The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court order that is blocking the government’s efforts to make it…
Continue Reading Energy Department agrees to release Ukraine-related documents
The Department of Energy will begin producing documents related to Ukraine by January 28 following an agreement with watchdog group American…
Continue Reading Cory Booker’s 2020 miscalculation
Cory Booker’s theory of the 2020 case was a good one. It went something like this: Donald Trump’s presidency has deeply divided us…
Continue Reading Barr and Pompeo shift justification for Iran strike from ‘imminent’ threat to deterrence
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr said Monday that killing Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was part of a larger…
Continue Reading Barr says attorney general and FBI director should approve counterintelligence investigations of presidential candidates
The FBI should get sign-off from the attorney general and the director of the FBI before opening a counterintelligence investigation into a…
Continue Reading Wisconsin officials held in contempt of court and fined for failure to purge voters
Election officials in Wisconsin have been found in contempt of court after failing to remove thousands of voters from the state’s rolls.…
Continue Reading Federal budget deficit tops $1 trillion in 2019
The federal government budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in 2019, marking the first time the country has crossed that threshold in a calendar year…
Continue Reading Nebraska GOP lawmakers renew voter ID bill effort
A group of Republican state lawmakers in Nebraska are pushing a new bill that would require people to present a photo ID when they vote. The measure,…
Continue Reading Why Trump’s photoshopped Pelosi tweet reveals his true nature
On Monday morning, the President of the United States retweeted this: It’s a photoshopped image of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (New…
Continue Reading George Nader, a former Mueller witness, pleads guilty to child sex crimes
George Nader, a key witness in the Russia investigation, pleaded guilty Monday to two sex crimes involving minors. During an hour-long court hearing,…
Continue Reading Treasury official pleads guilty to charge connected to leaks of Trump-related financial data
A senior Treasury Department official pleaded guilty Monday in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy in a case in which prosecutors…
Continue Reading Supreme Court won’t take up appeal of Michelle Carter’s conviction for role in boyfriend’s suicide
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would not take up the case of Michelle Carter, a woman serving a 15-month sentence for her part in her…
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg touts his military service as tension with Iran simmers
Pete Buttigieg is closing out his campaign here in Iowa by highlighting something that separates him from the rivals he will debate on Tuesday: his…
Continue Reading China dropped from US currency manipulator list ahead of trade deal signing
The United States stripped away its designation of China as a currency manipulator days before President Donald Trump and senior Chinese officials…
Continue Reading Trump’s top general puts his reputation to the test over Iran
When President Donald Trump’s top national security advisers briefed Congress last week on intelligence used to justify killing Iranian general…
Continue Reading
U.S. Attorney General says Pensacola Air Force base shooting was ‘an act of terrorism’; 21 Saudi cadets removed
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Attorney General William Barr said last month’s shooting at Naval Air Station in Pensacola was “an act of terrorism”…
Continue Reading White House wants Senate trial rules to include ability to dismiss Trump charges
The White House is urging Senate Republicans to preserve the option of moving to swiftly dismiss the charges against President Donald Trump after…
Continue Reading Prosecutors say former Rep. Chris Collins should get a nearly 5-year prison sentence
Federal prosecutors on Monday recommended that former New York Rep. Chris Collins, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in an insider trading case,…
Continue Reading Prosecutors say former Rep. Chris Collins should get a nearly 5-year prison sentence
Federal prosecutors on Monday recommended that former New York Rep. Chris Collins, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in an insider trading case,…
Continue Reading GOP debate rages on about whether House members should be part of Trump’s defense
No final decisions have yet been made about whether close House allies of President Donald Trump’s will be a part of his defense team on the…
Continue Reading Trump readies impeachment defense with eye on scoring political wins
Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, spent the weekend working from his office on the second floor of the West Wing, preparing to defend a…
Continue Reading Giuliani associate Lev Parnas turns over thousands of pages of documents to impeachment investigators
An attorney for Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, has turned over photos, dozens of text messages and thousands of pages of…
Continue Reading