Donald Trump Was Always a Counterintelligence Nightmare
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In normal times, this would be an absurd moment: The president of the United States being asked the question, “Are you now or have you ever worked for Russia?” And more absurd: the president not answering the query. That’s what happened on…
Why the FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation Into President Trump Is Such a Big Deal
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday night, President Donald Trump called into Jeanine Pirro’s show on Fox News to repeat his call for a border wall. The New York Times had just released a bombshell investigation revealing that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into the sitting…
Paul Manafort’s Botched Redactions Reveal New Details on Trump-Russia Interactions
Paul Manafort arrives for a court hearing on April 19, 2018, in Washington.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Paul Manafort dropped a bombshell on himself Tuesday. In sections of a court filing that lawyers for the imprisoned former Trump campaign boss unsuccessfully tried to redact, Manafort’s attorneys disclosed that…
Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower Meeting Lied About Kremlin Ties, Prosecutors Charge
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya on November 8, 2016Yury Martyanov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Federal prosecutors have charged Natalia Veselnitskaya with lying in sworn statements about her ties to Russia’s top prosecutor, a new indication that Veselnitskaya acted as a Kremlin agent when she attended the infamous June 2016…
45 Years After Nixon Signed It Into Law, the War on the Endangered Species Act Continues
The ocelot is an endangered, wild cat native to North America.Leonardo Prest Mercon Ro/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Forty-five years ago, on December 28th, 1973, President Richard Nixon, a Republican, signed a piece of monumental environmental legislation, the Endangered Species Act, into law. At the time, Nixon issued a…
How Donald Trump Has Made Christmas With Relatives Even Worse
AntonioGuillem/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the time of year when families mingle, for all that entails, so we reached out to readers to ask how political differences among relatives have affected their holidays. Specifically, we asked whether anyone had kept quiet about their midterm votes in order to…