Lyndon LaRouche Is Still Alive and He’s Been Hobnobbing With Roger Stone
Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ/ZUMA; Eckhard Herfet/dpa/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Eleven days after President Donald Trump’s election, Roger Stone, a longtime self-proclaimed GOP dirty trickster and Trump adviser, invited an unusual guest on his short-lived radio show, Stone Cold Truth, and began the interview with a question about…
Facebook Just Got Hit With a Massive Lawsuit. It Could Cost the Company Billions.
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. DC Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social-media giant of “unfair and deceptive” practices that violated consumer privacy and led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, the…
Remember the Big Story in the Russia Scandal: Donald Trump Betrayed America
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen heading to jail. Michael Flynn narrowly avoiding a prison sentence—for now. Paul Manafort stuck in the hoosegow and still tangling with special counsel Robert Mueller. The news of the Trump-Russia scandal these days has focused on the dramatic developments for several top lieutenants in…
After Propaganda, Conservative News Was the Most Popular Content Pushed by Russian Trolls
Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian internet trolls helped expand the reach of conservative media outlets as part of a Kremlin campaign to influence US politics and sow social discord, according to a new report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Conservative content resonated heavily with the trolls’ Facebook…
Individual 1 Spent His Saturday Morning Ranting About the “Russia Hoax”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is having quite the day on Twitter. After announcing the resignation of his embattled Interior secretary and blasting the “dishonest” media, the president took aim at the “Russia Hoax.” Referring to a recent Department of Justice inspector general report into attempts…
Maria Butina Claimed to Have a “Signed Cooperation Agreement” With the National Rifle Association
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Confessed Russian agent Maria Butina claimed more than five years ago that her gun rights group had entered into a “signed cooperation agreement” with the National Rifle Association, according to a contemporaneous account of a talk Butina gave to an Israeli organization. Butina, who pleaded…