“Misleading and Unsupported By the Facts”: House Intelligence Democrats Slam GOP Russia Report
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, speaks with reporters the Russia investigation in July of last year. Alex Edelman via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released a fiery, 98-page rejoinder to the report on…
House Intelligence Committee Republicans Just Released Their Russia Report
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chair of the House’s intelligence committee. Bill Clark/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a 253-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, concluding that there was no evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign. The president was quick…
Trump Announces He’s Considering Interfering With Justice Department Investigations
President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House during the French state visit on Tuesday.Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump suggested during an interview on Fox & Friends Thursday that he might become involved in the work of in his…
Here’s How Trump Is Rigging Democracy at the Voting Booth
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today we’re launching a new Mother Jones video series explaining everything you need to know about efforts to undermine voting in America. We’ve covered this territory for years. In 2012, Kevin Drum detailed the GOP’s 10-year campaign to gin up voter fraud hysteria…
Facebook Admits Millions More People Were Affected by Cambridge Analytica Breach Than Previously Known
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook said Wednesday that personal data for up to 87 million people—tens of millions more than originally thought—may have been “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Most of those affected were in…
We Obtained Cambridge Analytica’s Post-Election Pitch to Potential Corporate Clients
Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of Donald Trump’s shock victory in 2016, Cambridge Analytica, the secretive data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign and is now ensnared in an international controversy, set out to capitalize on its connection to the new…