Mueller’s Latest Indictment Shows Trump Has Helped Putin Cover Up a Crime
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers about trade policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. People forgot. Special counsel Robert Mueller was not only focused on investigating interactions between Trump…
Intelligence Chiefs: Trump Has Not Directed Us to Stop Russian Meddling
Intelligence officials including FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.Olivier Douliery/AP/Abaca Press (Sipa via AP Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The government’s top intelligence officials say Russia will likely reprise its election meddling…
America Is so Polarized That This Republican Senate Candidate’s Parents Donated to His Democratic Rival
Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson speaks with reporters in Madison, Wis.Scott Bauer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kevin Nicholson, a Republican challenging Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), has raised over $1.2 million for his 2018 campaign to unseat the nation’s first openly gay senator. But his Democratic rival has raised…
Californians Could Vote to Give Themselves the Measles
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This fall, Californians may have the opportunity to vote on a catch-all ballot initiative that would ban genetically modified organisms and get rid of school vaccination requirements. But that’s not all. The so-called California Clean Environment Initiative would also prohibit the use of 300 substances,…
Pennsylvania Republicans Are Trying to Replace One Gerrymander with Another
A Pennsylvania congressional map proposed by top Republican lawmakers in the state legislature on February 9, 2018.State Sen. Joseph Scarnati/senatorscarnati.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top Republicans in the Pennsylvania legislature aren’t giving an inch in the ongoing battle over the state’s congressional map. On Friday, they submitted a new map for…
Nancy Pelosi Just Crushed It With the Longest Continuous Speech in House History
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has set a record for the longest continuous speech in House history, according to the House Historian’s Office. Pelosi took to the floor at 10:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday—after the Senate failed to include Dreamers, the undocumented immigrants…