Democrats to Investigate Treasury’s Decision to Lift Sanctions on Oleg Deripaska’s Companies
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Democrats want to know if there’s more to the story on why the Trump administration removed sanctions on three companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The energy and aluminum magnate and his companies were sanctioned last April as part of an effort…
Britain Voting Today on Doomed Brexit Compromises
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “The Malthouse Compromise,” which sounds like a new thriller from Robert Ludlum, is actually the latest hot topic among Brexiteers. Here it is: Got that? No? Don’t worry. You can also vote for the Cooper Amendment or the Brady Plan. As I understand things, the…
We Need a Scorched-Earth Campaign Against Health Care Insurers
Is one of these your insurance carrier? Do you love them? Do you even give them a second thought except when you have a problem? Would it bother you if, instead of showing your insurance card when you visited the doctor, you showed your Medicare card instead? Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our…
Howard Schultz Has No Good Explanation for Why He’s Mulling an Independent Presidential Bid
Kathy Willens/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to…
Intelligence Agencies: President Trump Is, Um, a Wee Bit Misguided
The Straits Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump’s own intelligence officials are publicly saying that he’s a moron: A new American intelligence assessment of global threats has concluded that North Korea is “unlikely to give up” all of its nuclear stockpiles, and that Iran is not “currently undertaking…
NASA Is Reopened, But Thousands of Contractors Are Still Waiting on Paychecks
Thousands of NASA contractors are uncertain if they will get backpay.NASA/Kim Shiflett Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day for five weeks, Michele Seeley, 45, and her husband, 62-year-old Wil Villegas, waited for the shutdown to end, hoping that they weren’t laid off in the meantime. Their children, ages two…