Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress
Blackwater founder Erik Prince before his House Intelligence Committee testimony, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Blackwater founder Erik Prince appears to have a problem. The New York Times reported Saturday that Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, arranged and attended an August 3, 2016…
The New York Times Just Revealed a Second Trump Tower Meeting
Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last July, the New York Times was the first to reveal Donald Trump Jr.’s much-scrutinized Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin emissary who had promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Today, the Times followed up with another blockbuster report revealing that Trump Jr.…
The FBI and Justice Department Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI and Department of Justice have opened an investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the pro-Trump data company that surreptitiously obtained Facebook data from tens of millions of Americans. Cambridge announced earlier this month that it was shutting down after…
Russian Firm Indicted for Election Interference Accuses US of ‘Hypocrisy’
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lawyers representing a Russian company indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for supporting meddling in the 2016 US elections accused the US of hypocrisy in a Monday court filing. Concord’s lawyers argue Mueller is bucking years of precedent “to indict…
Trump Confirms His Money Paid for Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement
According to Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump repaid his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to keep Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges she had an affair with Trump, from publicly discussing the relationship. The startling admission, made during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday evening, directly contradicts the…
Cambridge Analytica Has a New Defense: We Didn’t Do All Those Things We Said We Did
Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix leaves his office in central London on March 20, 2018.Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Moldovan-born American academic named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan made a defiant appearance before the UK Parliament last week to accuse Facebook of using him as a scapegoat in the…