Indicted GOP Congressman Ends Reelection Bid
Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Embattled New York Congressman Chris Collins announced Saturday that he is suspending his reelection campaign—a move that comes several days after he was indicted on federal insider trading charges. Collins said in a statement that he will…
Puerto Rico Finally Admits It Wildly Underestimated Hurricane Maria Death Toll
Efrain Diaz Figueroa, right, walks by the remains of the house of his sister destroyed by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto.Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This morning, the Puerto Rican government finally admitted that its official death toll for Hurricane Maria was a wild underestimate. A…
A Long-Shot Democrat Now Has a Chance at Congress After Trump’s Buddy Got Indicted
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Nate McMurray, the long-shot Democratic candidate in New York’s ruby-red 27th District, went out for a jog on an 88-degree Wednesday morning, he had just four campaign volunteers and a hair’s breadth of a chance to unseat Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY). Then, everything changed. …
Dana Rohrabacher Says Anyone “In This Town” Would Meet With Russians Peddling Political Dirt
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Capitol Hill on Friday evening, I ran into Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has earned the moniker “Putin’s favorite congressman.” In recent days, he has been linked in news reports to Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian woman who had spent years cozying…
Puerto Rico Governor Boycotts Congressional Hearing
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.Gerardo Mora/EFE via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is refusing to attend a Republican-led congressional hearing Wednesday that will focus on management upheaval at the island’s troubled electric power authority. In a letter sent Wednesday morning, Rosselló sharply criticized…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…