Watch Members of Congress Go Off on Betsy DeVos at a Budget Hearing
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos waits to testify before a House Committee on Appropriation subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers seized an opportunity to press Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on everything from racial bias in student discipline to guns in schools as she defended a proposed…
Congressional Republicans Didn’t Like These Tweets From the President
SMG via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump kicked off Sunday morning with a series of tweets accusing former FBI director James Comey of lying under oath, criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion with Russia, and doubling down on his administration’s firing of…
The Immigration Debate Is Way Off the Rails
Keith Bishop/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. The immigration debate seems to have gone crazy. President Obama’s widely popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered some 750,000 young immigrants brought to the United States as children a temporary reprieve from…
Coal Country Rebelled Against Trump’s Candidate Last Night. Here’s Why.
Brian Cahn/ Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days before Democratic candidate Conor Lamb eked out a narrow lead over Republican opponent Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s special election for the House, President Trump was on the campaign trail repeating a familiar tune to crowds of his supporters. “By the…
House Republicans Failed to Find Any Dirt on Trump-Russia, Just as They Intended
Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., left, and Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, March 20, 2017. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence officially announced Monday night what has been evident for months: They are all done investigating Russian interference in the 2016…
What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the first of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones. The book will be…