Trump’s Former Acting Attorney General Agrees to Fix His Testimony About Trump Pressure
Matthew Whitaker testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on February 8, 2019.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Matthew Whitaker, the embattled former acting head of the Justice Department, agreed Tuesday to meet with members of the House Judiciary Committee to clarify testimony in which he denied that President…
Trump Bypassed Lawmakers to Build His Wall. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back.
Doug Mills/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By his own admission, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border to turbocharge the construction of a border wall that Congress refused to fund. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time,” he…
Hundreds of Young Protesters Confront McConnell Over Green New Deal
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of youth climate activists marched on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s Washington office and 42 of them were arrested by police, according to organizers. The protesters—who…
The New Chief Campaign Finance Regulator Has a Plan to Make Her Agency Matter for the First Time in Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ellen Weintraub, the sole Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, just became chairwoman of the agency in January and she’s already trying to shake things up at her “dysfunctional” agency. The FEC chairmanship, which rotates among the commissioners each year, is mostly a ceremonial…
The Internet Can’t Stop Laughing About the Way This Senator Talked to Some Children
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at the Capitol on Tuesday, February 12, 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The internet lost its mind on Friday evening when the Sunrise Movement, a climate activism group composed of youthful volunteers working to gain support for the Green New…
Former Trump Officials Signed a Pledge to Avoid Lobbying. At Least 33 of Them Have Found a Way Around It.
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It’s been more than two years since President Donald Trump, who rallied campaign supporters with calls to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists and their ilk, took office. But despite that campaign promise, Washington influence peddlers continue to move…