NRA Ties to Russian Operatives Draw Growing Scrutiny From Congress
Alexander Torshin in Houston in May 2013Unknown Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As questions mounted last spring about two Russian operatives with ties to the National Rifle Association who tried to cultivate the Trump presidential campaign, the NRA made a rare public disclosure: The gun group said it had received about $2,500…
Congress Had a Chance to Press Google on Hoaxes and Hate Speech. They Blew It.
Douglas Christian/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House lawmakers spent three and a half hours on Tuesday going after Google CEO Sundar Pichai on a range of issues, but barely addressed one of the tech giant’s biggest problems: its role in spreading misinformation and radicalizing users. Instead, the Republicans…
Future Judiciary Committee Chair Just Said Prosecutors Outlined “Impeachable Offenses” Against Trump
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The incoming Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee made his point loud and clear on Sunday: If the allegations that President Donald Trump directed illegal hush-money payments to women during his campaign are true, it would be an “impeachable offense.” “Certainly they’d be impeachable offenses,”…
We Now Know What James Comey Told Congress Last Week. Read the Transcript.
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House Judiciary and Oversight committees have released a transcript from Friday’s closed-door hearing of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. The hearing was part of a Republican-led investigation into the FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential election, which included investigations…
This is Why Democrats Are Letting a Senator From Coal Country Oversee the Energy Industry
Ernesto Hernandez Fonte/US Navy via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a strange twist of fate, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who once fired a shotgun at a climate bill, is expecting to be promoted to a leadership position in a key Senate committee that conducts environmental oversight. Progressive environmental groups have pressured Minority…
At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders didn’t have to remind the hundreds of activists, young people, policy wonks, and thousands of viewers online watching his climate change town hall Monday night of “the great crisis facing our planet and facing our humanity.” That was one of the central…