Donald Trump Still Doesn’t Understand Climate Change Science
Olivier Douliery/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I regret to you inform you that the president of the United States still does not understand climate change or the science behind our warming planet. On Sunday at a rally in Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced she’s running for president. In her…
Trump’s Chief of Staff Says Another Government Shutdown Might Be Unavoidable
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late January, Congress put an end to the longest government shutdown in history with a three-week spending bill and a promise to return to bipartisan talks for a long-term deal. But on Sunday, Trump officials and Republican leaders were uncertain that another shutdown could…
John Dingell Told Us That Yes, He Was Responsible for His Savage Twitter Feed
Rep. John Dingell on March 10, 2011.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. John Dingell, the Democrat who represented Michigan for 59 years and was the longest-serving member of Congress, died Thursday at his home in Dearborn, Michigan. He was 92. Over his long tenure, he shaped environmental policy, supported civil rights legislation, and criticized…
Grilled on Family Separations, Whitaker Responds, “I Appreciate Your Passion”
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday is likely to be remembered for his defiant and repeated refusal to discuss any communications he may have had with the president regarding the Russia probe. But tucked within Whitaker’s daylong…
What Did Ivanka Know About Trump Tower Moscow? It Wasn’t “Almost Nothing.”
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an interview aired Friday, Ivanka Trump told ABC News that she knew “literally almost nothing” about her family’s secret pursuit of a deal to build a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Her claim, however, is contradicted by various sources, including…
Businessman Scrutinized in Inaugural Probe Helped Qataris Court Trumpworld
Aaron Bernstein/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 11, 2016, Ahmed al-Rumaihi, then the head of a branch of Qatar’s $320 billion sovereign wealth fund, dined with President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, at Manhattan’s Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue. The men discussed possible investments by…