A New Right-Wing Smear Campaign Targets a Former FBI Official to Distract From Russia Scandal
Rep. Mark Meadows (left) and Rep. Jim Jordan talk during a press conference calling on the president to declassify the Carter Page FISA applications.Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What happens when the politics of personal destruction intersect with a Trumpian conspiracy theory? Unfortunately, I’ve seen it, thanks to…
Trump’s Climate Plan Is a “Free Pass for Carbon Pollution”
Getty/VanderWolf-Images 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. The Trump administration’s replacement for the linchpin Obama-era plan to combat climate change would increase greenhouse gas emissions in much of the US more than doing nothing at all, according…
Steve King Was Saying Insanely Racist Things Long Before Republicans Decided Enough Was Enough
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Rep. Steve King’s openly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has finally caught up with him. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the congressman, with a final vote of 424 to 1. The vote came just a…
William Barr’s Testimony May Not Sit Well With Donald Trump
Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Based on Tuesday’s testimony by William Barr, Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the president may already regret the nomination. Trump has spent nearly two years raging against the Justice Department for allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties…
Donald Trump Was Always a Counterintelligence Nightmare
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In normal times, this would be an absurd moment: The president of the United States being asked the question, “Are you now or have you ever worked for Russia?” And more absurd: the president not answering the query. That’s what happened on…
Donald Trump Says He “Never Worked for Russia”
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After spending the weekend failing to directly deny that he had ever acted on behalf of the Russian government, President Donald Trump on Monday morning offered his most definitive response yet, telling reporters outside the White House that he “never worked for Russia.”…