Trump’s Cancelled Trip to a World War I Gravesite Unleashes a Downpour of Disdain
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Joseph Dunford arrive for a ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France on Saturday.Francois Mori/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump did not visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France…
Trump Now Claims He Knew Nothing About His New Acting Attorney General
Acting Attorney General Matthew WhitakerDouglas Graham/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is saying he didn’t previously know his newly appointed and already controversy-plagued acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. On Friday, before leaving for a trip to Paris, Trump said, “I don’t know Matt Whitaker.” After arriving in…
Trump Will Give the Medal of Freedom to One of His Biggest Donors
Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugurationRichard Ellis/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House announced today that next week President Donald Trump will award the Medal Freedom to seven American luminaries: Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former pro…
Trump’s New Acting Attorney General Claimed There Was No Evidence Russia Interfered in the 2016 Election
Charlie Neibergall/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As soon as President Donald Trump installed Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general, media outlets began mining his appearances as a radio and television pundit and discovered he had repeatedly denigrated the Mueller investigation, which he now will be overseeing, and claimed there…
This New Yorker Cover Shows Why the Midterms Were so Huge for Women and People of Color
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re still wondering whether the midterms were a win for women and people of color, The New Yorker just previewed its upcoming cover—which aptly illustrates why the results were a cause for celebration. An early look at next week’s cover, “Welcome to Congress,” by Barry…
Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That’s Helping Trump Divide America
Putin and Trump at a summit in Helsinki, July 2018Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked accounts tracked in real time on the Hamilton 68 dashboard dive into the hot Twitter topics of the moment. They have fanned rancor over the NFL’s #TakeAKnee…