Protesters Blast Mike Pence for “Ripping Children From Their Families”
Natacha Pisarenko/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outrage continues to rise around the country about the Trump administration’s forced separation of immigrant children from their parents. On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence was interrupted during a tax reform speech in Columbus, Ohio, by protesters who heckled him about the detention…
Here Are 4 Hard-Hitting Cartoons a Pro-Trump Newspaper Tried to Bury
Cartoon by Rob Rogers Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, veteran editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers was abruptly fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a string of anti-Trump illustrations were spiked from the newspaper. Rogers, who joined the Post-Gazette in 1993, says 19 cartoons or proposed drawings were killed by…
Trump’s Lawyer Says the President May Be Mulling Pardons in the Russia Investigation
Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says Robert Mueller’s special investigation may be “cleaned up” with presidential pardons, the New York Daily News reported Friday. The remark came just hours after a federal judge ordered Paul Manafort to await trial from jail after Mueller accused Manafort of witness tampering, the latest charge brought…
The Justice Department’s Watchdog Is Investigating the FBI’s “Culture” of Leaks
Former FBI director James ComeyJose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI leaked like a sieve in 2016, and those disclosures helped Donald Trump, according to a newly released inspector general’s report on former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The 500-page report from…
Trump Uses the Comey Report to Cover Up His Guilt in the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump and James Comey in January 2017Andrew Harrer/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Even before the Justice Department inspector general’s report on former FBI director James Comey was released on Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump initiated the inevitable tweet storm, hoping to use this development as yet another…
Suicide Rates Are Up in Almost Every State, and Donald Trump’s Policies Are Not Going to Help
Mother Jones; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA; CDC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the back-to-back suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain renewed the national conversation over mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released numbers showing that America’s overall suicide rate has climbed by a whopping 30…