The Seven Softest Softball Questions Republicans Asked Brett Kavanaugh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By any standard, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past few days with the Senate Judiciary Committee have been grueling. Democrats pressed hard on his views of abortion, presidential power, and the Russia investigation, and at times, tensions were high. But when Republicans had their chance…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About that Obama Speech He Can’t Stop Talking About
President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota on Friday. Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It took just hours for Donald Trump to hit back at Barack Obama on Friday. In the afternoon, the 45th president took to a campaign stage in Fargo, North Dakota, to…
Trump Campaign Adviser George Papadopoulos Was Just Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison
George Papadopoulos, and his wife Simona Mangiante arrive at federal court for sentencing on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge sentenced George Papadopoulos, who served as a forign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to 14 days in prison on Friday.…
Five Times Brett Kavanaugh Appears to Have Lied to Congress While Under Oath
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearings. Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has made declarations under oath during his current and past confirmation hearings that are contradicted by documents from his time as a counsel…
New Documents Show the Trump Administration Cut Climate Change Impacts from its Energy Plan
Aaron Lavinsky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thus far, the Trump administration has seemed to make it a point to ignore the very real threat of global warming in its policy and unabashedly censor climate science on government websites, reports, and speeches. It should come as a shock to no one, then, that the administration’s recent rollback…
Why a Leading Trump Critic Wrote a Book about a Mansion in Europe
Norm Eisen meets Václav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, in October 2011.Forum 2000 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Norm Eisen is best known these days as one of the leading critics of President Donald Trump. He chairs the board of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a.k.a.…