Dana Rohrabacher Says Anyone “In This Town” Would Meet With Russians Peddling Political Dirt
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Capitol Hill on Friday evening, I ran into Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has earned the moniker “Putin’s favorite congressman.” In recent days, he has been linked in news reports to Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian woman who had spent years cozying…
Rudy Giuliani Is Now Claiming Collusion May Not Be a Crime
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During two separate television interviews Monday morning, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani openly questioned whether collusion with the Russian government—a reported focus of the special counsel’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to the Kremlin—is a criminal offense. The attempts to downplay the gravity…
A Judge Just Ruled the Trump Administration Has Failed in Protecting the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal
The vaquita porpoiseOmar Vidal/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a win for environmentalists Thursday, the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the federal government failed its “statutory duty” to protect the critically-endangered vaquita porpoise. With as few as 15 individuals remaining in the wild, the vaquita is the world’s…
Even Donald Trump Admits His Daughter Doesn’t Work
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than a year after Ivanka Trump officially joined her father in the White House, it remains unclear what the senior adviser and daughter to the president does all day. While critics have long derided the first daughter for her apparent lack of purpose…
This Is the Greatest Threat to Donald Trump’s Presidency So Far
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. His former campaign boss Paul Manafort will be heading to trial later this month. Astonishingly, the prospect of Manafort in an orange jumpsuit sharing campaign secrets in exchange for a lighter sentence for the charges he faces of bank fraud and tax evasion isn’t at…
More than 400 Parents Separated from Their Children Were Potentially Deported, Trump Administration Claims
Cory Morse/MLive.com/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Federal authorities believe that 463 parents separated from children over the age of 5 at the southern border were “not in [the] U.S.” as of Monday, July 23—potentially indicating that hundreds of parents have been deported despite a federal order to reunify families last month. Government lawyers…