Trump Looking to Remove Security Clearances of Former Obama Officials
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is exploring ways to revoke the security clearances of six former Obama officials who have been critical of his relationship with Russia, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Monday. Sanders claimed that the former officials had made “baseless” remarks regarding…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…
The FBI Released Documents on the Carter Page Wiretap. Then Trump Had a Twitter Meltdown.
Former Trump campaign advisor Carter PageJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the Justice Department released previously-classified documents on the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. The documents, a redacted version of the bureau’s 2016 application for a top-secret warrant to surveil Page under the…
Brett Kavanaugh Once Said the Watergate Tapes Decision Was “Wrongly Decided”
Supreme Court nominee Brett KavanaughJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once suggested that the Supreme Court decision that forced President Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes may have been “wrongly decided.” Kavanaugh was taking part in a 1999 roundtable with other lawyers, according…
Michael Cohen Reportedly Taped Conversation With Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two months before the 2016 election, Michael Cohen—President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney and fixer—surreptitiously recorded Trump discussing a payment to a Playboy model who alleged she’d had an affair with the president. The New York Times reported Friday that the FBI discovered the…
NRA President Offered to Work With Accused Russian Spy’s Group in Moscow
The NRA’s David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an investigation published on Thursday, Mother Jones documented the deep ties between the National Rifle Association and two Russians accused by the FBI of carrying out a malign political influence operation inside the United States: Maria…