Donald Trump Really Wants You to Know How Well He’s Doing in One Specific Poll
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump isn’t a very popular president. According to the FiveThirtyEight polling average, his approval rating is currently around 41 percent. That’s about 7 points below where Barack Obama was at this stage of his presidency. But Trump isn’t interested in polling averages.…
Why the Scooter Libby Case—and Trump’s Pardon—Really, Really Matter
Scooter Libby outside federal court after his 2007 conviction.Gerald Herbert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We should have seen this coming. More than a decade ago, I. Lewis Libby—a.k.a. Scooter—was convicted in federal court of lying to a grand jury and to the FBI and of obstructing justice. Libby had…
James Comey’s Leaked Memoir Claims Trump Was Obsessed With the Alleged “Pee Tape”
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Portions of former FBI director James Comey’s upcoming memoir have started to leak—and the revelations are making (ahem) quite a splash. The New York Post is reporting that Comey wrote that in a conversation with President Donald Trump in January 2017, Trump actually…
Leaked Proposal Shows Trump Administration Planning to Kill Crucial Protections for Threatened Animals
The wolverine is a species currently proposed for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. CREATISTA/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Trump’s Department of the Interior is seeking to “revise” key, 40-year-old regulations which currently protect more than 300 threatened plant and animal species listed under the 1973 Endangered…
Zuckerberg Confirms Facebook Is Cooperating With Mueller
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday confirmed officials from his company had been contacted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Zuckerberg, who was testifying before two Senate committees about Facebook’s…
Internal Sinclair Email: CEO Blames “Extremists” for Anchor Controversy
TRIPPLAAR KRISTOFFER/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chris Ripley, the president and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, told employees of the local-TV juggernaut that “extremists” who “do not like what they hear or see” were trying to “bully” the company and deserved the blame for the blowback…