Navy Promised Changes After Deadly Accidents, but Many Within Remain Skeptical
On Aug. 21, 2017, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) steers towards Changi Naval Base in Singapore after a collision. Navy and Marine Corps divers will enter flooded compartments on the ship to search for 10 missing sailors.Joshua Fulton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story originally…
Michael Cohen Suggests Trump Lied About His Taxes Being Under Audit
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As he launched his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump staunchly refused to release his tax returns, despite decades of tradition of presidential candidates releasing them to show voters they had nothing to hide. At the time, Trump fixer Michael Cohen told reporters…
Top Trump Advisers Are Still Plotting a Dubious Nuclear Deal With the Saudis, Lawmakers Warn
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office on March 20, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top advisers to President Donald Trump plotted to orchestrate a major US national security move—the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia—and…
Former Trump Officials Signed a Pledge to Avoid Lobbying. At Least 33 of Them Have Found a Way Around It.
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It’s been more than two years since President Donald Trump, who rallied campaign supporters with calls to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists and their ilk, took office. But despite that campaign promise, Washington influence peddlers continue to move…
The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American public has continued to know little about Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to participating in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Not much has emerged about the confessed Russian agent’s political activities beyond her efforts to build ties with Republican leaders…
Investigators Are Zeroing in on Top NRA Leaders’ Russia Ties—and Challenging the Gun Group’s Story
David Keene, Maria Butina, and then-NRA President James Porter at the 2014 NRA annual conferenceVK Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After remaining all but mum for the past two years about news reports detailing its ties to Russia, the National Rifle Association finally spoke up this week. The gun group…