Chinese Influence Group Shuts Down After Report on Cindy Yang’s Ties
Mother Jones illustration/Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Florida chapter of the Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (CPPRC), part of a network of groups linked to China’s Community Party and seen as vehicles for projecting Chinese influence in the West, abruptly dissolved last week…
Trump Has a New Favorite “Slush Fund”
David Norquist, the acting deputy secretary of defense, testifies before Congress on the Pentagon’s FY2019 budget request. Zach Gibson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Pentagon’s latest budget request contains all the usual line items one might expect from a fighting force that is reorienting and modernizing to compete with…
The Pentagon Wants Congress to Vote on the Border Emergency With Blinders On
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Several weeks after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, the Pentagon still has not finalized a list of projects that will be sidelined to build his wall. Despite several requests from Congress, acting defense secretary Pat…
New Directive Says Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Will Officially Start Next Month
Martin H. Simon – Pool/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s long-expected ban on transgender service members will finally begin next month, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday night in a department memorandum. While the president’s initial tweet in July 2017 demanded transgender individuals not “serve in any…
Manafort Gets More Than 7 Years in Prison
Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court on June 15, 2018.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to more than six years in prison on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges on…
White House: Trump “Doesn’t Know” the Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Him
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After four days of silence, the White House has finally addressed questions about Cindy Yang, the massage parlor owner who sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago. “The President doesn’t know this woman,” Judd Deere, a White House…