Trump Shifts the Conversation to Veterans After a Brutal Week
President Donald Trump signs an executive order establishing a national roadmap to prevent veteran suicides.Evan Vucci/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week was not filled with positive moments for President Donald Trump. After leaving a failed diplomatic summit with North Korea and weathering harsh congressional testimony from his…
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 Accused Trump and His Family of a Lot of Crimes Today
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During stunning testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer, called his old boss “a racist,” “a con man,” and a “cheat” while detailing a laundry list of lies by Donald Trump. But…
Trump Bypassed Lawmakers to Build His Wall. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back.
Doug Mills/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By his own admission, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border to turbocharge the construction of a border wall that Congress refused to fund. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time,” he…
A Swamp Story: Trump Encouraged a Foreign Official to Back a Donor’s Business Deal
President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani take part in a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May 21, 2017.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a new scandal for Donald Trump: The president personally encouraged the Qatari government to finance a nuclear power plant…
Trump Is Considering a Fervent Climate Denier to Lead a White House Panel Assessing Climate Change Risk
Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Prominent climate denier William Happer will reportedly head up the White House’s latest effort to cast doubt on the threat of climate change. According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is assembling a panel to assess climate change impacts on national security in a possible effort…