The Trump Administration Is Still Busily Spinning the Mueller Report
A cameraman stakes out the Senate Judiciary Committee office hoping that someone will pop out with a copy of the Mueller report. But it never happened.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The spin machine is in full gear today. Instead of simply releasing Mueller’s summary of…
William Barr Just Delivered A Summary of the Mueller Report to Congress. Read It Here.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a long two days of anticipation from members of Congress and the public, Attorney General William Barr delivered his “principal conclusions” from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to lawmakers on Sunday. Mueller submitted the confidential report of the findings of his 22-month investigation to Barr…
The Trump Organization Is Selling Merchandise With Images of the White House
The “Cherry Blossom Bar Soap Set”TrumpStore.com/Wayback Machine Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Several items currently on sale at the official Trump Store online and, reportedly, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, feature images of the White House, including two t-shirts, a mug, and a soap set. The “Cherry…
There’s a Lot More to Investigate Than Just Russia
Sergei Malgavko/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the frustrations of investigative reporting is that usually you don’t see the impact of your work until much later—if at all. That’s why it was remarkable when, earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…
A Top Democrat Just Said Trump Can’t Use Executive Privilege to Block the Mueller Report
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued that the president cannot use executive privilege to withhold the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited Trump-Russia report. “As we learned from the Nixon tapes case, executive…
Can New York Protect Itself from Rising Seas by Just Getting Bigger?
Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bill de Blasio has plans to part the East River—and expects New Yorkers to follow him 500 feet into the estuary, to a new land that will protect…