Russian Activist Alleges New Link Between the Kremlin and Paul Manafort
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A story involving a Norwegian yacht, an escort, and her Instagram posts featuring a prominent oligarch are capturing Russia’s attention—and may represent a new and bizarre twist in the story behind Moscow’s links to the Trump campaign. In a 25-minute video published on YouTube Thursday…
Even the Stock Market Likes Obama Better Than Trump
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This New Company Wants You To Trade Your DNA Sequence for Cryptocurrency
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After about a year of development, a new biotech company, the brainchild of Harvard genomics pioneer George Church, emerged from the darkness this week, STAT News reported. It’s called Nebula Genomics, and it lets you buy and sell your genomic data using cryptocurrency. The core…
White House Refuses to Answer When John Kelly Knew About Top Aide’s Abuse Allegations
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House on Thursday refused to say when the president’s chief of staff John Kelly became aware of the domestic abuse allegations against Rob Porter, the top aide who resigned Wednesday after two of his former wives went public with abuse accusations.…
Budget Deal Is a Big Win for Republicans
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Senate has agreed to a two-year deal that raises both defense and domestic discretionary spending well above the sequester levels in the Budget Control Act. Here’s how this has played out since 2013, when the budget sequesters first went into effect:¹ Democrats are happy…
Unions Heading for Crushing Supreme Court Defeat
Jeff Malet/NC via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner launched an attack on union dues a couple of years ago, and any day now the Supreme Court is likely to hand him a victory: The “money is speech” doctrine is back and at the heart of…