Larry Nassar Is Locked Up for Life, But Michigan State’s Trouble Is Just Starting
Dale G.Young/Detroit News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two weeks, as more than 150 women came forward to tell their stories of abuse at the hands of sports physician Larry Nassar, one of the biggest questions has been how his behavior was able to continue for decades. “There…
Republican Candidates Are Now Filming Their Campaign Ads In Swamps
Stovall for Congress/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Say you’re an aspiring Republican politician in the Trump era trying to demonstrate your loyalty to the president and his followers. What do you do? Here’s what you do: You put on a pair of waders and stand waist-deep in murky water…
Report Claims Trump Targeted Potential Witnesses for Smear Campaign
Xu Jinquan/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I can’t quite tell if this is important or a nothingburger, but Murray Waas reports today in Foreign Policy on some additional evidence of obstruction of justice by Donald Trump. It happened last June, after James Comey testified that he had…
No, Trump Did Not “Deny” Reports That He Tried to Fire Mueller
President Donald Trump said, “Fake news,” when asked about a New York Times report revealing that he’d ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Jeff Widener/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump on Friday morning didn’t really deny a blockbuster New York Times report that last June he had ordered…
Quote of the Day: Trump Denies Killing DACA
This is not a picture of Donald Trump signing the executive order that rescinded DACA. No photographers were invited to that event. Peculiar, isn’t it? But you get the idea.D. Myles Cullen/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Donald Trump, the president of the United States: Everybody…
Betsy DeVos Is Being Sued for Rolling Back Campus Protections for Sexual Assault Victims
Ted S. Warren/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three civil rights organizations that represent survivors of sexual violence are suing the Education Department, saying that a Title IX guidelines announced by Secretary Betsy DeVos last fall are having a “chilling effect” on sexual assault reporting. According to the federal lawsuit,…