NYT: Trump Tried to Fire Robert Mueller Last June
Prensa Internacional/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last May, Robert Mueller was appointed special prosecutor after Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey. Within a month, according to the New York Times, Trump wanted to fire him too: President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III,…
The New York Times Just Published a Bombshell Story About Trump Trying to Fire Robert Mueller
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In June, President Donald Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, only to change gears once White House counsel Donald McGahn II threatened to resign, according to a…
Kris Kobach’s Office Put Thousands of State Employees’ Partial Social Security Numbers Online
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor in June 2017. John Hanna/AP File Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The office of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, which controls sensitive information on millions of American voters through the Interstate Crosscheck Program, posted online…
Trump Signals Possible Compromise on Immigration
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that the White House has an actual, concrete immigration proposal: President Trump’s immigration proposal to Congress will include a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants….The figure represents a significant concession to…
The Red Cross Ousted an Executive Over Sexual Harassment—Then Got Him a Job at Save the Children
This story was originally published by ProPublica. When Save the Children hired Gerald Anderson in 2013, the global charity believed it was hiring a veteran humanitarian executive with a sterling resume. Anderson had spent more than 15 years working around the world for the American Red Cross, rising through the ranks to lead the group’s massive…
Are Wages Finally Going Up? Sure, For Some People.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Are wages finally going up? Let’s skip the anecdotal nonsense, shall we? Here are the numbers since the end of the Great Recession: GDP per capita has gone up 1.5 percent per year since 2009, accelerating to 2 percent over the past year. That’s not…