A Judge Just Imposed a Strict Gag Order on a Groveling Roger Stone
Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson slapped a strict gag order on Roger Stone Thursday but stopped short of jailing him over an Instagram post by Stone showing what appeared to be a crosshairs next to Jackson’s head. “Any violation of…
Richard Burr Says There’s No Evidence of Collusion. How Would He Know?
Senate intelligence committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) leaves a closed briefing on intelligence matters on Capitol Hill on December 4, 2018.Zach Gibson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr keeps saying his panel has found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016…
Paul Manafort Lied to Robert Mueller About Russian Contacts, Judge Rules
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors about his contacts with a colleague who had suspected ties to Russian intelligence, activity that occurred while Manafort ran President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and continued into 2018. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found…
How Paul Manafort Couldn’t Stop Colluding With a Suspected Russian Intelligence Associate
Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, continued doing work in Ukraine after he was indicted.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A boatload of revelations produced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has already yielded strong evidence that Paul Manafort was colluding with pro-Putin forces when he…
10 Years of Privacy Violations, Disinformation, and Friend Requests From Facebook
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other travails associated with abuses of the platform gradually…
What Did Ivanka Know About Trump Tower Moscow? It Wasn’t “Almost Nothing.”
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an interview aired Friday, Ivanka Trump told ABC News that she knew “literally almost nothing” about her family’s secret pursuit of a deal to build a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Her claim, however, is contradicted by various sources, including…