Jeff Sessions Won’t Recuse Himself From Michael Cohen’s Case
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on April 12, 2018.Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided not to steer clear of the Justice Department’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a Tuesday report. Sessions’ decision not to recuse himself from the probe…
The Trump Administration Just Announced More Sanctions Against Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the APEC Summit in 2017.Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of last week’s suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the United…
Michael Cohen, Once the President’s Trusted Fixer, Emerges as His Greatest Liability
Michael Cohen in Manhattan on April 14.Wes Bruer/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen, an attorney long known as President Donald Trump’s fixer, has become Trump’s biggest headache. Cohen finds himself at the intersection of two related lines of investigation, one into the Trump campaign’s suspected coordination with…
Russia Warns of “Consequences” as Putin Denounces Syria Strikes
Russian President Vladimir Putin. April 14, 2018. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced joint American, British, and French missile strikes on Syria as “an act of aggression against a sovereign state” and said he would seek an emergency meeting of the United Nations’ Security Council. “Russia condemns in the strongest…
Why the Scooter Libby Case—and Trump’s Pardon—Really, Really Matter
Scooter Libby outside federal court after his 2007 conviction.Gerald Herbert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We should have seen this coming. More than a decade ago, I. Lewis Libby—a.k.a. Scooter—was convicted in federal court of lying to a grand jury and to the FBI and of obstructing justice. Libby had…
James Comey’s Leaked Memoir Claims Trump Was Obsessed With the Alleged “Pee Tape”
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Portions of former FBI director James Comey’s upcoming memoir have started to leak—and the revelations are making (ahem) quite a splash. The New York Post is reporting that Comey wrote that in a conversation with President Donald Trump in January 2017, Trump actually…