Key Senate Republicans Are Finally Admitting Trump Might Fire Mueller
Mark Murrmann/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he plans to schedule a vote on legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Trump. The legislation, titled the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, was…
Zuckerberg Confirms Facebook Is Cooperating With Mueller
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday confirmed officials from his company had been contacted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Zuckerberg, who was testifying before two Senate committees about Facebook’s…
FBI Raids Office of Longtime Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI raided the office and hotel room of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Monday. Agents seized records related to several topics, among them Cohen’s 2016 payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who says…
The Long, Twisted, and Bizarre History of the Trump-Russia Scandal
Carlo Allegri; Klimentyev Mikhail; Carlos Barria; Kevin Lamarque; Monterey Herald; Sergei Karpukhin; Jim Loscalzo (via ZUMA) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump-Russia scandal—with all its bizarre and troubling twists and turns—has become a controversy that is defining the Trump presidency. The FBI recently disclosed that since July it has…
Jeff Sessions Won’t Appoint a Second Special Counsel—For Now
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Sacramento, California earlier this month.Randy Pench/TNS via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday declined to appoint a second special counsel, who would be charged with investigating matters related to a series of 2016 probes related to Hillary Clinton…
Devin Nunes Is Raising Money Off His Shoddy Trump-Russia Investigation
Bill Clark/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee who has been widely criticized for undermining his panel’s haphazard Trump-Russia probe, sent out a pitch to conservative and Republican donors: we found there was no “collusion,” so send me…