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…
Mark Kelly Helped Turn Guns Into a National Issue. But Will a State With Lax Gun Laws Elect Him?
Mark Kelly and his wife, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, push Congress to act on gun safety legislation on March 23, 2018.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark Kelly spent much of the past year on the campaign trail during the midterms, stumping for Democrats who pledged to push…
Twitter’s CEO Thinks Elon Musk Is Great at Twitter. These Messages Must Not Have Shown up in His Feed.
Elon Musk attends a Tesla factory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai on January 7.Xinhua/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that he likes “how @elonmusk uses Twitter,” during an interview conducted Tuesday on his company’s platform. Dorsey offered up Telsa CEO Elon Musk in response to a…
Saving One of America’s Last Black Women’s Colleges
Courtesy of High Point University Just two months ago, Bennett College looked like it might have to close its doors. One of the last two remaining historically black colleges for women, Bennett lacked the funds needed to meet its accreditation requirements. But over 55 days, the 146-year-old North Carolina school used social media and found…
Iran Sanctions Aren’t Working and Never Will
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the LA Times today, Doyle McManus says that President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran accord has indeed caused them economic pain: But creating economic pain isn’t the goal. The goal is to force Iran to improve its conduct — to accept stricter limits on…
McCarthy: Yeah, We Tried to Kill Protections for Preexisting Conditions
Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I would like to hear this recording: Speaking privately to his donors, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy squarely blamed Republican losses in last year’s midterm elections on the GOP push to roll back health insurance protections for people with preexisting conditions…