Investigators Are Zeroing in on Top NRA Leaders’ Russia Ties—and Challenging the Gun Group’s Story
David Keene, Maria Butina, and then-NRA President James Porter at the 2014 NRA annual conferenceVK Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After remaining all but mum for the past two years about news reports detailing its ties to Russia, the National Rifle Association finally spoke up this week. The gun group…
New Book Reveals the Obamacare Cowardice of Chief Justice John Roberts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Joan Biskupic has written a biography of Chief Justice John Roberts that confirms some of the horsetrading that produced the final Obamacare opinion in NFIB vs. Sebelius. Michael O’Donnell provides the details: Biskupic reports in detail for the first time on the machinations of the…
Republicans Could Block a New Election in Contested North Carolina House Race
Republican candidate Mark Harris speaks to the media during a news conference in Matthews, North Carolina. Chuck Burton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s still one empty seat in the House of Representatives because of serious accusations of election fraud. And now Republicans might block the process to call for…
Study: Emails Show How Coca-Cola Tried to Influence Global Health Policy
Alex Potemkin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new study, released this week in health policy journal The Millbank Quarterly, analyzed emails between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Coca-Cola sent between 2011 and 2015, revealing how the beverage company attempted to gain influence with public health officials. According…
Democrats Vote in Favor of Forever War
Anas Alkharboutli/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congress doesn’t like President Trump’s plans to withdraw troops from the Middle East: The Senate, in a bipartisan rebuke to President Trump’s foreign policy, voted overwhelmingly to advance legislation drafted by the majority leader to express strong opposition to the president’s…
The Trump Administration Said It Would Impose Tough New Sanctions on Russia. It Still Hasn’t.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In August, when the Trump administration formally declared Russia responsible for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, it invoked a decades-old law designed to punish countries that use chemical or biological weapons. As required by the…