Trump’s Former Lawyer Is Now Trying to Get Out the Vote For Democrats
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one of the stranger twists of the midterm cycle, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, who once said he’d “take a bullet” for Trump, is now trying to get out the vote for Democrats. “Listen, here’s my recommendation,” Cohen told CNN outside his…
Trump Accepts Saudi Arabia’s Latest Story About Journalist Dying in a “Fistfight”
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saudi Arabia has again changed its official line on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, marking its first admission since his October 2 disappearance that Khashoggi died in its consulate in Istanbul. The country’s new story, according to the Washington Post, is…
Even in Philadelphia, One of the Most Determined Sanctuary Cities, Refuge Is Elusive
Protestors participate in an Abolish ICE march through Philadelphia’s Center City in August 2018.Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by the Philadelphia Inquirer and ProPublica. A small, impish grin spread across Jeff Sessions’ face. It was a sun-drenched June afternoon in Scranton, a northeastern Pennsylvania town…
Saudis: Khashoggi Committed Suicide By Cop, Sort Of
This was four days ago. Today we finally got to hear the new story. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saudi Arabia has finally caved in and admitted that Jamal Khashoggi died in their consulate in Istanbul. This comes about two weeks after everyone else on the planet already knew it.…
A Pro-Obamacare Ballot Measure Has a Big Lead in Utah
Hagen/NTB Scanpix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s looking like voters are fans of Obamacare when they have a chance to directly vote on it—even in deeply red states like Utah. Utah is one of four states with ballot initiatives next month that ask voters about Medicaid expansion, the part…
New Justice Department Case Shows Russia Is Now Attacking the Midterm Elections
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in JulyValery Sharifulin/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia unsealed a criminal complaint accusing a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of conspiring to interfere in…