White Supremacist Under Scrutiny for Robocalls Using Mollie Tibbetts’ Death to Spread Hate
A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business on August 21 in Brooklyn, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A neo-Nazi podcast host has come under scrutiny for a spate of racist robocalls in Iowa and Florida.…
Trump Associates Suspected of Misleading Congress Have a New Reason to Worry
W. Samuel Patten leaves the federal court in Washington, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018.AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republican political operative Samuel Patten’s agreement to plead guilty Friday to charges that he acted as an unregistered lobbyist for a Ukrainian political party included his admission that he…
Trump Announces Rally for Lyin’ Ted
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump confirmed what Texas Republicans had been hinting for weeks—he’d be coming to the Lone Star State this fall to campaign for Sen. Ted Cruz: I will be doing a major rally for Senator…
Political Operative Tied to Paul Manafort Charged With Illegal Foreign Lobbying
Federal prosecutors on Friday morning charged Sam Patten, a former associate of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, with illegally lobbying for a Ukrainian political party. Patten was charged by the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and the Justice Department’s National Security Division, not by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But the case appears to represent the…
Trump Job Approval Heading Down to Crazification Factor Once Again
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Here’s a Middle Class Index™ for Chuck Schumer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Martin Heinrich think that GDP is a pretty imperfect measure of economic growth. So they want some new statistics: The idea, they say, is to shed light on where economic prosperity is showing up across different income groups — and, potentially,…