Donald Trump’s Rivals Lash Out Over “Cowardly” Firing of Deputy FBI Chief
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are laying into Donald Trump after he had Attorney General Jeff Sessions fire deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe late Friday night, only days before McCabe was set to retire with full benefits. While Trump considered it a victory, leaders on the other…
This Farmer Turned Congresswoman Sees a Way out of America’s Health Crisis
Courtesy Chellie Pingree Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Many members of the US House of Representatives run businesses in their home districts. Few of those enterprises can offer you a half-dozen oysters and a glass of wine, or send you home with an array of locally grown vegetables. But then…
The Immigration Debate Is Way Off the Rails
Keith Bishop/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. The immigration debate seems to have gone crazy. President Obama’s widely popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered some 750,000 young immigrants brought to the United States as children a temporary reprieve from…
Here Is Andrew McCabe’s Full Statement. Everyone Should Read It.
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe today. Technically, of course, it was Jeff Sessions who did the firing, but I don’t think anyone believes that it was anybody but Trump who was really at the controls. After all, it’s Trump…
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Fired Days Before Scheduled Retirement
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, on Friday evening, less than two days before he was scheduled to retire. The extraordinary dismissal, which could potentially deprive McCabe of his pension, follows months of attacks from President…
Steve Mnuchin Spent Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer Dollars on Eight Flights
Michael Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new set of documents obtained by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington shows that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars on eight trips, opting for military aircraft over commercial flights. Through a Freedom of Information Act…