The Official Next in Line to Oversee the Russia Investigation Just Stepped Down
Rachel Brand is sworn-in during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2017. Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The third-highest ranking official at the Justice Department, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, will step down after just nine months on the job, the New York Times reported…
House Intelligence Dems: This Russia Investigation Kind of Sucks
J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As part of the long-running saga over the Nunes memo—a major distraction in the Trump-Russia case—the House Intelligence Committee held a meeting on Monday to consider whether to release the counter-memo drafted by Democrats on the panel. The session was held…
A Surprise Move by the Trump Administration Has Dreamers on More Stable Footing Than Expected
Demonstrators with United We Dream and others rally in the Hart Senate Office Building last month to call on Congress to pass legislation to protect Dreamers.Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered a record-shattering speech in defense of Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who…
Donald Trump Has a Long History of Defending Men Accused of Sexual Assault
Sonia Moskowitz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “He says that he’s innocent. I think you have to remember that.” “He did a very good job while he was in the White House, and we hope that he has a wonderful career.” These were President Donald Trump’s first public remarks addressing the…
Here’s the Worst, Anti-Science Idea of the Week from the Republican Congress
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a hearing this week, Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) lashed out at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the group that assesses cancer risk for the UN’s World Health Organization. He accused it of conducting “cherry-picked science,” which, he declared “raises questions about why IARC…
Donald Trump Joins With Russian Bots to Trash Mark Warner on Twitter
Sens Mark Warner and Richard Burr during a Jan. 17 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.Alex Edelman/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday night, a few hours before the government briefly shut down, President Donald Trump turned his attention to Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat at the head of…