Report Claims Trump Targeted Potential Witnesses for Smear Campaign
Xu Jinquan/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I can’t quite tell if this is important or a nothingburger, but Murray Waas reports today in Foreign Policy on some additional evidence of obstruction of justice by Donald Trump. It happened last June, after James Comey testified that he had…
No, Trump Did Not “Deny” Reports That He Tried to Fire Mueller
President Donald Trump said, “Fake news,” when asked about a New York Times report revealing that he’d ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Jeff Widener/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump on Friday morning didn’t really deny a blockbuster New York Times report that last June he had ordered…
Quote of the Day: Trump Denies Killing DACA
This is not a picture of Donald Trump signing the executive order that rescinded DACA. No photographers were invited to that event. Peculiar, isn’t it? But you get the idea.D. Myles Cullen/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Donald Trump, the president of the United States: Everybody…
Betsy DeVos Is Being Sued for Rolling Back Campus Protections for Sexual Assault Victims
Ted S. Warren/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three civil rights organizations that represent survivors of sexual violence are suing the Education Department, saying that a Title IX guidelines announced by Secretary Betsy DeVos last fall are having a “chilling effect” on sexual assault reporting. According to the federal lawsuit,…
Republican Party Finance Chairman Accused of “Decades-Long Pattern of Sexual Misconduct”
Prensa Internacional via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve Wynn, the casino mogul who was a vice-chair of Donald Trump’s inauguration committee and is currently the finance chairman of the Republican Party, is apparently a sexual predator on par with Harvey Weinstein.¹ The Wall Street Journal has an extensive…
This Ballot Measure Would Be a Big Win for Maine’s Elderly
Obencem/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mainers will soon get the chance to continue their streak of progressive ballot initiatives. The Maine People’s Alliance, the political advocacy group behind last year’s Medicaid expansion victory, announced Friday that it has collected enough signatures to put a Universal Home Care measure on…