How Republicans Are Jumping on the New Steele Scoop to Distract From the Trump-Russia Scandal
Victoria Jones/Press Association/AP The cognitive dissonance of the Republicans is pegging the needle this week. The news that a law firm working for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee bankrolled the Trump opposition research project that produced the infamous Trump-Russia memos has touched off much howling in GOP and conservative quarters. The revelation…
Hackers Are Stealing Sensitive Student Data—And Schools are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Get it Back
FOTOKITA/iStock/GettyImages Earlier this month, students and parents in Johnston, Iowa, received a barrage of threatening text messages. “I’m going to kill some kids at your son’s high school,” one said, according to KCCI, a local Des Moines news outlet. The threats eventually caused the school district to shut schools for a day. And just last month, students and parents around…
As Zinke Spends Tax Dollars on Private Jets, National Parks Are Jacking Up Entrance Fees
The National Park Service has a funding problem. It currently faces a $12 billion maintenance backlog that will only be exacerbated in the coming years by a combination of record attendance and the likelihood of federal budget cuts. So on Wednesday, NPS unveiled its latest effort to fill that hole—higher entrance fees at 17 of…
Undocumented Teen Finally Gets Abortion After Month-Long Fight With Trump Administration
Activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old seeking an abortion who’s being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The undocumented minor who’s been fighting for her constitutional right to an abortion finally underwent the procedure on Wednesday morning after the government tried to stop her for…
The Head of the Trump Campaign’s Data Firm Offered Assange Help with Clinton Emails
Bill Clark/ZUMA The head of Cambridge Analytica, a data firm used by Trump’s presidential campaign, reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last year to offer to help release a trove of some 30,000 of Hillary Clinton’s email messages from her time as Secretary of State. The Daily Beast reports Alexander Nix made the offer…
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Russia Probe Just Blew Up
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein at a May 10, 2017 Judiciary Committee hearing.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have broken up over Russia. The committee’s once bipartisan investigation into whether President Trump obstructed justice or his campaign colluded with Russia has hit…