President Donald Trump‘s firing of FBI Director James Comey triggered an FBI investigation as agents feared the president was working on behalf of the Russian government, theNew York Timesreported late Friday, citing law enforcement and others familiar with the investigation. This new reporting reveals that the investigation into Trump was …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a break from clapping back against conservatives on Twitter to sit down for a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. The freshman congresswoman’s appearance on America’s highest-rated news program, which aired Sunday night, was the first extra-Internet opportunity for Ocasio-Cortez to broadcast some of her …
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The Dow Jones Industrial Index fell more than 400 points on Monday morning, continuing a downward trend, despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to calm investors’ nerves. In an unusual move, Mnuchin made a series of phone calls on Sunday to six banks to make sure they had enough …
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President Trump announced on Wednesday that ISIS had been defeated in Syria and that there was no longer any reason for American troops to be stationed there. Trump had spoken before about his desire to bring troops out of Syria, but the tweet announcing the decision came as a shock. …
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012, is back in the news. Last week, word of a sealed federal indictment involving him leaked out. The news came out in a strange way, via an unrelated case in Virginia. In …
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Michael Cohen is in big trouble. The former personal attorney for Donald Trump may be the only person in America whose high-profile legal issues are more severe than those of his former client (or those of his former client’s former campaign manager, who was jailed on Friday). Since the April …
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When Senator Al Franken faced a sexual misconduct scandal last fall, the outcome was painful accountability. Allegations of unwanted touching – and intense pressure from senior members of his own party – forced the Minnesota Senator to resign. The contrast to the GOP of Donald Trump is striking. For Republican …
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John Oliver and Last Week Tonight returned from its winter break Sunday to deliver a scathing look at Donald Trump‘s foreign policy (or lack thereof) and how the world views it, from vacant ambassadorships in crucial nations to an “America First” mandate that alienates allies. Oliver quickly ran down Trump’s …
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If one could adjectivize the president, there has never been anything Trumpier than Donald Trump‘s posture on nuclear weapons. It’s an issue where he embraces contradictory thoughts in the same breath with routine. In candidate Trump’s debate with Hillary Clinton on September 26, 2016, he said, “I would certainly not …
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The State of the Union rebuttal, once a platform for the minority party to showcase its best and brightest, has, after a series of prime-time bellyflops, become a somewhat less desirable gig for rising stars. People even say it’s cursed. Luckily, the man tapped to give the Democrats’ official response,a …
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