Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending before the federal government […]
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Military investigation of Niger disaster finds numerous failures in planning A months-long military investigation of a disastrous 2017 mission in Niger found that multiple individual and institutional failures contributed to a chain of events culminating in a militant ambush that left four Americans dead. Senior officials, in a summary of […]
Trump unloads on Homeland Security secretary in lengthy immigration tirade President Trump berated Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a dispiriting Cabinet meeting on immigration Wednesday, according to three administration officials, but her colleagues denied reports that she has threatened to quit. Trump lashed out at his Cabinet, and Nielsen […]
Trump signs executive order to make it easier for military spouses to get jobs President Donald Trump took action Wednesday to make it a little easier for the nation’s military spouses to find employment as their families deploy domestically and abroad. The President signed an executive order aimed at increasing […]
Eric Schneiderman Falls. Trump Allies Gloat. Democrats Seethe. The moment of political reckoning began a day after President Trump’s inauguration, when millions of marchers protested his policies and treatment of women. That outpouring of energy has rippled through elections over the last 16 months, as women have turned out in […]
Renegade Republicans challenge Paul Ryan, file discharge petition to force immigration votes A small group of Republicans has launched an effort to sidestep House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and put immigration legislation on the House floor this year in a bid to secure protections for young undocumented immigrants. Rep. Carlos […]
A Black Student at Yale Was Napping in a Common Area, and Someone Called the Police A black graduate student at Yale who fell asleep in her dorm’s common room said she had a disturbing awakening this week when a white student flipped on the lights, told her she had […]
How Michael Cohen cashed in Michael Cohen made more than $2 million working as a Trump whisperer. But he’s far from the only one. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer is the latest member of the president’s inner circle to cash in on connections by selling insight into how […]
What Gina Haspel didn’t tell us at her high-stakes CIA hearing Don’t ask Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the agency, because she doesn’t have a clear answer — or, at least, not one she was willing to offer publicly and under oath on Wednesday. Called upon repeatedly […]
Trump Court Pick Thinks Planned Parenthood ‘Kills Over 150,000 Females A Year’ One of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, Wendy Vitter, repeatedly avoided answering a simple question in her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday: Do you believe Planned Parenthood kills more than 150,000 women every year? Vitter, a New Orleans […]
