Thousands of Facebook ads bought by Russians to fool U.S. voters released by Congress Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released thousands of Russian Facebook ads on Thursday, offering the public its first in-depth look at the troubling messages used to heighten tensions among Americans during and after the 2016 […]
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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 […]
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 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 […]
Mormon Church Ends Century-Old Partnership With Boy Scouts of America The Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts of America formed a partnership 105 years ago based on shared beliefs in God, country and the necessity of teaching morals and responsibility to boys. The groups became so intertwined that one of […]
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 […]
