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 […]
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Trump signs ‘FOSTA’ bill targeting online sex trafficking, enables states and victims to pursue websites President Trump signed a bill Wednesday that gives federal and state prosecutors greater power to pursue websites that host sex-trafficking ads and enables victims and state attorneys general to file lawsuits against those sites. Addressing […]
California governor, a frequent Trump critic, agrees to limited National Guard role at Mexico border California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), the only border state governor who had not yet committed troops to President Trump’s National Guard deployment, said Wednesday that he will accept federal funding for 400 personnel — though […]
DOJ gives Nunes access to document that launched FBI’s Russia probe House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’ dispute with Depuity Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared to de-escalate Wednesday after Nunes was given access to the document that kicked off the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign […]
Sex Claims Against Missouri Governor Vividly Detailed in Report He blindfolded and bound a woman to exercise equipment, spanked her, and tried to kiss her without her consent. Those are among the scandalous allegations against Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri that were released in a legislative report on Wednesday that […]
Trump After Dark: The H.R. Department edition The prolonged goodbye of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster has a familiar pattern to it: Rumors swirl, potential replacements are floated and then — no immediate action from President Trump. Perhaps even a White House denial. Getting “Tillersoned,” as POLITICO’s […]
The long read Vladimir Putin’s politics of eternity mericans and Europeans have been guided through our new century by what I will call the politics of inevitability – a sense that the future is just more of the present, that the laws of progress are known, that there are no […]
Syria war: Thousands flee twin offensives in Afrin and Ghouta As many as 50,000 people have fled separate offensives against rebel forces in northern and southern Syria in recent days, activists say. About 30,000 have left the northern town of Afrin as Turkish forces and their allies stepped up a […]
Saudi Crown Prince Is Hiding His Mother, U.S. Officials Say Saudi Arabia’s future king has hidden the whereabouts of his mother from his father and the public, according to U.S. officials. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has given his father, King Salman, a number of different explanations for her absence, […]
Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will. United […]
