Category: Government

Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is winning high marks from the left for her questioning this week of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, which may have produced some leads into President Donald Trump’s financial dealings as a real estate and business mogul and given Democrats new reasons to demand his tax returns. The praise she’s getting […]

The New York Times reports that Trump ordered Kelly in May to override the security concerns of top U.S. officials and grant a top-secret clearance to Kushner, whose clearance had been downgraded from that level earlier in the year. The report of Trump’s order, which the Times said was documented at the time by Kelly […]

President Trump suffered a significant blow on Thursday when his nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unexpectedly collapsed. Trump traveled halfway around the world to Vietnam on a mission to broker a historic nuclear accord with Kim, with whom he has spent more than a year building a personal relationship in order […]

During his much-anticipated public testimony before Congress on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s former longtime attorney Michael Cohen will provide evidence of his old boss’s alleged criminal conduct since becoming president, a knowledgeable source about what to expect told NBC News. And, according to the source, there is much more that congressional investigators and viewers can […]

HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump, who arrived here on Tuesday for a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is desperate for a win. At home, the fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice continues to spread. Trump’s domestic agenda is […]

A federal appeals court in Washington on Monday rejected a challenge to special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment that was brought by Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller. “Because the Special Counsel is an inferior officer, and the Deputy Attorney General became the head of the Department by virtue of becoming the Acting Attorney General as a […]

WASHINGTON — Fifty-eight former U.S. national security officials told the Trump administration in a letter Monday that they are aware of “no emergency that remotely justifies” diverting funds to build a border wall. The officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served in the Clinton […]

WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Monday appeared to be trying to dampen expectations about what the public might see of special counsel Robert Mueller’s widely-expected report, noting that federal prosecutors typically don’t describe conduct that falls outside the scope of criminal charges. “The guidance I always gave my prosecutors and the agents […]

The preparations are the clearest indication yet that Mueller is nearly done with his almost two-year investigation. The precise timing of the announcement is subject to change. The scope and contours of what Barr will send to Congress remain unclear. Also unclear is how long it will take Justice officials to prepare what will be […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) presidential campaign raised more than $4 million Tuesday in the 12 hours after it was announced. Sanders raised the money from almost 150,000 individual donors in all 50 states, the campaign said in a press release. The average donation amounted to $27, mirroring that of the 2016 campaign. The haul more […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors said Paul Manafort could go to prison for approximately 19 to 24 years and be required to pay fines and restitution totaling more than $28 million. In a sentencing memo filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, prosecutors said that under sentencing guidelines Manafort, who was President […]

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