Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch will meet privately next week with House and Senate intelligence committee investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, The Hill has confirmed. Lynch was at the center of several election-year controversies that will likely be of interest to investigators on Capitol Hill. Former FBI Director James Comey testified […]
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Obama’s $500 Million Presidential Library Will Skirt Federal Standards to Save Money…
Officials with the Obama Foundation will circumvent onerous federal standards by creating an online archive for the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center instead of a traditional paper archive. Utilizing a digitized presidential library also means not having to pay fees to the National Archives and Records Administration for management of the library, reports the Chicago […]
An Old-School Pharmacy Hand-Delivers Drugs to Congress, a Little-Known Perk for the Powerful…
If House Speaker Paul Ryan comes down with the flu this winter, he and his security detail won’t be screeching off toward the closest CVS for his Tamiflu. Instead, he can just walk downstairs and pick up the pills, part of a little-known perk open to every member of Congress, from Ryan and Majority Leader […]
Subpoenas Target Research Firm Tied to Trump Dossier…
A congressional committee has issued subpoenas targeting a research firm that compiled a dossier of unverified and unflattering information about President Donald Trump. The subpoenas were recently issued by the House Intelligence Committee to employees at Fusion GPS, which performs research for political and corporate clients. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Fusion GPS worked with […]
Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact by Aaron Maté…
In her new campaign memoir, What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she has followed “every twist and turn of the story,” and “read everything I could get my hands on,” concerning Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election. “I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address […]
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Harvey Weinstein Investigation: Manhattan DA Has Some Explaining to Do…
In May 2011, a New York grand jury indicted the powerful former head of the International Monetary Fund and the man presumed by many to be on his way to becoming the next President of France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The indictment stemmed from allegations that he had sexually assaulted a maid, Nafissatou Diallo, in his hotel […]
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White House Slams Corker, Escalating ‘Surreal” Feud As NYT Releases Part of Phone Recording…
The “surreal” feud between president Donald Trump and Senator Bob Corker – as defined yesterday by Cowen analyst Chris Krueger – escalated on Tuesday, when the White House said the outgoing GOP senator was partially responsible for the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran but refused to say whether the retiring Corker should resign immediately. […]
Good Ole Russia-gate Jumps the Shark by Robert Parry…
A key distinction between propaganda and journalism is that manipulative propaganda relies on exaggeration and deceit while honest journalism provides context and perspective. But what happens when the major news outlets of the world’s superpower become simply conveyor belts for warmongering propaganda? That is a question that the American people now face as The New […]
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories…
Since the establishment of the first studios a century ago, there have been few movie executives as dominant, or as domineering, as Harvey Weinstein. As the co-founder of the production-and-distribution companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company, he helped to reinvent the model for independent films, with movies such as “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “The English […]
Top Executives Ditch Clinton’s Laureate Education Company…
Top executives at a company with ties to former President Bill Clinton called Laureate Education are leaving the firm only months after they launched its IPO, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. The Baltimore-based company became an issue during the 2016 presidential election campaign when the public learned it paid Clinton nearly […]
‘Harvey Weinstein’s Media Enablers’? The New York Times Is One of Them…
A whole lot of fur has been flying since last Thursday, when The New York Times published a game-changing investigative story about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct that in lightning speed brought the mogul to his knees. He apologized and took an immediate leave of absence from the company he co-founded, but that wasn’t enough. His […]
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Here’s Everything Else the Dianne Feinstein Bump Stock Ban Would Outlaw…
While Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) presents her latest piece of gun control legislation as narrowly focused on bump stocks, the reality is that the language of the bill includes bans on other firearm accessories too. This means those who have worried that Feinstein’s bill would create slippery slope—leading to the passage of more bans—need to […]
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Top House Democrat Linda Sanchez: Nancy Pelosi Must Go…
A top House Democrat called on Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her immediate deputies to step down so that newer lawmakers can assume the party leadership. “I do think we have this real breadth and depth of talent within our caucus and I do think it’s time to pass a torch to a new generation […]
Price Makes Good on Promise to Repay Taxpayers $50k for Private Flights…
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price did pay nearly $52,000 to the government to reimburse part of his private jet travel before he left his position in the Trump administration. “HHS official tells me Tom Price did write personal check 2 Treasury prior 2 stepping down & processing of payment by HHS has […]
Congressional Baseball Shooter ‘Casing’ Field Days Before Attack…
The gunman who attacked GOP lawmakers at a baseball practice in June had previously visited the practice field before going on to fire “at least 70 rounds” at lawmakers, according to an official report released Friday that found police officers were legally justified in using force. The report from Alexandria Commonwealth Attorney Bryan Porter focuses […]
Angry GOP Donors Close Their Wallets…
Republicans are confronting a growing revolt from their top donors, who are cutting off the party in protest over its inability to get anything done. Tensions reached a boiling point at a recent dinner at the home of Los Angeles billionaire Robert Day. In full view of around two dozen guests, Thomas Wachtell, a retired […]
Governor Brown Signs Bill Making California a Sanctuary State…
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Thursday that he signed legislation to bar state law enforcement officials from enforcing federal immigration law, making the state a sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally. The measure, passed last month by the overwhelmingly Democratic California legislature, will bar California police and sheriffs from asking about a detainee’s […]
Pennsylvania GOP Lawmaker Tim Murphy to Resign…
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) will resign later this month following a report this week that he urged a woman with whom he was having an affair to have an abortion. Murphy had originally announced Wednesday night that he would not seek reelection and serve out the rest of his term through 2018. But he will […]
Donors of Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Group Revealed…
The hidden donors to a prominent anti-Trump “resistance” organization are revealed in unredacted tax forms obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Center for Community Change Action, a Washington, D.C.-based progressive community organizing group that does not reveal its donors, has been involved in direct action against President Donald Trump and Republicans before and after […]
Judge: Black Lives Matter Is a Movement That Can’t Be Sued…
Black Lives Matter is a social movement, like the tea party or the civil rights movement, and therefore can’t be sued, a federal judge ruled Thursday. A police officer anonymously sued Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the movement, after being injured by a rock thrown during a protest over a […]
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