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Trump Moves to Fill 9th Circuit Vacancies. Sens’ Feinstein and Harris Aren’t Happy…

After months of negotiations and delays, the White House is moving to fill California’s three vacancies on the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — over the strenuous objections of the state’s two Democratic senators. White House officials had been negotiating with Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, both of whom sit on the […]

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Trump Lawyers Preparing Written Answers to Mueller Questions…

President Trump’s personal legal team is preparing written answers to questions submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported Thursday. The development could mark a breakthrough in the prolonged battle between Trump’s personal lawyers and the special counsel’s office over whether and how the president would answer Mueller’s questions regarding possible collusion between the Trump […]

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U.S. Supreme Court Vacates Ruling in Missouri Requiring Licensing to Braid Hair. Seriously. A License to Braid Hair…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated an appeals court ruling that supported a lengthy licensing process for hair braiders in Missouri and ordered a judge in St. Louis to dismiss the case. The original lawsuit, filed in 2014, complained that African-style hair braiders were required to obtain a cosmetology license, which takes 1,500 hours […]

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Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Reportedly Dragged from Consulate Office, Killed and Dismembered…

Jamal Khashoggi was dragged from the consul general’s office inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday before he was brutally murdered by two men who cut up his body, sources close to the investigation have told Middle East Eye. Turkish officials say they know when and where in the building the veteran Saudi journalist […]

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More Classified Material on Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure Email System Released…

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 288 pages of newly uncovered emails of former Secretary of State Hillary that were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system, three of which contain classified information. Judicial Watch obtained the documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on May 6, 2015, after […]

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FBI Chief: ‘Usual Process Was Followed’ for Kavanaugh Background Investigation…

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that the bureau’s background investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was limited in scope, following precedent for similar investigations. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) asked Wray during a Senate hearing whether the FBI was given full discretion “to investigate whatever your agency thought was appropriate to figure out what […]

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Nikki Haley Resigns as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations…

Nikki Haley on Tuesday resigned as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in a surprising departure. Sitting with Haley in the Oval Office, President Trump announced she would leave at the end of the year and said she wanted to “take a break” from public service. “She’s done a fantastic job, and we’ve done a […]

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Regulators Face Food Fight Over Lab-Grown Meat…

A food fight has been brewing over how the government should regulate animal tissue grown in labs. The prospect of lab-grown tissue has raised the hopes of animal welfare and environmental groups because it is created without slaughter and meant to substitute for traditional pork, beef, chicken, and fish. But divisions have emerged between the […]

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Ground Zero in the New War on Drugs…

Just a few grains of the synthetic fentanyl being found in packages coming into the United States through this mail sorting facility are enough to slow a person’s heart rate, inhibit breathing, and send him or her into a coma. It’s the most dangerous kind of fentanyl in America. Francis Byrne, an officer with U.S. […]

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FBI Lawyer’s Testimony at Odds with Rosenstein Denial on ‘Wire’ Report…

Two senior FBI officials told the bureau’s top lawyer they believed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was “serious” when he discussed secretly recording President Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office last year, according to sources close to a congressional investigation – an account that conflicts with claims from Rosenstein and […]

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Justice Kavanaugh’s First Vote Could Be in Trump Executive Power Fight…

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first vote as a member of the Supreme Court could come as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday on a Trump administration request testing how much power courts should wield over top executive branch officials. The administration has already made one unsuccessful run at the high court on the issue: It asked Justice […]

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Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Missing Case: CCTV Disappears from Saudi Consulate in Turkey…

Security camera footage was removed from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and Turkish staff were abruptly told to take a holiday on the day the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared while inside the building, Turkish authorities have claimed. A week after Khashoggi vanished in the heart of Turkey’s biggest city, details of the investigation into […]

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FBI’s Smoking Gun: Redactions Protected Political Embarrassment, NOT ‘National Security’…

To declassify or not to declassify? That is the question, when it comes to the FBI’s original evidence in the Russia collusion case. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI have tried to thwart President Trump on releasing the evidence, suggesting it will harm national security, make allies less willing to cooperate, or even […]

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Did the Saudis Murder Journalist Jamal Khashoggi?…

The last time I spoke with Jamal Khashoggi, in August, he was worried about his life. The Saudi dissident, a fifty-nine-year-old former editor and government adviser, was convinced that the kingdom’s new leadership wanted to kill him. “Of course, they’d like to see me out of the picture,” he said. He’d said it to me […]

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McConnell: GOP Senators Were ‘Literally Under Assault’ in Days Before Kavanaugh Vote…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that GOP senators were “literally under assault” during the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. “I couldn’t be prouder of the Senate Republican Conference. We were standing up for the presumption of innocence in this country […]

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh Staff’s Up with First All-Women Law Clerk Team…

The newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has already fulfilled one of his promises. After weeks of contentious hearings, the Senate voted to confirm the polarizing nominee Saturday evening. And Kavanaugh was already on the job Sunday morning with the court’s first-ever all-women team of law clerks by his side, The New York Times […]

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Evolution of the Russian-Collusion Narrative…

The explication of the evolution of Russian-collusion narrative is marred by an emphasis on pretextual explanations of the scandal. Such explanations have been superimposed upon the scandal’s true foundations. This miasma was not induced initially by matters involving Russia, but as a riposte to Donald Trump’s expressed views on Muslims and the connection between the […]

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Chicago Cop Convicted of 2nd-Degree Murder, Aggravated Battery for Each of 16 Shots…

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, marking a stunning end to a racially tinged case that roiled the city when now-infamous police dashboard camera video of the shooting was released three years ago by court order. Van Dyke is the first Chicago […]

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