Fire and Fury, the New York Times bestseller chronicling the first year of the Trump White House, provided a shockingly intimate look into the machinations of a chaotic presidential administration. Its allegations were detailed and damming, but its author, Michael Wolff, carried an unsavory reputation as a journalist known to …
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WASHINGTON —Life comes at you fast. A day after President Trump said on Fox News that it “almost ought to be illegal” for “flippers” to receive more lenient plea deals in exchange for testifying, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Allen Weisselberg, a longtime top executive and chief …
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Christine Hallquist became the first openly transgender person to secure a major party’s nomination for governor after winning the Vermont Democratic primary Tuesday, The New York Times reports. Hallquist bested three other candidates and will face Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the general election, November 6th. Per CNN, Hallquist ran …
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA —The dollar figures and luxurious trappings of Paul Manafort’s life had become a blur by the end of Day 2 of his trial for alleged bank fraud and tax evasion. In just one year, Manafort spent $444,160 at high-end men’s store Alan Couture on, among other items, a …
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Last month, the Trump administration instituted a new “zero tolerance” policy directed at migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexican border illegally. Anyone captured would be prosecuted as a criminal, meaning parents and children crossing together would be separated, as minors cannot accompany adults to federal detention centers. Over 2,000 children …
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In May, the Trump administration instituted zero-tolerance policy that called for all immigrants crossing the border illegally to be prosecuted. Because minors cannot be held in criminal custody, close to 500 children have been separated from their parents since the policy was enacted. Many of these children are infants. On …
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WASHINGTON—President Trump interrupted Thursday’s “executive time”– his ritual morning Twitter kvetch – to make some actual news: Dinesh D’Souza is a long-standing member of the conservative movement’s trigger-the-libs faction. He began as something of a right-wing wunderkind with his critiques of academia and liberal campus culture, but over time has …
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Just a few days aftera weekend Twitter meltdown that featured a call for the Department of Justice to investigate whether the FBI “infiltrated” his campaign for political purposes, President Trump on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning fired off another torrent of tweets about the same subject. He even decided on …
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The most prominent response to Friday’s shooting that left 10 dead at Santa Fe High Schoolcame from the state’s lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick. Speaking to reporters the afternoon of the shooting, Patrick called not for gun regulation, but door regulation. “We’re going to have to look at the design of …
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