Though it’s unclear whether he considers it a “shithole,” President Trump seems to have taken something of an interest in South Africa. Last month, he trumpeted a white genocide conspiracy theoryraised by Tucker Carlson. “I have asked Secretary of State @SecPomeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm …
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President Trump may have a hard time focusing on a host of issues relevant to running the world’s most powerful nation, but there’s one topic from which his attention never deviates: the Russia investigation. His tweets about the subject have increased dramatically as former confidants like Michael Cohen and Paul …
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WASHINGTON — On the third day of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, perhaps the most intriguing plot line that emerged had nothing to do with Kavanaugh’s views on abortion, gun rights or presidential power. His answers on those subjects have been frustratingly vague, keeping with the tradition of past …
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The debate was nasty even before it started. Actress-turned-politician Cynthia Nixon wanted the temperature in the debate hall at Hofstra University to be 76 degrees, apparently because Governor Andrew Cuomo “likes a cold room.” She also asked for a debate format that involved the two candidates standing. Instead, both candidates …
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WASHINGTON — FBI agents in California and Washington, D.C., have investigated a series of cyberattacks over the past year that targeted a Democratic opponent of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Rohrabacher is a 15-term incumbent who is widely seen as the most pro-Russia and pro-Putin member of Congress and is a …
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President Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller have been in each other’s orbit for months, but this week they seemed closer than ever. Tension is swelling as to whether the president will allow himself to be interviewed by the man investigating Russian collusion (and possible conspiracy) with his campaign.Trump’s legal …
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When Georgia Republicans chose Brian Kemp, the state’s voter-suppressing Secretary of State, as their nominee for governor against Democratic supernova Stacey Abrams this week, they set up a November election that will be one of the nation’s most-watched and most entertaining. It will also be the nation’s most comically misunderstood. …
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Scott Pruitt finally stepped downfrom his controversial perch atop the EPA on Thursday. Roughly 24 hours after attending a Fourth of July picnic on the White House lawn and only a few hours after the New York Times reported that he fired an aide for questioning the legality of deleting …
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Director David Lynch accused President Donald Trump of “causing suffering and division” in a Facebook post in which he clarified comments he made about Trump that he claims right-wing media outlets took out of context. In an interview with The Guardian published Saturday, Lynch said that Trump “could go down …
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Following the shooting that left 10 dead at Santa Fe High School, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he would hold a series of roundtable discussions focusing on ways to curb gun violence in schools. Although some of the state’s leading gun reform proponents were not invited, the group Texas Gun …
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