Michael Cohen is scheduled to begin a three-year prison sentence on May 6th. He really doesn’t want to. On Thursday, lawyers for President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer sent a letter to congressional Democrats explaining that Cohen has conveniently discovered a “trove” of new documents that his team believes “have …
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After Democrats won control of the House of Representatives last November, many wondered whether they would use their newfound power to obtain President Trump’s tax returns. Three months after taking over the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) has done just that. On Wednesday, Neal sent a …
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On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr delivered a brief, narrow summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s nearly two-year investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. The president and his allies responded by declaring the matter settled while doing all they can to convince Americans that Barr’s assessment exonerates Trump …
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On Friday night, a Pennsylvania jury found former police officer Michael Rosfeld not guilty of shooting seventeen-year-old high school student Antown Rose II in the back in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as he fled from a traffic stop. Rosfeld, who had been sworn in as a police officer mere hours before …
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After a two-month exploratory phase, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced the launch of her 2020 presidential campaign Sunday morning. In a video entitled “Brave Wins” — the theme of her campaign — published on social media, the senator laid out her reasons for running by reflecting on the lyrics of …
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At 5:57 p.m. Monday night, roughly 20 people carrying cameras, projection equipment and stacks of informational flyers hustled through the bitter cold down Eighth Avenue from West 33rd Street in Manhattan. They stopped directly across the street from the west side of Madison Square Garden, and a few minutes later …
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The biggest mystery in Washington—second only to how the Mueller probe will end—is how President Donald Trump manages to maintain his bright fluorescent orange glow regardless of the season. Thankfully, theNew York Timesdug in on this pressing question, interviewing current and former White House staffers in an attempt to get …
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Last Friday, a group of students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School mocked a Native-American protester named Nathan Phillips outside of the Lincoln Memorial. As their behavior was criticized, video emerged of a small group of Black Israelite protesters yelling insults at the students prior to the run-in with Phillips. …
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One of the first things you learn covering American politicians is that they’re not terribly bright. The notion that Hill denizens are brilliant 4-D chess players is pure myth, the product of too many press hagiographies of the Game Change variety and too many Hollywood fantasies like House of Cards …
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“I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) told CNN in an interview that will air Saturday night. The 37-year-old Gabbard was elected to congress in 2012. She is an Iraq War veteran as well as the first …
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