Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) has made an earnest spectacle of inviting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to testify. “Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has made serious allegations against Judge Kavanaugh,” Grassley wrote Wednesday in an open letter to his committee colleagues. “She has a …
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WASHINGTON —Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican lobbyist and former chairman of Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, was set to face trial later this month over allegations of money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying, witness tampering, and conspiracy against the United States brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It would have been the …
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President Trump finds himself backed into a corner, wagging a fire poker at anyone or anything that dares cross him — the liberal media, his former lawyer-fixer, defenestrated White House aides, a dead senator. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation continues to gain strength with each passing week, and more …
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Reality Winner stood in a county jail in rural Georgia, phone receiver pressed to her ear, staring at a brick wall and racking her brain, trying to remember the minimum sentence for violating Chapter 18, Section 793(e) of the U.S. Criminal Code. She’d signed papers acknowledging the penalty so many …
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In a taped interview with Fox & Friends that aired Thursday morning, President Trump mused about his own impeachment. “I guess it says something like ‘high crimes’ and all,” Trump said, showing a typically deep understanding of the Constitution. “I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a …
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President Trump has spent the better part of the past week stumbling from news cycle to news cycle trying to convince Americans that, despite 18 month’s worth of evidence to the contrary, he has faith in the U.S. intelligence community and has actually been very tough on Russia. First, he …
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Last fall, an undocumented 17-year-old was arrested while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The girl, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, was sent to a private Texas detention center under contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Shortly after her arrival, she learned she was eight weeks pregnant and …
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When the polls closed in Mexico’s presidential election Sunday evening, the winner by a landslide was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a socialist reformer and unabashed champion of the working class. It’s a hugely significant turn of events. Since 2000, Mexico has been governed by pro-business technocrats, responsible centrists with economics …
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The Rev. Dr. William Barber II, towering over a stage on the National Mall, tells his DJ to spin an O’Jays song. Barber, a black Christian minister with a long record of speaking truth to power, begins a speech about the plight of poor whites in the heartland. Before he …
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The White House strategy for handling the family separation backlash has mostly been to blame lawmakers. Earlier this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters, falsely, that Congress created the problem and that “only Congress can fix it.” Two days later, the administration titled the executive order …
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