President Donald Trump ordered a top-secret security clearance be granted to Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser, last May despite objections raised by intelligence and White House officials, four people familiar with the matter told The New York Times. The Thursday report contradicts previous statements Trump made claiming he had no role in giving Kushner his […]
A few weeks ago, Americans got a sneak peek at what it will look like if Congress decides to impeach President Donald Trump. On Jan. 18, BuzzFeed News published a report alleging that Trump had ordered his fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about their efforts during the 2016 presidential campaign to secure Russian […]
Neomi Rao, the nominee for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has apologized for her past writings that blamed sexual assault survivors for their own date rape. Rao wrote a letter Monday to the Senate Judiciary Committee condemning “sexual assault in all forms” and apologizing for her […]
Ivanka Trump rejected speculation that she and husband Jared Kushner, both White House senior advisers, were given any preferential treatment by her father upon receiving their security clearances. In an ABC News interview released Friday, Trump told the network’s Abby Huntsman there were “absolutely not” any special considerations granted to her. “There were anonymous leaks […]
EL PASO, Texas ― Beto O’Rourke directly challenged President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies and painted the administration’s efforts to build a wall along the southern border as dangerous and divisive during a rally Monday night. Speaking to a crowd of thousands within sight of the El Paso County Coliseum, where Trump spoke, the former Democratic […]
President Donald Trump on Friday responded to Paul Manafort’s prison sentence, saying he “felt very badly” for his former campaign chairman. “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort,” he said, adding that it “is a very, very tough time for him.” He also remarked that Manafort’s conviction “has nothing to do with collusion.” “I don’t collude with […]
In 1936, Victor H. Green created the Negro Motorist Green Book with black fun and black fear on his mind. Green published his Green Book, as it is commonly known, as a guide for blacks seeking recreation, and as a road map for black travelers to avoid fatal encounters with whites during the Jim Crow […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has vowed to launch an investigation into whether top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI plotted to carry out a “bureaucratic coup” to force President Donald Trump from office. Graham made his pronouncement during a Sunday conversation with CBS’ “Face The Nation.” He’d […]
Newly obtained body-camera footage shows police in Glendale, Arizona, using a stun gun on a man 11 times, including on his bare testicles, during a 2017 traffic stop. Arizona’s ABC 15 and The Arizona Republic obtained footage that shows one officer kicking 39-year-old Johnny Wheatcroft ― who was handcuffed and lying on the ground at the […]
The executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections revealed Monday that state officials had uncovered a “coordinated” and “unlawful” effort to collect absentee ballots on behalf of a Republican congressional candidate in the November election. Kim Strach, the board’s executive director, made the comments at a closely watched public evidentiary hearing in Raleigh […]