Update:Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, has agreed to take the worst job in Washington, at least for now. It’s unclear whether Mulvaney will only serve as chief of staff until President Trump can find a permanent replacement, or if Mulvaney will occupy the …
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Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday morning. At the center of the charges against the president’s former lawyer-fixer were two payments made in the months leading up to the 2016 election. One was a $130,000 payment Cohen made to Stormy Daniels, with whom Trump allegedly had …
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A record number of women — mostly Democrats, many of them galvanized by the threat the Trump administration poses to reproductive freedom — were swept into Congress during in the 2018 midterm elections. The results were still being tabulated on Wednesday when Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services quietly …
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If President Trump isn’t the most prolific liar in American history, he’s up there. The Washington Post found last week that over the course of his first 649 days in office, Trump made 6,420 false or misleading claims, or almost 10 per day. In the seven weeks leading up to …
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Michael Cohen has signaled recently in tweets and random comments to the media that he is no longer President Donald Trump’s most loyal defender. This continued in an interview with Vanity Fairthat publishedFriday where he accused Trump of making racist remarks behind closed doors. Cohen gave the interview Tuesday, the …
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Republican Congressman Jason Lewis of Minnesota is coming under fire for disparaging remarks he made about women while he was a conservative radio talk show host. Before he was elected to Congress, Lewis was the host of a syndicated radio show that ran from 2009 to 2014. One of the …
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Director Andrew J. Muscato traces the rise and rapid fall of Anthony Scaramucci — who served ever-so-briefly as the White House Director of Communications — in the upcoming documentary,Mooch. Scaramucci made a pile of money as a financier and was a Republican Party donor before joining President Trump’s staff in …
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It’s hard to tell when an action taken by President Trump or the White House is intended to distract from unfavorable news coverage. But it was pretty clear when Trump revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan last week. The announcement, coming at the height of former …
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A new federal court filing, arguing for Russian national Maria Butina to be held without bail on charges that could carry more than a dozen years in prison, includes jaw dropping details of sex and deception that make her career as an alleged Russian agent read like a plotline from …
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Stephen Colbert celebrated the upset victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and broke down several other surprising election results on The Late Show Wednesday. On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez beat incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, one of the most senior Democrats in Washington, in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th district. Not only was …
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