Maria Butina wants you to know she’s totally not a honeypot. Held without bail on charges that she worked as an illegal Russian agent, successfullyinfiltrating the NRA and high-level GOP circles in a conspiracy to “penetrate the U.S. national decision-making apparatus,” Butina is now seeking to be released to home …
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It took 42 years for the United States to ratify the 19th Amendment, enshrining a woman’s right to vote. Between the time it was first introduced to Congress in 1878 and when it actually became law in 1920, the Panama Canal was built, nine states joined the unionand World War …
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Three years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors, a 73-year-old Aretha Franklin took the stage in a floor-length fur coat, sat down at the piano and brought President Obama to tears. Her performance of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” was so rousing that it elicited a standing …
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Update: The Associated Pressreported on Tuesday that the Trump campaign is filing arbitration action against Omarosa for breaching a confidentiality agreement signed prior to joining the campaign in 2016. Though she signed a confidentiality agreement covering her time on the campaign, she did not sign one prior to joining the …
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Few Senate Republicans have been as critical of President Trump as Jeff Flake. This isn’t saying much, but the outgoing Arizona lawmaker has spoken out against the president on several issues, from his trade war, to his attacks on the media, to his “shameful” press conference alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin. …
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The Trump child-separation horror is far from over. According to the government’s own numbers, released late last week, as many as 3,000 children were yet to be reunited with their parents. On Tuesday, the administration failed to comply with a court order to return all children under the age of …
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Michael Cohen has had a lot of time to think since April 9th, the day federal agents raided his office, apartment and hotel room. For the past few months, Donald Trump’s former legal counsel and “fixer” has been holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, presumably mulling over whether to …
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Few were surprised that Trump bungled his much-hyped summit with Kim Jong-un. And, as expected, the president emerged from Singapore singing the praises of the North Korean dictator, as he has done after meeting with other authoritarian leaders around the world. What’s mind-boggling is the extreme degree to which Trump …
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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee has released a 2,500-page trove of testimony related to Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. The report containsa 224-page transcript of an interview with Donald Trump Jr. about his June 2016 meeting with a delegation of Russian and Russian-connected figures. The testimony, which …
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Michelle Wolf delivered a scathing speech about the Trump administration at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where the comedian also roasted the news networks and both Republicans and Democrats. “Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with a Trump, ‘Let’s get this over with,’” Wolf said …
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