A new report finds Russian disinformation teams targeting Robert S. Mueller with sweeping campaigns to discredit the special counsel’s investigation. One tactic employed by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency: an anti-masturbation hotline. Russian meddling found big wins on Instagram, with more than twice the audience engagement of
The White House defends the Border Patrol in the exhaustion and dehydration death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl, placing blame on the child's father. Related: “US Border Patrol systematically destroyed water supplies left for migrants in desert.” At the current pace, the amount of US government
The Senate votes 56 to 41 to revoke—symbolically, mostly—American military support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. The United States suffered 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on the previous high set in 2006. Meanwhile, US death row executions are at a
Michael Cohen is sentenced to three years in prison for his role in committing crimes at Trump's direction and on Trump's behalf. Law experts say a tabloid publisher's admission yesterday that it paid off Playboy model Karen McDougal in order to influence the election
During an impromptu debate in the White House, Trump interrupts Nancy Pelosi 15 times (and still leaves angry over losing). Meanwhile Vice President Pence said nothing, prompting the best jokes. A new category of falsehood—“the Bottomless Pinocchio”—is created to accommodate Trump’s compulsive lying. Photographs of migrants getting
Responding to the yellow vest protests, Macron promises a minimum wage increase and other concessions, but many protestors view his speech as a charade. Ending days of assurance that a Brexit vote would happen today, Theresa May calls off the vote, and will try and negotiate a new deal with
Yesterday's filings in the Russia investigation show that Trump directed Cohen to break campaign finance laws by making hush payments to Stormy Daniels and others, and that Mueller's office has evidence Manafort lied when he said he didn't facilitate connections between Russia and the
With the race for California's 21st District now called for TJ Cox, Democrats secure a net gain of 40 House seats. Another midterm race yet to be called: North Carolina's Ninth District, where allegations of fraud may require a new election. Biden, Sanders, or Warren beating
In what's being viewed as a significant escalation of the US-China trade war, Canada has arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou—who is also the daughter of the company's founder—at the request of the US, though no charges have been made public. New clues in
Robert Mueller recommends that Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, not get jail time because of his “substantial assistance.” Anticipation builds for Mueller's document dump on Friday, with news outlets trying to connect the dots in a bigger narrative. Why did Michael Cohen confess to everything?
