Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, has separated from his lawyers and may be ready to cooperate with federal investigators. Anticipating Cohen's possible flip, Trump's team has already begun rolling out a smear campaign against him. It's Donald Trump's birthday.
Trump showed Kim a movie trailer made by the White House for their meeting, presenting Trump and Kim as two heroes on the verge of changing world history. North Korea claims the US committed to lifting sanctions. That’s not what Trump said. “The negative commentary I am seeing is
At the end of yesterday's summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un, the two leaders signed a vague document with loophole-friendly agreements—e.g., "the DPRK commits to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." In a post-summit press conference, Trump announced
Trump’s tariffs are pushing away some of his most loyal Congressional allies and Republican backers. Macron asks other G7 countries to confront Trump on trade, climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. And then there’s that handshake. A doofus's unpredictability and narcissism helped precipitate the fall
In an apparent second high-profile suicide this week, Anthony Bourdain has died at age 61 in France. In a new CDC report, suicide rates in the US have increased dramatically since 1999, especially among those with no known mental health conditions. If you or someone you know is having
Democrats aren’t sick of voting yet, and neither are Republicans: Lessons learned from this week’s elections. California may be the heart of the Trump resistance, but it's largely apathetic about voting in primaries. Paul Ryan joins Trey Gowdy in dismissing Trump’s “spygate” conspiracy theory. Our
A play-by-play of Trump’s surreal “Celebration of America” event yesterday, thrown together after the president nixed the Philadelphia Eagles' visit, for which only one player was confirmed to attend. Everyone's claiming victory in the Supreme Court gay wedding cake decision, and no one knows
Fifteen legal experts discuss whether President Trump—as he claims—has the power to pardon himself. Etiquette-ing a Trump-Kim summit: Who sits where, who enters when, and who picks up the check. Barring an act of Congress, the Secret Service will protect a former president or first lady
I want to tell you, dear strangers, why I’m here and what I encountered. The three-winged pigeon. My cynical doppelganger. The loneliness and marvels and confusions of the house. And most importantly the ghost living in my bedroom. She was everything I’d hoped to find, but she
The US unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest since 2000; however, by tweeting this morning about the jobs report ahead of its release, Trump broke federal regulations that are in place to avoid influencing markets. After Trump allowed their tariff exemptions to expire, Canada, Mexico, and the EU hit
