President Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller fired back in June, but he backpedaled after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign. Here are five takeaways from the Mueller-firing news and lots of Beltway Twitter chatter. “There are good reasons to be critical of how Comey handled the
Trump sends mixed signals to the nearly 700,000 Dreamers, saying he would be open to citizenship after "10 to 12 years," just days after killing a bipartisan plan—in his "shithole" meeting—that offered a path to citizenship. Dara Lind on Twitter: "It is
The government shutdown ends (for the next three weeks, anyway) and the big question is: Who won? Democrats or Republicans? This question represents everything wrong with our current politics, in which we've become preoccupied with rooting for one side and lambasting the other, to the point that actual
The Republicans have become the first party in American history to control the White House and both houses of Congress and manage to shutter the government. Here’s what’s open, what’s not. And here’s a handy list of Hill reporters to follow on Twitter for the latest
To avoid a government shutdown, the House has passed a stopgap spending bill. Now the Senate must approve the measure by midnight tonight—which looks unlikely. Even as the GOP tries to pin the shutdown on Democrats, three Republican senators say they won't approve the measure. Here'
In the world's coldest town—Oymyakon, Russia—a bonfire must be lit to warm the ground before burying any dead bodies. About 2,000 people live in a Paris replica in China, many of them working in a nearby France-themed amusement park. The US plans an open-
After a federal judge revived most of the DACA protections on Jan. 9, Sessions announced yesterday that the DoJ would sidestep the US Court of Appeals and take the case directly to the Supreme Court. Hoping to avoid a government shutdown, and with immigration at an impasse, Congressional Republicans bait
Bannon meets behind closed doors with the House panel on Russia. Trump sends a preemptive tweet, “The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead.” African immigrants who come to the US are generally the continent's best and brightest, with superior educations. Photographs of streets across America named after Dr. Martin
Whether New Yorkers recover from opioids at home or must travel to a clinic correlates with race and income. “It’s the prescription thing that’s really severely scary to me. It’s the scariest. I had to go to the street to get it. We were just partying, and
Trump denies calling Haiti, El Salvador, and all of Africa “shithole countries”—a comment even the White House didn’t try to claw back. “This is CNN Tonight, I’m Don Lemon. The president of the United States is racist. A lot of us already knew that.” The Guardian offers
