According to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, President Donald Trump's latest moves all share the same goal: Keeping Americans distracted from the ongoing fallout over his administration's handling of unreleased documents pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.In an atypical Friday night br...| Raw Story
WASHINGTON — The Republican chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee raised eyebrows by breaking with GOP orthodoxy when he told Raw Story federal courts are an essential check on the White House during this ongoing government shutdown.While citing Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and his sponsors...| Alternet.org
On Thursday afternoon, October 9, the news broke that New York State Attorney General Letitia James had been indicted for bank fraud by a grand jury in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment came only one day after former FBI Director James Comey pleaded ...| Alternet.org
A federal grand jury formally indicted former FBI Director James Comey Thursday evening on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Comey is now the first high‑ranking government official to face criminal charges linked to President Donald Trump’s lo...| Alternet.org
A Truth Social message posted by President Donald Trump on September 20 urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against former FBI director James Comey was meant to be a private message to Bondi, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing officials familiar with the matter. In the p...| Alternet.org
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Thursday indicted former National Security Advisor John Bolton on 18 felony counts. And while Bolton's charging document is meatier than the recent indictments against two of Trump's other political opponents, one prominent legal expert poked several...| Alternet.org
President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk's rapid efforts to curb government spending is likely to disrupt the economic machinery that shaped contemporary Washington, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has dismissed thousands of federal wor...| Alternet.org
Dave Nershi was finalizing a report he’d worked on for months when an ominous email appeared in his inbox.Nershi had worked as a general engineer for the Internal Revenue Service for about nine months. He was one of hundreds of specialists inside the IRS who used their technical expertise — Nershi’s...| Alternet.org
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is now the third prominent opponent of President Donald Trump to face criminal charges in as many weeks. But one former federal prosecutor is highlighting one key difference between Bolton's case and the other two cases against Trump's political adversari...| Alternet.org
After President Donald Trump returned to the White House almost nine months ago, his administration carried out an aggressive campaign to downsize a range of federal government agencies. And it did so with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was led by Tesla/SpaceX/X.co...| Alternet.org
I recently had a minor health scare — not unusual when you’re pushing 80. Everything is fine, at least for now. But it got me thinking. Trump is 10 days older than me. He doesn’t look the model of robust health. Even though we’re almost the same age, Trump has one big health problem I don’t have: hi...| Alternet.org
Wall Street's reliance on the trade move that they have deemed "Trump Always Chickens Out" aka TACO is starting to make investors worried as the move, according to Axios, is becoming riskier.Although the TACO move on tariff threats has been "keeping stocks afloat even as trade tensions with China he...| Alternet.org
Political activist David Hogg is facing a pretty clear conflict of interest. He’s part of a grassroots organization that will try primarying Democrats out of office in the coming congressional elections. He’s also the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The DNC does many things, but ...| Alternet.org
It’s even worse than I’d imagined.Trump's been “flooding the zone” with so many outrageous (and often illegal) initiatives that many people are overwhelmed, demoralized, and just plain freaked out. That’s the intent. This morning, a woman I didn’t know was about to pass me on the sidewalk and then s...| Alternet.org
— Let’s just call these mass firings at Justice and the FBI what they are. Donald Trump is a lawless man who is ripping apart the FBI to turn it into a banana republic-style group of enforcing thugs who will only do his will. They will spare his friends and persecute his enemies. We’ve seen this ove...| Alternet.org
During a huge rally with her new presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in Philadelphia on Tuesday, August 6, Vice President Kamala Harris cautioned supporters that she is still running an "underdog" campaign against GOP nominee Donald Trump. Harris' message to supporters was clear: Be ...| Alternet.org
In her new book "A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy," former Christian fundamentalist Tia Levings describes her negative experiences in the far-right Quiverfull movement — which teaches that Christian women are obligated to have as many babies as possible and be totally submiss...| Alternet.org
First, a bit of personal history.Two weeks before October 19, 1987, I warned publicly that “in two weeks, the stock market will lose 20 percent of its value.” Then, on October 19, 1987, the S&P; 500 had the biggest one-day fall in its history — dropping 20 percent.I was immediately deluged with lett...| Alternet.org
I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden ...| Alternet.org
