The new Superfund Task Force at at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will now be led by a lawyer who until recently represented a major chemical and plastics company. The company he worked for is known for its long history of creating toxic chemical sites. Once again the Trump administration has put the fox in…
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Sunday that Americans should expect a “bumpy road” ahead in negotiations with North Korea over denuclearization. His comments were clearly intended to inject a dose of reality into the media spectacle created by his boss President Donald Trump around the on-again, off-again summit with Kim Jong Un of…
President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, will skip this week’s G7 summit in Quebec and does not plan to attend the planned June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korea, the White House said on Sunday.
A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows the rising death toll being exacted in the United States from the opioid epidemic. Â Â According to the study, which was done using 2016 data, one out of every 65 deaths in the U.S. that year was caused by or involved the use of…
Rudy Giuliani took his warped and inaccurate definition of presidential power to a whole new level on Sunday when he claimed that Trump could shoot James Comey and not be indicted.
The world should stand up to Washington’s bullying behavior, Iran’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday by state media in a letter to counterparts, as the top diplomat intensifies efforts to save a nuclear deal after a U.S. exit.
A new CBS Battleground tracker poll found that the control of the House is a toss-up among battleground voters, but the number one issue that Democratic voters want to hear about in these districts isn’t the Russia investigation or impeachment. Voters are most concerned with health care.
The horror of Trump’s policy to separate migrant children gets worse when one considers the possibility that Trump is trying to criminalize the right to seek asylum.
Trump tantrumed because federal law enforcement did their job and did not tip him off that his campaign was the subject of an investigation.
MSNBC gave a platform to the truth by interviewing former New York City Council President Melissa Mark-Viverito who explained the federal government’s disregard for the deaths in Puerto Rico as the racist policies of the Trump administration.
The United States’ closest allies attacked the Trump administratio for imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and mounted challenges with the world’s top trade body, fouling the mood at a G7 finance leaders meeting.
In an Op-Ed column for the Los Angeles Times Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, tells of the disturbing short- and long-term effects the Trump era policy of separating children from their parents can have.
Michael Avenatti said that he loves it when Rudy Giuliani talks because he digs Trump’s hole deeper by making damaging admissions.
Giuliani argued that Trump has the power to pardon himself, but according to Preet Bharara, a Trump pardon of himself would almost be self-executing impeachment.
China warned the United States on Sunday that any agreements reached on trade and business between the two countries will be void if Washington implements tariffs and other trade measures, as the two ended their latest round of talks in Beijing.
President Donald Trump, under pressure from special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, probably has the power to pardon himself but does not plan to do so, his attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday.
Perhaps the group of voters hurt most by Trump’s tariff announcements have been farmers in states that voted for Trump in 2016.  And since many of these states have senators up for reelection in November, the ill-advised tariffs might possibly cost the GOP control of the U.S. Senate. There is no question that retaliation by…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will meet Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Sunday, as officials from the world’s two largest economies try to calm an escalating trade dispute that has rattled financial markets.
The prominent ethics lawyer leading a lawsuit against President Trump for his violation of the “emoluments†clause of the U.S. Constitution believes he will be able to see the president’s financial records.  This would be a major new legal headache for the president. The lawsuit concerns Trump’s ownership of a Washington hotel. The lawyer is…
Rudy Giuliani on Saturday said he would take Robert Mueller to court if the special counsel issues a subpoena against President Donald Trump. In an interview with ABC News, the former New York City mayor said “If Mueller tries to subpoena us, we’re going to court.” This latest bit of bombastic bluster from Giuliani may be…
