Politics

While the world continues to be transfixed over the gruesome images coming from the border, business went on as usual in Washington.Earlier this week, the Senate quietly passed the $716 billion “John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.” The bill, which passed 85-10 in a massive …

WASHINGTON – “I thought about this long and hard, Mr. Manafort. I have no appetite for this.” In an overflow room at the D.C. federal courthouse in the shadow of the Capitol, the voice of Judge Amy Berman Jackson came through reedy and distant from the ceiling speakers. But her …

Sometimes, all it takes is a poorly named weed strain to illuminate a real problem. Just this week, Shanita Penny, the president of the board of directors for the Minority Cannabis Business Association, was contacted by a black woman who was shocked that a marijuana dispensary in Maryland is selling …

The lede in the New York Times piece was striking in its certainty: A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — has widened as the State Department evacuated at least two more Americans from China …

Three of America’s biggest companies – Facebook, Wells Fargo and Uber – have been offering up vague apologies via television commercials in recent weeks. If you watch the Cavs-Dubs game tonight, you’ll probably catch one or all of them. Have a bucket handy. All three entities are apologizing for recent …

Update: Missouri Governor Eric Greitens held a press conference to announce his resignation on Tuesday. In April, a woman alleged that Greitens beat her and groped her without consent during an affair. In addition, he is facing a felony charge for tampering with computer data, according to The New York …

In a contentiousNPRinterview that aired Friday morning, President Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, saidthat the “vast majority” of illegal immigrants “don’t integrate well” and “don’t have skills.” Kelly was defending a “zero tolerance policy” for illegal border crossings that was announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April. Sessions …

Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) announced they are shutting down operations and filing bankruptcy, as Gizmodo reports. The company, which is at the center of the Facebook data scandaland connected to mining social-media profiles that may have been used to deliver targeted ads to likely …

One afternoon last December, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, was holding court at the lectern in the Brady Room, when a reporter raised a provocative question: Does President Trump understand the difference between Russian propaganda – the real “fake news” – and the American press? Sanders’ response …

What to make of the sanctions announced yesterday by the U.S. Treasury Department against a passel of Russians, the St. Petersburg “troll farm” and several Russian intelligence officials? At first glance, the sanctions – the first real-world action against Russia taken by Donald Trump‘s administration since it took office 14 …