Democratic impeachment managers pushing the Senate to take away President Donald Trump from workplace laid out a sprawling argument Thursday that he had abused his energy. On their second day of opening statements, the seven House Democrats, led by Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., zeroed in on the primary of two articles of […]
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Schumer says Dems won’t trade Bolton for Biden
He made lofty arguments about historic precedent, warning that if Trump will not be eliminated, future presidents will be happy to hunt overseas assist with elections. Trump was impeached over his efforts to strain Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch investigations into his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, together […]
Demand Justice launches campaign against Susan Collins over Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins continues dealing with backlash from Democrats for her 2018 vote to substantiate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, placing the Maine Republican on the defensive as she seeks a fifth time period. The progressive group Demand Justice introduced Tuesday that it’ll deploy tons of of hundreds of on a […]
Chris Collins sentenced to 26 months for insider trading tip
A disgraced and extremely emotional former New York congressman Chris Collins was sentenced Friday to 26 months in jail for an unlawful inventory tip that he gave his son from the White House garden a couple of biopharmaceutical firm’s failed drug trial. The sentence from Judge Vernon Broderick in U.S. District Court in […]
White House is ‘looking at’ reforms to global anti-bribery law
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is “” making adjustments to a decades-old world anti-bribery regulation, White House financial advisor Larry Kudlow instructed reporters on Friday. “We are it, and we have now heard some complaints from our corporations,” Kudlow mentioned, responding to a query in regards to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The […]
Former GOP Rep. Chris Collins set to be sentenced in insider trading case
Disgraced former Rep. Chris Collins is about to be sentenced Friday within the insider-trading case that led him to surrender his seat in Congress. U.S. Judge Vernon Broderick is scheduled to ship Collins’ sentence at 2:30 p.m. ET in federal court docket in decrease Manhattan. Federal prosecutors need Broderick to condemn Collins to […]
Ex-Treasury official pleads guilty to leaks about Paul Manafort
Natalie Mayflower Edwards Source: Alexandria Sheriff’s Office A former U.S. Treasury official pleaded guilty Monday to illegally leaking highly confidential documents about suspicious financial transactions of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and others to reporters at BuzzFeed News. The official, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, leaked so-called suspicious activity reports, or SARS, starting in October 2017 […]
Mueller witness George Nader pleads guilty to child sex, porn charges
This 1998 frame from video provided by C-SPAN shows George Nader, president and editor of Middle East Insight. As an adviser to Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Nader worked throughout 2017 with Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump, in a secretive lobbying effort to alter U.S. policy in […]
Supreme Court tosses ruling against Iran central bank in case over 1983 bombing
Edwin Marian Johnston hold up a photo of her son US Marine CPL Edward Johnston who died in the bombing of his Lebanon barracks in 1983 outside Federal Court September 7, 2007 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a decision by a federal appeals court in […]
MIT puts professor on leave for Jeffrey Epstein donations
Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty Images The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday that it had placed one of its tenured professors on paid administrative leave after finding that he “purposefully failed to inform MIT” that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was the source of two donations in 2012 […]
