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 […]
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US slaps new sanctions on Iran following strikes on US targets
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced new sanctions Friday on Iran’s metal exports and eight senior Iranian officials. The penalties came days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation for an American airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran’s top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, last week. After […]
Pelosi announces next steps for Trump impeachment articles to Senate
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she will send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate next week. “I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate,” […]
Haim Saban will not be back a 2020 candidate until after Super Tuesday
Haim Saban, chairman and chief executive officer of Saban Capital Group, arrives ahead of the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images One of the wealthiest Democratic megadonors has decided to remain uncommitted to any of the […]
Sen. Loeffler to help oversee CFTC, which oversees husband’s company
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., arrives for a re-enactment of her swearing-in, Monday Jan. 6, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin | AP After becoming a U.S. senator this week, Kelly Loeffler won assignment to a committee that oversees the agency in charge of regulating her husband’s business, setting the grounds for a potential […]
Marianne Williamson out of 2020 presidential race
Democratic presidential candidate, author Marianne Williamson addresses the audience at the Environmental Justice Presidential Candidate Forum at South Carolina State University on November 8, 2019 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images Author and self-help guru Marianne Williamson is suspending her 2020 presidential campaign, she told supporters in an email Friday. Williamson, who […]
State Department tells Iraq it will not discuss US troop withdrawal
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Department of State on November 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The State Department said in a statement Friday that the U.S. will not hold discussions with Iraq regarding American troop […]
Trump loses bid to dismiss E. Jean Carroll suit involving rape claim
E. Jean Carroll visits ‘Tell Me Everything’ with John Fugelsang the SiriusXM Studios on July 11, 2019 in New York. Noam Galai | Getty Images President Donald Trump has lost an effort to get a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit against him by E. Jean Carroll, the writer who alleges that he raped […]
‘Don’t know precisely’ when or where Soleimani would attack
The U.S. did not know exactly when slain Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani had planned to attack Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said while maintaining the Trump administration’s line that such strikes were about to happen. “There was no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by Qasem […]
Efforts to rein in Trump’s war powers will backfire
President Donald Trump at the White House, January 7, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The last seven days in world events have created a new political paradigm. Call it “Trump Unleashed.” That’s because the attempts by President Donald Trump’s opponents to rein him in after his decision to take down Iranian general Qasem Soleimani are […]
