By JOHN BRESNAHAN and BURGESS EVERETT 04/05/17 Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his […]
By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Washington (CNN) President Trump’s decision to remove chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council’s principals committee suggests a potentially significant change in the power balance among the four top White House advisers. CLICK IMAGE for link to story & video. Bannon’s placement on the principals committee at the start […]
Ali Watkins April 3, 2017 NEW YORK — A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents to a Russian intelligence operative in New York City in 2013. The adviser, Carter Page, met with a Russian intelligence operative named Victor Podobnyy, who was later charged by the US government alongside two others for […]
By Bonnie Berkowitz and Denise Lu Updated April 3, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for Wash Post link chart.
By Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Kevin Sieff and Karen DeYoung April 3 The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials. […]
by MARY EMILY O’HARA APR 3 2017 With little notice, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that advocates say rolls back hard-fought victories for women in the workplace. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. CLICK HERE for link to video. Tuesday’s “Equal Pay Day” — which highlights the wage disparity between men and women — […]
By Theodore Schleifer, Julia Horowitz and Eugene Scott, Sun April 2, 2017 Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, did not include receiving thousands of dollars in speaking fees from three Russian companies in initial financial disclosures to the Office of Government Ethics, copies of the reports show. CLICK IMAGE for direct link […]
Spencer Ackerman 30 March 2017 Donald Trump’s willingness to embrace Russian disinformation was one of the reasons Russia’s interference in the 2016 election worked, the Senate panel investigating the president’s alleged ties to the country heard on Thursday. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Decades of Russian covert attempts to undermine confidence in […]
Noah Kirsch Mar 31, 2017 Oleg Deripaska, an international aluminum tycoon, is one of five dozen Russian billionaires whose net worth has risen since Donald Trump’s election. The 49-year-old Muscovite has benefited tremendously from a global rebound in aluminum prices and a surge in the ruble’s value; his fortune has jumped $1.6 billion since November 8. […]
By Tim Talley Associated Press. March 30th, 2017 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Bar Association has opened an investigation into an ethics complaint against former state Attorney General Scott Pruitt, now administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a letter from the association’s general counsel. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE FOR DIRECT LINK TO STORY: […]
