By Steven Mufson and Sean Sullivan January 19 at 1:00 PM Rick Perry, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Energy Department, parried questions about climate change at his confirmation hearing Thursday morning, reversing his earlier skeptical stance but still balking when pressed to declare it a crisis. Testifying before the Senate Committee on Energy […]
By ALAN RAPPEPORT JAN. 19, 2017 WASHINGTON — Steven T. Mnuchin, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be Treasury secretary, failed to disclose nearly $100 million of his assets on Senate Finance Committee disclosure documents and forgot to mention his role as a director of an investment fund located in a tax haven. The revelation […]
By Manu Raju, Senior Political Reporter Updated 8:29 PM ET, Mon January 16, 2017 Washington (CNN)Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited the company, raising new ethics concerns for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary. Price bought between […]
By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Susan Heavey Fri Jan 13, 2017 | 1:42pm Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for national security adviser, held multiple phone conversations with Russia’s ambassador to Washington on the day the United States announced retaliation for Moscow’s interference in the U.S. presidential election, two people familiar with the issue […]
By Weston Williams January 11th, 2017. POLITICO alleges she also plagiarized portions of her Ph.D thesis at Columbia University. HarperCollins, the publisher of Monica Crowley’s “What the (Bleep) Just Happened,” announced that sales of her book would be suspended in light of recent plagiarism allegations. Dr. Crowley is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for senior director […]
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and STEVE EDER JAN. 10, 2017 WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, under increasing pressure to ensure that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominees are fully vetted by federal authorities, have delayed the hearings of four potential cabinet members, three of whom have not been cleared by the agency charged with unraveling potential conflicts of interest. […]
By Wesley Lowery January 10 at 6:00 PM NOTE: the existence of the letter was first reported by BuzzFeedNews: The widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. urged Congress to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for federal judge, saying that allowing him to join the federal bench would “irreparably damage the […]
JUSTIN SCHECK, JAMES MARSON and BRADLEY OLSON Updated Jan. 9, 2017 4:32 p.m. MOSCOW—In the spring of 2014, after the U.S. punished Russia with sanctions for seizing Ukrainian territory, Rex Tillerson made a major decision. The Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive, now Donald Trump ’s nominee for secretary of state, would deepen his company’s longstanding partnership […]
GOP FAVORS SPEED TO ASSEMBLE TEAM: ETHICS OFFICE CALLS IT “GREAT CONCERN” By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ERIC LICHTBLAU JAN. 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate […]
Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security communications role, plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book, a CNN KFile review has found. The review of Crowley’s June 2012 book, “What The (Bleep) Just Happened,” found upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including […]
