Politics

WASHINGTON —In the first trial to come out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, a jury in northern Virginia convicted Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign, of eight counts that include bank fraud and filing false tax returns. Federal district Judge T.S. Ellis III said that …

The 2018 midterms are less than 100 days away, which means Americans are about to start seeing a lot of campaign commercials, if they aren’t already.While Democrats have tried to appeal to the working class, the go-to strategy for Republican candidates has been to pander to President Trump’s base. Brian …

Despite a busy schedule of outrage-quelling following Monday’s face-palm press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump on Wednesday managed to weigh in on next Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff for Georgia governor. Though the state’s primary was held in May, leading Republican vote-getter Casey Cagle failed to receive 50 percent of …

We were going to end up here eventually. A major story involving subjugated people of color was bound to become a conversation about offending privileged white folks. Chief White House bigot Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen – who is seemingly both a family separation skeptic and the …

In January, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 43-year-old Polish doctor named Lukasz Niec shortly after he saw his stepdaughter off to school. Niec was a legal resident of the United States, where he had lived since age five. He had a green card, a family and …

The Inspector General of the Department of Justice has issued a long-awaited report on the actions taken by the FBI and DOJ in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The report is voluminous – more than 560 pages – and includes juicy details. Some are maddening and historically important, others …

This week, Kanye West, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, but didn’t vote, confirmed his support of the president. He took pictures in a (Trump-signed) MAGA hat, and even tweeted support for conservative political pundit Candace Owens and Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic who’s perhaps less well known …

The Justice Department on Thursday released James Comey’scontemporaneous memos of the meetings and phone calls he had with President Donald Trump in the days and weeks after Trump’s stunning election victory. The document dump was not a viral marketing stunt for Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty– the DOJ provided …

Dick’s Sporting Goods has infuriated the NRAbyopting to destroy its remaining stock of assault-style rifles and accessories. Dick’s removed the firearms from the shelves of its 35 Field & Stream stores in February, after 17 people were killed and 17 more wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …

Donald Trump has unveiled his budget for next year – a document no one expects to become law, but which signals the president’s moral and financial priorities. “This is a messaging document,” budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters, with unusual candor. So what is Trump’s message? In short: His administration …