Aug 31 AP Report: Justice Department lawyer said Russia had Donald Trump ‘over a barrel’ By Eric Tucker, Chad Day, Associated Press The official, Bruce Ohr, says he learned that information during a July 2016 breakfast with former British spy Christopher Steele. Continue reading
Aug 31 New York’s attorney general says Trump Foundation bankrolled political campaign, pursues lawsuit By Associated Press In the motion Thursday, Trump attorney Alan S. Futerfas argued that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman "made it his stated mission to 'lead the resistance' and attack Mr. Trump whenever possible" and "used his public antipathy for Mr. Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 3:53 News Wrap: Trump cancels planned pay raise for civilian federal workforce In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump canceled a January pay raise for the roughly 2 million civilian workers in the federal government. Also, the president told Bloomberg News that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will keep his job at least… Continue watching
Aug 30 Trump cancels pay raise federal workers were due in January By Darlene Superville, Associated Press The president said he was axing a 2.1 percent across-the-board raise for most workers as well as locality pay increases averaging 25.7 percent and costing $25 billion. Continue reading
Aug 30 WATCH: Trump tells Indiana rally that DOJ, FBI leaders “have to start doing their job” By Catherine Lucey, Jill Colvin, Associated Press If they don't do their job, Trump said, he "will get involved and I'll get in there if I have to."… Continue reading
Aug 30 AP fact check: Trump wrongly claims Google shunned speech By Hope Yen, Jill Colvin, Associated Press President Donald Trump is wrongly claiming that Google shunned his State of the Union speech but promoted Barack Obama's addresses. Continue reading
Aug 30 Man threatened to kill newspaper staff over Trump editorials By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press A California man was arrested Thursday for threatening to travel to The Boston Globe offices and kill journalists, whom he called the "enemy of the people."… Continue reading
Aug 30 Trump teases about successor to White House counsel By Ken Thomas, Associated Press A day after announcing the departure of his White House counsel, President Donald Trump teased Thursday that he has settled on a successor. Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch 4:57 News Wrap: White House counsel Don McGahn to step down, Trump says In our news wrap Wednesday, White House counsel Don McGahn is stepping down this fall after an expected Senate vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The president dismissed talk that he might have a problem with what McGahn… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 9:58 The EPA isn’t taking its own advice on a pesticide that causes brain damage in children By Miles O'Brien After decades of research and debate, the EPA was on the cusp of banning all use of chlorpyrifos, a poison that attacks the nervous system. But in 2017, then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt delayed a decision by five years. Science correspondent… Continue watching