Politics

A day after a televised confrontation with President Trump underscored why she’s the only woman for the job, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to be a lock to return as the Speaker of the House in January. Many of the leaders of an insurgency to deny her the gavel reversed …

Appearing on CNN’sState of the Union Sunday morning, incoming House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who would be in charge of any impeachment hearings, made clear that if the allegations in the Michael Cohen sentencing memo are true,“They would be impeachable offenses.” On Friday, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and …

At his death, George Herbert Walker Bush is suffering the unkind fate of being celebrated as an anti-Trump. A man of Yankee-style dignity and prudence, who at his core believed himself to be a patriotic public servant, Bush would have been honored to have his career measured according to a …

Here are things Roger Stone denied in his interview with George Stephanopoulos on This Week on Sunday: That he ever communicated with Julian Assange, despite multiple emails and video of public remarks by Stone himself that claim otherwise That he knew anything about Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails …

WASHINGTON—Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and “pit bull” for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a potential real-estate development in Moscow that he tried to broker for the Trump Organization. In a 10-page “criminal information” filing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller describes how Cohen …

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly offered conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi a plea bargain in connection with his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Corsi, a vocal birther during the Obama years and an early proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, proclaimed his innocence on …

Who knew Cindy Hyde-Smith was such a comedian? The Republican senator from Mississippi, appointed in March to replace the ancient and ailing Thad Cochran, has been on quite a roll in the run-up to next Tuesday’s runoff election against Mike Espy, who was the state’s first black congressman since Reconstruction …

It’s been a while since Trump has railed against the Mueller investigation like we saw Thursday morning. “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess,” the president tweeted 15 minutes after touting how “smoothly” the White House is running. “They have found no collusion and have gone …

If you could design the ideal character to assure the continuing domination of Big Coal and Big Oil in America and to reaffirm their faith in their God-given right to cook the climate in pursuit of profit, that character would look a lot like acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. And …

In a blow to the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda, a federal judge in Montana has blocked completion of the Keystone XL pipeline, ruling that the administration was “arbitrary and capricious” in ignoring climate impacts cited by the Obama State Department when ithalted the pipeline in 2015. The pipeline — …