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James Schwab has resigned from his job as a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, saying he didn't agree with Trump administration officials' use of "misleading facts" to attack Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf after the mayor issued a warning about an immigration sweep in late February. "I quit...

House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) on Monday admitted his panel has “lost all credibility” after waffling on whether or not he accepts his party’s conclusions on the Russia probe. GOP committee members on Monday released a draft report from the year-long Russia probe...

Sen. Bill Dix, the leader of the Iowa Senate's Republican majority, resigned Monday, just hours after video was posted online showing him apparently kissing a lobbyist at a Des Moines tavern earlier this month. Dix met briefly with his Republican colleagues behind closed doors at 1 p.m...

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s lawyers were considering an audacious demand of Robert Mueller. In return for granting Mueller an interview with Trump, they would require he commit to end his investigation of the Russia scandal within 60 days. ... There is zero chance...

This is probably not accurate. If the republicans can't win in this heavily-gerrymandered district, they'll have trouble winning anywhere. National republicans are pouring money into the race, and even Trump has come in a last-ditch effort to reverse the trend. Maybe it will be enough. I...

Well, changeable. Conservatism isn't a mental disorder unless it interferes with normal living. But there's been a lot of data collected on how brains of conservatives are different than those of other people. Conservatives, it turns out, react more strongly to physical threat than liberals...

For Russia, cyber-operations are a subset of overall information warfare and a way to integrate hacking seamlessly into influence campaigns. Russia considers NATO expansion and Western incursions into post-Soviet space existential threats, providing pressing motivations for a response...

Global Witness Report: Trump Ocean Club, Money Laundering, and the Russian Mafia https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/moscow-project-dispatch-11-17-2017/

Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists Carbon-free fusion power could be ‘on the grid in 15 years’ The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised, according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion power on the grid within 15 years. The...

(Warning, on objectionable word in the report) Maher Trashes Liberal Response To Trump North Korea Meeting: "F*ck You," "It Just Might Work" Posted By Ian Schwartz On Date March 10, 2018 On Friday night's broadcast of HBO's Real Time, host Bill Maher said he watched the cable news reaction to...

Gun owners vs. the NRA: What the polling shows Third, gun owners who were not NRA members were more supportive of gun control than guns owners who were NRA members. Forty percent of non-NRA gun owners supported a national gun registry. Forty percent supported a ban on the sale of magazines...

What [Donald] Trump has done here is what every defense lawyer warns their client not to do, which is talk to witnesses,” Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama, told me Thursday morning. The night before, The New York Times had reported that Robert Mueller...

Our frootcake Secretary of Education has done it again. Even more disturbing than the faked photo is DeVoss' notion that classrooms today still work that way. A classroom I happen to have known: As my principal said, I could have walked out of the classroom, and none of the students...

Modern American political discourse can seem disjointed to the point of absurdism. But the problem isn’t just filter bubbles, echo chambers or alternative facts. It’s tone: When the loudest voices on the left talk about people on the right, it is with an air of barely concealed smugness, quick...

Mueller investigates secret Trump team meeting in Seychelles Mueller investigates secret Trump team meeting in Seychelles

Are we even aware of our biases anymore? If you look at this chart and are convinced your “extreme” source belongs in the middle, you just might be part of the problem plaguing America today...

Trump’s lawyer got a restraining order to prevent Stormy Daniels from speaking out Donald Trump’s attorney got a secret restraining order against adult film star Stormy Daniels last month to block her from speaking publicly about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump. The revelation came a day...

Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued Donald Trump Tuesday, alleging that he never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer had arranged with her. The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges that her agreement not to disclose her "intimate"...

Gary Cohn Resigns as White House Economic Adviser After Losing Tariffs Fight Defeat on tariffs was latest setback for Mr. Cohn, who has seen many ups and downs in turbulent West Wing Gary Cohn will resign from the White House after 14 months serving as President Donald Trump’s top economic...