The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer for the purpose of receiving damaging information about Hillary Clinton appears sufficiently sketchy as to move even reluctant congressional Republicans to act.
This year’s Amazon Prime Day (technically 30 hours spread over three days in the continental US) was the biggest sales day in the company’s history, surpassing both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the online retailer said today (July 12) in a press release.
Former federal prosecutor Chris Wray, Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, testified on July 12 in a confirmation hearing before the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee. Trump announced Wray’s nomination on June 7 on Twitter, just over a month after unceremoniously firing James Comey from the job—a decision Trump later said was related to his frustration with the ongoing Russia probe.
Sweden, already known for its progressive climate policy and a self-deprecating sense of humor, is being recognized as the best country in the world to be an immigrant.
Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart was last heard from on July 2 1937, when her Lockheed Electra 10E plane vanished while she attempted a round-the-world flight with her navigator, Fred Noonan. By 1939, the US government concluded the duo must have been lost in the Pacific and declared them dead, though their remains were never found.
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking spent part of his 75th birthday celebration warning the public of the potentially catastrophic consequences of US president Donald Trump’s climate change policy.
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda today unveiled the stunning new video for “Immigrants (We Get The Job Done),” a cut from the Hamilton Mixtape.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s road to becoming one of the world’s wealthiest people began with a newspaper route in northwest Washington, D.C.—a job he meticulously documented and paid taxes on in 1944.
Here’s a list of things that US president Donald Trump has proclaimed June 2017:
On July 21, 2007, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released worldwide.
For many of us, the start of summer in the US conjures up nostalgic thoughts of a great American pastime: backyard barbecues.
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, is now reportedly expanding the scope of that probe to look at whether president Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice in the investigation.
US attorney general Jeff Sessions is testifying today (June 13) at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that will center on his meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. (You can watch the hearing here.)
A longtime confidante of Donald Trump said in a television interview last night that the US president was considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller, who is now leading the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
US attorney general Jeff Sessions testified today (June 13) at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that centered on his meetings with Russian officials as well as his involvement in president Donald Trump’s decision to abruptly fire James Comey on May 9.
James Comey, the former head of the FBI, testified on Capitol Hill today on Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. The hearing provided more detail on what he said were uncomfortable and at times intimidating interactions with US president Donald Trump, as well as the circumstances that led to Comey’s abrupt firing on May 9.
Former FBI director James Comey is testifying before the US Senate intelligence committee to answer questions about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. (Comey’s written testimony was released ahead of the hearing. Read key excerpts from the document here).
The US economy added 138,000 jobs in May, down from 174,000 in April and below analyst predictions of 185,000 jobs, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said today.
US president Donald Trump announced today that he will pull the country from the Paris climate agreement, the global community’s greatest effort to date to reduce the pollution that causes climate change.
Throughout the US’s 2016 election campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump remained ambiguous about his views on the scientific consensus that human activity has contributed to the warming of the planet.
For years, I paid about $150 a month for a membership at a boutique gym in Manhattan that made me feel fancy, but didn’t make me any healthier.
As he returns from his first trip abroad as US president, Donald Trump is reportedly considering a series of shakeups in the White House. This may include changes to his personnel and perhaps something even more unexpected: allowing a lawyer to vet his tweets.
Passengers have found themselves stranded at London airports on Saturday (May 27) as a major IT-system failure hit British Airways at the start of a long holiday weekend.
Update: (May 25 at 6:13am ET)
