Heather Timmons

Updated May 8, 4:50pm. 

Donald Trump’s canceled trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January still left US taxpayers on the hook for at least $3.2 million in car rentals and unused hotel rooms, according to an analysis of federal spending data by Quartz.

Donald Trump was praised by religious leaders of many faiths during the traditional National Day of Prayer today, but only one declared the White House “holy ground” and staved off demons.

In his sworn testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee May 1, William Barr answered five hours of questions, but raised brand new concerns about his conduct and fitness as the US’s top law enforcement official.

US attorney general William Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning will be closely watched for what he says about how he publicly represented special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.

Donald Trump, his children, and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit April 29 against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in an attempt to prevent the lenders from turning over information about the Trumps’ financial dealings that was subpoenaed by Congress.

Joe Biden’s long-awaited jump into the 2020 presidential race this past week has been marked by soaring oratory, jabs at Trump, insults from the White House—and hordes of American women asking each other, “Can you believe this %#&)*?”

With the entry of Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential race, there are now 20 declared Democratic candidates.

Donald Trump’s February 15 emergency declaration to siphon about $6.5 billion from military, drug enforcement, and other budgets so he can build his long-promised wall along the Mexican border is still stuck in the courts. But that isn’t stopping the Army Corps of Engineers, which handles most of the contracting duties for border wall construction, from getting ready to spend it anyway. In a pre-solicitation notice issued April 19, the Army Corps says it is seeking companies who want to pre-qualify to bid on “horizontal construction projects in support of the Border Infrastructure Program along the US-Mexico border” with a total value of up to $8 billion.

Five of the 19 Democratic candidates for US president appeared in a five-hour CNN town hall last night, taking questions from the audience and moderators about everything from gun safety to student debt to prisoners‘ voting rights.

US attorney general William Barr’s press conference about the Mueller report this morning was already being scrutinized for potential partisan bias—and then the full report came out.

A redacted version of the long-awaited Mueller report was finally released today by the US Department of Justice. Nearly two years in the making, the 450-page document traces the investigative efforts of special counsel Robert Mueller and dozens of FBI investigators and lawyers, and includes testimony from officials including former attorney general Jeff Sessions, director of intelligence Dan Coats, and Donald Trump’s own written answers to questions.

US attorney general William Barr held a press conference April 18 at the Department of Justice headquarters on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A redacted copy of Mueller’s report will be available on the DOJ’s website shortly. Here are his full remarks:

Elizabeth Warren stopped in a former airport hanger in Aurora, Colorado, part of the fast-growing Denver outskirts, yesterday (April 16) to talk climate change, healthcare, and inequality in America.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees are struggling to communicate from the agency’s brand new headquarters in southeast Washington DC, because cell phone reception in the area is spotty.

A tense exchange between right-wing commentator Candace Owens and California Democrat Ted Lieu dominated news coverage of a US congressional committee hearing on “hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism.”

The US Department of Homeland Security is holding a farewell party for secretary Kirstjen Nielsen today at the agency’s new headquarters, the site of a former psychiatric hospital in southeast Washington, DC, according to former DHS officials and Congressional aides.

When US Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pushed back on implementing a new, draconian White House directive on immigration, presidential aide Stephen Miller relied on a special trick to force her to relent, former agency officials told Quartz.

Robert Mueller, the special counsel who spent nearly two years investigating Donald Trump’s links to Russian interference in the 2016 US election, will be leaving the Department of Justice in the “coming days,” a spokesman said.

Donald Trump is pushing for Congress and American voters to move on from Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, tweeting recently that “it is time to focus exclusively on properly running our great country.”

The crowd at Donald Trump’s latest campaign rally took up a new chant directed at one of the Democratic party’s most visible new members of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany went to Eastern Europe on vacation this month, and it cost US taxpayers no less than $23,000.

Donald Trump should be celebrating, after the Department of Justice said March 24 special counsel Robert Mueller’s report found the president didn’t collude with Russia in the 2016 US election. Instead he’s trying, yet again, to destroy “Obamacare,” the landmark healthcare act that covers 30 million Americans.

Is the pairing of Kellyanne Conway and her lawyer husband, George—a match of two millionaire, far-right conservatives—falling apart, right there on our handheld devices, thanks to the increasingly divisive Donald Trump presidency they helped create?