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How much did Trump’s failed North Korea summit cost taxpayers?The entire Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit looks like it may have been a costly mistake.
Updated July 21, 20223 min read
The entire Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit looks like it may have been a costly mistake.
Over the course of a full day’s congressional testimony, Michael Cohen touched on sweeping themes: American democracy, personal remorse, and the vagaries of human nature.
The long-awaited public Congressional testimony of Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen accuses the US president of breaking campaign finance law and lying repeatedly to the American people.
Michael Cohen’s written testimony to the US House Oversight Committee paints a devastating picture of Donald Trump as a “racist,” “a conman,” and “a cheat,” whose pursuit of personal wealth, disregard for the law, and lack of personal morality make him unfit for the White House.
As Donald Trump meets with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam this week, Russian officials will not be in the room. But Russia’s interests are likely to be represented.
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy US attorney general, delivered a poignant speech on the fragility of American democracy today (Feb. 21), while stressing the insidious nature of white-collar crime, and the moral necessity of every citizen respecting the law.
Donald Trump is getting a taxpayer-funded barrier built without having to declare a national emergency.
A year ago today, the White House held an emotional public meeting with recent American survivors of gun violence.
Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator, officially joined the 2020 presidential race with a direct attack on Donald Trump.
Donald Trump headed to his private golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, for the second day in a row today (Sunday, Feb. 17).
Patrick Shanahan, the acting US Secretary of Defense, said hours after Donald Trump’s emergency declaration that he could refuse to direct billions of dollars in Pentagon funds Trump is relying on to build a wall on the US’s southern border.
Donald Trump’s rambling press conference Feb. 15 to announce a “national emergency” on the US’s southern border touched on everything from the stock market to his relationship with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator.
This story was updated at 12:25pm US eastern time today (Feb. 15):
Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency over his border-wall dream faces immediate bipartisan legal challenges from the US Congress.
Brock Long, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through one of America’s most destructive strings of natural disasters, is unexpectedly quitting to spend more time with his family, the agency said yesterday (Feb. 13).
Maria Ressa, founder of the lauded Philippines news site Rappler, was arrested and charged with “cyber libel” today (Feb. 13) in Manila, over a 2012 article that linked a prominent businessman with drug-trafficking.
A House-Senate committee has hammered out a stop-gap funding bill to keep the US government open past Feb. 15 in a deal that would give Donald Trump billions less for border-wall funding than he wanted.
Republicans and Democrats criticized Ilhan Omar, the Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, after she tweeted that Republican support for Israel is linked to cash, particularly from the powerful pro-Israel group AIPAC.
Jeff Bezos’s astounding blog post alleging executives from American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker’s publishing operation tried to extort him by using his own photographs is awful news for Donald Trump.
Updated 8:30am EST Feb. 8 with information on Whitaker’s hearing.
After a bruising two years of referring to Democrats as the “party of crime” and mocking Democratic critics of his often extremist policies, Donald Trump pleaded for their cooperation in his State of the Union address last night (Feb. 5).
President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address tonight is supposed to focus on “unity.”
Stacey Abrams, a tax attorney and daughter of a Methodist minister, earned a reputation in Georgia’s state legislature as so fair and detail-oriented that political rivals would bring her their bills to troubleshoot for legal issues.
Donald Trump is spending most of his time in unscheduled “executive time,” watching television, reading newspapers, and making unlogged phone calls, according to a report based on a leaked copy of his daily agenda.