Ty Cobb, the dour mustachioed lawyer who has run White House operations dealing with the Russia probe, is retiring—and Donald Trump has found a highly-qualified replacement, according to the New York Times (paywall): Emmet Flood, one of the attorneys who represented president Bill Clinton during his impeachment process.
Britain is forcing many of the world’s most notorious tax havens to reveal their inner secrets, after prime minister Theresa May’s government caved to an opposition amendment that will make the UK Overseas Territories open up their corporate books.
When asked about regrets during his recent book tour, former FBI director James Comey pretty much limited his answer to a reference to TV presenter Ryan Seacrest. But today, the House Intelligence Committee’s declassified report on Russia’s 2016 election interference reveals another regret: how the FBI informed the Democratic National Committee it had been hacked.
Former FBI director James Comey’s unclassified memos detail Donald Trump’s displeasure at belatedly hearing that a foreign leader, whose name has been redacted, had been the first to congratulate him on his inauguration—and that national security adviser Mike Flynn hadn’t told him for days.
The West’s most powerful countries are decidedly unhappy with North Korea using the offshore world to avoid sanctions—and they have a terse statement to prove it.
Another week, another slew of damning Scott Pruitt headlines.
After a lengthy deliberation in a New York courtroom today, judge Kimba Wood ordered a lawyer for president Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen to reveal the identity of Cohen’s mysterious third client: Fox News talk-show host (and vociferous Trump supporter) Sean Hannity.
During an ABC interview published today, former FBI director James Comey staunchly defended his decision to announce, just 11 days before the 2016 US presidential election, that the FBI was reopening its investigation of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while she was US secretary of state.
A move by Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen to put a temporary restraining order on files seized by the FBI got even more dramatic on Friday, when the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels weighed in.
Russia took another step in its campaign against online privacy today, by banning the highly popular encrypted messaging app Telegram, which is owned by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov.
Last week, crypto-watchers noticed something strange: According to the UK registry of companies, Russian tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov appeared to have founded a new company, named it after his widely-used chat app Telegram, pumped it with £800 million in capital, and become a British citizen.
Mike Pompeo has never been accused of being green.
Trump’s pick for a new secretary of state, CIA director Mike Pompeo, struggled under a string of questions on minority rights in his confirmation hearing today. The exchange culminated with Pompeo refusing to say whether he still stood behind his own past implication that homosexuality is a “perversion.”
When Mark Zuckerberg told US senators yesterday (April 10) that Facebook is in an “arms race” against Russian trolls seeking to manipulate its users, his comment made global headlines.
Questions over whether Donald Trump will fire special counsel Robert Mueller have crescendoed this week, with the US president telling reporters yesterday (April 9) that “many people have said, ‘You should fire him.'” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders amplified them still in a press conference today, saying that Trump “certainly believes he has the power to do so.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony reveals that in the run-up to the 2016 US election, Facebook closed down accounts linked to Russia’s military intelligence, the GRU.
Someone created a sham company in the United Kingdom that bears the name of Telegram’s blockbuster crypto project, the Telegram Open Network, which has raised $1.7 billion in funding for its token sale to date. Telegram is a chat app that has 200 million monthly active users. It’s raising money to develop a number of services, such as file storage, by selling crypto tokens.
The US Treasury announced sanctions today on 24 Russians including members of president Vladimir Putin’s closest circle: his son-in-law, the son of his childhood judo partner, and his former intelligence chief.
US tax deadline day is approaching, and no one enjoys submitting those forms. They’re arduous, dull, and head-spinningly confusing.
“Welcome to the Islamic state of France,” a curiously accented woman says. The minute-long film proceeds to show a veiled Mona Lisa, a man being shot in the head, Notre-Dame cathedral turned into a mosque, and a Paris bistro closed for Ramadan.
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In threatening Amazon, Donald Trump is taking on a truly massive challenge: Jeff Bezos’s company is indisputably more popular than the US president.
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt has had no shortage of ethics scandals in his time in office.
David Shulkin spent a scandal-free year and a half as a senior Veterans Affairs official under president Barack Obama, and flew through the Senate in a 100-0 vote for his confirmation to run the department under president Donald Trump.
