The UN General Assembly broke into giggles, then outright laughter when US president Donald Trump made a grandiose claim about his administration’s successes.
US president Donald Trump was late for the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, missing his speaking spot. Ecuador’s president Lenín Moreno Garcés taking his place.
Global leaders will press their agendas from the biggest pulpit in the world at the UN General Assembly this week.
The international community is gaining insight into the White House’s idiosyncratic approach to planning, this week.
Utah senator Orrin Hatch surprised no one last week by announcing there were “lots of reasons not to believe” psychology professor Christine Ford’s allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school.
Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, after pleading guilty to crimes including money-laundering and conspiracy against the United States.
More than a million people have been advised to evacuate the US East Coast to escape Hurricane Florence, which president Donald Trump says will be “one of the biggest” to ever hit the US.
A quote attributed to Jared Kushner will fuel suspicions about the Trump Organization’s business model, in Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House.
Donald Trump has continued to deny a series of allegations that he paid past sexual partners to keep quiet, including porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen MacDougal. It’s the same tactic he once advised a friend to use, according to Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House.
Gary Cohn, then president of Goldman Sachs, made a real impression on Donald Trump in a Trump Tower meeting on Nov. 30 2016. Dazzled, Trump offered Cohn five totally different jobs that day, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House.
This may be the most light-hearted piece I write all year—and it’s a desperate plea for help.
Vice president Mike Pence, secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and other top Trump administration officials have swiftly denied authoring a New York Times op-ed purportedly written by a senior White House official, claiming to be part of a “quiet resistance” against president Trump’s worst instincts.
A feminist blogger in Russia faces five years in prison under a charge of “inciting hatred” with insults against men, in the latest in a spate of cases that human rights groups call an “assault” on free speech.
Last month, the Trump Organization announced something strange: a plan to build an entire town in rural Scotland, with a kitsch design that blends American suburbia with Scottish oil country. The price was $200 million, but where the Trumps will get that cash is a mystery.
US government prosecutors made global headlines this week with tales of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort’s terrible taste. Having raked in millions from a Ukrainian kleptocrat, he magicked that money out of his Cypriot shell companies and into an array of boxy suits, ostrich and “blue lizard” jackets, unfathomably expensive rugs, and luxury houses replete with wisteria-lined pergolas.
Alexandria, Virginia
Paul Manafort was not in a good place in early 2016.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been rifling through president Trump’s copious array of tweets, the New York Times reports (paywall). The focus is part of a larger probe into whether Trump obstructed justice while the FBI was investigating Russia’s relationship with his campaign.
After CNN released audio of Donald Trump discussing hush money payments with former lawyer Michael Cohen last night, the White House responded with a form of information warfare that it has used time and again:
Former Trump presidential campaign chair Paul Manafort goes on trial next week as part of the probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election—but don’t expect to learn too much about any actual election meddling.
A Microsoft executive today swiftly contradicted Donald Trump’s claim that Russia is not trying to disrupt the 2018 midterms: The company has already worked with the US government to foil Russian hacking attempts on three candidates.
Russian president Vladimir Putin issued an order yesterday to end the special research status of Shikhany, the secretive town believed by British intelligence to have produced Novichok, a lethal nerve agent. UK authorities say the poison was recently used by Kremlin agents to try to kill former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
Donald Trump was roundly criticized yesterday for siding with Russian president Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies, when asked if he believed Russia meddled in the 2016 US election.
The US Department of Justice today charged Maria Butina, a Russian citizen, with illegally acting as a secret Russian agent on US soil. She was allegedly trying to set up a communications backchannel between the Russian government and US politicians.
