Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she was paid by Donald Trump’s lawyer to keep their affair a secret, isn’t officially running for president—yet.
Island Seafood, a $40 million in annual sales lobster wholesaler that’s been operating on the Maine coast for over 20 years, got a distressing message from a long-time Chinese customer at the end of July.
Ronald Reagan National Airport, one of the primary airports serving the Washington DC area, registered a power outage beginning at approximately 9:45 pm ET, forcing the airport to put at least some flight takeoffs on hold, and divert others, with many computer systems down. The airport said via Twitter that flights were operating, albeit slowly during the blackout. A little over an hour after lights went out, it said power was restored. The airport didn’t specify a reason for the outage.
Omarosa Manigault Newman’s Unhinged, the latest in a growing number of insider exposés about the Trump White House, appears to contain 15 years of evidence that Donald Trump was an exploitative, racist, and misogynist boss—all characteristics that Manigault Newman says she deliberately overlooked and even helped to normalize.
Former presidential aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s newly published book Unhinged, about her 15-year relationship with Donald Trump, traces a familiar narrative arc for a political insider’s tell-all: She settles scores, defends her own actions, and describes the evolution of her relationship with the US president.
“The America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said last night (Aug. 8) in a segment directed at Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Chris Collins, the Republican upstate New York Congressman, surrendered himself to FBI agents this morning, alongside his son and the father of his son’s fiancee. All three have been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements by the Department of Justice.
The White House plans to propose making it tougher for documented immigrants to become US citizens if they have ever used a range of social services from Obamacare to food stamps, NBC News reports.
China had a swift reaction to Donald Trump’s plans to double down on failing tariffs—Beijing said it would add more taxes to $60 billion in US goods.
If Donald Trump really wanted to preserve the most jobs possible in one of the US’s many struggling industries, he might consider local newspapers instead of steel manufacturing.
Frustrated with Beijing’s stubbornness on trade, the US’s top trade negotiator might pile even more tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese products.
At a rally in Tampa, Florida last night, Donald Trump touched on some familiar political themes: Telling Americans they can use the Christian holiday greeting “Merry Christmas” again; deriding his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton as “crooked;” falsely claiming that Democrats want to give illegal aliens the right to vote. Stirring up his base with divisive statements, in order to drive voters to the polls is part of the Republican plan to win in November’s midterm elections, which typically draw fewer voters than presidential races.
Since the 1880s, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked and published data about American jobs and workers, including average wages, how many people are employed by certain industries, and how consumers spend money.
Charles and David Koch seeded the low-tax, small government political movement in America that became the Tea Party, which eventually set the stage for Donald Trump’s presidency. Now, one of the wealthy industrialist brothers is using the same strategy to fight Trump’s trade policies.
The $12 billion that the Trump administration has pledged to American farmers to offset the cost of new tariffs is just a small piece of the pie, according to a new US Chamber of Commerce analysis.
More than 700 children forcibly removed from their parents at the US border still have not been reunited with their families, US officials said today (July 26).
Several threatening and violent videos by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been removed from YouTube, but no one from the Google subsidiary wants to talk about it.
US education secretary Betsy DeVos’s 163-foot-yacht, the “Seaquest” was untied from its moorings and set adrift in the Huron Boat Basin in northern Ohio on Saturday night by an unknown person.
Donald Trump and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to put the EU-US trade war on hold in a hastily-called press conference in the Rose Garden today. After weeks of nasty remarks about Europeans cheating the US on trade, Trump spoke briefly about the “close friendship” that both sides share. “We made a deal today!” Juncker said.
Donald Trump’s sit-down in Washington, DC this afternoon with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to be tense. Both sides will negotiate the terms of an escalating trade war, which started when the Trump administration imposed tariffs on global steel and aluminum imports.
The Trump administration may have already deported parents of hundreds of detained immigrant children, new government data shows. Both the government and non-profit groups are struggling to locate those parents now, at the risk of never reuniting them with their kids.
Donald Trump is preparing a $12-billion financial aid package geared at reducing the damage his own trade policies are inflicting on American farmers. Details of the plan are scant, but the package is expected to be rolled out in September.
Alex Jones, the conspiracy-peddling online commentator, mimes shooting Robert Mueller in his latest online video, and says the US special prosecutor is going to “get it,” actions that appear to violate YouTube’s policy on threatening behavior.
Donald Trump and the White House unleashed a rollercoaster of self-contradiction this week, with a series of statements so cack-handed that right-wing media and Trump loyalists have embraced them as the deliberate “trolling” of America. They may have a point.
