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Fire Jared Kushner and take away his security clearance

Top Trump White House adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, secretly talked to the Russians about setting up a covert line of communications between the Trump transition and the ...

5/27/17 1:35pm by John Aravosis 14

New French president Macron shakes Trump’s hand last at NATO

During Donald Trump’s first meeting with NATO allies at the summit in Brussels this week, Trump finally met new French president Emmanuel Macron. But he had to wait a bit. In ...

5/26/17 4:37pm by John Aravosis 4

Hillary compares Trump to Nixon in Wellesley commencent

Hillary Clinton is giving the commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesely College, as I write this. In a portion of her speech reminiscing on her days in college, Hillary talks ...

5/26/17 12:09pm by John Aravosis 2

Sheriff Clarke ordered 6 deputies to harass plane passenger and verbal exchange

Newly-released text messages show Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke directing six sheriff deputies to stop and harass an American Airlines passenger for having had a verbal altercation ...

5/26/17 11:46am by John Aravosis 5

GOP US House candidate Gianforte still hasn’t apologized 24 hours after assaulting reporter

It’s been nearly 24 hours since GOP US House candidate from Montana, Greg Gianforte, brutally assaulted Ben Jacobs, a reporter with the Guardian newspaper, in front of three witnesses while ...

5/25/17 6:15pm by John Aravosis 4

Trump shoves NATO leader to get better spot in photo

Donald Trump today shoved a fellow NATO leader in order to position himself better for a group photo. Sadly, I’m not making this up. And here’s the video: Did Trump just ...

5/25/17 1:09pm by John Aravosis 4

GOP US House candidate, Montanan Greg Gianforte, caught on tape violently assaulting reporter

Update: A crew from Fox News witnessed the entire attack. Their description is gruesome: During that conversation, another man — who we now know is Ben Jacobs of The Guardian — ...

5/24/17 9:11pm by John Aravosis 6

CBO: 23 million lose insurance under House GOP health bill

The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Republican health care bill passed recently by the US House of Representatives, shows that 23 million people will lose health insurance ...

5/24/17 5:14pm by John Aravosis 3

Trump divulged secret location of US nuclear subs to Philippine president

A recently released transcript of Donald Trump’s April 29 phone call with Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte shows that Trump told Duterte that the US had moved two nuclear ...

5/24/17 2:34pm by John Aravosis 6

Trump Commerce Secretary brags about lack of protests in Saudi Arabia, where it’s illegal

Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, bragged this morning on CNBC about how there wasn’t a single protester throughout their entire trip in Saudi Arabia. “There ...

5/22/17 4:44pm by John Aravosis 10

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