Trump’s watered-down ethics rules let a lobbyist help run an agency he lobbied
Geoff Burr spent much of the last decade as the chief lobbyist for a powerful construction industry trade group. Burr sought to influence a host of regulations of the Department of Labor, opposing wage standards for federal construction contracts and working against an effort to limit workers’ exposure to dangerous silica dust. In the Obama administration,…
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Trump Jr. and McGahn didn’t testify before the Mueller grand jury — and a federal judge wants to know why
During the Russia investigation, former special counsel Robert Mueller sought testimony from a long list of people. But according to a court filing on Sunday, two people who Mueller did not force to testify before a grand jury were Donald Trump Jr. and former White House Counsel Don McGahn. And U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wants to know why.
The court filing on Sunday, according to The Week, was in response to a ruling Howell made on Thursday — when Howell asserted that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was withholding too much information from the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York. The House Judiciary Committee, The Week’s Peter Weber reports, has been “wrangling” with DOJ over the evidence that Mueller obtained during his lengthy investigation.
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James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the history of American lynching
In February, 1999, John William King – who was executed in Huntsville, Texas on April 24, 2019 –became the first white man in modern Texas history to be sentenced to death for killing a black person. How that black person, James Byrd, Jr., died was no mystery. Three self-proclaimed white supremacists had drawn up a plan to start a race war while they were in prison. These men chained Byrd to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him for a mile and half until his head and right arm were torn from his body by a concrete culvert on Huff Creek Road in Jasper County.
Have we become too paranoid about mass shootings?
Many Americans worry about when – not if – another mass shooting will occur, and a Gallup poll from September found that nearly half of Americans fear being a victim of one of these attacks.
After the film “Joker” was released, you could see these fears play out.
Many announced they wouldn’t see it in theaters. The film’s deranged main character, they said, would inspire people like the Aurora shooter, who, in 2012, killed 12 people and wounded 70 others during a screening of “Dark Knight Rises.”
Melania Trump just reignited a 100-year-old political controversy with her new White House tennis pavilion
Trump melts down in cabinet meeting when questioned about ISIS: ‘It was me who captured them’
Trump appears to admit he is still running his real estate and resort empire – says it’s OK because Washington did
Trump blows up over ‘phony emoluments clause’ as he whines G7 at Doral ‘would have been the best ever’
BUSTED: Trump wrote a personal note to Giuliani Ukraine henchman that he claimed not to know
Trump Jr. and McGahn didn’t testify before the Mueller grand jury — and a federal judge wants to know why
James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the history of American lynching
Have we become too paranoid about mass shootings?
Even when they aren’t fired for being pregnant or gay, teachers face strict moral demands
James Clyburn schools Trump over ‘lynching’ tweet: ‘I’m a product of the South — I know the history of that word’
James Clyburn schools Trump over ‘lynching’ tweet: ‘I’m a product of the South — I know the history of that word’
Entire staff in Trump’s chaotic White House ‘on thin ice’: NYT’s Haberman
Morning Joe drops bomb on Trump about impeachment support in states he desperately needs in 2020
‘Pence would be president by noon’: Morning Joe claims GOPers would dump Trump in a minute in a secret impeachment vote
