In December, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to repeal net neutrality. That repeal took effect on Monday, and while FCC chairman and novelty coffee mug enthusiast Ajit Pai celebrates the control his agency will now be able to exact over the the Internet economy, consumers have reason to be …
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s case against Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican strategist and disgraced former chairman of President Trump’s 2016 campaign, just got a lot stronger. Mueller on Friday filed a new, superseding indictment that alleges Manafort and one of Manafort’s partnersin his multi-year lobbying campaign in Ukraine obstructed justice …
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President Trump values his down time in the White House. Since he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last January, reports have abounded about his television intake, from primetime cable news to his morning block of “executive time” when he mostly watches Fox & Friends and fires off the bulk of …
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Though few were surprised when President Trump on Tuesday announced he was withdrawing the United States from the Iran deal, many have struggled to unpack the logic behind his decision. Bipartisan experts and allies overseas urged Trump to continue to honor the deal, in which Iran agreed to stop producing …
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In November 2013, the president of the National Rifle Association, David Keene, was introduced as an honored guest at the conference of the Right to Bear Arms, a gun lobby in Moscow. “There are no peoples that are more alike than Americans and Russians,” Keene said. “We’re hunters. We’re shooters. …
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If Devin Nunes didn’t have enough problems already, he’s now made an enemy of George Papadopoulos’ fiancée too. A week ago, the White House released a memo written by the California congressman and breathlessly hyped by his House colleagues as “absolutely shocking,” “worse than Watergate,” so bad “people will go …
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On Monday night, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines to make public a memo authored by its chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes. (Nunes, if you recall, was forced to recuse himself from the committee’s investigation into Russian election interference after misleading the public about the origin …
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