Politics

The walls are starting to close in around Nancy Pelosi. As President Trump and his administration continue to stonewall Democratic efforts to conduct oversight, a growing number of prominent party lawmakers are publicly calling for the the House to begin impeachment proceedings. According to an NBC News tally, over 60 …

Watching Beto O’Rourke’s presidential ambitions unravel in real time, it’s almost hard to remember the captivating magic he conjured during his campaign for the U.S. Senate, which ended just seven months ago. Enthusiasm has fizzled and O’Rourke has sunk in the polls as he struggles to make the case for …

WASHINGTON — Viktor Orbán couldn’t have scripted it any better if he’d tried. Seated next to President Trump in a gold-colored chair in the Oval Office, the Hungarian prime minister listened intently as the leader of the free world sang his praises to a throng of journalists, photographers and TV …

Regardless of whether Attorney General William Barr was ever a “respectable” political figure, plenty of powerful people seem to have held him in such regard. If Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) was one of those people, she’s not anymore. On Wednesday, she lamented the degree to which the attorney general has …

An angry Vladimir Putin has denounced the 18 month sentence handed down to Russian influence agent Maria Butina, blasting her prison term an outrageous face-saving measure by U.S. authorities and claiming, against substantial evidence, “there was nothing on her.” As Rolling Stone exposed in April 2018, shortly before she was …

A new poll of Alabama voters finds that Republicans are eager to re-nominate the extremely problematic Roy Moore for a Senate rematch against Democrat Doug Jones. Moore is a disgraced former state Supreme Court justice — removed from office twice, most recently for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same …

WASHINGTON — It took him three tries, but President Trump has finally found, in William P. Barr, the attorney general he’s wanted all along. That is, an attorney general who appears loyal to Trump and seemingly willing to protect the president when necessary, defy Democrats in Congress and investigate Trump’s …

Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced on Monday’s Late Show that he is running for president in 2020, joining an already-crowded Democratic field. The show tweeted a preview clip of Monday’s episode, allowing the 38-year-old to outline his campaign focus on gun control. “I see a country in quicksand — unable …

After nearly two years of tight-lipped silence, the investigative team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leaking to reporters, and suggesting that there is far more to Mueller’s final report than Trump’s hand-picked attorney general has let on. In rival stories published Wednesday evening by the Washington Post and the …

An email exchange between an NRA official and a man who has called the Sandy Hook massacre “the biggest government illusion that’s ever been pulled off” is raising questions about whether the gun lobby encourages conspiracy theorists. The emails — sent in the immediate aftermath of the 2018 school massacre …