Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Is Granted Immunity in Cohen Probe  —  Weisselberg earlier this year was subpoenaed to testify before grand jury  —  Allen Weisselberg, President Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors …

Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms  — The spy agency does not believe its Russia informants have been killed, but sources have gone largely dormant amid heightened scrutiny and rising threats.  — Technology companies and political campaigns …

Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult … President Donald Trump posed for Oval Office photos on Thursday with one of the leading promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that top Democrats are part of a global pedophile cult.

Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon  —  The president's comments are being read as a signal that he wants to ignore his lawyers and exonerate his former campaign chairman.  —  President Donald Trump's lawyers and a cadre of informal White House advisers claim they've convinced …

“Hottie Avenatti” brings his show to the DNC summer meeting  —  CHICAGO — Michael Avenatti — attorney, potential presidential candidate, and owner of a strong jawline — dropped in on the Democratic Party's summer meeting on Thursday as he continued to tease a 2020 run.

Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair  —  (CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk …

Trump says it's ‘probably tougher’ for GOP to retain control of House  —  COLUMBUS — President Trump acknowledged a “probably tougher” path to retain GOP control of the House at the state party's annual dinner here, injecting some political reality into his standard rhetoric that boasts of a “red wave” in November.

At GOP event, Trump is silent on dying McCain  —  President Donald Trump said nothing Friday at an Ohio Republican dinner about Sen. John McCain, following the announcement that the Arizona senator had opted to stop receiving treatment for terminal brain cancer.

Republicans Are Exploiting the Murder of Mollie Tibbetts  —  Immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.  But the party doesn't want to talk about that.  —  Mr. Gillespie is an editor at large of Reason.  —  Where does the conservative commitment to limited government …

NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch: Democrats are “trying to Al Capone the president”  —  VIDEO ››› August 24, 2018 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF  —  From the August 22 edition of NRATV's Relentless:  —  Loading the player reg...

How This Will End  —  Michael Gerson, one of the most eloquent and principled critics of Donald Trump, insists that we are at June 1973, the moment when John Dean's testimony broke the dam that a year later swept Richard Nixon off into disgrace.  Others agree: This is an inflection point.

Putin's Economic Armor Suffers Cracks in Showdown Over Sanctions  — Bank of Russia pauses foreign-currency purchases to aid ruble  — Growing fears of U.S. curbs put Russian assets under pressure  —  The upheaval set off by the threat of American sanctions is roiling …

Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Reveals Link to Qatari Royal Family  —  Trump's former lawyer received a $100,000 brokerage fee for a Florida real-estate deal in which he represented a company owned by Sheikh Abdul Aziz  —  A $100,000 real-estate brokerage fee that was part of former Trump attorney …

Devin Nunes silent after Trump gang's 16 convictions and guilty pleas  —  Rep. Devin Nunes seems to hope that ignoring the damning news will make it go away.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is one of Trump's most outspoken defenders.  He even admitted, during a private fundraiser …

Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering  —  On his Wednesday evening program, Fox News host Tucker Carlson roared about the issue of land reform in South Africa.  “The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has begun — and you may have seen this in the press …

‘How do you stay married to a guy who does that?’  —  Hill Republicans are appalled by Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is facing indictment, blaming his wife.  —  House Republicans are whispering one word over and over again to describe embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter: Shameless.

‘It IS bad there’: Emails reveal Trump officials pushing for TPS terminations  —  TPS: What is Temporary Protected Status?  —  Washington (CNN)There was a simple explanation in October 2017 when a Department of Homeland Security official was asked why a memo justifying ending immigrant protections …

Stop Blaming Investigators More Than Criminals for Trump's Woes  —  At the end of a yet another tawdry, scandalous week, I'm seeing the same thing I see at the end of every other tawdry, scandalous week.  Lots of folks on the right continue to believe that the true scandal is not that the president …

Donald Trump, Twitter and Presidential Power to Interpret the Law for the Executive Branch  —  The president's former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to several federal criminal violations, including making certain unlawful campaign contributions.

When Justice Is Partial  —  Mueller is determined to sniff out any wrongdoing he can find—on one side.  —  U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami took a few moments in his Tuesday statement about Michael Cohen's plea deal to sing neutrality's praise: “His day of reckoning serves as a reminder …

Jailed Russian of Interest in U.S. Election Probe, Official Says  — Lawyers say Russian embassy keen on visting accused hacker  — Judge questions pychiatrist chosen to examine Yevgeniy Nikulin  —  A Russian charged with hacking LinkedIn is of great interest in a U.S. probe of election meddling …

No One Is Safer.  No One Is Served.  —  An immigrant family hides from Donald Trump in a Connecticut church.  —  The legendary Chicago oral historian and moral force Studs Terkel once said, “There is a decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”

The ‘Echo Chamber’ Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's A Fact  —  The New Yorker's new blockbuster piece exposing the ‘echo chamber’ conspiracy memo only helps prove the document's contention.  —  When I finally got to the end of a supposed blockbuster piece by the New Yorker's Adam Entous …

Watch the most misleading campaign ad so far this year.  —  Congratulations Frank White, Republican candidate for Florida Attorney General.  —  The campaign of Frank White for Florida attorney general appears to have altered the audio and manipulated video from an Orlando television station's news story …

Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment  —  Tom Frieden, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been arrested amid allegations of forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.

Paul Manafort Is Going to Jail.  But in Ukraine, He Has Left Ghosts in His Wake. … On the morning of February 24, 2014, hundreds of Ukrainians streamed through the doors of the famed presidential palace of Mezhyhirya.  The billion-dollar residence, finished in wood, as if to mimic a rustic cottage …