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 …

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 …

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 …

TPUSA Members Quit in Protest of ‘Exploiting’ Mollie Tibbetts' Death … The University of Iowa chapter of a conservative student organization declined a proposal that the campus host two of the group's highest-profile national leaders for an “immigration event” following the alleged murder …

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.

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.

“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.

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...

Trump Asks Pompeo to Cancel North Korea Trip, Pointing to Stalled Diplomacy  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday abruptly called off a trip to North Korea by his secretary of state, citing a lack of progress in nuclear disarmament talks and acknowledging for the first time that his diplomatic overture …

‘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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.”

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 …

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 …

When Trump Made an Appearance at Cuomo's Bachelor Party: The Untold Story of Their Ties  —  Andrew M. Cuomo was about to marry.  Donald J. Trump was about to divorce.  And the future governor of New York and the future president of the United States crossed paths at Mr. Cuomo's bachelor party.

How a Trump tariff is strangling American newspapers  —  Print isn't dead.  But the soaring cost of newsprint is contributing to the slow death of America's newspapers.  —  A months-long spike in the price of paper, driven by federal tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Canadian suppliers …

Here's The Special Issue Of The MSU Alumni Magazine On Sexual Abuse That Was Spiked By School President John Engler  —  Back in June, the Detroit Free Press reported that Michigan State president John Engler spiked a special issue of the alumni magazine that was supposed to focus exclusively …