Finally! Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump's latest slam ("DOJ won't be 'improperly influenced' by politics")

President Trump and Jeff Sessions. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/File) Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back Thursday at President Trump for saying he “never took control of the Justice Department,” putting out a sharp statement vowing the agency won’t be “improperly influenced” by politics....

More Russian Hacking Uncovered Ahead Of Midterms — This Time Targeting Conservatives

Microsoft said this week that it has seen a recent "uptick" in Russian hacking attempts on U.S. political groups.  (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Microsoft announced Tuesday that it had uncovered — and thwarted — fresh Russian hacking attempts on U.S. political groups ahead of the November...

"Trump Swamp Watch": Michael Cohen Says Trump Ordered Him To Illegally Interfere In Election

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally interfering in the 2016 election at the direction of the president. The revelation is a bombshell. Cohen was the keeper of Trump’s secrets, and this admission reveals that the two...

Muslim couple denied Swiss citizenship over handshake refusal

 Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP The Swiss city of Lausanne has blocked a Muslim couple’s bid to become Swiss nationals over their refusal to shake hands with members of the opposite sex. The municipality said it refused to grant the couple’s citizenship application over their lack of respect for...

Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: 7 Excerpts From the Grand Jury Report

We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this,” begins the nearly 900-page report released Tuesday by a grand jury that spent two years investigating reports of sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church over a period of 70 years. Pope Francis, who...

Swamp Watch: A Congressman, a Drug Promoter, and Now an Accused Criminal

With news on Wednesday that Collins was charged with insider trading after he allegedly tipped off others to nonpublic information about Innate, prosecutors have zeroed in on stock trading on Capitol Hill, a practice fraught with potential conflicts. His indictment suggests that recent efforts...

President Trump Said 'You Need an ID to Buy Groceries.'

(Photo: Know Your Meme) President Donald Trump’s latest head-scratching comment has lit up the internet. “You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID. You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture,” Trump...

Antifa members in Berkeley smash windows of US Marine Corps recruiting office during protest

An Antifa protest in Berkeley turned violent Sunday when one masked group member sucker-punched a detractor and other agitators smashed the windows at a Marine Corps recruiting post, cellphone video showed.

Trump Insulted LeBron James on Twitter. Now His Wife May Visit James’ School

Melania Trump’s spokeswoman said the first lady is “open to visiting” basketball star LeBron James’s new $8 million school in Ohio for low-income and at-risk students, after the president derided James’s intelligence on Twitter. “It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on...

Ivanka Trump Condemns family separations at the border!!!

I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children....