Family Photo Essay

“So, my brother likes to find these photos and, pictures of family past and, present”

Betsy Patterson Bonaparte, yes, that Bonaparte, she married his brother. My Great, Great grandfather Ross My Great Grandfather Ross Great, great grandmother Ross Grand...

Analysis: Forget the House. It’s the battle for the Senate that could provide the most drama on election night. Daniel Balz 2 hrs ago

“For months now, the focus of Campaign 2018, rightly, has been on control of the House.”

For months now, the focus of Campaign 2018, rightly, has been on control of the House. All the metrics continue to point to a midterm election in which Democrats could seize control of that chamber. But for sheer drama and unpredictability, the contest for control of the Senate could be the...

Manafort associate paid Trump inauguration $50,000 in Ukrainian cash

A Republican political consultant linked to Paul Manafort and Cambridge Analytica has admitted to funneling $50,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration committee. Sam Patten paid the money to an American “straw purchaser” on behalf of the unidentified...

Trump just made 2 problematic admissions about the Trump Tower meeting by Aaron Blake

President Trump has yet again tweeted about his personal legal issues in a way he perhaps shouldn't have. The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump had expressed concerns in the past week about his son Donald Trump Jr.'s legal exposure from the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. In a tweet about...

CNN’s Jim Acosta Challenges Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Then Makes a Quick Exit

The First Amendment guarantees the free press in this country our president calling it "fake news" and, the enemy of the People is not only wrong, it goes against the Constitution, something Trump has sworn to protect and, defend. Jim Acosta, the square-jawed CNN correspondent, has stood out...

A little history for those who don't remember it

A Brief Chronology of Watergate1968November 1968: Richard Milhous Nixon, the 55-year-old former vice president who lost the presidency for the Republicans in 1960, reclaims it by defeating Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.1970July 23, 1970: Nixon approves a plan...

Stormy Daniels' lawyer: Cohen was paid $500K by Putin-tied company after election

Stormy Daniels's attorney Michael Avenatti said Tuesday that President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen received $500,000 in the months after the 2016 election from a company run by a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Avenatti said that the funding may have been...

Russian hackers posed as IS to threaten military wives

PARIS — Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone: "Dear Angela!" it said. "Bloody Valentine's Day!""We know everything about you, your husband and your children," the Facebook message continued,...

Mueller Requests 70 Blank Subpoenas in Case Against Paul Manafort

As the world turns so does the Russia probe headed up by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who filed a request Thursday for 70 blank subpoenas. Mueller requested subpoenas for appearances in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) in the case against former...

‘Ready, shoot, aim’: President Trump’s loyalty tests cause hiring headaches

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then the star of President Trump’s early Cabinet, was assembling his staff and picked Sarah Isgur Flores as his top spokeswoman.There was just one problem: She had criticized Trump, repeatedly, during the 2016 Republican primaries. Flores’s prospects for a...