With Caffeine and Determination, Christine Blasey Ford Relives Her Trauma

When Christine Blasey Ford, a 51-year-old California university professor, entered a hearing room on Capitol Hill on Thursday morning - returning to a city she fled decades ago to publicly relive the sexual assault that first prompted her to leave - she was not sure she would make it through her opening statement. But Dr. Blasey, surrounded by her lawyers, publicists and a sisterhood of friends who had convened to support her and zealously protect her privacy, said her piece.

Trump’s little-known lawyer on the front lines against Mueller

Standing between Donald Trump and Robert Mueller is a little-known Florida lawyer who is leading high-stakes negotiations over whether the president will confront questioning from the special counsel's investigators. Jane Raskin, who was hired by Trump in April, spent most of her career prosecuting mobsters and defending accused fraudsters, extortionists and other white-collar criminals.

Social justice movement veterans help Poor People’s Campaign

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 6, 2018 civil rights attorney Al McSurely sits for an interview at his home in Carthage, N.C. As the Poor People's Campaign launches a massive initiative to sign up people to support the mov... . In this photo taken Wednesday, June 6, 2018 civil rights attorney Al McSurely and his wife O'Linda Williams sit together in the kitchen of their home in Carthage, N.C. As the Poor People's Campaign launches a massive initiativ... CARTHAGE, N.C. - As the Poor People's Campaign launches a new initiative, its charismatic leader is working with the generation of civil rights leaders who stood by the Rev.

Trump goes after LeBron

Ahead of campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, President Donald Trump unleashed a withering attack on the state's favourite son, savaging LeBron James in a late-night tweet that derided the intelligence of one of the nation's most prominent African-American men. Melania Trump's spokeswoman quickly distanced the first lady from the criticism of James, saying in a statement Saturday afternoon that it appears James is "working to do good things on behalf of our next generation" and that the first lady would be open to visiting his new school.

Trump rips LeBron James’ smarts hours before rally in Ohio

Ahead of campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, President Donald Trump unleashed a withering attack on the state's son, savaging LeBron James in a late-night tweet that derided the intelligence of one of the nation's most prominent African-American men. Trump blasted James after seemingly watching an interview the former Cleveland Cavaliers star did earlier in the week with CNN anchor Don Lemon in which he deemed Trump divisive.

New book details the inside story of Obama’s birth certificate and the birth of fake news

Dan Pfeiffer, former assistant and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, thinks he knows the exact date the modern era of fake news was born: April 27, 2011. "I had walked into the briefing room that morning with 50 copies of Barack Obama's birth certificate," Pfeiffer recalls in a memoir, " Yes We Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump ," set to be published next week.

Giuliani trying to influence perception of Mueller probe

A series of seemingly authoritative assertions in recent weeks about the shape and scope of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference has helped define it in the public eye, generating countless headlines and cable chyrons about the ongoing saga that has shadowed President Donald Trump's White House. They were made by Rudy Giuliani, the president's attorney, who has used a media blitz to frequently set - and later move - the goalposts of the investigation, making public declarations about the probe to color its perception among voters and lawmakers, all while confident that Mueller will never speak up to correct him.

As Starbucks closes stores for racial bias training, experts warn the effort may fall short

While the coffee chain gets kudos for managing a P.R. crisis, a bevy of research suggests that culture can't be changed in one afternoon. Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz presents during the Starbucks 2016 Investor Day meeting, in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016.

“Skirmishes”: Israel’s Syria Blitz

A key 'mainstream' media theme in covering the Israeli army's repeated massacres of unarmed, non-violent Palestinian civilians protesting Israel's military occupation in Gaza - killing journalists, a paramedic, the elderly and children - has been the description of these crimes as 'clashes'. This has been a clear attempt to obfuscate the fact that while two groups of people are involved, only one group is being killed and wounded.

Trump Tower Meeting’s Organizer First Dangled Putin Meeting

Donald Trump's bid for the U.S. presidency was just weeks old in 2015 when the offers for Russian meetings and calls started. A British-American publicist emerged with a swift invitation to visit Moscow, and possibly even to meet with Vladimir Putin.

TV warfare: New DeWine ad calls Taylor a ‘phony conservative’

The campaign of Mike DeWine calls out Mary Taylor as a "phony conservative" in a new TV commercial underlining a $1 million media buy ahead of the Republican gubernatorial primary on May 8. The 30-second DeWine spot, which will air statewide on broadcast TV, cable TV and radio buy, paints the lieutenant governor as a "career politician" who refused to endorse President Donald Trump, supported Medicaid expansion as part of Obamacare - "then lied about it" - and claims "she used used your tax dollars to benefit her family business." The commercial concludes: "Lt.

Zuckerberg faces ‘Grandpa’ questions from lawmakers

Mark Zuckerberg faced two days of grilling before House and Senate committees Tuesday and Wednesday to address Facebook's privacy issues and the need for more regulation for the social media site. Yet the hearings in Washington managed to showcase the normally press-shy Zuckerberg's ability to perform as an able and well-rehearsed, if a bit stiff, CEO of one of the world's biggest companies - and the degree to which much of Congress appears befuddled about technology and the relevant issues.

Emails: Conservatives slammed Pence in 2015 for changing law

Then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence faced a firestorm of criticism three years ago after signing a "religious freedom" law critics decried as anti-gay. Now emails released this week to The Associated Press illustrate similar backlash from fellow conservatives when the eventual vice president agreed to change the law in the face of widespread boycott threats.