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President Donald Trump angrily insisted again Tuesday that there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russians in the 2016 election, but special counsel Robert S. Mueller III apparently isn't convinced. After speaking with prosecutors on Mueller's team, Trump's lawyers prepared a list of nearly four dozen questions the prosecutors had that could be posed during a potential interview with the president, according to sources with knowledge of the process who declined to speak publicly.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - after weeks of public pressure from President Trump and his supporters in Congress over the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller - pushed back yesterday, saying the Justice Department would not be "extorted." "I can tell you there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now, the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," Rosenstein said at an event in Washington.
In her new book, "Chasing Hillary," New York Times reporter Amy Chozick admits that she and other mainstream media reporters were duped by foreign propaganda. In a chapter titled " How I Became an Unwitting Agent of Russian Intelligence ," Chozick confesses that she and her Times colleagues allowed the need for attention - and clicks - to guide their decision to forefront largely unimportant information obtained from email hacks of Hillary Clinton's staff.
The Center for American Progress, founded in 2003 by former Bill Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, promotes itself as pushing "bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action." On April 23, the left-leaning website BuzzFeed reported there's a sexual harassment problem at this "politics and policy hub of the Democratic establishment."
As the little girl in the movie "Poltergeist" declared, "They're baaaack." This time, however, it is not evil ghosts reappearing to make us shiver, but real-life leftists transforming their mid-20th century social movement centered on college campuses and anti-war rhetoric, to one far more subtle and multi-pronged.
In this Nov. 13, 2017 file photo, Cecile Richards attends the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York. Richards steps down Tuesday from the helm of Planned Parenthood, a position she has held for 12 years, and her parting message to fellow women is: Get involved, and don't wait.
On 30 April 2018, the web site Daily World Update published an article reporting that Hillary Clinton had been accidentally killed during the filming of a documentary about her: Hillary Clinton was killed this afternoon when she attempted to "do her own stunt" while shooting a documentary about the 2016 election. Clinton, who is known to be sickly and feeble, tried to re-create her fall outside the 9/11 Memorial.
Two big stories broke late yesterday, and have obviously gotten well under Donald Trump's skin given a series of new tweets ranting about them. First, the New York Times leaked a series of questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask Trump.
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Donald Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself, according to a list of the questions obtained by The New York Times. The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate the president's thinking, to get at the motivation behind some of his most combative Twitter posts and to examine his relationships with his family and his closest advisers.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted questions to the White House that indicate a focus on whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct a probe into Russian interference, The New York Times reported Monday. The questions also show Mueller wants to find out what Trump knew about links between members of his presidential campaign and Russia, including a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer offering damaging information on election rival Hillary Clinton, the Times said.
Hangin' with the in crowd! Former first daughter Sasha Obama, 16, is all smiles backstage with pregnant rapper Cardi B and her fiancA Offset at Washington, DC festival On April 30, a list of questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators has sent to President Donald Trump's lawyers was reported by the New York Times . The list was created amid negotiations about what topics Trump would be willing to discuss in a potential interview with investigators.
Each week, USA TODAY's OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media from the left and the right reacted to a political news story, giving liberals and conservatives a peek into the other's media bubble. This week, liberals and conservatives reacted to Saturday Night's White House Correspondents Dinner, and the controversial jokes from comedian Michelle Wolf, who hosted the event.
Michael Flynn, former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives for his plea hearing at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse December 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged Flynn with one count of making a false statement to the FBI.
In this April 8, 2018 photo, Marisol Zenteno, right, from The League of Women Voters, registering Aida Merced Lopez, who moved to Miami from Puerto Rico in April 2017, during a festival in Kendall, Florida. "We are just working so the Puerto Rican community can have its voice heard," said volunteer Zenteno as she took a break from working a line of people waiting to buy pork and rice.
A small street festival outside Miami features booths adorned with Puerto Rican flags. A band plays salsa music as vendors offer specialties from the Caribbean island such as rice with pork and chickpeas.
Although running for U.S. Senate has caused him to drive across the state on multiple occasions, Republican candidate and former coal miner Bo Copley says it's been a great experience. "For me being in the southern part of the state, we had a debate in Wheeling which was over four hours away.
Former FBI Director James Comey is in Boston to promote his new book, in which he pronounces President Donald Trump as "morally unfit" for office. Harvard Book Store is hosting the sold-out presentation of his new book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," at the Back Bay Events Center at 4 p.m. Sunday.
One of the weirdest aspects of writing a memoir based on a 16-year-old relationship with a pit bull is the requests Eileen Myles gets at author talks. The punk poet and essayist, the inspiration for a new generation of feminist writers like Lena Dunham for her writings around sexuality and gender, is often called to dedicate copies of ''I sign books to a lot of dead dogs,'' Myles says.
George Scott got the inevitable question a half-hour into a meet-the-candidate house party in the rolling hills of south-central Pennsylvania: How will you inspire all those people in the congressional district who put up Donald Trump signs in 2016? Motivating the nearly 30 people who came to see Scott was that they actually have a choice in this year's congressional race: a four-way Democratic primary contest in a stretch of Pennsylvania that has been represented in Congress by a Republican for 50 years. On May 15, Pennsylvanians will settle 21 congressional primary contests, the state's most since 1984.