The day after damaging testimony from a former top U.S. diplomat undermined President Trump’s claim that there was no quid pro quo in the administration’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine while demanding an investigation into Trump’s political opponents, a mob of House Republicans stormed a secure congressional chamber …
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Despite breathless reporting and countless headlines throughout the 2016 campaign about Hillary Clinton‘s alleged mishandling of classified information through her use of a private email server, the State Department probe into the matter found no systemic mishandling of classified information by the former secretary of state’s staff. The unclassified report …
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WASHINGTON — Andrew Yang, the tech-centric outsider Democrat running for president, raised more than $10 million in July, August, and September of this year, according to Yang’s campaign. The eight-figure haul is more than triple what he raised in second quarter of 2019. And it is by far his best …
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This story originally appeared in Grist. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Academies of Sciences, and scores …
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September 11th is the most solemn day on the U.S. calendar. The terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead 18 years ago are still fresh in the minds of many, and no occasion calls for a greater show of reverence and respect, especially from the nation’s commander-in-chief. President Trump …
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WASHINGTON — More than his gilded triplex in Trump Tower or the palatial dining room at Mar-a-Lago, more than any of his golf courses or hotels, surely more than his current residence at the White House, no place feels like home to Donald Trump more than one of his rallies, …
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The world’s top climate scientists released a harrowing new report in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday that lays bare the stakes for humanity, as well as the urgent transformations necessary if we’re to maintain the basis of our civilization. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN-sponsored …
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WASHINGTON — The conventional wisdom that followed the first Democratic presidential debates looked something like this: Kamala Harris: dominant. Julián Castro: ascendant. Joe Biden: eviscerated. Harris and Castro were deemed the victors of round one of the DNC Battle Royale 2019. Biden was the clear loser and he knew it: …
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Ken Buck, a Republican from Colorado, thought he had former Special Counsel Robert Mueller cornered on Wednesday. It backfired spectacularly. Before Buck, the marathon grilling of Mueller had followed a familiar pattern: Democrats fired off quick questions designed to elicit yes or no answers regarding some of …
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President Trump’s supporters broke into a “send her back!” chant directed at Ilhan Omar during his rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Wednesday night — and guess what? Republicans are very concerned. So troubled were some members of the party’s leadership in the House of Representatives, Politico reported on Thursday, …
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