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The president is accused of acting like a monarch after the justice department called his friend’s sentence too harsh Who is Roger Stone? A master of the dark arts of politics who cut his teeth on a Richard Nixon election campaign. He regularly gives Nixon’s trademark salute and has a tattoo of the disgraced 37th […] More
She cited a need for the country to be ‘principled, consistent and trustworthy’ while accepting an award for diplomacy The former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, has warned that the US had adopted an “amoral” foreign policy that “substitutes threats, fear and confusion for trust”. In her first public remarks since leaving the US […] More
Attorney general to go before House judiciary committee Democrats warn of ‘a crisis in the rule of law in America’ William Barr, the US attorney general, has agreed to testify before a congressional committee over alleged political interference at the justice department, Democrats said, as they warned of “a crisis in the rule of law […] More
Barr is a ‘tough on crime’ hypocrite, a Trump toady and chief law enforcement officer who makes a mockery of the legal system No one has ever accused the US attorney general, William Barr, of being soft on crime. Just last year, he gave a speech in which he blasted progressive district attorneys who “style […] More
After US allies expel foreign health missions, Havana warns that patients will pay the highest price for campaign against its scheme A Cuban medical programme that has helped some of the world’s poorest communities has become the latest target of the Trump administration’s escalating attempts to pressure Havana’s faltering economy. Dubbed “Cuban doctors”, the celebrated […] More
Company claims president’s interference harmed its chances of receiving military contract that was eventually awarded to Microsoft Amazon wants Donald Trump to submit to questioning over the tech company’s losing bid for a $10bn military contract. The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump’s interference and […] More
The past week of news has shown just how entrenched the state of polarization is in the United States today The early 20th-century American entertainer and social commentator Will Rogers once observed: “I’m not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Rarely has that aphorism seemed as appropriate as in the […] More
Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng deliver gossip as well as the goods from behind the scenes of our national reality show In July 2018, the Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay posted a short piece about a mysterious $375,000 contribution from “Global Energy Producers” to America First Action, a pro-Trump Super Pac. Eighteen months later, federal agents […] More
