Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited the White House in December seeking President Donald Trump's help. The top Justice Department official in the Russia investigation wanted Trump's support in fighting off document demands from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes.
SEATTLE — In a sign of just how fed up corporate America is with the country’s expensive and often confusing health care system, three behemoths — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — announced on Tuesday that they would form an independent health care company for their employees in the United States.
On Jan. 15, Pat Tiberi became the 12th member of the 115th Congress to resign from office. If that feels like a lot, that’s because it is; it’s the most people who have resigned from Congress through this point in the session in at least 117 years.
Griffith Observatory to host a wee-hours watch party
By Mary Forgione @ LATimes.com, Jan. 29
A blue moon, blood moon, supermoon and a full lunar eclipse will occur early Wednesday. The best place to see it is in western North America, Alaska and Hawaii.
In Los Angeles, you'll have to stay up late or rise early to catch the big celestial event starting about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday [....]
BREAKING: This exchange, between a Twitter user posing as Sean Hannity and WikiLeaks, confirms WikiLeaks has been in contact with Hannity—a Trump advisor. This is the second WikiLeaks-Trump contact we know of; the other are pre-election contacts between WikiLeaks and Trump's son....
The Trump administration will not at this time implement new sanctions under the law Congress passed near-unanimously in response to Russian election interference, the State Department announced. The sanctions would have hit companies doing business with Russian defense and intelligence agencies [....]
A respected doctor who has been in the United States for nearly 40 years has been picked up by American immigration agents after the Trump administration denied his attempt to renew his green card [....]
[.....] “This is the first instance of jackpotting in the United States,” said digital security reporter Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter. “It’s safe to assume that these are here to stay at this point.”
BANGKOK — Delivering an unusual public rebuke, former Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico resigned Wednesday from a Myanmar advisory board on the Rohingya crisis, calling it a pro-government “cheerleading squad” and chastising the country’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he has long considered a friend.
"Breaking/Scoop". Happened last June. Maggie's just been sharing it with Anderson Cooper @ CNN over the phone right after the publication button was hit. Only reason I knew about it was that was what I had on in the background. Ironic that Carl Bernstein happens to be on Cooper's show.
Comes to mind: will someone like Bannon ever see that he placed his bets on the wrong guy, that the harder such a bozo tries to MAGA, the more globalized everything will get?
The Trump administration declared a surprising war on the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, breaking from a long tradition in which top American officials generally voice support for a strong American currency.
