Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress earlier today. The move came after Barr refused to comply with subpoenas to hand over an unredacted version of the Mueller report …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin informed congressional Democrats today he will not comply with requests to hand over President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns.
“I am informing you now that the Department may not lawfully fulfill the Committee’s request,” Mnuchin …
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Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the nation’s largest media companies, has reached an agreement to purchase twenty-one regional sports networks from Walt Disney Co. The deal is worth a reported $10.6 billion.
The purchase extends the Maryland-based Sinclair’s push into …
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An historic summit between North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up with the both sides agreeing to keep denuclearization as a goal for the international community.
Both men characterized their talks as “good” and …
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In a groundbreaking case, federal prosecutors have charged a pharmaceutical company with drug trafficking for their role in the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis.
The company, Rochester Drug Cooperative, was charged with “knowingly and intentionally” violating federal drug laws. The company …
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Congressional Democrats have issued a subpoena for former White House counsel Don McGahn. The announcement was made earlier today by Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler.
“The Special Counsel’s report, even in redacted form, outlines substantial evidence that …
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The long-awaited report conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was made public yesterday. In it, Mueller’s team lays out in thorough detail the results of a nearly 2-year-long investigation.
The top-line conclusions of the report are that while both the …
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Online job search firm LinkedIn has released its annual list of most sought after companies. This year’s Top Companies list is the company’s fourth and lists the companies Americans most want to work for – and remain at once they’re …
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Founder of online watchdog group WikiLeaks Julian Assange was arrested in the U.K. yesterday. He now faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of aiding the hacking of U.S. government computers. The “hacktivist” had been holed-up in the Ecuadorian …
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned her post Sunday. The announcement was made by President Trump on Twitter.
“Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service…” the …
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has asked the European Union for a delay for the Britain’s exit from the coalition. It is the second time she has done so.
May is asking for the exit date to be pushed back …
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Updated 4/3/19 at 5:48 p.m.
Singapore may be the first nation to hold social media platforms responsible for allowing fake news to go unchecked on their platforms with a new law being proposed. The law, submitted in its parliament yesterday, …
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New York City has become the first U.S. city to pass what is known as congestion pricing – tolls on vehicles entering the city during peak traffic hours. The fees are part of a state budget agreed to by the …
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McDonald’s is betting that it can use data to take intelligence around customer orders to a new level.
“How do you transition from mass marketing to mass personalization?” asks McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook. “To do that, you’ve really got to …
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The Attorney General William Barr has notified Congress that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of collusion on the part of the Trump campaign and the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The notification …
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Former campaign chairman for Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, was sentenced for crimes uncovered by the investigation conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller over the last several years.
Manafort was charged with a bevy of crimes related to tax evasion, fraud …
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The White House unveiled its budget for fiscal year 2020 this week and it looks to be the most serious effort made to curtail spending on the nation’s non-defense-related programs to date.
“In the last two years, President Trump …
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