U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer says he paid $130,000 of his own money to a pornographic actress who once claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Trump about 12 years ago. Attorney Michael Cohen said he paid adult film star Stephanie Clifford, who performs under the name ‘Stormy Daniels’, before the 2016 presidential […]
Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, during testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, contradicted the White House account that the reason that the security clearance issue concerning former White House Secretary Rob Porter, wasn’t completed by the White House, was delayed because of the FBI not completing an investigation into Porter’s background. Wray stated […]
Even as the Trump administration is working to open more and more federal lands up for oil and natural gas exploration, the Interior Department is aiming at rolling back Obama administration rules restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas exploration on those lands. The rollback to the rules is being published in the Federal […]
Back in September I wrote about our “ethically challenged” democratic system. I said, “We are caught in a downward, self-destructive [debt] spiral.” If you doubted me then, those doubts should have been exploded last week. Congressional leaders agreed to increase federal spending by nearly $300 billion above the already-rising limits stipulated by the Budget Control Act of […]