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'No Question' Trump and Daughter Ivanka Could Face Jail Time for Tax Fraud After Leaving White House, Says Legal Expert
Both President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka are liable to face jail time due to tax fraud should the president lose his reelection bid in November, a former Watergate prosecutor told CNN on Tuesday.
RELEASE : Philadelphia Housing Action claims victory after 6 month direct action campaign forces City to relinquish 50 vacant homes to community land trust. – Philadelphia Housing Action
Philadelphia Housing Action claims victory after 6 month direct action campaign forces City to relinquish 50 vacant homes to community land trust.
Trump’s Grotesque Violation of the First Amendment
The contrast is striking: On May 28, Donald Trump demanded the First Amendment right of free speech for himself on privately owned social media, and then, four days later, declared war on the people, gathered on public property, as they sought, in the words of the amendment itself, “to assemble, a
Non-Partisan Watchdog Accuses Trump Campaign Of ‘Laundering’ $170 Million
The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of “laundering” $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Trump’s Tax Evasion Is an Indictment of American Plutocracy
In 2016, while running for president, Donald Trump paid Stephanie Clifford, the actor who stars in adult films under the name Stormy Daniels, $130,000 to keep quiet about a sexual encounter; for that entire year, Trump paid a total of $750 in federal income tax.
For Some Trump Apologists, the Cognitive Dissonance Is Just Too Much
The need to defy reality on the president’s behalf is pushing his appointees beyond the point of reason. I glanced at the story, read it, and then moved on to something else. But the story of William B. Crews kept bothering me, because it might be a harbinger of things to come.
Trump Dismisses 'New York Times' Report That He Paid Little In Federal Income Taxes
Updated at 8:40 p.m. ET The Times cites Trump's long-sought-after tax returns, further reporting that he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years as Trump reported massive losses to his businesses.
Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency.
Democrats Need to Wake Up: The Trump Movement Is Shot Through With Fascism
Allegations of involuntary hysterectomies conducted on people in a migrant detention center? Record numbers of children going to bed hungry? The revelation that President Donald Trump sat on his hands upon learning that Russia paid bounties to kill American soldiers? It’s futile to pinpoint when
America is the Holy Roman Empire of the 21st century
Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current territory was a shambolic mess — part of the Holy Roman Empire, which even at the time was recognized as an anachronistic political fossil.
When God’s A Cop, Every Cop Is God
Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, sent out a mass email to his colleagues on Tuesday in which he wrote, “It’s sad how the good guys are demonized, and criminals are canonized.
Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds
Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will cause sea level rises of about two and a half metres around the world, even if the goals of the Paris agreement are met, research has shown.
Fox News commentators want Mike Bloomberg prosecuted for helping Floridians regain voting rights
Fox News commentators want Mike Bloomberg prosecuted for helping Floridians regain voting rights Fox News again calls for prosecuting a Trump political opponent — and it appears Florida's attorney general may be listening Written by Research contributions from Jane Lee Published 09/23/20 4:50 PM
How the oil industry made us doubt climate change
As climate change becomes a focus of the US election, energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.
Trump, Barr, and Fox News are working in concert to undermine confidence in the election
Fox News lawyers succeeded on Thursday in getting a federal court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against star host Tucker Carlson by arguing, in part, that Carlson is not a credible source for information. “Fox persuasively argues,” U.S.
Trump's campaign blew almost $1 billion, and now it's in deep trouble
In the corner office of a nondescript office building in northern Virginia, President Donald Trump's new campaign manager, Bill Stepien, stares at a spreadsheet. What it tells him, in its "Matrix"-like way, is that he is presiding over the worst campaign-finance fiasco in American political history.
Fox News won a court case by 'persuasively' arguing that no 'reasonable viewer' takes Tucker Carlson seriously
The case was brought by the former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said Carlson defamed her on his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," by saying she extorted President Donald Trump "out of approximately $150,000 in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair," the filing said.
8 Texas cities were alerted to a brain-eating amoeba found in water supply
Residents of eight cities have been alerted that a brain-eating amoeba was found in a southeast Texas water supply, leading one of the towns to issue a disaster declaration.
Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say
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Historians and election experts warn Trump is behaving like Mussolini and despots that the US usually condemns
President Donald Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, threatening to shatter a tradition that lies at the heart of the democratic process in the US. There are serious concerns among scholars that Trump is putting America's democracy in mortal danger.
Republican Senator Proposes Bill That Would Make It Illegal to Count Votes
Last week, President Donald Trump said he was “counting on the federal court system to make it so” that whatever preliminary tally is complete on Election Day will be validated as the final vote count, meaning states would not have the opportunity to count the anticipated record-high numbers of
When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic
Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread.
Toledo City Council to consider new lead ordinance
Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz’s office submitted to Toledo City Council a proposal for a new lead-safety ordinance, with new requirements and new deadlines, to ...
Watchdog Report Cites 3,400 Conflicts Of Interest During Trump Presidency
Trump has long drawn scrutiny for frequent visits to his private properties and resorts during his presidency, with Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold estimating the Secret Service has paid as much as $1.1 million to the Trump Organization.
The men behind QAnon
For nearly three years, QAnon followers have been feverishly deciphering thousands of cryptic clues and predictions posted online by the shadowy persona of "Q" at the center of a metastasizing movement that experts say is the first far-right extremist conspiracy theory in the modern era to penetrate
Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court?
President Donald Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom he previously appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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'One of The Low Points in American History': Dan Rather Goes Long on Our Defining Moment
Standing amid the wreckage of late 2020, it’s funny, and a little sad, to look back at the moment when Dan Rather took the piss out of Richard Nixon on national television.
Trump said Jews are 'only in it for themselves' and 'stick together,' according to a new report
President Donald Trump reportedly suggested that Jews have a loyalty to their religion above other interests, repeating an accusation that has long been used to stoke anti-Semitism.
'Foreseeable Train Wreck': Warnings That Ballot Technicality Could Toss Out 100,000 Pennsylvania Votes—and Throw Election to Trump
On the same day the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week issued a pair of decisions that were applauded as key victories for voting rights, the panel also sided with President Donald Trump's reelection campaign in a separate ruling that could result in 100,000 ballots being tossed out on a legal tec
Joining Trump to Undermine Election Results, GOP Senator Proposes Nullifying All Mail-In Ballots Not Counted Within 48-Hour Window
A new bill proposed by Republican Sen. Rick Scott is "entirely unworkable," Slate reported Thursday evening, but demonstrates the GOP's intense desire to make sure millions of votes aren't counted in the general election by severely restricting the time frame during which they can be tallied.
Judge Rules Tucker Carlson Is Not a Credible Source of News
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation case against self-styled Fox News instigator Tucker Carlson.
Kyle Rittenhouse's Mother Receives Standing Ovation at Wisconsin GOP Event
The mother of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, received a standing ovation on Thursday while attending a Wisconsin GOP event.
The typical full-time salary in America would be $102,000 if wages had kept up with growth — but the economy has failed 90% of workers
But the country's income inequality problem was one 45 years in the making. A new report from the nonprofit think tank Rand finds that wages for all Americans increased at around the same pace as the the economy from 1947 to 1974.
Sir Maejor becomes face of Black Lives Matter despite opposition
As visible as Sir Maejor is — on the streets and on television — his back story is murky, by design. He acknowledges that he is the adopted nephew of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and former NFL great Alan Page, who is from Canton, Ohio.
Say it plainly: The president is a psychopath
“Get rid of the ballots” and “there won’t be a transfer,” said Donald Trump on Wednesday. This comment is a direct and dangerous expression of his anti-democratic intention. If unstopped, Trump may well destroy our 244-year-old democracy. It is time to stop pulling punches.
Trump Praises “Good Genes” of White Audience, Cites Eugenics Theory
In these times of elections, climate chaos and COVID-19, independent news is more important than ever.
'The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell': Protests Erupt Nationwide After No Officers Charged for Killing Breonna Taylor
Massive protests broke out across the United States late Wednesday following a grand jury's decision not to charge Louisville police officers for the March killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a verdict that Taylor's family and civil rights organizations decried as "outrageous" and "anything but j
Before Limiting Ballot Drop Boxes to One Per County, Top Ohio Election Officials Secretly Consulted Promoter of Debunked Voting Fraud Fears
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Climate change denialist given top role at major U.S. science agency
A controversial researcher who rejects climate science was hired by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a senior position, in a move suggesting the Trump administration is asserting growing influence over the study of rising temperatures.
Trump Refuses to Commit to Peaceful Transition of Power, Saying He Will 'Have to See What Happens'
President Donald Trump fueled fresh fears about the general election on Wednesday night when he refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the November 3 contest.
We Live in a Potemkin Autocracy Now
The White House memo declaring New York City, Portland, and Seattle “anarchist jurisdictions” isn’t federalism; it’s half-baked feudalism.
GOP Senator introduces bill that could require genital exams for girls competing in school sports
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) introduced a bill that would ban transgender girls from competing in school sports with their gender, threatening federal funding to schools that support transgender students.
Trump on peaceful transition if he loses: 'Get rid of the ballots' and 'there won't be a transfer'
President Donald Trump was asked Wednesday whether he will commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose this fall to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The president declined to do so.
Revealed: pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland rallies
Leaked chat logs show Portland-area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition and even suggesting political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city, including one scheduled for this weekend.
The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
Report: Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results
Following the casting of ballots and counting individual votes in a presidential election, the United States Constitution prescribes that the 538 electors who constitute the Electoral College cast their electoral votes, determining the winner.
Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has “Skyrocketed” During Covid-19, Data Shows
The level of hunger in U.S. households almost tripled between 2019 and August of this year, according to an analysis of new data from the Census Bureau and the Department of Agriculture.
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