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Melania Trump’s lawsuit claims that a British tabloid’s article greatly reduced her business opportunities. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times A lawsuit filed by Melania Trump depicts her heightened profile as a “unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to make millions of dollars in business, once again raising questions about the relationship between President Trump’s official role and…
An Iraqi man weeps during his visit to the site of a suicide truck bomb attack in Karada district in central Baghdad on July 6. (Ali Abbas/European Pressphoto Agency) On Monday in Florida — the same state devastated by the Pulse nightclub massacre last year — President Trump told members of the military that the…
The House passed the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 387) yesterday, bringing us one step closer to requiring a warrant before law enforcement can access private communications and documents stored online with companies such as Google, Facebook, and Dropbox. But the fight is just beginning. We’ve long called for pro-privacy reforms to the 1986 Electronic Communications…
Yellow police tape is strung in front of the Inland Regional Center, site of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. in 2015. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) After President Trump made the baffling claim in a speech on Monday that the media was not reporting on terror attacks (“It’s gotten to a point where it’s not…
President Donald Trump (by Ali Shaker/VOA) Donald Trump will not deliver an economic boon for flyover people who want their twentieth-century economy back. His looming trade war will be bad for American business. His wall that Mexico will never, ever pay for will be bad for the national coffers. But lawyers are fittin’ to get…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer asserted at Thursday’s press briefing that Iran had attacked a U.S. naval vessel, as part of his argument defending the administration’s bellicose announcement that Iran is “on notice.” National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday said he was “officially putting Iran on notice” following the country’s ballistic missile test and…
This story has been corrected since it was originally published. Kellanne Conway appears to be dabbling with “alternative facts” again. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that aired on Thursday night, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and now an adviser in his administration, referenced the “Bowling Green massacre” when justifying the president’s controversial executive order…
An army of corporate lawyers has joined the battle against President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, as an effort to advise travellers detained at US airports shifts to legal action that could stretch on for years. Some of the biggest corporate law firms — including Gibson Dunn; Hogan Lovells; Paul…
A bonfire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. The event was canceled out of safety concerns after protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire….
The University of California Berkeley has cancelled a speech by rightwing internet troll Milo Yiannopoulos after thousands of students gathered in protest and a group of black-clad anti-fascist activists shot fireworks at the speech venue. The Martin Luther King Jr student union was heavily fortified behind several layers of police barricades when protesters began gathering…