The Obama Justice Department and the FBI twice debated whether to give the Trump campaign a “defensive briefing” on Russia but decided not to, according to the department’s inspector general report. Trump supporters say that such a heads-up could have changed history and short-circuited an investigation, given that no Trump loyalists were found to have…
President Trump’s campaign lit into tech giants on Thursday for “voter suppression” and policies that cut them off from hardcore supporters. Campaign manager Brad Parscale told reporters in Virginia that he knew immediately after the 2016 election that changes would be made to prevent a repeat in 2020. Mr. Parscale said he told senior Trump…
Marijuana regulators in Massachusetts on Thursday rolled back a ban on vaping products sparked by a recent spate of severe lung injuries reported across the country. The commonwealth’s Cannabis Control Commission announced it issued an amended quarantine effectively reinstating legal sales of “regulated vaporizer products” containing marijuana. Massachusetts had banned the sale of vape products…
Celebrity fitness coach Jillian Michaels slammed political correctness in a new interview, arguing that the body positivity movement could hurt people by glorifying obesity. “I think we’re politically correct to the point of endangering people,” Ms. Michaels told Women’s Health U.K. for its January/February issue. “Yes, we want to be inclusive of everyone [and respect…
Impeachment is backfiring on Democrats by motivating more voters and donors to support President Trump as his campaign operation expands into 17 battleground states, campaign officials said Thursday. “They have ignited a flame underneath that, with 300-some days to go, actually makes our job easier in some ways,” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told reporters.…
A holiday tradition an Oklahoma public school won’t be happening this year in response to legal threats by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Chisholm Elementary blinked in a showdown with the Wisconsin-based nonprofit group, which claimed in October that nativity portions of its play are “illegal.” The nativity scenes have been pulled for the kids’…
Former Washington Redskins Pro Bowl running back Clinton Portis is among 10 ex-NFL players accused Thursday of submitting false medical claims to the league’s health care program for retired players. Federal prosecutors say the scheme involved submitting fraudulent invoices to the NFL Player Reimbursement Account for expensive medical equipment they never purchased. In addition to…
Republicans will not have a minority hearing day on impeachment, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold L. Nadler ruled on Thursday. As lawmakers started up the second day of debate on articles of impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee, Republicans on the panel launched a procedural fight and accused the Democrats of violating their own rules. Rep.…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Live by the identity-politics sword, die by the identity-politics sword. The Democrats are learning that the hard way. With Sen. Kamala Harris of California having pulled out of the party’s 2020 presidential field last week, Democrats are wringing their hands and agonizing at the very real prospect that all of the participants in their…
The FBI’s four wiretap affidavits to a federal judge in 2016-17 deliberately hid a part of Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page’s professional life that would have revealed his patriotic role as a CIA informant instead of the bureau’s nefarious depiction, the Justice Department inspector general’s report shows. The 476-page history of how the FBI targeted…
