Larry Nassar's victims reach $138.7 million settlement over botched FBI probe The Justice Department agreed to pay more than $138 million to victims of disgraced sports physician Larry Nassar and apologized for the FBI's failing to act on warnings about the convicted sex abuser ... 04/23/2024 - 9:47 am | View Link
Justice Dept. Reaches $138.7 Million Settlement Over F.B.I.’s Failures in Nassar Case The settlement likely signifies the end of a yearslong effort by U.S. Olympic gymnasts to seek justice for early failures by the F.B.I. to investigate Lawrence G. Nassar, the team’s doctor. 04/23/2024 - 8:42 am | View Link
3 Hot List Hotels That Demand a Stay in 2024 From relaxation to cultural immersion, these three new hotels have won a spot on our most exciting Hot List yet. Presented by Capital One. 04/22/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
9-5: How Nordstrom’s Linda Cui Zhang Masters the Art of Harmonious Clashing The luxury retailer’s associate fashion director plays with texture and proportion to give her ensembles unexpected intrigue. 04/22/2024 - 9:19 am | View Link
Trump hush-money judge gives the green light to questions about Carroll, civil fraud, gag order — but not ‘frivolous’ Clinton lawsuit A federal judge has set a few ground rules around what prosecutors can and cannot ask about former president Donald Trump should he ultimately take the witness stand in his ongoing criminal hush money ... 04/22/2024 - 5:30 am | View Link
Former FBI Director James Comey has a new title: crime novelist Now, what made me chuckle is who was writing this scene - James Comey, former director of the FBI, also former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and now crime novelist. Jim... 04/21/2024 - 11:13 pm | View Website
James Comey | Biography & Facts | Britannica James Comey, U.S. attorney and law enforcement official who served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, when he was fired by President Donald Trump. Comey’s tenure was marked by criticism over his handling of several investigations, and his termination proved highly controversial. 04/21/2024 - 12:04 am | View Website
James Comey James Brien Comey Jr. (/ ˈ k oʊ m i /; born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his termination in May 2017. Comey was a registered Republican for most of his adult life; however, in 2016, he described himself as unaffiliated. 04/20/2024 - 8:22 pm | View Website
Former FBI Director James Comey says the Capitol attack was a ... Former FBI Director James Comey today said the evidence he has seen so far suggests the attack on the Capitol was an organized conspiracy. "There's no doubt there were at least some conspiracy ... 04/20/2024 - 11:39 am | View Website
James Comey On The Capitol Riots, Truth And Trump : NPR James Comey On The Capitol Riots, Truth And Trump The former FBI director is out with a new book assessing the Trump presidency, ex-Attorney General William Barr and the Mueller report. He tells... 04/20/2024 - 3:47 am | View Website
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.