The White House may have violated its own ethics rules with Trump's executive branch hires
President Donald Trump. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Aly Song/File Photos The Trump administration may be entangling itself in another ethical landmine. In this case, the White House could have violated its own ethics rules with at least two hires, a New York Times and ProPublica investigation found. One potential conflict involves Michael Catanzaro, who is the White House's top energy adviser. Until last year, The Times and ProPublica found, Catanzaro was working as a..>> view originalMultistate manhunt underway for suspect in Facebook homicide video
Cleveland police on April 16 said a suspect killed a man and then uploaded a video of the crime to Facebook. (The Washington Post) Local, state and federal law enforcement are frantically searching for a suspect who is accused of shooting and killing a 74-year-old man Sunday in Cleveland and then posting a video of the coldblooded slaying on Facebook. Authorities said Monday that the suspect, identified by police as 37-year-old Steve Stephens, is still at large amid a multistate manhunt. ..>> view originalWhy Gorsuch May Not Be So Genteel on the Bench
And male justices, perhaps not surprisingly, interrupt female justices far more often than the other way around. “Even though female justices speak less often and use fewer words than male justices,” the study found, “they are nonetheless interrupted during oral argument at a significantly higher rate.” Tonja Jacobi, a law professor at Northwestern University who conducted the study with Dylan Schweers, a law student there, said the ideological disparity reflected the balance of power on the co..>> view originalIt's not just the golf: Trump's Mar-a-Lago ethics mess gets worse
All In with Chris Hayes, 4/11/17, 8:43 PM ET Trump's strong opinions on presidential golfing If there’s one thing Trump was adamant about on the campaign trail, it’s how much time a president should spend on the golf course. It seems like only last year that Donald Trump was not only mocking Barack Obama for unwinding too often on golf courses, but also promising voters to be an entirely different kind of president. “I’m going to be working for you,” Trump vowed. “I’m n..>> view originalTrump asks why people are still talking about his taxes a day after protesters asked for his returns
President Trump on April 16 issued two tweets in which he criticized protesters who marched the day before to demand that he release his tax returns. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) President Trump lashed out Sunday at the protesters who took part in marches across the country Saturday to demand that he release his tax returns, declaring on Twitter that “The election is over!” Trump’s comments followed a nationwide Tax March that drew thousands of people in dozens of cities on ..>> view originalA Little American Civil War in Berkeley
In the city where the Free Speech Movement was launched, citizens took to the streets to beat each other as the police mostly watched.The melee that erupted in Berkeley on Saturday in the name of free speech was nothing like the Free Speech movement there a half-century back.Starting around 10 a.m., protesters from both the far right and the far left gathered in a park next to City Hall. For the first few hours they stood on opposite sides of a no-man’s land space that police had set up with ora..>> view originalA complete guide to every reference in Melissa McCarthy's epic Sean Spicer sketch on 'SNL'
VIDEO The latest Sean Spicer parody on “Saturday Night Live” was an epic satire that referenced events from the 2016 campaign all the way back to the Book of Exodus — although it mostly focused on Tuesday’s train wreck of a White House news conference. Anyway, we thought a reference-by-reference guide to the sketch might be handy, so here you go. 0:12 Spicer removes his bunny mask and hurls it off the screen: “Hey, kids. Happy Easter! Get out of here.” True fact: Spicer once dressed up as the ..>> view originalWhite House bounces into spring with 139th annual Easter Egg Roll
First lady Melania Trump is set to host the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, with more than 21,000 adults and children expected on the South Lawn for the festivities.But first, a bit of a scramble.With the White House Easter Egg Roll approaching, and just a skeleton crew in the East Wing staffing roster, volunteers were needed, stat. Answering the all-hands-on-deck call this weekend were more than 400 registered volunteers, many of them locals, according to a staffer familiar with the p..>> view originalJUST IN: NB lanes of Downtown Connector reopen after chemical spill
Barely two weeks after the I-85 fire and bridge collapse, metro Atlanta woke up Monday to another traffic nightmare: a chemical spill on the Downtown Connector that blocked both sides of the interstate for hours. The traffic mess started just before 3 a.m., after a tractor-trailer hauling up to 250 gallons of benzoyl chloride and 50 gallons of diesel fuel overturned in a crash with a SUV. Benzoyl chloride, an industrial chemical used for dyes, can be toxic if inhaled and cause burns to the sk..>> view originalIn Georgia, Jon Ossoff Tries to Vanquish Seventeen Candidates at Once
On Tuesday, the Democrat Jon Ossoff will try to win a special election in a district that’s been Republican for decades.CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY DUSTIN CHAMBERS Two weeks before a special election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District seat, which takes place this Tuesday, the thirty-year-old Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff stood on a busy North Atlanta street corner brandishing a lightsaber. His combatant was a giggling eight-year-old boy who didn’t grasp the broader sabering context: soon..>> view original
Monday, April 17, 2017
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