Top Democrats on Sunday said that President Donald Trump's decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime confidant Roger Stone was "an impeachable offense" and an example of "staggering corruption""It’s staggering corruption, but I think it’s important for people also to know that it’s a threat to our national security," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,…
In a statement, Toomey (R-Pa.) noted that the president “clearly has the legal and constitutional authority to grant clemency for federal crimes,” but said commuting Stone’s sentence was a “mistake” due in part to the severity of the charges against him. “While I understand the frustration with the badly flawed Russia-collusion investigation, in my view,…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Roger Stone, calling it “unprecedented, historic corruption.”“An American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” Romney wrote on Twitter.Romney, a leading critic of the president,…
Michigan State officers return as the Tittabawassee River overflows | Donald Trump in a MAGA hat (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/Carlos Osorio) What happened in Michigan this week was no "mistake." Infrastructure was privatized for profit, and it's crumbling Sophia Tesfaye May 23, 2020 10:00AM (UTC) President Trump spent another week feuding with a Democratic governor, this…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…