Politics
Andrew RomanoWisconsin flipped for Trump. Minnesota nearly did. What do their primaries predict for the midterms?
The results of Tuesday’s primaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin were the latest in a series of revealing soundings from the region — tremors on the electoral Richter scale that help delineate the underlying forces shaping American politics.
Dylan StablefordPresidents pay tribute to Aretha Franklin
The current and former presidents are paying tribute to soul legend Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit. She was 76.
Dylan StablefordAs newspapers unite to defend press freedom, Trump accuses them of 'COLLUSION'
President Trump on Thursday accused national newspapers that are participating in a Boston Globe-led editorial campaign protesting his attacks on the press of colluding against him.
- Michael Walsh
Beyond Flint: Newark is sued over lead in drinking water
The City of Newark is accused of failing to acknowledge or remove the alarming level of lead in its drinking water — among the highest recently recorded for a major U.S. water system.
- Dylan Stableford
Brennan fires back at Trump: Claims of 'no collusion' are 'hogwash'
A day after President Trump revoked John Brennan’s security clearance, the New York Times published a blistering op-ed by the former CIA director, who disputes Trump’s assertion that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia.
Yahoo News StaffUnfiltered: ‘We ruin the lives of a******s, psychos, pervs, and trolls’
In Carrie Goldberg’s career as a victims’ rights lawyer, she goes after four different kinds of offenders: “A******s, psychos, pervs and trolls.” An accomplished attorney who has most recently won a $950,000 sexual assault case involving a teen girl in Brooklyn and is currently representing one of the plaintiffs in the Harvey Weinstein case, Goldberg and her firm specialize in sexual assault and sexual privacy violations, including revenge porn, sextortion and other forms of online abuse. Defined as the distribution of sexually explicit images of a person without that person’s consent, revenge porn is a form of abuse that affects approximately 1 in 8 adults — most of them women. Sextortion takes it one step further: “[It’s] when somebody is being blackmailed, and usually their intimate images or videos are used as leverage to get somebody to do more things,” said Goldberg.
- Hunter Walker
Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA director who has criticized the White House
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders began her briefing on Wednesday by reading a statement from President Trump announcing his decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, a prominent critic of the current administration. The statement went on to list other current and former officials whose clearances would be under review.
- Luppe B. Luppen
Can Manafort's team make a killer close?
It has been difficult to discern the defense’s theory of Paul Manafort’s case, but a member of the special counsel’s team has a concise assessment of the defense’s approach, at least when it comes to cross-examination. “We like clarity,” he observed. “They like confusion.”
Yahoo News Photo StaffFormer Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial in Alexandria, Va.
Closing arguments were expected Wednesday in the trial of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman accused of tax evasion and bank fraud.
- David Knowles
Facebook is ‘a surveillance system,’ sci-fi author Cory Doctorow says
The novelist reflects on the way that the social media platform spies on its customers.
- Hunter Walker
Paul Manafort's defense rests without presenting evidence
The trial of President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort is coming to a quieter than expected end.
Jerry AdlerOmarosa tweet raises the question: What is it about Trump and dogs?
Among the enemies, rivals and random targets he has compared to a dog are Mitt Romney (“he choked like a dog”) Ted Cruz (he “lies like a dog”) and conservative writer Brent Bozell (came “begging for money like a dog”).
Dylan StablefordTrump calls Omarosa 'that dog'
President Trump on Tuesday continued to lash out at Omarosa Manigault-Newman over explosive claims in his former “Celebrity Apprentice” co-star turned White House aide makes about him in her new book, “Unhinged.”
- David Knowles
What Trump doesn't understand about NFL player protests
Yahoo Sports columnist Jay Busbee sets the record straight on the president's misstatements about the NFL and its players.
- Luppe B. Luppen
3 missing men at the Manafort trial
The absence of three witnesses offers intriguing hints about potential ongoing investigations and additional prosecutions that could yet take place.
- Michael Walsh
Trump attacks ‘wacky,’ ‘vicious,’ ‘not-smart’ former protégé Omarosa
President Trump said former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman was “vicious,” “not smart” and regularly missed meetings.
- Dylan Stableford
Trump adviser Stephen Miller's uncle: My nephew is 'an immigration hypocrite'
Stephen Miller, the architect of some of Trump’s most controversial anti-immigration policies, has been assailed by critics who are quick to point out that Miller himself is a grandchild of refugees. Now Miller’s own uncle is joining the outcry.
- Hunter Walker
Meager Unite the Right 2 rally exposes limits of white supremacist movement
The Charlottesville anniversary event drew a handful of white supremacists, who were far outnumbered by counterprotesters.
- Dylan Stableford
Parkland students bring the March for Our Lives summer tour to an end in Newtown
The organizers of the Road to Change tour have visited over 50 cities in an effort to register and mobilize voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections — and to build a coalition of youth in communities affected by gun violence.
- Yahoo News Photo Staff
'Unite the Right' marchers a few – anti-fascists a many
White nationalists who marched on Washington and rallied at a park near the White House have left the area in white vans under a police escort. The demonstration led by the principal organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia, Jason Kessler, ended earlier than expected. Thousands of counterdemonstrators showed up to jeer and shout insults at the white nationalists as they made their way through Washington streets.
- Yahoo News Photo Staff
Charlottesville remembers Heather Heyer – Her mom revisits the site of her tragic death 1 year ago
The mother of a woman killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last summer said Sunday there’s much healing to do a year after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, visited the site of the attack on Sunday afternoon. The vigil was one in a series of largely peaceful community events held in Charlottesville over the weekend to mark the one-year anniversary of the rally, one of the largest gatherings of white nationalists and other far-right extremists in a decade.
Yahoo News Photo StaffCharlottesville on high alert on the anniversary of white supremacist violence
A group of anti-fascist activists rallied peacefully in downtown Charlottesville as the city marks the anniversary of last summer's white supremacist violence. Saturday marks a year since white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus with torches, clashing with a group of counterprotesters. The following day, a much larger gathering of white nationalists near a downtown park erupted into violence.
- Hunter Walker
Yankees emerge as key evidence in Paul Manafort trial
A package of baseball season tickets owned by President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was a major topic of discussion on Friday at his trial for charges including money laundering, financial fraud and tax investigation.
Associated PressMichael Brown's mom seeks reinvestigation, City Council seat
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri governor's office said Friday it doesn't have the authority to appoint a special prosecutor reinvestigate the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, despite pressure from Brown's mother to do so.
Associated PressSt. Louis DA victory latest for Black Lives Matter movement
When LaShell Eikerenkoetter cast her vote for Wesley Bell in the St. Louis County Democratic primary on Tuesday, she took the spirit of Michael Brown with her to the ballot box.
