The Trump administration sold $178 million in Gulf of Mexico oil drilling leases Wednesday, but just like another lease auction in March the response was underwhelming, with companies bidding on a sliver of the record amount of acreage up for grabs.
Read moreKeep your friends close and your enemies closer. And, perhaps, your potential leakers closer yet. President Donald Trump’s political operation has made a regular practice of providing soft landing-pads for discarded staffers, offering nebulous jobs at big salaries to aides who have been pushed out of his West Wing.
Read moreChina says it is challenging a U.S. tariff hike on solar panels before the World Trade Organization, adding to its sprawling conflicts with President Donald Trump over trade and technology.
Read moreAs the bank and tax-fraud trial of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort heads to closing arguments Wednesday, prosecutors and the defense will each have roughly two hours to sum up their cases.
Read moreAttorneys pushed a federal judge Tuesday to order relief for six foreign-born children who say their parents are being coerced by the government into waiving their asylum claims.
Read moreTurkey’s president appeared to escalate a dispute with the United States that has helped foment a Turkish currency crisis, claiming Tuesday that his country will boycott U.S.-made electronic goods. Behind the scenes, however, diplomats resumed contact to ease tensions.
Read moreA federal judge rejected former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s motion for acquittal of bank and tax fraud charges moments before his defense team rested without calling any witnesses, setting the stage for closing arguments Tuesday afternoon.
Read moreProsecutors wrapped up their case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday afternoon, as the judge told jurors they cannot find Manafort guilty for omissions made by his company because the indictment only names him individually.
Read moreA federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump on Monday denied a Russian company’s motion to dismiss criminal charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, rejecting claims about the legitimacy of the investigation into interference in the 2016 election.
Read moreThe first federal trial of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort heads into Day 10 of witness testimony on Monday. Though originally expected to last three weeks, closing arguments are said to be imminent.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday appeared stunned by the Trump administration’s position that courts lack power to review any census question, including a citizenship query that opponents say will weaken the political power of areas with high immigrant populations.
Read moreA federal judge found an aide to longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in contempt Friday for refusing to comply with a subpoena demanding his testimony in the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Read moreOn track to rest its case Friday against Manafort, the government has three witnesses left to call. Testimony from one employee of the New York Yankees could return the spotlight to Manafort’s spending habits.
Read moreWith just four witnesses left to take the stand, prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller said Thursday they expect to rest their fraud case against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort this week.
Read moreIn the same month that Paul Manafort was seeking a mortgage on his Manhattan apartment, the condominium’s Airbnb rental listing was deactivated, a witness from the travel website confirmed Thursday on the witness stand.
Read moreThe Trump administration took the first step Wednesday to open more than a million acres of public land in central California to oil drilling and fracking, raising concern among conservationists seeking to protect water sources.
Read moreDespite repeated assurances California has enough water to fight the currently 18 major fires raging throughout the state, the Trump administration said Wednesday it will tell its agencies to suspend environmental rules to provide firefighters with water.
Read moreIn a bid to unravel hours of elaborate testimony about Paul Manafort’s financial records Wednesday afternoon, defense attorneys zeroed in on one detail they painted as particularly curious – the former Trump campaign chair’s signature on various tax and loan forms.
Read moreHours away from the midnight deadline it faces to walk away from the proposed $3.9 billion deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group, experts call it possible Wednesday for Tribune Media to seek another buyer.
Read moreRecalling his chat with Paul Manafort after they both were called in by the FBI, Rick Gates testified Wednesday that the former Trump campaign chair claimed to have told the investigator the truth.
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