The majority of Americans – 54% – want the president to be elected by the popular vote, rather than the Electoral College, according to a new INSIDER poll. Just 30% of Americans – and 15% of registered Democrats who intend to vote in the 2020 primary – think the Electoral […]

Rudy Giuliani left open the possibility that aides who worked on President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign could have colluded with Russian operatives, a matter now being investigated by the special counsel Robert Mueller. Giuliani has repeatedly insisted that Trump himself did not collude with the Russians, but said he […]

The 2016 presidential election was one of the most controversial in American history. Even though it’s been almost two years since Election Day 2016, many are still hashing out what happened, and how the final result catapulted President Donald Trump into office. See below for a list of the 13 […]

President Donald Trump’s supporters in the media faced a test Monday when they were forced to respond to the president’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. While some of Trump’s staunchest promoters defended his performance at the press conference, others broke from him. Some hosts acknowledged being […]

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son and chief defender, reportedly doesn’t think he did anything wrong by meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. “Does he regret it because he thinks he did something wrong? No. He regrets it because it ended up causing a situation […]

Russia-linked hackers had access to “alter or delete voter registration data” in a small number of states before the 2016 election, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee. The committee released the unclassified version of its investigation into Russian cyber meddling on US voting systems. Russian hackers scanned voter databases for […]

The Russian lawyer who met with members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in June 2016 has contradicted her earlier denials of being a Russian operative, The New York Times reported. Natalia Veselnitskaya told the Senate Judiciary Committee in November that she worked only as a private lawyer, and she downplayed […]

Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor, said the former FBI Director James Comey “swung” the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favour. Conway’s comment, a reference to Comey’s October 2016 announcement that the FBI had restarted its investigation into Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, contradicts the White House’s long-standing position. Conway […]

The former FBI director James Comey has a book due out next week that details some of the most dramatic moments of his career, including the tumultuous months that preceded his firing under President Donald Trump. In “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” Comey recounts the 2016 US election, […]

Tensions are escalating between the US and Russia. The US imposed another wave of sanctions on dozens of Russian officials, oligarchs, and companies. Those sanctions have roiled Russian markets, and some think things could get a lot worse. It’s been a disastrous week for Russian markets – and things could […]

Hillary Clinton blamed powerful patrons of the GOP for deepening the country’s political divide, but added that she also regrets some of the things she said “in the heat of battle.” During a speech at Rutgers University on Thursday, Clinton argued that Republican politicians are being forced to the far […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment Friday of 13 Russian nationals and three organisations paints a stark picture of Russia’s election interference. The indictment threw a wrench into President Donald Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation is a “hoax” and a “witch hunt” with no justifiable basis. The charges will also […]

Fox News hosts shrugged off a report that President Donald Trump wanted to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the FBI’s Russia investigation. They repeated the president’s assertion that the report, from The New York Times, was fake news. “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning both dismissed a bombshell […]

President Donald Trump boasted of his prowess as a presidential candidate in response to questions about whether he or his campaign colluded with Russians. Trump accused journalists of failing to appreciate his strength as a presidential candidate. His 2016 campaign, the president implied, did not require Russian assistance. President Donald […]

The pro-transparency group WikiLeaks tweeted out, and later deleted, a link to the full text of “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House” on Sunday. Later, WikiLeaks reposted the link. The book has drawn intense criticism from President Donald Trump and his allies in recent days. Trump often praised […]

The White House said newly released FBI records show “extreme bias” against President Donald Trump among leadership at the FBI. A White House spokesman called text messages between former agents and edits to an FBI statement on its probe into Hillary Clinton “deeply troubling” and “eye-opening.” White House deputy press […]

Eight prototypes for the Trump administration’s wall now stand near the US-Mexico border in San Diego, California. They were chosen as finalists from hundreds of submissions from architects, developers, and construction companies this spring. Not all border wall bids were serious, though. Mexican architects from Estudio 3.14, a design firm […]