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Miles Guo, an exiled Chinese billionaire best known for his ties to Steve Bannon, is in a Brooklyn jail awaiting sentencing following his conviction...
Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised almost $250 million, much of it from donors who are seeking—and in many cases have already...
Ed Martin, the acting US attorney in Washington, who has earned some notoriety through attempts to use his office to attack political opponents of the...
Leading Democrats are raising questions about whether insiders profited from the market swing that followed President Donald Trump’s sudden reversal...
Elon Musk is not always wrong. Musk’s prediction back in February that “some of the things that I say will be incorrect” was certainly right, if...
Mike Huckabee prepared for his Senate confirmation hearing to be ambassador to Israel by visiting the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens on...
As massive protests swept through the capitals of Hungary and Serbia in recent days, the embattled and increasingly autocratic leaders of both...
Ed Martin, the acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia, is a former advocate for January 6 attackers who has demoted, fired, or investigated...
On Tuesday, Dan Bongino, the newly named deputy director of the FBI continued to hold forth on his eponymous daily podcast, this time focused on...
Steve Bannon pleaded guilty Tuesday in a New York court to defrauding donors in a border wall scheme. But Bannon, a key Trump ally and former White...
Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to run the FBI, spent his confirmation hearing Thursday attempting to distance himself from his long record of...
The Trump administration has snuffed out a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, handing a victory to the tobacco industry after it waged a massive and at...
When FBI agents investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol searched the Florida property of Jeremy Brown, they found a small arsenal....
President Donald Trump on Monday granted clemency to nearly 1,600 people who joined in the January 6 attack on Congress that he himself caused. Hours...
At her confirmation hearing Wednesday, Pam Bondi probably assured she will become attorney general. She did that, however, by pretending to be an...
Jack Smith‘s final report on Donald’s Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election doesn’t contain much new information, but what timing it has....
Donald Trump during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump has won. He is set to be inaugurated on...
Mother Jones illustration; Department of Defense The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year....
Mother Jones illustration; Getty On a long flight in the mid-aughts, I decided to read The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz. I thought of it like...
Mother Jones illustration; Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/AP; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Late last month, Donald Trump named Karoline Leavitt as his...
Donald Trump gestures after speaking at a November 14, 2024 event at his Mar-a-Lago club. Alex Brandon/AP Donald Trump has gotten away with causing...
Tulsi Gabbard at a Trump campaign rally in Pittsburgh on November 4, 2024. Matt Freed/AP Donald Trump’s appointment announcements are getting...
Donald Trump greets Marco Rubio during a campaign rally in North Carolina on Nov. 4, 2024. Evan Vucci/AP A few weeks ago, Vice President-elect JD...
Susie Wiles with Donald Trump at an election night party on Nov. 6, 2024. Alex BrandonAP Donald Trump announced Thursday that Susie Wiles, who as...
Donald Trump has said he will pardon January 6 attackers and other allies. Andrea Renault/AP More than 1,500 people charged with or convicted of...
Steve Bannon at a news conference hours after his release from prison on Oct. 29. Lev Radin/AP Steve Bannon claims he is setting up a new version...
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, on Saturday. Chris Carlson/AP At a rally Saturday in Gastonia, North Carolina,...
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Michigan on Friday. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Donald Trump is amplifying attacks on the media in the...
Donald Trump and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2019 Mother Jones illustration; Peter Nicholls/AFP/Getty As Donald Trump campaigns to be...
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Steve Bannon emerged Tuesday from four months in federal prison. He was tanned, supposedly “empowered,” and obviously...
Mother Jones illustration; Scott Olson/Getty As Donald Trump campaigns to be a dictator for one day, he’s asking: “Are you better off now than you...
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP Steve Bannon was indicted in 2020 for allegedly helping defraud Donald Trump fans who donated to a...
A crowd that included many armed people attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. A_ In an extraordinary monologue Tuesday at a Univision town hall,...
Mother Jones illustration; Lev Radin/Zuma; J. Scott Applewhite/AP In December 2018, Sam Nunberg met with Steve Bannon at the Loews Regency hotel in...
Donald Trump incites rioters on January 6. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Special Counsel Jack Smith, in a court filing made public on Wednesday, revealed a...
Mother Jones; Matt Rourke/AP; Michele Crowe/CBS/Getty JD Vance did a decent job for the first 94 minutes of Tuesday night’s debate. “Vance’s...
Alex Brandon/AP When Vice President Kamala Harris used Tuesday night’s debate to tout her bipartisan appeal, she emphasized the backing she’d...
On August 1, people who had given money to the Democratic presidential ticket began getting ominous messages suggesting their identities may have...
Dimitri Simes at a news conference near Moscow in 2023. Vadim Savitsky/ZUMA The Justice Department on Thursday charged Dimitri Simes, pro-Russian...
Trump inciting rioters on January 6, 2021. Shawn Thew/Zuma. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment of Donald Trump on Tuesday that...
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty (2); Anthony Behar/Sipa/AP A jury has convicted Guo Wengui—an exiled Chinese billionaire with a...