Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire 'private briefings' on ...
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions. Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said. “If he needs private briefing..>> view originalPuerto Rico entirely without power as Hurricane Maria hammers ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria delivered a destructive full-body blow to this U.S. territory on Wednesday, ripping off metal roofs, generating terrifying and potentially lethal flash floods, knocking out 100 percent of the island's electrical grid and decimating some communities. With sustained winds of 155 mph at landfall — a strong Category 4 storm and nearly a Category 5 — Maria was so powerful that it disabled radar, weather stations and cell towers across Puerto Rico, leaving an i..>> view originalSEC reveals it was hacked, information may have been used for ...
Jay Clayton testifies before the Senate Banking Committee during his confirmation hearing March 23 to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Securities and Exchange Commission, the country’s top Wall Street regulator, announced Wednesday that hackers breached its system for storing documents filed by publicly traded companies last year, potentially accessing data that allowed the intruders to make an illegal profit. The agency detected the..>> view originalMueller casts broad net in requesting extensive records from Trump ...
President Trump has weighed in on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election time and time again. Here's a look at how he can limit the probe, and what Congress is trying to do about it. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) The special counsel investigating Russian election meddling has requested extensive records and email correspondence from the White House, covering areas including the president’s private discussions about firing his FBI di..>> view originalJimmy Kimmel doubles down, slams Sen. Bill Cassidy, Trump and ...
Jimmy Kimmel (still from YouTube) “I had an interesting day today,” Jimmy Kimmel said at the top of his late-night show Wednesday, which was quite the understatement. Kimmel saw his monologue about health care go viral after he tore into Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Tuesday night for the “horrible bill” that he proposed with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as the Senate tries to repeal Obamacare. Kimmel took particular issue with Cassidy because the Louisiana senator appeared on his show in May..>> view originalDeath toll in Mexico earthquake rises as citizens frantically look for ...
MEXICO CITY — The day after a vicious earthquake leveled apartment buildings, damaged hospitals and flattened an elementary school, Mexicans mobilized Wednesday for a massive rescue effort, digging in a frantic search for survivors. As the death toll reached 230 people, with 100 in Mexico City and the rest distributed in surrounding states, Mexicans confronted scenes out of parents’ worst nightmares as rescuers pulled children’s bodies from the ruins of the primary school. But across the capit..>> view originalIranian president says 2015 nuclear deal will 'collapse' if Trump ...
NEW YORK — The international nuclear agreement with Iran is a “closed issue” and cannot be extended or changed in any way, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared Wednesday, flatly rejecting President Trump’s criticism that the deal is weak and “an embarrassment.” “This is a building the frame of which, if you take out a single brick, the entire building will collapse,” Rouhani said. “This issue must be understood by the American officials,” he added. “Either the JCPOA will remain as it is i..>> view originalBlack employees of BLT Prime, in Trump International Hotel, allege ...
Dominique Hill, 38, and Irving Smith Jr. 39, of District Heights, said white employees at the BLT Prime restaurant are given preferential treatment. Smith is still a server there. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Dominique Hill and Irving Smith Jr. had good jobs. Last year, Hill worked as a bartender at P.F. Chang’s in Tysons Corner and Smith had recently been promoted to bartender at Wildfire grill, also in Tysons. Each had more than a decade of experience working in restaurants and was..>> view originalThe man whose biblical doomsday claim has some nervously ...
Sept. 23 is 33 days since the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, seen here over Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Some people believe that is significant. (George Frey/Getty Images) David Meade, the self-described “specialist in research and investigations,” has earned a fair amount of publicity online for predicting that catastrophic events would soon befall Earth. Among his claims: On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, a constellation — a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation — would reveal itsel..>> view originalFight over labeling of 'flushable' wipes headed to federal court
A cart catches the “flushable” wipes — the kind used by potty-training toddlers, hospitals, nursing homes and people looking for something advertised as more “thorough” than toilet paper. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) The question of whether flushable wipes — used by potty-training toddlers and people looking beyond traditional toilet paper — are clogging sewer systems will be hashed out in federal court, where a manufacturer has sued the District over a new city law regulating whe..>> view original
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