Author: Stephanie Moffat

Advertisers Flee Hannity’s Show After Conspiracy Story Retraction Another Fox News Host Is Losing Advertisers. After Fox News was forced to retract an instance conspiracy story about slain DNC staffer Seth Rich, Sean Hannity doubled down on the conspiracy. And now at least seven advertisers have pulled their ads from Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. You will remember that it was the advertiser boycott that finally led to Bill O’Reilly’s firing from Fox News after years of sexual harassment accusations. Fox News is already reeling from a recent drop in ratings that has placed them behind MSNBC in viewership...

Maxine Waters Calls For Jeff Sessions To Be Fired Congresswoman Maxine Waters is calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be fired after a report that he failed to disclose his contacts with Russia’s ambassador on a security clearance form. “We can’t go a day w/o learning a new lie re: Trump’s team & Russia. Sessions should be fired. He has no business leading DOJ. Get him out!” Waters wrote on Twitter. We can’t go a day w/o learning a new lie re: Trump’s team & Russia. Sessions should be fired. He has no business leading DOJ. Get him...

Russian Agents Spoke Openly About Influencing Trump Through Advisers According to a bombshell new report by the New York Times, American intelligence officials were able to collect information last summer indicating that senior Russian intelligence agents and political officials were talking openly about how to influence Donald Trump through his advisers. Russian officials spoke about influencing Trump through Paul Manafort who was his campaign manager at the time and Michael Flynn who went on the be named national security adviser. According to the New York Times, some of the Russians boasted about their intimate acquaintance with Flynn, while others...

Jeff Sessions Didn’t Disclose Russian Meetings On Security Clearance Forms Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to disclose on security clearance forms that he met twice last year with Russia’s ambassador, according to a new CNN report. The SF-8 clearance form requires applicants to disclose any contacts with a foreign government or its representatives over the past seven years. According to CNN, “Sessions, who met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at least two times last year, didn’t note those interactions on the form, which requires him to list “any contact” he or his family had with a “foreign government” or...

CBO: Low-Income Elderly Americans Could See Premiums Go Up 800 Percent   The Republican health care bill passed by House Republicans would increase insurance premiums for elderly, low-income Americans by up to 800 percent. The issue was first noted by Vox’s Sarah Kliff on Twitter. CBO estimates that in states requesting AHCA waivers, premiums for low-income elderly enrollees would go up 800 percent. That is not a typo. pic.twitter.com/W7QC4z9UUS — Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) May 24, 2017 The Congressional Budget Office released its updated analysis on the Republican health care bill and found that if signed into law, 23 million...