President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress About the Moscow Tower Project

18 January 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE DO NOT NEED A WINDFALL, WE NEED A BUDGET - RSN runs on a fraction of what it takes to run the major corporate newsrooms. We do on a shoe string what majors require hundreds of millions to achieve. We can do great things with a modest budget. But without it we cannot function. Need some assistance, ASAP. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress About the Moscow Tower Project  Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, BuzzFeed Excerpt: "President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter." READ MORE Migrant families are processed at the Central Bus Station before being taken to Catholic Charities in McAllen, Texas. (photo: Larry W Smith/Shutterstock) Trump's Family Separation Policy Was Exponentially Worse Than Previously Known Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone Stuart writes: "The Department of Homeland Security may have separated 'thousands' more children from their families than previously reported, according to a new report conducted by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services." READ MORE Chicago Police officer Thomas Gaffney, ex-officer Joseph Walsh and former detective David March, were accused of conspiring to cover up the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald. (photo: Zbigniew Bzdak/Getty) Chicago Police Officers Found Not Guilty of Covering Up the Laquan McDonald Shooting P.R. Lockhart, Vox Lockhart writes: "In a case that's attracted national attention, three Chicago police officers have been found not guilty of covering up the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old, and conspiring to protect the officer who killed him." READ MORE Mitch McConnell. (photo: Greg Nash) McConnell Blocks Bill to Reopen Most of Government Jordain Carney, MSN Carney writes: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked legislation on Thursday that would have reopened most of the federal government impacted by the partial shutdown." READ MORE A mother and her two children walk across the Suchiate River bridge as Central American migrants cross the border between Guatemala and Mexico, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas State, Mexico, January 17, 2019. (photo: Marco Ugarte/AP) Trump Admin Wanted to Specifically Target Parents in Migrant Families for Increased Prosecutions Julia Ainsley, NBC News Ainsley writes: "Trump administration officials weighed speeding up the deportation of migrant children by denying them their legal right to asylum hearings after separating them from their parents, according to comments on a late 2017 draft of what became the administration's family separation policy obtained by NBC News." READ MORE Hashemi had traveled to the U.S. to visit her terminally ill brother, Press TV said. (photo: Press TV) FBI Arrests American-Born Journalist Working for Iran's Press TV Middle East Eye Excerpt: "A US journalist working for Iran's state television channel Press TV who Iran says was detained in Washington will appear in a US court on Friday, the channel reported on Friday." READ MORE Smokestack. (photo: Shutterstock) 250,000 Deaths a Year From Climate Change Is a 'Conservative Estimate,' Research Says Jen Christensen, CNN Christensen writes: "The grim analysis comes from one of the authors of a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine that suggests rising global temperatures could lead to many more deaths than the 250,000 a year the World Health Organization predicted just five years ago." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation