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FOCUS: Emily Jane Fox | How Ivanka's Lawyer Tried to Influence Cohen's Testimony 

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FOCUS: Jonathan Chait | Mueller's Case for Collusion: A Preview

08 March 19 We Are Honored to Serve You, But It Won't Happen for Free We can't make producing an online news service free. We can be frugal and cost efficient - and we are - but it's going to cost something. At RSN the money comes from you and the influence does too. Help out here. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

08 March 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WHO CAN STEP UP FOR READER SUPPORTED NEWS? Bad News: We are not getting the support we need to run the project this month. Good News: If 1% of our readers donate today - we are over the top today. Can you help with a donation? In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Jonathan Chait | Mueller's Case for Collusion: A Preview  Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine Chait writes: "Media coverage has fixated on the potential that Mueller will produce new revelations of impeachable conduct." READ MORE Chelsea Manning leaves the Albert V. Bryan U.S. District Courthouse on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Alexandria, Virginia. (photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) Chelsea Manning Sent to Jail for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Case Pete Williams and Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News Excerpt: "Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed on Friday after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia looking into the release of documents to WikiLeaks." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Andy Borowitz | Ann Coulter Demands to Deliver State of the Union Address

22 January 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News PLEASE HELP ENSURE THAT RSN WILL BE AROUND - Reader Supported News: For the 99%. Most of us know that the mainstream media, primarily owned by the right, rigidly controls information and the message. It’s become increasingly difficult to get the truth, backed by scientific thinking, logic and common sense. Reader Supported News provides reliable, factual information and informed opinion – and offers a forum to intelligently discuss the major issues that affect our lives. Please help ensure that RSN will be around for a long, long time to do its job for us. Please consistently support RSN to the best of your ability, at whatever level you can afford. / Carol, RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Ann Coulter Demands to Deliver State of the Union Address  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "In blistering remarks aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ann Coulter demanded on Tuesday that she be allowed to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address." READ MORE The U.S. Supreme Court on a snowy day. (photo: Al Drago/Getty) Trump's Transgender Military Service Ban Just Got a Big Win From the Supreme Court German Lopez, Vox Lopez writes: "The Supreme Court on Tuesday took a dramatic step toward reviving President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops." READ MORE Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and personal lawyer to Donald Trump. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty) Trump's Lawyer Accidentally Admitted There Are Tapes of Trump and Cohen Talking Danielle McLean, ThinkProgress McLean writes: "President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani accidentally told a reporter there are 'tapes' that prove the president did not tell Michael Cohen to lie under oath about the Trump Tower deal in Moscow." READ MORE Martin Luther King III. (photo: Getty) MLK's Son Criticizes Pence for Using Father's Memory to Push for Border Wall Erin Durkin, Guardian UK Durkin writes: "At a packed Harlem church this afternoon congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down with the award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates at an event marking Martin Luther King's legacy." READ MORE Border wall. (photo: Getty) Trump Voters Now Blame Him for the Government Shutdown Matt Viser, The Washington Post Viser writes: "Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn't mind sending a message to the establishment - and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president." READ MORE Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, addresses the Woman's March in Manhattan, January 19, 2019. (photo: Ira L. Black/Getty) The Super Rich at Davos Are Scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Proposal to Hike Taxes on the Wealthy Hugh Son and Brian Schwartz, CNBC Excerpt: "The elite financiers attending the World Economic Forum are worried about the 70 percent tax rate on earnings above $10 million proposed by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y." READ MORE Greenland is covered with a vast amount of ice - but for how long? (photo: Michael Medford/National Geographic) Greenland's Ice Is Melting Four Times Faster Than Thought - What It Means Stephen Leahy, National Geographic Leahy writes: "A new study warns that Greenland's ice is melting faster than scientists previously thought. But perhaps the biggest surprise is that most of this ice loss is from the land-fast ice sheet itself, not Greenland's glaciers." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Michael Moore | Trump's Removal Can't Come Soon Enough

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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

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