Year of record

2017

157 verified events recorded in 2017.

157 events From Jan 1, 2017 To Dec 31, 2017 Open in filter view →
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2017-12-31Google Moves $23B to Bermuda Tax Haven in Single Year
Google · Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · Dutch authorities (disclosure) · +1
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2017-12-22Trump Signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Corporate Rate Permanently Slashed from 35% to 21%, Pass-Through Deduction, Estate Tax Exemption Doubled, $1.9 Trillion Added to Deficit
Donald Trump · Paul Ryan · Mitch McConnell · Kevin Brady · +6
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2017-12-21DeVos Replaces Full Debt Relief With Earnings-Based Formula - Corinthian Victims Get Pennies on Dollar
Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education
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2017-12-18Great Northern Paper Bankruptcy Leaves 1,000 Maine Workers with Pennies on Dollar of Promised Pensions
Brookfield Asset Management · Cate Street Capital · Great Northern Paper Company
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2017-12-14FCC Under Ajit Pai Repeals Net Neutrality in 3-2 Party-Line Vote
Ajit Pai · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · Mignon Clyburn · +3
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2017-12-11Betsy DeVos Blocks Debt Relief for 200,000 Defrauded For-Profit College Students Despite Career Staff Recommendations
Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · ITT Technical Institute
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2017-12-04Trump reduces Bears Ears National Monument by 85% to open lands for extraction
Donald Trump · Ryan Zinke · Bureau of Land Management · Navajo Nation · +4
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2017-12-03CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1
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2017-12-01Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI About Russian Contacts
Michael Flynn · Robert Mueller · Sergey Kislyak · Donald Trump · +1
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2017-11-24Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency
Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2017-11-20Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community
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2017-11-20Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition
Nebraska Public Service Commission · TransCanada Corporation · Bold Nebraska · Jane Kleeb · +2
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2017-11-05Paradise Papers Expose Global Elite's Systematic Offshore Financial Manipulation
Appleby · Estera · Queen Elizabeth II · Wilbur Ross · +5
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2017-11-05Paradise Papers Reveal Commerce Secretary Ross Concealed Stake in Russian-Linked Shipping Company
Wilbur Ross · Kirill Shamalov · Gennady Timchenko · Vladimir Putin
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2017-11-01Accenture delivers 58 hires for $297M ICE contract
Accenture Federal Services · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS Office of Inspector General · +1
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2017-11-01Kushner Shares Classified Intel Leading to Saudi Mass Arrests
Jared Kushner · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · Donald Trump · +1
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2017-10-30Mueller Indicts Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on 12 Counts Including Conspiracy Against the United States
Paul Manafort · Rick Gates · Robert Mueller
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2017-10-28First QAnon Post on 4chan's /pol/: Chan Culture's Conspiracy Architecture Produces a Mass Political Movement
Q (anonymous poster)
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2017-10-26Trump Declares Opioid Public Health Emergency Without Requesting Any New Funding
Donald Trump · Eric Hargan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2017-10-05CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling
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2017-10-05George Papadopoulos Becomes First Trump Campaign Official to Plead Guilty in Mueller Probe
George Papadopoulos · Joseph Mifsud · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump
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2017-10-03Whitefish Energy Wins $300M No-Bid Puerto Rico Contract Despite 2 Employees
Whitefish Energy · Ryan Zinke · Puerto Rico · PREPA · +1
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2017-10-01ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Migrant detainees
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2017-10-01Pete Hegseth accused of sexual assault at Republican conference
Pete Hegseth · California Federation of Republican Women
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2017-09-29HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns After $1 Million Private Jet Scandal
Tom Price · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2017-09-26Ramaswamy's Axovant Alzheimer drug fails, stock crashes 75% after pump-and-dump
Vivek Ramaswamy · Axovant Sciences · Roivant Sciences · GlaxoSmithKline
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2017-09-20Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico, Exposing Infrastructure Collapse While McKinsey Continues Advising on Privatization and Austerity
McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority · Naomi Klein
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2017-09-13Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Requested Military Jet for European Honeymoon, Request Denied After Scrutiny
Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton
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2017-09-07Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies
Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2017-09-07Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture
Richard Smith · Equifax · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Mick Mulvaney · +1
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2017-09-01Facebook Admits Russians Bought $100,000 in Ads to Influence 2016 Election
Facebook · Internet Research Agency · US Congress · Russian Government · +1
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2017-08-31Wells Fargo Revises Fake Account Count to 3.5 Million, Up 67%
Wells Fargo · Timothy Sloan
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2017-08-25Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Myanmar Military · Rohingya Muslims · +2
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2017-08-23FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns
Amazon.com Inc. · Jeff Bezos · Whole Foods Market Inc. · Federal Trade Commission · +2
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2017-08-21Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Uses Military Jet for Solar Eclipse Viewing Trip to Kentucky
Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton · Mitch McConnell
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2017-08-15Trump Defends White Nationalists with "Very Fine People On Both Sides" Remarks
Donald Trump · Heather Heyer · James Alex Fields Jr.
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2017-08-12Nick Fuentes Attends Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville
Nick Fuentes
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2017-08-12White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville Ends with Heather Heyer Murdered by Neo-Nazi
James Alex Fields Jr. · Heather Heyer · Donald Trump
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2017-08-01Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent
North Carolina General Assembly · David Lewis · Robert Rucho · Republican Party
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2017-08-01Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach
John Gamble · Joseph Loughran · Rodolfo Ploder · Equifax · +2
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2017-08-01Flock Safety Founded to Deploy Automated License Plate Surveillance in Neighborhoods
Garrett Langley · Flock Safety · Y Combinator
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2017-08-01Former DNI James Clapper Joins CNN as National Security Analyst, Extending Intelligence-Media Revolving Door
James Clapper · CNN · Center for a New American Security · Harvard Kennedy School
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2017-08-01Intelligence-Media Pipeline Matures: Six Former Intelligence Directors Simultaneously Hold Cable News Analyst Positions
James Clapper · John Brennan · Michael Hayden · Michael Morell · +2
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2017-07-31V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors
SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3
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2017-07-28Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations
Donald Trump · MS-13
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2017-07-21Mark Esper, Former Raytheon Weapons Lobbyist, Becomes Army Secretary in Revolving Door Appointment
Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren
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2017-07-19Netanyahu Meets Visegrad Leaders in Budapest Before Hungary and Poland Purchase Pegasus
Benjamin Netanyahu · Viktor Orban · Beata Szydło · Mateusz Morawiecki · +3
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2017-07-01Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Purges 560,000 Voters in Single Day Using "Exact Match" System
Brian Kemp · Brad Raffensperger
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2017-06-27EU Fines Google Record €2.42B for Search Manipulation Favoring Google Shopping
Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +1
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2017-06-19Citizen Lab Exposes Mexican Government Targeting of Journalists and Activists with Pegasus
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Mexican Government · Carmen Aristegui · +2
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2017-06-17Trump Orders McGahn to Fire Mueller, Triggering Potential "Saturday Night Massacre"
Donald Trump · Don McGahn · Rod Rosenstein · Rob Porter
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2017-06-16Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives
Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2
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2017-06-15Kansas City Fed Denies Reserve Trust Master Account Amid Potential Regulatory Capture
Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2
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2017-06-14DeVos Freezes Borrower Defense Rule Protecting Defrauded Students - States Sue for Unlawful Delay
Betsy DeVos · Maura Healey
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2017-06-09Office of Special Counsel Finds White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino Violated Hatch Act with Political Tweet Attacking Congressman
Dan Scavino · Donald Trump · Justin Amash · Office of Special Counsel
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2017-06-06Eric Trump Foundation Funneled Cancer Charity Donations to Trump Organization Businesses
Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump Foundation
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2017-06-06Kansas Legislature Overrides Brownback Veto to Repeal Failed Tax Cuts - Republican-Controlled Legislature Rejects Supply-Side Economics After Devastating 5-Year Experiment
Sam Brownback · Kansas Legislature · Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · +2
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2017-06-03Reality Winner Arrested for Leaking Russian Election Interference Report
Reality Winner · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1
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2017-06-01Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer
Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4
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2017-06-01Project Blitz Launches Christian Nationalist Legislative Playbook: Model Bills for All 50 States
Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation · David Barton · WallBuilders · Lea Carawan
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2017-06-01Trump Withdraws from Paris Climate Agreement Isolating America
Donald Trump · Paris Agreement · Fossil Fuel Industry · United States · +1
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2017-06-01WestExec Advisors Founded by Blinken and Flournoy: The Revolving Door Becomes a Business Model
Antony Blinken · Michèle Flournoy · Avril Haines · WestExec Advisors
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2017-05-22TC Heartland v. Kraft: Supreme Court Limits Patent Forum Shopping, Curbing Eastern District of Texas Troll Haven
U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · TC Heartland · Kraft Foods · +2
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2017-05-17Rosenstein Appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel for Russia Investigation - Direct Response to Trump's Obstruction
Robert Mueller · Rod Rosenstein · Donald Trump · James Comey · +1
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2017-05-16Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX Despite Internal Safety Concerns About MCAS
Boeing · Malindo Air · Southwest Airlines · Federal Aviation Administration · +2
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2017-05-15FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal
Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission · New York Attorney General's Office
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2017-05-13Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability
Equifax · Richard Smith · Apache Software Foundation · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2017-05-11Trump Admits to Lester Holt He Fired Comey Because of This Russia Thing - Obstruction Confession on National TV
Donald Trump · Lester Holt · James Comey · Rod Rosenstein
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2017-05-11Trump Creates Presidential Commission on Election Integrity to Investigate Nonexistent Fraud
Donald Trump · Kris Kobach · Mike Pence · Matthew Dunlap
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2017-05-10Trump Reveals Israeli Classified Intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Oval Office - Day After Comey Firing
Donald Trump · Sergei Lavrov · Sergey Kislyak · H.R. McMaster · +1
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2017-05-09Trump Fires FBI Director Comey to Stop Russia Investigation, Tells Russians "Pressure Taken Off"
Donald Trump · James Comey · Sergey Lavrov · Sergey Kislyak · +1
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2017-05-02Ed Feulner Returns as Heritage Foundation Interim President After DeMint Ousted for Management Failures
Edwin Feulner · Jim DeMint · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees · +2
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2017-05-01Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair
Jeffrey Epstein · Bill Gates · Mila Antonova · Anna Chapman
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2017-05-01McKinsey Ghostwrites Its Own $2.2 Million ICE Contract Extension: Consulting Firm Defines Its Own Scope of Work
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · ICE contracting officers
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2017-04-28Kentucky Invests $15 Million in Braidy Industries on Final Day of Legislative Session Without Disclosure
Matt Bevin · Craig Bouchard · Braidy Industries · Kentucky Legislature · +2
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2017-04-25DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network
DarkMatter · Huawei · Erik Prince · Pegasus · +1
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2017-04-19Fox News Fires Bill O'Reilly After $13 Million Sexual Harassment Settlements - Trump Had Defended Him
Bill O'Reilly · Donald Trump · Rupert Murdoch · James Murdoch · +2
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2017-04-17Boris Epshteyn Leaves Trump White House, Immediately Joins Sinclair Broadcasting as Chief Political Analyst - Direct Trump Propaganda Pipeline
Boris Epshteyn · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Donald Trump · White House Office of Communications · +1
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2017-04-16Neil Gorsuch Sells Property to Law Firm CEO Days After Supreme Court Confirmation
Neil Gorsuch · Brian Duffy · Greenberg Traurig
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2017-04-15DOJ Begins Surveillance of Washington Post Journalists Reporting on Russia Investigation
U.S. Department of Justice · Ellen Nakashima · Greg Miller · Adam Entous · +2
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2017-04-11Federal Court Rules Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminatory Against Minorities
Texas Legislature · Federal Courts
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2017-04-08Trump Model Management Shuts Down Amid Federal Investigations
Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Alexia Palmer
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2017-04-07McConnell Invokes Nuclear Option, Eliminates Filibuster for Supreme Court Nominees, Gorsuch Confirmed 54-45
Mitch McConnell · Neil Gorsuch · Chuck Schumer · Harry Reid · +1
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2017-04-07Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion
Axon · Rick Smith · Law Enforcement
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2017-04-06Ivanka Trump Receives Chinese Trademarks During Xi Jinping Dinner
Ivanka Trump · China · Xi Jinping · Donald Trump · +1
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2017-04-06Trump Orders Syria Missile Strike from Mar-a-Lago During State Dinner with Xi Jinping - Military Action as Mar-a-Lago Spectacle
Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Bashar al-Assad · Rex Tillerson · +1
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2017-04-05Steve Bannon Removed from National Security Council After Unprecedented Political Appointment Sparked Bipartisan Outrage
Steve Bannon · Donald Trump · H.R. McMaster · Michael Flynn · +2
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2017-04-01McKinsey Delivers Final Rikers Report After Violence Soars Nearly 50% During Contract Period
McKinsey & Company · New York City Department of Correction · Bill de Blasio
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2017-03-31Judge Curiel Approves $25 Million Trump University Settlement, Victims to Receive 90% Refunds
Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump
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2017-03-30McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · ICE career staff · Migrant detainees
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2017-03-30Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy
Palmer Luckey · Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump
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2017-03-28Trump Signs Executive Order Dismantling Obama-Era Climate Regulations
Donald Trump · Scott Pruitt · Lee Zeldin · Murray Energy Corporation
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2017-03-23GSA deemed Trump Old Post Office lease 'compliant'; agency watchdog later faulted failure to consider Emoluments Clause
General Services Administration · Trump Old Post Office LLC · Emily Murphy · GSA Office of Inspector General
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2017-03-22Devin Nunes Makes Secret Midnight White House Visit to View Intel, Then Briefs Trump Before Committee - Obstruction of Investigation
Devin Nunes · Donald Trump · Ezra Cohen-Watnick · Michael Ellis · +1
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2017-03-22Trump Asks Intelligence Chiefs Coats and Rogers to Publicly Deny Russia Collusion Evidence - Obstruction of Investigation
Donald Trump · Dan Coats · Mike Rogers · James Comey · +1
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2017-03-20FBI Director Comey Publicly Confirms Russia Investigation into Trump Campaign in Historic House Testimony
James Comey · Donald Trump · Mike Rogers · Devin Nunes · +1
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2017-03-20YouTube Serves Ads on Terror, Hate, Child Exploitation Content; Massive Boycott
YouTube · Google · Times of London · Major advertisers · +2
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2017-03-17Reuters finds Russians paid $98.4 million for Trump-branded Florida condos
Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Russian buyers · Reuters
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2017-03-13McKinsey-Designed Fiscal Plan Mandates Devastating Austerity: Pension Cuts, School Closures, Healthcare Privatization, Furloughs
McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government · Rafael Torregrosa
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2017-03-11Trump Fires Preet Bharara After Broken Promise to Keep Him - Obstruction Amid Trump-Related Investigations
Donald Trump · Preet Bharara · Marc Kasowitz · Jeff Sessions · +2
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