Politics

Minutes after Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reclaimed the House speaker’s gavel on Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she would be holding an impromptu press briefing, giving reporters approximately five minutes to prepare. The press corps scrambled to fill the room, and about 10 minutes …

On Friday, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York filed a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen. In recommending a “substantial” prison term for the president’s former lawyer-fixer, the SDNY wrote that Trump directed Cohen to make pre-election hush money payments to two women that constitute felony campaign finance violations. …