Susie Madrak is a journalist at Crooks and Liars. With over 20 years of experience, she covers a diverse range of topics including government and politics, law and legal affairs, climate change, and cultural issues, often focusing on elections and public policy. Susie has been featured in CROOKS, DOUG B, and Crooks and Liars.
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— June 16, 2026 Media giant Fox Corp. on Monday announced a deal to buy streaming and smart-TV company Roku for $22 billion in a cash-and-stock transaction.
By: Susie Madrak
“He told us most of what we would knew would happen, including that he would go after his political enemies using the Department of Justice,” Harris, a fellow Californian and potential 2028 presidential contender, said during a summit in Austria. “I am not surprised that he may be using the Department of Justice to go after a political enemy in the current governor of California.”
"He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country," she said.
— June 17, 2026 Via Rolling Stone , J.D. Vance is watching his future political prospects dim as he continues to stand by The Trump.
But hurt his lil' fee-fees, and he's a genius at figuring out ways to get back at people. The American people, too.
— June 18, 2026 This one really irked me, because the idiotic MAGA types with mansions along the Jersey shore organized to protect offshore wind as an "ecological disaster."
Restoring enough physical supply to the market to keep prices at a stable sub-$80 level could take weeks, and in some cases months, market watchers have told CNBC.
The ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation called the arch President Trump's “newest vanity project” in her letter to the federal agency and expressed concerns that it could pose a risk to commercial flights. “President Trump choosing to force the FAA to invest limited staff and resources into a distracting review of his gaudy and disgraceful arch is merely the latest example of Trump putting his pet projects first, while neglecting America's needs,” the senator wrote.
Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, an order freeing enslaved people in seceded Confederate states.
By: Susie Madrak
The death of Kohen Wiley is the latest in a series of troubling encounters with police that have outraged community members in recent years. It has led to protests and calls for greater police accountability in the town of 8,000, with some civil rights activists pointing to Kohen's death as another example of a Black life lost over something of nominal value — in this case, allegedly stolen diapers.
