The Trump White House’s threats toward North Korea are being backed up by serious study as the administration is researching the consequences of a new land war on the Korean Peninsula.
Congress just sent President Trump a resolution forcing him to condemn and use all available resources to address white nationalists, neo Nazis, KKK, and other Charlottsville type hate groups.
A new poll provides proof that Trump is destroying the Republican Party as 69% Trump voted sided with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on the debt ceiling deal.
“I had the privilege to speak with Edie a few days ago, and to tell her one more time what a difference she made to this country we love,” former President Barack Obama wrote in a statement sent to PoliticusUSA.
Edith Windsor, the New York woman whose successful challenge to a federal law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman helped pave the way for gay marriage nationwide, died on Tuesday at age 88.
The city of Chicago asked a federal judge on Monday to bar President Donald Trump’s Justice Department from denying public-safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with a federal immigration crackdown.
Sen. John McCain told reporters that his committee is working on accepting a bipartisan amendment that would prevent Trump from banning transgender persons from the military.
U.S. President Donald Trump will not necessarily insist that funding for a border wall with Mexico be included in legislation to address protections for children brought to the United States illegally, a senior aide said on Tuesday.
Republicans are already launching attacks on the Democratic Senators who are supporting Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All bill.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is promising to investigate who like a porn tweet on his Twitter when it is being speculated that it was Sen. Cruz himself.
A Democratic member of President Donald Trump’s bipartisan commission to investigate possible voter fraud after the 2016 U.S. presidential election said on Tuesday its mission is being threatened by “extreme partisanship.”
According to Trump, the only books and articles about him that are real are written by people that he knows.
New census data from Obama’s final year in office showed that the former president raised median household incomes, lowered poverty and decreased the number of Americans without health insurance.
Lawyers representing White House aides are trying to break the cult like demand for loyalty that Trump places about the truth by warning them that the President can’t protect them from criminal charges if they lie to Special Counsel Robert Mueller about the Russia scandal.
In a paranoid and bizarre move that could endanger public health, the Trump administration has ordered the CDC not to share basic data with the press.
Fox News is getting desperate in their effort to halt Rachel Maddow’s ratings winning streak, which is why they are moving Sean Hannity to 9 PM.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow asked a big, but simple question. Why are six current and former Trump administration officials hiring lawyers if they are only witnesses?
The move by top Democrats sets up a stark contrast between themselves and Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election.
A number of the president’s lawyers wanted Kushner out, worrying that he would become a legal liability as the special counsel investigation intensified.
The White House wants to see the plan approved by Congress, but not even GOP leadership is interested in pushing the measure through.
Trump is doubling down on his DACA decision, and hundreds of thousands more immigrants may be in his crosshairs.
Sens. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have teamed on an amendment to the NDAA that would protect transgender soldiers from Trump’s bigoted attempts to kick them out of the military.
The President Of The United States has awarded a contract to build one of his golf courses to a company majority owned by the Chinese government.
The top U.N. human rights official voiced concern on Monday at the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA program for immigrants who arrived illegally as children and urged the U.S. Congress to give them lasting legal status in the country.
The ACLU wrecked Trump’s bogus voter fraud commission by pointing out that there are more people on the commission than Kris Kobach has convicted of voter fraud in Kansas.
Top House and Senate Democrats have requested an Inspector General investigation into the Trump family bankrupting the Secret Service by using them to guard multiple Trump private properties. U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-NM), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) and U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Committee…
Republican lawmaker Devin Nunes’ investigation into whether Obama administration officials used classified intelligence reports to discredit Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team could backfire on the congressman – and the president, sources familiar with the reports said.
The Justice Department on Monday filed an emergency application at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to block an appeals court decision that curbed President Donald Trump’s effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the United States.
The White House went on lock down on 9/11 after someone threw a yoga mat over the fence.
Donald Trump talked through a scheduled moment of silence remembering 9/11 victims at the Pentagon.
Pope Francis said the recent spate of hurricanes should prompt people to understand that humanity will “go down” if it does not address climate change and history will judge those who deny the science on its causes.
Pope Francis said he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would re-think his decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrant children, saying it was important for young people to have roots.
When he was asked by reporters if the hurricanes are related to climate change, Donald Trump didn’t answer and walked away.
Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.
According to an adviser, Donald Trump has finally realized that people “f**king hate him” which is why he caved and gave Democrats everything that they wanted in the debt ceiling deal.
White House Social Media Director, Dan Scavino Jr. shared a fake video of Miami International Airport during Hurricane Irma, as this administration’s lack of attention to truth and detail is the only consistency of the Trump White House.
Donald Trump’s White House legal counsel has hired a lawyer as Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to know what he knew about why Trump fired James Comey.
– Hurricane Irma knocked out power to about 2 million homes and businesses in Florida on Sunday and threatened millions more as it crept up the state’s west coast, the state’s electric utilities said on Sunday, and full restoration of service will take weeks.
Construction cranes that the city of Miami thought could withstand the winds of Hurricane Irma are collapsing around the city.
Police are warning people in Florida not to shoot at Hurricane Irma because the bullets won’t make the hurricane turn around, but bullets could kill you.
The White House’s big solution to Trump’s racism is to have him talk to African-American Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina about racial issues.
Hillary Clinton is making sure that America doesn’t forget Trump’s bragging about sexual assault while calling him, “a very effective reality TV star.”
The rescinding of DACA last Tuesday put some 800,000 youth and young adults on a countdown clock with Congress. Without swift action from lawmakers in the House and the Senate to protect Dreamers, families will be torn apart, employers will lose workers, and students will be unable to complete their degree programs.
Millions of people huddled in shelters or in battened-down homes in Florida on Sunday morning as Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, prepared to make landfall with 130-mph (210 kph) winds and catastrophically high seas.
During a cabinet meeting about Hurricane Irma, Donald Trump tried to use the hurricane as a reason for Congress to speed up and pass tax cuts for the wealthy.
More than 200 drinking water systems out of 2,238 affected by Tropical Storm Harvey are still shut or have notices for customers to boil water, state and federal regulators said on Saturday.
Hurricane Irma will pose the toughest test yet for U.S. nuclear power plants since reactors strengthened their defenses against natural disasters following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan in 2011.
“We’re not trying to scare people, we’re not trying to hype this. We want people to be prepared.”
Two key figures in the Russia investigation who are no longer with the administration are actually struggling to pay their legal fees.
In an interview that will air on CBS Sunday Morning, Hillary Clinton admitted that she misjudged what the electorate wanted and that she missed chances like during the second presidential debate to tell a hovering over her Trump to “back up, creep.”
Robert Mueller’s investigation is picking up strength as the category five scandal gets closer and closer to the Oval Office.
A former top security official who helped put in place a program protecting people brought to the United States illegally as children, is suing the Trump White House as head of the University of California system over plans to roll back the policy.
The Trump Administration’s Election Integrity Commission pounced on a report to falsely accuse New Hampshire voters of “mass voter fraudâ€.
President Donald Trump said on Friday that churches in Texas should be able to receive money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey.
A powerful Senate committee blasted the Trump administration on Friday in a report accompanying its spending plan for the State Department, saying its approach to foreign policy weakens U.S. standing in the world.
U.S. Republican party lawmakers warned on Friday that President Donald Trump’s legislative deal with Democrats to help hurricane victims and keep the government running for another three months could complicate his next big priority – tax reform.
Eric Bolling became the latest in a growing line of male employees to be dumped by Fox News after he was accused and investigated for sexual harassment.
Trump is tantruming and refusing to make eye contact with his top economic adviser after Gary Cohn spoke out against Trump’s comments supporting neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
The frequency of his trips, and the wide range of policies he has been discussing, have started chatter among power brokers in Washington and on Wall Street about how much energy Dimon is devoting to issues beyond JPMorgan.
At times, they said, Dimon carries himself more like someone running the country than someone running a bank.
Rush Limbaugh turned tail and ran away as fast as he could when he found out that “liberal hoax” Hurricane Irma was heading his way.
Joe Biden’s daughter said in an interview that the former vice president is considering a 2020 run against Donald Trump.
According to the Russians, Trump held a White House meeting with Russia’s new ambassador to the US. The meeting was kept off of the President’s schedule and was not made publicly known.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) took apart Trump for being lazy, refusing to learn about policy, or put in the work that is expected of a president by the American people.
Shocking no one who pays attention, it wasn’t the economy or the imaginary claim that Hillary Clinton didn’t talk about economic issues for white voters that drew Trump supporters to the reality TV show star. It was racial animosity. Yes, there is yet another study proving this.
Conservative House Republicans hissed and groaned at Trump’s Treasury Secretary, and they laughed at the President’s Budget Director during a meeting where they were asked by the White House to support the hurricane relief/debt limit increase bill.
Democrats got a win as the House passed their disaster relief/CR/debt limit bill with Trump 316-90.
The U.S. consumer financial watchdog on Thursday attempted to repel a Trump-administration attack on former President Barack Obama’s sweeping student loan reforms and defended itself against Republican attempts to weaken its powers.
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill on Thursday evening that includes $10 million to help fund the United Nations’ climate change body that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to stop funding it.
Minutes after warning people about dangerous major Hurricane Irma that killed 19 people and is heading toward Florida, President Trump moved seamlessly into calling the filibuster rule the “Repub Death Wish!”
By Delana Isles PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday after lashing the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, killing 19 people and leaving a swathe of catastrophic destruction. Irma was about 450 miles (724 km) southeast of…
The GOP representative had planned to “force a vote on his bill to extend work permits and deferred deportations for young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.”
“If the special counsel is now investigating administration officials for making misleading statements about ties to Russia … they’re all going to need good lawyers.”
Dent’s retirement is just the latest in a slew of moderate Republicans who are calling it quits as Washington spirals out of control with Trump at the helm.
“This decision does a disservice to those who have worked hard to address sexual violence. Congress must now act to undo it.”
It was three minutes of North Korea-style propaganda, served up to portray Trump as a president who’s fighting for working men and women.Â
When she asked during an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber about whether or not calling Trump testify before the Senate was off the table, the Senator from California responded with a firm no.
The Trump administration lost their bid to include extended families in their Muslim ban 2.0 in federal court on Thursday.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) read Donald Trump Jr.’s new statement and noticed that the part about his father knowing nothing about the Russia meeting had been omitted, which could be setting up the President for potentially new criminal charges.
Senator Chris Coons (D-Del), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent out a statute on giving false statements to Congress after Donald Trump, Jr. spoke with Senate staff Thursday.
With the Republican Party falling apart, conservatives are mounting a rebellion against Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
DeVos claimed the guidelines do not do enough to address the due process rights of those accused of sexual assault and that the victims of sexual assault, those accused and colleges all lose under the current system.
Seventeen Senate Republicans who are still mad at Donald Trump for cutting a deal with Democrats had the nerve to vote against hurricane relief funds for Harvey victims in Texas.
The top ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), is warning that Russia’s six figure ad spending to spreading propaganda during the 2016 election may be the tip of the iceberg.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday he has not “detected any whiff of interference” into the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Republicans are miserable, and their problems may only get worse after Donald Trump realized that giving Democrats what they want, got him good TV coverage.
The new reason, according to Donald Trump, Jr.’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, that he met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June of 2016 during the U.S. presidential election was because… wait for it, you need to sit down… he was worried about Hillary Clinton’s fitness for office.
Twitter Inc. should provide an analysis of recent Russian activity on its social media platform, similar to the one Facebook Inc. provided, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee told reporters on Thursday.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in more than two years last week amid a surge in applications in hurricane-ravaged Texas, but the underlying trend remained consistent with a firming jobs market.
Trump stepped up to his Twitter platform again and teed off with some absurd crazy that contradicts pretty much everything he’s been promising his base for years.
Trump tweeted Thursday morning, “For all of those (DACA) that are concerned about your status during the 6 month period, you have nothing to worry about – No action!”
Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and left Barbuda devastated on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.
Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in Texas may not have altered Florida’s well-tested storm plans, but it appears to have infused residents with a new sense of urgency as they prepare for approaching Hurricane Irma.
If any American – i.e. anybody connected to the Trump campaign – knew this crime was being committed, they could face time in the slammer.
Congressman Luis Gutierrez said Democrats shouldn’t be negotiating with Trump the day after he rescinded protections for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants.
It may be smart politics for a Senator from Kentucky to drone on about spending cuts while thousands of Americans are counting on relief funding, but it’s not what compassionate human beings do.
The new revelation is the latest sign that, no, Russian election meddling – all to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton – is not fake news.
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May.
All around the country people are protesting Donald Trump’s decision to end DACA.
A senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan apologized on Wednesday for a “highly offensive” leaflet which contained a passage from the Quran used in the Taliban militants’ banner superimposed on to the image of a dog.
