Trump casually suggested that America toss the Constitution in the trash on Thursday morning as he urged the Senate to investigate the free press instead of his campaign and presidency.
“Political survival – what? Who cares? We’re talking about the lives of the American people.”
The worst fighting since the battle for eastern Aleppo last year is raging in several regions of Syria, causing hundreds of civilian casualties, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry took a chartered jet to Ohio last week, according to an airport management company, the day before fellow Cabinet member Tom Price resigned over his use of private charter flights for government business.
On Wednesday, one federal judge reminded Donald Trump that hating Barack Obama is not a good enough reason to ignore key environmental protections.
While it’s good news that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to have found some gun-related legislation they can agree on, it’s not even close to enough.
“The time is always right to do what is right. We waited too long. How many more people will die?”
Murphy is no outlier when it comes to this pro-life, family values hypocrisy. For proof of that, we need not look any further than the White House.Â
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States listened to oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, the gerrymandering case.
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a military strike against North Korea designed to destroy its nuclear and missile program might not succeed because Pyongyang could have hidden military facilities that nobody knows about.
The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters.
Trump couldn’t hold it together in Las Vegas, as he went off on a rant about NBC News while he was meeting with first responders.
Trump was unable to give any off the cuff remarks that showed empathy or emotion for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. Instead, Trump stood on stage and read from a script in the most wooden fashion.
President Trump has claimed multiple times that the NBC News story about Rex Tillerson calling him a moron is fake. NBC and MSNBC have responded by basically telling the president to shove it.
MSNBC and NBC News are refusing to apologize to Trump for their story about Sec. of State Rex Tillerson calling Trump a moron because Tillerson never refuted key points of the story.
“There were a lot more states,” Republican Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.
The head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday there was general consensus in the panel that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but it was still examining evidence to determine if there was collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
As people cling to life in Puerto Rico and in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, President Trump is throwing a tantrum at NBC.
In a statement to reporters, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson never denied that he called Donald Trump a moron.
White House OMB Director Mick Mulvaney walked back Trump’s promise to erase Puerto Rico’s debt by telling the American people that they shouldn’t believe word for word what the President says.
Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led push to oust Kim Jong Un as Moscow fears his fall would sap its regional clout and allow U.S. troops to deploy on Russia’s eastern border.
President Donald Trump’s tax reform plan came under new criticism on Tuesday from two towering Wall Street figures, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who called into question a Republican drive to slash the U.S. corporate rate.
The story of how New York prosecutors were about to charge Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump with felony fraud in 2012 until money got involved reveals that fraud is the family business and that the Trumps have been buying their way out of trouble for years.
he American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to challenge U.S. Food and Drug Administration restrictions that limit the ability of women to access the so-called abortion pill.
A U.S. official told Congress on Tuesday it would be “rational” to legislate a path for citizenship for illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, but within hours the administration backtracked, saying his comments did not state the views of President Donald Trump.
Russia used Facebook’s ad targeting system to help Donald Trump carry both Wisconsin and Michigan.
A day after the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, President Trump retweeted a Sean Hannity tweet from Vegas, “Tonight the truth about how despicable the media and the left are in America today. We will name names. 9 est Hannity Fox News from Vegas.”
Trump bragged to reporters that people of Puerto Rico appreciated him being there and that he was the first president in history to make such a visit when he was the tenth.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said on Tuesday he plans to hold a hearing later this month over massive data breaches at Equifax Inc and Yahoo, which is now owned by Verizon Communications Inc.
Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, which already had spawned a nationwide lawsuit.
After Special Counsel Robert Mueller requested Jared Kushner’s private emails, Trump’s son in law moved his emails to Trump Organization servers.
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) is the latest Republican member of Congress to get caught living a lie behind their “pro-life” stance.
President Trump drove past hurricane damage in Puerto Rico while a woman held up a sign directed at the President that said, “You are a bad hombre.”
Whether or not collusion occurred and then can also be proven, there is mounting evidence that the White House anticipates damaging reports from the Russia probe.
Trump passed out food to hurricane victims in Texas and Florida, but Puerto Ricans got the President throwing rolls of paper towels into the crowd.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke violated a law barring executive branch employees from engaging in political activity when he gave a speech to a professional hockey team owned by a political donor in June, the agency said on Tuesday.
Trump tried to downplay the devastation by telling Puerto Ricans that their disaster wasn’t a real catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel told Republicans that they should pray to God for forgiveness because their obstruction of common sense is getting innocent people murdered on a daily basis.
Trump showed his insecure instability by immediately arriving in Puerto Rico and telling the island what a great job he is doing because the disaster is really about Donald Trump.
The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered the expulsion of 15 diplomats from Cuba’s embassy in Washington following last week’s U.S. move to pull more than half of its own diplomats out of Havana, a State Department official said.
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt meets near-daily with those he’s supposed to be regulating, including top corporate executives and lobbyists, and almost no meetings with environmental groups or citizen groups.Â
Americans are increasingly confident in the news media and less so in President Donald Trump’s administration after a tumultuous year in U.S. politics that tested the public’s trust in both institutions, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
The gunman, identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, left no immediate hint of his motive for the arsenal of high-powered weaponry he amassed, including 42 guns, or the carnage he inflicted on a crowd of 22,000 attending an outdoor country music festival.
Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas spurred a ritual-like response from U.S. politicians following the mass shootings that have left a trail of victims across the country: Democrats renewed demands for tougher gun laws while Republicans offered up prayers but showed no signs of supporting such legislation.
With gun shows nearly every weekend in Las Vegas, the city is a living and breathing example of America’s longstanding problem with firearm-related violence.
Tonight, dozens of people who were alive 24 hours ago no longer are, and many of the leaders who offer their condolences will likely do nothing to prevent the next American massacre.
“This silence has become unintentional endorsement. It’s become a kind of sick complicity.”
The Trump right reaction to the worst mass shooting in US history is to blame a lack of respect for Trump for the violence.
Facebook is releasing the details about the Russian ad campaign that was part of their interference to get Trump elected, and the numbers are a how to guide for building an illegitimate US president.
The anatomy of reporting on mass shootings depends on the perpetrator’s race. If the shooter was a white male, like Stephen Paddock, we are urged to wait for the facts. We don’t assume that mass shooting was a terrorist act when the shooter is white.
The Interior Department’s watchdog agency has launched an investigation into Secretary Ryan Zinke’s travels after reports emerged last week that he had used a private plane owned by an oil executive, the inspector general’s office said on Monday.
Simply put, “partisan gerrymandering†is a rebrand of “race based gerrymandering.†Republicans are trying to find the magic words to suppress votes by people who are more likely to vote for Democrats.
Next Tuesday, House Republicans will be voting on an abortion ban bill. Yes, these are the same Republicans that refuse to discuss any kind of gun control, and in fact planned to push a bill loosening gun silencer restrictions this week until the Las Vegas Strip shooting killed 58 people and wounded over 500.
As all of this unfolds, the President of the United States is tweeting more North Korea threats likely from the seat of a golf cart at his ritzy resort in New Jersey.
Documents turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller show that Trump’s company was trying to do business in Russia after he had locked up the Republican presidential nomination.
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The moment of silence was a cable news visual, not an actual policy to deal with gun violence in America.
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) said what Republicans won’t when she called the Las Vegas massacre an act of domestic terrorism.
Facebook Inc said it plans on Monday to turn over to the U.S. Congress copies of some 3,000 ads that the social network says were bought on Facebook likely by people in Russia in the months before and after the 2016 U.S. election.
Trump responded to the Las Vegas massacre by offering no policy leadership, calling the gunman evil, and promising to visit the city. It was a pathetic attempt at pretend presidential leadership. Video: Trump’s response was part of a standard White House playbook. The President calls the culprit evil, offers prayers, promises to go to the…
Two senior U.S. officials said on Monday that there was no evidence that the shooter who killed at least 50 people in Las Vegas was tied to any international militant group.
Longtime NRA fighter Hillary Clinton pointed out, “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) in response to the Las Vegas shooting where he spoke for the vast majority of Americans when he told Congress to get off its ass and do something about gun violence.
At least 50 people were killed and more than 400 injured when a gunman opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down bullets from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before shooting himself dead, according to police.
“Heroes are stepping up and getting people there, because minutes count,†Dr. Agus said on CBS News of citizens driving victims of a mass shooting during a country music festival in Las Vegas Strip to the hospital.
House Republicans are scheduled to vote on a bill this week that would loosen restrictions on gun silencers. It will be interesting to see if that vote still takes place after the worst mass shooting in US history occurred in Las Vegas.
The worst mass shooting in US history took place at a country music festival in Las Vegas, and a President who has been quick to label other attacks terrorism has refused to call the actions of the white shooter domestic terrorism.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said one of the top goals of the Trump administration’s tax plan is to help the middle class, but he could not guarantee that every middle-class family would receive a tax cut.
America’s dislike of Trump followed him to the golf course. As the President dedicated the President’s Cup trophy to hurricane victims, reporters heard someone in the crowd yell, “You don’t give a shit about Puerto Rico.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday he does not regret using a government plane to travel to Kentucky in August with his wife to view the solar eclipse and speak to business leaders, calling it “completely justifiable.”
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called out Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for lying about how the Republican plan to cut taxes for the rich would help the middle class.
A nation’s stomach turned as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) told America that the 71-year-old president is still learning about racism.
Just hours after President Trump criticized the San Juan Mayor for “poor leadership” Lt. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan toured the damage and pronounced, “This is the worst I’ve ever seen.â€
Trump’s own FEMA Director, who he lavished praise on after Hurricane Harvey, has debunked the President’s big lie about Puerto Rico.
A leaked internal memo from President Trump’s homeland security adviser Tom Bossert sent his West Wing colleagues dictates daily “themes” for how to spin Puerto Rico response, including the “bright future” that lies ahead, with high hopes that “planned hits, tweets, tv bookings and other work will limit the need for reactionary efforts.”
Trump is showing how little he cares about the people of Puerto Rico by spending his entire day playing golf as people are struggling to survive.
More than 1,500 accidents at chemical plants have been reported in the United States since 2007, and amendments to the Clean Air Act issued in the last days of former President Barack Obama’s administration would have forced plants handling risky chemicals to coordinate emergency plans with local responders.
Trump is trying to distract the country from his failed disaster response in Puerto Rico by claiming that he has broken off negotiations with North Korea.
Trump’s inability to control himself is digging his own political grave as the President Of The United States called US citizens ingrates for calling attention to his weak and failed disaster response.
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) became the first Republican to back away from the deficit exploding Republican plan to cut taxes for the wealthy by telling Meet The Press that he won’t vote for it if the plan adds to the deficit.
It is scandalous that the President of the United States of America has given more time and attention to whether football players are standing or kneeling during the national anthem before a football game than to the citizens he is accountable for who are dying in Puerto Rico.
