A new AP poll reveals why Republicans are scrambling to shut down the Russia investigations, as 72% of Americans believe that Trump did something wrong or illegal with Russia, and 63% believe that the President has obstructed the investigation.…
The bill would cut the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, according to the summary. Corporate tax lobbyists have been seeking such a dramatic cut for many years.…
Republican negotiators in the U.S. Congress put the finishing touches on a sweeping tax overhaul on Friday and picked up support from two more wavering senators as they raced toward votes on final approval next week.…
A U.S. District Court judge on Friday said she would release former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort from house arrest once he meets certain conditions, expressing satisfaction that the $10 million he agreed to forfeit if he ever failed to appear for court proceedings would be available.…
A new AP poll reveals why Republicans are scrambling to shut down the Russia investigations, as 72% of Americans believe that Trump did something wrong or illegal with Russia, and 63% believe that the President has obstructed the investigation.…
The bill would cut the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, according to the summary. Corporate tax lobbyists have been seeking such a dramatic cut for many years.…
Republican negotiators in the U.S. Congress put the finishing touches on a sweeping tax overhaul on Friday and picked up support from two more wavering senators as they raced toward votes on final approval next week.…
A U.S. District Court judge on Friday said she would release former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort from house arrest once he meets certain conditions, expressing satisfaction that the $10 million he agreed to forfeit if he ever failed to appear for court proceedings would be available.…
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) who was just onboard Air Force One with Trump last week went on CNN and went into total lunatic mode while embracing a conspiracy theory that Robert Mueller is trying to destroy democracy by investigating Trump and Russia.…
Republicans are refusing to reauthorize funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, but Donald Trump told reporters that it is Democrats who have done nothing for kids.…
Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has proposed putting a cap on renewable fuel credits at 10 cents each, according to document provided to the White House and corn-state lawmakers viewed by Reuters on Friday.…
"We remain concerned about Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo," the U.S. embassy said in a statement on its Facebook page. "Their families and others have not been allowed to see them, and don't even know where they are being held."…
President Donald Trump called on fellow Republican Roy Moore on Friday to concede to Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama U.S. Senate race, following the party's stinging loss in the deeply southern U.S. state earlier this week.…
"Why does this keep happening? Why do we consistently have to get news about the behavior and the meetings and the conversations of the American president from the Russian government?"…
Unlike the non-scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account that defined last year's campaign coverage, this one could actually uncover a smoking gun.…
As the public outcry against the Republican attack on the Internet grows, Donald Trump, Jr decided to blame President Obama for his daddy's FCC chair voting to destroy Net Neutrality rules put into place by... Obama.…
Award-winning U.S. documentary maker Morgan Spurlock wrote on Twitter late on Wednesday that he has engaged in sexual misconduct, saying, "I am part of the problem."…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to rescind rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, as protesters gathered to oppose the change.…
Trump got on the phone and called Rupert Murdoch after he heard about Disney buying 21st Century Fox to make sure that his state media network, Fox News, was not also being sold.…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has made it known to his inner circle that 2018 will be his last year in Congress, but before Ryan takes his money and runs, he is going to try to kill Social Security and Medicare.…
Since mid-2016, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has carried around a "postcard" that he has said shows how easy it will be for Americans to file their taxes once Republicans are finished their tax overhaul.…
President Donald Trump's eldest son asked a House of Representatives committee on Tuesday to investigate possible leaks of information about his Dec. 6 interview with lawmakers, as congressional probes of Russia and the 2016 election picked up steam ahead of the New Year.…
CNN's Jake Tapper asked House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) what he was missing on Trump/Russia collusion evidence, and the case that Rep. Schiff made was devastating.…
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) said on MSNBC that House Judiciary Republicans are doing Trump's bidding by working to undermine the FBI and the Russia investigation.…
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled a trove of documents on Friday showing what he said was "irrefutable evidence" that President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort violated a court gag order by ghost-writing an opinion piece designed to improve his public image.…
On CNN's New Day, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Republicans are allowing figures in the Russia investigation like Donald Trump Jr. to avoid answering questions by invoking flimsy privilege claims.…
According to the CBS News survey, 43 percent Republicans feel that it’s either very or somewhat likely that Trump's team had an inappropriate relationship with Russia.…
Trump Jr. claimed client-attorney privilege to explain his refusal to divulge what he and elder Trump talked about following the secret June 9 meeting with Russian officials at Trump Tower.…
The question of what Russia was supposed to get in return for helping Trump win the election was answered today as a bombshell text from Mike Flynn to a business partner promised to rip up the Obama sanctions on Russia as one of Flynn's first orders of business.…
There is no longer any excuse for members of Congress – especially the Democrats – to curb their opposition to this president and his dangerous agenda.…
Republicans on the tax cut bill conference committee are refusing to show Democrats on the committee the changes that they negotiated in secret to the legislation.…
After Gov. Mark Dayton appointed his Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to replace Sen. Al Franken, Minnesota Congressional Democrats Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum released statements praising the appointment.…
A federal judge dealt yet another blow to the Trump administration — which, other than passing an almost universally-hated tax bill, has yet to accomplish anything — on Monday.…
Walter Shaub, who specializes in government ethics and is a former Director of the US Office of Government Ethics, blasted Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act (again) by spending almost a quarter hour defending Roy Moore on Wednesday.…
U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, on Friday told Fox News Channel that fellow Republican Representative Blake Farenthold should resign if an ethics investigation finds that sexual misconduct accusations against him have merit.…
Rep. Trent Franks got the $5 million with which to try buy a Margaret Atwoodian Handmaid's tale womb by deregulating the oil industry in which he's heavily invested.…
The stunning victory comes after weeks of women coming forward with credible allegations that Moore made unwanted sexual advances on them, some when they were just teenagers.…
In a race as close as the special election in Alabama between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones, it is voter suppression maneuvers like this that could make all the difference. …
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.…