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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday said he would no longer attend next week’s investment conference in Saudi Arabia.
“Just met with @realDonaldTrump and @SecPompeo and we have decided, I will not be participating in the Future Investment Initiative summit in Saudi Arabia,” Mnuchin wrote on Twitter.
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday rekindled his criticism of California’s wildfire prevention steps and threatened to withhold billions of dollars of federal funding amid one of the most destructive fire seasons on record.
The president's son, Eric Trump, showed some of the desperation that is building in the Republican Party as he begged Republicans to show up and vote during an interview on Fox News.
The U.S. Congress could request President Donald Trump's tax returns under a seldom-used 1924 law, which Democrats say they plan to invoke promptly if they win control of the House of Representatives or the Senate in the Nov. 6 elections.
Former vice president Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump “seems to have a love affair with autocrats,” criticizing his cozy relationship with the leaders of Saudi Arabia after the disappearance (and presumed killing) of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Associated Press that he has not been able to visit U.S. soldiers overseas as president because he has been “very busy.”
However, the website Trump Golf Count says it has evidence that the president has golfed at least 68 times since his inauguration in January of 2017. The site, which keeps track of all of Trump’s travels, said that during his presidency Trump has spent 72 days at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, and 58 days at his Bedminster Country Club in New Jersey.
A Roman Catholic pharmacist in Michigan refused to fill a woman’s prescription for miscarriage medicine, saying he couldn’t do it because he is “a good Catholic male.”
The woman, Rachel Peterson, told The Chicago Tribune:
According to a new article this morning in the Washington Post, “President Donald Trump has threatened to summon the military to close the U.S.-Mexico border and upend a trade deal.”
The Post said that the president has been experiencing “mounting frustration with a large caravan of migrants from Honduras that has been making its way toward the United States.” He said he may take military action to stop immigrants from crossing the southern border into the U.S. if Mexico does not take action to stop the “onslaught.”
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday that the Trump administration is severely restricting access to information about missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told The Washington Post that the administration had “clamped down” on sharing intelligence Khashoggi.
The same day U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia the U.S. government received a $100 million payment from the Saudi kingdom, both the The New York Times and Washington Post reported.
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Barbara Lee were in Coral Gables, FL to campaign for Democratic House candidates when 25 paid protesters showed up and physically blocked and started striking the doors.
All across the country, from Texas to Georgia to North Dakota, Republicans aren't waging a war of ideas. They're waging a war on voting rights.
If you're wondering why Donald Trump is helping the Saudis cover up a brutal murder of a Washington Post columnist, just follow the money.
Trump's own deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, just dismantled the lie that Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation is a witch hunt.
Donald Trump can spin all he wants, but he is alone in his belief that the Nov. 6 elections will have no connection to him.
Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the healthcare law a "disappointment."
By Brendan Pierson and Sarah N. Lynch
NEW YORK/ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – A U.S. Treasury Department official has been criminally charged with leaking confidential documents relating to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed, Manhattan federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Eleven Senators are demanding that Donald Trump disclose all of his family business ties through the Trump Organization to Saudi Arabia.
A new Morning Consult/Politico poll disproves Trump's claim that he will not be to blame if Republicans get beaten in the midterms.
Leonard Lance is a Republican congressman seeking re-election in a Republican district. But he has little to say about the Republican president.