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Syrian state media said on Monday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had bombed a Syrian army position near the Iraqi border, causing deaths and injuries, but the U.S. military denied it was responsible.
The court handed a victory to Wisconsin Republicans who drew state electoral districts that helped entrench their party in power by throwing out on a 9-0 vote a lower court ruling that the districts deprived Democratic voters of their constitutional rights including equal protection under the law.
U.S. officials said on Friday that nearly 2,000 children were separated from adults at the border between mid-April and the end of May.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed Republican voters in Maryland by refusing for now to block congressional district lines drawn by Democrats to maximize partisan advantage.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen went on Twitter Sunday to defend the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance policy. In the process of doing this, however, she told several lies while also misrepresenting what federal laws require her department to do for people seeking asylum in the United States.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed to divest himself from his private company holdings upon entering government, according to a new investigative report from Forbes Magazine.
After being nominated, Ross promised to divest from his investment holdings upon entering office. This earned him praise from senators in both parties, and he was easily confirmed.
On Sunday former First Lady Laura Bush published an opinion piece in The Washington Post in which she blasted the Trump administration’s policy for separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
he White House said on Saturday that President Donald Trump will pick Kathy Kraninger, an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official, to head the U.S. consumer watchdog, drawing criticism from consumer advocates and dividing conservatives.
In a new interview with the Washington Post, the person in charge of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy in the Rio Grande Valley said that the number of children taken from their parents would likely double in the coming months. The Rio Grande is now the busiest segment of the U.S.-Mexico border as more refugees from Central America have attempted to enter the United States there.
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has abandoned his scheme to kill Medicare as the GOP agenda suffers a crushing defeat.
Fox News is offering a full-throated defense of Trump putting children in cages, as the kids having it good.
The Trump administration has ordered that hundreds of immigrant children be kept in cages, 20 to a cage, at a border facility in Texas.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that he wants to know if House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) leaked information to the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
The problem according to Kellyanne Conway isn't immigrant kids are being taken away from their parents, but that Democrats won't give Trump the money to build more prisons for immigrant children.
President Donald Trump must have gotten a good night’s sleep because he hit the ground running this morning, going on Twitter and posting a barrage of off-the-wall tweets.
His last tweet was outlandish in that he is encouraging employees of the Washington Post newspaper to go on strike. He also asked if the Post is registered as a lobbyist.
Trump spent Father's Day tantruming about the Russia investigation and crying hoax, while thousands of kids in US detention centers won't see their dads.
One way to measure the immense failure of the tenure of Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House is how little he was able to accomplish with respect to his pet project of reforming Medicare.
Before running for Vice President with Mitt Romney Ryan was in charge of the budget for the House of Representatives and he was seen as the person who knew more about the federal budget than anyone. And he always said that Medicare was going to be a huge problem and something needed to be done about it.
Donald Trump’s policy of ripping children away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border was supposed to push Democrats to negotiate in Congress so he could get tougher immigration laws and his beloved border wall. But instead it may end up costing Republicans their majorities in Congress.
During the first six weeks of the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy nearly 2,000 children were separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday that the separations took place from April 19 to May 31 of this year.
Joe Scarborough used to be a Republican Congressman from Florida, but now the co-host of the popular MSNBC show Morning Joe is one of President Donald Trump’s strongest critics.
On Friday, Scarborough lambasted Trump, Jeff Sessions and immigration enforcement officials for their new policies and practices used in dealing with undocumented immigrants entering the United States from Mexico.