By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants President Donald Trump to commit to a follow-up interview to written answers to questions in his probe of any coordination between Trump campaign members and Russia in the 2016 U.S. election, Rudy Giuliani, who is representing the president, said on Thursday. Giuliani, who said talks…
By exposing Brett Kavanaugh as an enemy of reproductive rights for women, Democrats are pushing a strategy that could ultimately pay off.
The same party that denied Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a hearing is now enforcing sham rules in order to rush their pick through Congress.
Once a Republican who prided himself on his independent streak, Rand Paul has turned into a shameless puppet for Donald Trump.
Tony Schwartz said the focus on who wrote the letter is missing the point. Instead, the country should be alarmed that it was even written in the first place.
A man who spews debunked right-wing lies about contraceptive care most certainly can’t be trusted to uphold the settled law established in Roe v. Wade.
Popular Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen is leading Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn by 2-4 points in a new poll of the US Senate race in Tennessee.
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it had permanently banned U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website Infowars from its platform and Periscope. The company said in a tweet that the accounts violated its behavior policies. Last month, Twitter banned Jones and Infowars for seven days, citing tweets that it said violated…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, raised questions as a White House aide more than a decade ago about whether the 1973 high court ruling legalizing abortion was settled law, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing leaked emails. The Times said an “unknown person” provided several confidential emails…
After releasing documents that Republicans didn’t want the American people to see about Brett Kavanaugh’s real views, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) dared Senate Republicans to kick him out of the Senate. Video: Booker said: There are various charges made against me by my colleague from Texas. I don’t know if they were political bluster or…
Burt Reynolds, whose good looks and charm made him one of Hollywood’s most popular actors as he starred in films such as “Deliverance,” “The Longest Yard” and “Smokey and the Bandit” in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Thursday age of 82
Trump made a government photographer doctor his inauguration photos to make his crowd look bigger than what it was.
By Gina Cherelus (Reuters) – Dan Coats, Mike Pence and Kirstjen Nielsen were among the favorites on Thursday among political gamblers taking an online stab at predicting which senior Trump administration official authored a scathing anonymous column in the New York Times. Coats, the director of national intelligence, was seen as having an 18 percent…
By Susan Heavey and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top aides to Donald Trump scrambled on Thursday to deny authorship of an anonymous New York Times opinion column that slammed the U.S. president’s leadership style and described “a quiet resistance” to him within his own administration. By midday, seven senior officials had disavowed the piece,…
Democratic lawmakers and voters shouldn’t just have their sights set on winning the House of Representatives. They should be fighting for the Senate, too.
Trump, without offering evidence, said in a post on Twitter that the sportswear company was “getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts.” He also continued to blast National Football League players for their protests over racial and social injustice.
Democrats pressed Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick, over newly released emails highlighting his views on abortion and race issues on Thursday during his Senate confirmation hearing after a tense partisan fight over the public release of the documents.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw from a court agreement that puts strict limits on the U.S. government’s detention of migrant children and to hold the minors through their immigration proceeding is “inhumane,” said the top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. This is another inhumane assault on families…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration said on Thursday that it plans to withdraw from a federal court agreement that strictly limits the conditions under which authorities can detain migrant children, and proposed new rules that it said would enable it to detain minors during their immigration proceedings. The administration is targeting the Flores Settlement…
Senator Kamala Harris told reporters that she had good reason for questioning Kavanaugh about a conversation he might have had with a Kasowitz lawyer regarding the Mueller Trump Russia probe.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) questioned Brett Kavanaugh on race and affirmative action, and after the Supreme Court nominee refused to answer, Booker released confidential documents showing Kavanaugh’s real views.
The Daily Caller is a bizarre right-wing website that supports Donald Trump along with many conspiracy theories. Therefore it is only fitting that when the president allowed employees from the Daily Caller into the Oval Office and granted them an exclusive interview, the results would also be bizarre. In his interview (published on the Daily…
Bob Woodward describes in his new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” not only a White House filled with conflict and chaos but also one with a frosty relationship between the first couple. Woodward says that first lady Melania Trump refused to be seen on television with her husband after the embarrassing release of…
It seems like everybody in the world is commenting this morning about the New York Times op-ed written by an anonymous Trump administration official. Even in a Washington used to scandals under the current president this editorial was a shocker. Everyone interviewed said they had never seen anything like it in their lifetimes. The author…
Remember when Trump-supporting Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter got caught stealing $250,000 from his campaign account, and then blamed his wife? Now it turns out prosecutors say they can prove that Hunter used much of the money he stole on women he was having affairs with. We’ll have to wait and see if he tries to…
After the anonymous op-ed piece appeared in the New York Times yesterday social media went wild with speculation about who its author might be. Only the Times editors know for sure, and they aren’t talking. Here are our thoughts: Because the editorial refers to “the cabinet†invoking the 25th amendment, it seems as if the…
