A tent city in the west Texas desert set up to hold immigrant children has expanded its capacity by nearly 10 times to 3,800 beds since it opened in June, officials said on Friday.
U.S. voting rights advocacy groups on Thursday sued Georgia’s top election official, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, accusing him of putting more than 50,000 voter registration applications on hold to boost his gubernatorial campaign.
South Carolina politicians, including Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, have defended the MOX plant, saying it was about 70 percent complete, would help keep plutonium out of the hands of militants, and provide up to 600 direct jobs.
Saudi Arabia, where Trump last year announced a $110 billion arms package, has been a centerpiece of his overhaul of weapons export policy in which he has gone further than any of his predecessors in acting as a weapons salesman. However, critics say the new approach gives too much weight to business interests versus human rights concerns.
Sears Holdings Corp is planning to close up to 150 of its department and discount stores and keep at least another 300 open as part of a plan to restructure under U.S. bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter said Friday.
A new complaint accuses Sarah Huckabee Sanders of engaging in illegal political activity by using her official government account to tweet a pic of herself and MAGA hat wearing Kanye West. The complaint was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) who said in a statement, “White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee…
Hillary Clinton responded to Trump’s claim that she colluded with Russia by reminding him that he asked Russia to hack her on national television.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi put Trump’s recent statements about healthcare under the fact check microscope and found the truth about that Trump is doing to the health care system in the United States.
Republican candidate Scott Wagner threatened Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf: “You better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes.”
More signs that Democrats are rolling toward election day, as Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) broke the Ohio Senate fundraising record by raising more than $27 million in the previous quarter.
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The archbishop of Washington D.C. stepped down over the handling of sex abuse cases but received fulsome praise from the pope, drawing criticism from campaigners who said it showed the Catholic Church cared more for its leaders than abuse victims. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, a loyal ally of Pope…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs <GS.N> executive Dina Powell has withdrawn from consideration to succeed Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Powell told President Donald Trump by phone that she was honored to be considered but planned to stay at Goldman Sachs,…
Democratic U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke has raised $38.1 million in the final fiscal quarter before the Nov. 6 elections in his campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, O’Rourke said on Twitter on Friday.
Opponents of the death penalty are quietly celebrating today as two new legal jurisdictions have taken steps to stop all executions within their borders. The new government of the Asian country of Malaysia just announced that it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt all pending executions. Asian human rights groups immediately…
The personal legal team of President Donald Trump is in the process of preparing written answers to questions submitted by special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported Thursday. This new development occurs seventeen months after the launch of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The country has been waiting…
The Georgia governor’s race is getting tighter, as Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams are statistically tied according to a new poll. In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News poll released last night, Kemp holds 1.4 percentage point lead over Abrams — 47.7 percent to 46.3 percent. The differential is within the poll’s 2.8…
A federal grand jury in Virginia has issued indictments against four members of a white supremacist group because of their participation in the “Unite the Right†rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office, the grand jury “returned an indictment charging four California men with conspiring to violate…
Both professional and amateur psychologists have long been speculating about President Donald Trump’s mental instability. Evidence of this is on display every day in the White House and in the media as the president’s latest lies and misbehavior are reported on insatiably. And now there is new evidence that Trump’s mental illness may be contagious….
