Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee warned Trump’s installed attorney general Matthew Whitaker that he would not be able to hide if he tries to do Trump’s bidding.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday he supported a bill that would protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from any politically motivated firings and would urge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow a vote on it. “I would certainly vote for it,” Graham told reporters of the bill, which he…
Rachel Maddow made a compelling argument that Trump seems even more chaotic and wobbly because he knows that Democrats won the election and the bill for years of corruption is about to come due.
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will review for a second time whether Republican legislators in Virginia drew electoral districts in the state in a way that unlawfully diluted the clout of black voters. The high court will hear an appeal by the Republican-led state House of…
Former first lady Michelle Obama began her 10-city book tour in Chicago on Tuesday after her memoir, “Becoming”, hit the shelves.
A new report from inside the White House states that Trump is bitter and resentful over the midterm that he is refusing to fulfill presidential obligations.
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump is preparing to…
The incoming Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee intends to investigate President Donald Trump’s impact on the integrity of the Justice Department and the FBI, according to a letter sent to top federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday.
Melania Trump’s call for a senior national security staffer to be fired means that an unelected First Lady is making policy.
An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, said he was told by the U.S. special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that he would be contacted this week about a possible plea deal.
Hate crimes in the United States jumped 17 percent in 2017, with a huge 37 percent spike in anti-Semitic attacks, marking the third year in a row that such attacks have increased, according to FBI data released on Tuesday.
By David Lawder and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department has submitted draft recommendations to the White House on its investigation into whether to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported cars and parts on national security grounds, two administration officials said. The “Section 232” recommendations on ensuring a healthy…
Trump ran out of the room at a White House event when he was asked about CNN’s lawsuit against him and Sarah Sanders over banning Jim Acosta.
Voters flooded the Georgia capitol and stood steps away from former Sec. of State Brian Kemp’s office and chanted count every vote.
An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, said he was told by the U.S. special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that he would be contacted this week about a possible plea deal.
The state of Maryland launched a court challenge on Tuesday to the legality of President Donald Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general, saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority and broke federal law.
A federal court ruling about the counting of absentee ballots in Georgia may be enough to flip a 40th House seat to Democrats.
Firefighters struggled on Tuesday to contain the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history as a further 8,000 acres burned and search teams resumed sifting through charred wreckage in a hunt for human remains.
Trump and Sarah Sanders now claim that Jim Acosta was banned because he refused to surrender his microphone. They have dropped the story about the intern being touched.
Democrats gained more ground in Georgia as a federal judge ordered Gwinett County to count absentee ballots that did not include the voter’s birth year.
CNN is suing Trump and his aides for banning reporter Jim Acosta from the White House and taking away his press credentials.
CBS News is reporting this morning that special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to soon issue new indictments in the ongoing probe of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. They said that the new indictments may be issued as early as today. The news agency said that a significant number of new indictments may be…
In a highly unusual move, the state of Maryland will ask a judge on Tuesday to declare that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is the acting U.S. attorney general, according to a new report from NBC News. If the judge does issue such an order Rosenstein would replace Matt Whitaker, who was appointed to that…
Insider reports from the White House say that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will be the next Trump appointee to leave his administration. These reports say that President Donald Trump has told other advisers that he has made the decision to get rid of Nielsen as soon as it is feasible. This…
Sarah Palin sounded the alarm on Twitter when she wrote: “Here They Come: Dems Planning ‘Aggressive’ Gun Control Push When They Take Over House†Here They Come: Dems Planning 'Aggressive' Gun Control Push When They Take Over House https://t.co/ezbWNP6KAN — Sarah (@SarahPalinUSA) November 13, 2018 Of course, Palin thinks it is a bad thing for…
Amazon’s second headquarters — called HQ2 — will be in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City and in New York City, The Washington Post reported last night. The company is expected to announce today that it is splitting its additional HQ location that will create up to 50,000 jobs, between the two East Coast major cities. The…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will consult with ethics officials about any matters that could require him to recuse himself, the Justice Department said on Monday, after critics called on him to step aside from overseeing a Special Counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election….
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Top oil and gas companies jointly spent around 1 percent of their 2018 budgets on clean energy, but investments by Europe‘s giants vastly outpaced their U.S. and Asian rivals, a study showed. Companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, Total and BP have in recent years accelerated spending on wind…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Experts in identifying human tissue joined California police and firefighters on Monday in sifting through the charred debris of homes destroyed in the most devastating wildfire in the state‘s history, searching for remains of 228 missing people. University anthropologists, trained in spotting bone fragments and other blackened body parts, systematically…
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema defeated Republican Martha McSally to win a close U.S. Senate race in Arizona after last Tuesday’s elections, in a Senate pickup for Democrats in a state that had not elected a Democratic U.S. senator for 30 years.
