By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago City Council on Wednesday gave overwhelming approval to the final budget proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who leaves office next year, and who said he will address looming pension funding challenges in December. “Our work is not done but we can say given where we were at…
It’s a week after the midterm elections and we still don’t know the full extent of the blue wave. Here’s what we do know. Even though vote suppression was at its ugliest, Americans navigated the obstacles in record numbers to renounce Donald Trump’s version of nationalism. We were reminded that race continues to affect our…
A former Trump campaign deputy is now cooperating with several ongoing investigations, according to court filings from the special counsel’s office.
While the Trump era has been defined by chaos and division, Biden is appealing to the country with a message of unity and stability.
Sherrod Brown is betting that his version of populism can prevent Donald Trump from winning a second term two years from now.
Georgia Republicans filed an ethics complaint against Stacey Abrams after she approved an ad buy for the potential gubernatorial runoff.
Republicans might turn a blind eye to the womanizers and criminals that they knowingly support – from Donald Trump to Roy Moore – but Democrats never will.
(Reuters) – A Republican U.S. representative of Utah who is trailing her Democratic challenger filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to halt vote counting while a four-term California Republican congressman conceded, more than a week after the U.S. midterm elections. The races are among about a dozen high-profile contests that remained unresolved. But the outstanding…
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – More than a dozen times in the past seven days, President Donald Trump has alleged, contrary to evidence, that the recount of Florida’s elections for governor and the U.S. Senate has been marred by fraud. “Many ballots are missing or forged,” he tweeted on Monday. “Ballots massively infected.” The unsubstantiated…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rick Gates, a former business partner of President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is still cooperating with several ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to a court filing on Wednesday. The joint filing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office and Gates’ lawyer suggests…
Melania Trump has a Romanov complex. There were signs of it with the casual way she throws tax payer money away, beginning with her decision to stay in New York for several months following her husband’s inauguration. Yes, she cited Barron’s schooling as the reason and perhaps she was truly concerned about that. But, the…
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has given Mitch McConnell a choice. He can either protect Robert Mueller or go down with Trump on the Russia scandal.
Panellists (L-R) Kate Van Doore, an international child rights lawyer; Sophie Otiende, a trafficking survivor and programme consultant for HAART Kenya; Andrea Powel, founding president of Karana Rising; Snezana Vuckovic, survivor leader and human rights advocate and Joseph Mwuara, orphanage trafficking survivor and community advocate; speak at a panel on ‘Orphanage as Trafficking Hubs’ at…
Sen. Jeff Flake took a public stand and announced on the Senate floor that he would not vote for any Trump judicial nominees until Special Counsel Robert Mueller is protected.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is zeroing in on people in Trump’s orbit who may have participated in the Russian hack of DNC emails.
Trump is trying to exploit the CNN lawsuit by sending out fundraising emailing asking his supporters to send his re-election campaign money. Politico reported: CNN is SUING President Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Secret Service agent, and other White House officials…” the fundraising email states. “…All because they REVOKED Jim Acosta’s press badge after his…
Trump claimed that people need to show ID to buy a box of cereal, thus proving that the President has no idea how people buy their groceries.
Thirteen of the biggest press organizations in the United States ranging from NBC and Fox News to The Washington Post and New York Times have come together in support of CNN’s lawsuit against Trump.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should not interfere in lawmakers’ negotiations if he wants a smooth government funding process. “We believe if President Trump stays out of the appropriations process, we can good bipartisan agreement and government can move smoothly forward,” Schumer told reporters….
Two U.S. senators, defying opposition from top Republicans, vowed on Wednesday to push for action on a bipartisan measure that would protect a federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The lawmaker expected to head the powerful House Oversight Committee in the new U.S. Congress says one of his first priorities will be investigating why President Donald Trump‘s administration decided to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census questionnaire. Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings told Reuters he had not yet…
As Trump’s DOJ says he has the power to “depart from the succession order” that was established by one federal law by appointing Acting AG Matthew Whitaker, more than a dozen prominent conservative lawyers raised the alarm about Trump undermining the rule of law
Omarosa told MSNBC’s Craig Melvin that she has heard that the anonymous New York Times op-ed author was found and quietly removed from the Trump administration.
“As for the tweets, yesterday was November 13, we were commemorating the murder of 130 of our countrymen three years ago in Paris and in Saint Denis. So I will reply in English: ‘common decency’ would have been appropriate,” France’s government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has become the new darling of the right-wing. And he strengthened his position Tuesday night by saying that if he becomes chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee he would “totally” investigate the FBI for the way it handled two major investigations: The FBI probe into Russian interference in…
South Florida is always hot, and as tensions flare during recounts required due to three close statewide elections, the temperatures are rising even more than usual. But in Palm Beach County things are REALLY heating up as the county’s ballot-counting machines overheated yesterday, giving incorrect vote totals. Apparently the machines are very old, so mechanical…
The 2018 midterm elections gave Democrats a net gain of 38 seats and control of the U.S. House of Representative. And as more election data comes in, it is apparent that this great success for Democrats was made possible by huge increases in voter turnout all over the country. A very important statistic for Democrats…
The walls are closing in on President Donald Trump, and he knows it. Increasingly he is acting like a desperate man facing difficult situations that he can’t win. And according to The Los Angles Times, life for his staffers inside the White House is growing intolerable. They said that the president’s closest aides are all…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has had enough of Donald Trump. On Tuesday he demanded that the president “stop bullying, harassing and lying” about the Florida recounts. “Speaking in defense of Florida Sen. Nelson, who is fighting for his Senate seat, Minority Leader Schumer called for President Trump to “stop bullying, harassing and lying” about…
