(Reuters) – A shutdown of about a quarter of the U.S. government reached its 18th day on Tuesday, with lawmakers and the White House divided over Republican President Donald Trump‘s demand for money for a border wall ahead of his prime-time address to push the project. The shutdown, which began on Dec. 22, is the…
Trump admitted to news anchors that his Oval Office speech and his trip to the border were and are a pointless waste of time.
Former United States president Barack Obama hugged and kissed a 7-week-old baby while golfing in Hawaii on December 31. Chelcie Edwards, mother of baby girl Paisleigh, told Reuters that when she and her husband Joseph Edwards found out Obama was golfing where they were staying, she knew she had to try to get to meet…
By Ginger Gibson and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump would almost certainly face a legal challenge if he makes good on his threat to get funding for a U.S.–Mexico border wall by declaring a national emergency and circumventing Congress‘s purse-strings power. Legal scholars said it was unclear how such a step would…
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer threw down on Trump and showed that the adults in the room aren’t playing on his wall shutdown.
By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress on Tuesday to give him $5.7 billion this year to help build a wall on the border with Mexico, but stopped short of declaring a national emergency that could have led to unilaterally funding the project. Facing Democratic opposition in…
Trump’s immigration address was a failed mixture of lies and pathetic desperation to get a wall that will never happen.
Watch live as Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer deliver the Democratic response to Trump’s immigration address.
Trump may be on a crusade to distract the country with a ridiculous primetime speech, but Robert Mueller’s team continues to tighten the screws.
According to Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe, the latest Russia evidence reveals that Donald Trump Jr. committed a crime when he solicited help from the Kremlin.
Hours before President Donald Trump’s prime-time address on the government shutdown, Democratic California lawmakers Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman brought ‘Trump trash’ to the White House
Trump is using his shutdown address from the Oval Office to try to raise $500,000 that goes into Trump’s reelection fund.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to place the blame on Democrats for the government shutdown because they won’t give Trump wall money.
New York City has launched a $100 million health insurance program to cover 600,000 uninsured residents, including those unable to afford coverage and those living in the United States illegally, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) warned Trump that if he tries to declare a national emergency to get his wall, he is likely to lose in court.
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) – A growing proportion of Americans blame President Donald Trump for a partial government shutdown that will cut off paychecks to federal workers this week, though Republicans mostly support his refusal to approve a budget without taxpayer dollars for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released…
Paul Manafort gave the Russians polling, data, and internal documents. Donald Trump knew about this and still coordinated lies to Mueller with him.
Paul Manafort’s lawyers failed to properly redact their filing and revealed that Manafort offered to brief the Russians on the Trump campaign.
(Reuters) – A Russian lawyer who attended a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower under scrutiny in the U.S. special counsel’s Russia probe was charged with obstruction of justice in an unrelated money laundering case, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan said. According to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Nataliya Veselnitskaya was charged with obstructing…
Vice President Mike Pence was asked who are the former presidents who told Trump that they support the wall, and Pence couldn’t name a single one.
Trump is going to be responded to directly by Housse Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after his address on the shutdown.
But corporate filings and other documents found by Reuters in Iran and Syria show that Huawei, the world’s largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, is more closely linked to both firms than previously known.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first absence from the bench extended into a second day on Tuesday as the 85-year-old jurist continued her recovery from lung cancer surgery at home. Although Ginsburg did not attend the oral arguments, she will participate in the cases and rulings by using the briefs…
The day before Deb Haaland was sworn in last week as a freshman lawmaker in the most diverse U.S. House of Representatives class in history, she said the weight of being one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress had not yet fully hit her.
Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California is beginning a new national book tour and media blitz this week amid rising speculation that she will soon announce her candidacy for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination for President. The book tour comes as the likelihood of a possible 2020 White House bid seems to be increasing. She…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats are doing everything they can to re-open the United States government. They are taking important steps to increase the pressure on Donald Trump and other Republicans to end the shutdown impasse over border wall funding. Pelosi and Democrats believe they have a winning hand in…
Democratic operatives in early primary states are starting an effort to draft Beto O’Rourke into the 2020 presidential campaign. And, in another sign that O’Rourke is seen as a viable threat to win the 2020 nomination and the presidency, Republican operatives are “feverishly digging†into O’Rourke’s past, looking for dirt to use against him. Boyd…
Democrats in the U.S. Senate are planning to stop the consideration of all non-shutdown legislation on the floor of the Senate until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans allow a vote on spending bills passed by the House last week. The new tough tactic is intended to place increasing pressure on McConnell as…
A federal appeals court said on Monday a Virginia politician violated the Constitution by temporarily blocking a critic from her Facebook page, a decision that could affect President Donald Trump’s appeal from a similar ruling in New York.
