By Jane Ross DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) – California’s Death Valley National Park, famed for its record-breaking heat, is keeping its visitor center and some restrooms open during the partial U.S. government shutdown with donations from a non-profit group and two hotels, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. The Death Valley Natural History Association is funding…
Rachel Maddow looked at the past mass presidential pardon that Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr was involved with and raised the red flag on how it relates to the Russia scandal.
Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI) and called out McConnell for being a coward who could end the government shutdown but won’t use his power and do his job.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders mocked Jim Acosta for his tweet along the border, but her mocking quickly backfired on the entire White House. Acosta tweeted: I found some steel slats down on the border. But I don’t see anything resembling a national emergency situation.. at least not in the McAllen TX area of…
The White House is laying the groundwork for declaring a national emergency that would let President Donald Trump build sections of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, possibly using funds from the Army Corps of Engineers, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing two unnamed sources.
Trump has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to see if they can divert disaster relief money from California wildfire victims, and Hurricane victims in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico to pay for his wall.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) suggested that one of the topics that one of the crimes that Michael Cohen is expected to testify about is Trump money laundering.
In McAllen, the county’s largest city, several officials and residents interviewed by Reuters expressed skepticism over Trump’s claim that a wall is required to end what he described as a “crisis” in an Oval Office address on Tuesday.
The White House legal strategy to justify declaring a national emergency for the wall is to get their talking to say national emergency a whole lot.
Republicans in and around Forth Worth, Texas, will vote on Thursday on whether to oust a vice chairman of the county party from his post because he is a Muslim, a move opposed by Republican elected officials in the state.
By Deborah Gembara WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of furloughed federal employees chanting “we want to work” gathered for a union-led march to the White House on Thursday, the 20th day of a partial government shutdown over U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall funding. “Hey, hey, ho, ho, shutdown’s got to go” protesters shouted…
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff reminded Michael Cohen that while an open session would be welcomed, he will still need to answer questions about that Russia probe hanging over President Trump.
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is due to testify publicly before Congress on Feb. 7, according to a statement on Thursday from Cohen and a schedule from the House of Representatives’ oversight committee.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not know that his former 2016 presidential campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, allegedly shared polling data with a business partner who prosecutors say had ties to Russian intelligence. “No, I didn’t know anything about it,” he told reporters at the White House. Manafort is…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin insisted on Thursday that the Trump administration would keep tight control on Russian companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, despite last month’s decision to ease restrictions on the firms. “Treasury will be vigilant in ensuring that En+ and Rusal meet these commitments. If…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rebuked President Donald Trump for threatening to block disaster aid for California, a state recently ravaged by deadly, destructive wildfires whose mostly Democratic political leaders often spar with the Republican president. “How shocking it is that this president would say he’s going to…
A coalition of left-leaning Wisconsin groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to throw out several laws passed by the Republican-led legislature following the November election that weakened the powers of the newly elected Democratic governor.
As Trump goes to Texas for a photo-op promoting his wall that will never be, thousands of federal workers have taken to the streets in protest of his shutdown. Anytime that the trauma and economic pain of the shutdown is mentioned, the White House and Republicans have turned the subject to border security. They won’t…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Elijah Cummings introduced legislation on Thursday aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs for American consumers, critiquing President Donald Trump administration’s efforts to curb medicine prices.
The Trump-run Labor Department wants to pass a rule to encourage states to drug test everyone who applies for unemployment benefits.
Trump told reporters that he hasn’t declared a national emergency for his wall because he wants a deal with Congress, which means that there is no emergency. Trump was asked if it is an emergency, why doesn’t he declare a national emergency? The president answered, “Because I would like to do the deal through Congress…
Donald Trump’s last meeting with Democratic congressional leaders ended with him storming out of the room and declaring the talks “a total waste of time.†The Democratic Senate Leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, said that the president threw a “temper tantrum.†And now, after all that, Trump is going today to the U.S.-Mexico border…
Donald Trump now wants a steel slat wall on the Mexican border. In his Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday he said such a wall was “absolutely critical to border security.” But Department of Homeland Security (DHS) testing of an officially approved prototype of such a steel slat wall showed that it can easily…
In the new Congress which convened last week members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will have more power than they have ever had in the history of the United States. In a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives blacks will hold an unprecedented level influence. Before, during the Republican-controlled House, not a single African-American chaired a…
In a 2004 speech to a group of graduating college students in New York Donald Trump told his audience never to let a wall stop them from achieving their goals. He said that they should “never give up†and not let even a concrete wall deter them. Instead he advised: “If there’s a concrete wall…
Democratic activist Tom Steyer, a billionaire investor who has discussed running for president, said on Wednesday that he won’t run for the White House in 2020. He said he would instead spend his money continuing his efforts to impeach President Donald Trump. Steyer has already spent $50 million on his impeachment efforts — called the…
