A partial shutdown of the U.S. government, which enters its second month on Wednesday, has delayed the publication of key economic data, leaving investors and businesses to follow their intuition and gut instincts as they make critical decisions.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) told Mitch McConnell to grow up, do his job, and end the government shutdown during an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Trump spent his entire weekend fuming after Rudy Giuliani screwed up and admitted that Trump was trying to do business with Russia through Election Day 2016.
In a warning to President Donald Trump not to try to withdraw the United States from the NATO military alliance, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation aimed at preventing such a move.
Four progressive Democrats, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ro Khanna, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib have all been named to the House Oversight Committee that will play a key role in investigating Trump and his administration.
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is exploring ways to keep providing food assistance to America’s poor if a partial government shutdown continues much longer, and urged lawmakers to end the uncertainty with a budget deal stalled by President Donald Trump‘s demand for funding for border wall with…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) called out Senate Republicans for siding with Trump and doing Putin’s bidding by blocking the effort to keep sanctions in place on a Russian billionaire.
The U.S. Supreme Court closed the door at least for now on President Donald Trump’s effort to end protections for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants dubbed “Dreamers,” with the justices again silent on Tuesday on three related appeals.
Trump has killed the White House press briefing at the same time that Robert Mueller is closing in and the American people need answers.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have quietly tweaked a rule on taking secret depositions that is likely to give a boost to their investigations of President Donald Trump, his personal finances and his administration.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the relationship between the Trump campaign and the NRA during the 2016 election.
The U.S. Senate has scheduled votes on Thursday on competing proposals by Republicans and Democrats that would reopen an array of federal agencies that have been partially shuttered since Dec. 22.
Ivanka Trump is using her dad’s trade war to get new trademarks from Chima after she supposedly shut down her fashion line.
The White House is preparing multiple State Of The Union speeches because Trump might give his SOTU at a rally.
A week-old strike by more than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers that has disrupted classes for nearly half a million students neared an end on Tuesday as the teachers’ union and the second-largest U.S. school district reached a contract deal.
The State Department did not immediately respond to questions about Mitchell’s resignation, which comes at a time of tensions with some key European allies over the Trump administration’s decisions to withdraw from the Iran deal, the global climate pact, and recently to withdraw troops from Syria.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump still plans to deliver his annual State of the Union address from the Capitol later this month as scheduled, a Trump administration official said on Tuesday as the federal government shutdown stretched into its second month. The White House has sent a request to the House of Representatives’…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an unknown foreign government-owned company that is contesting a subpoena issued by a grand jury in a sealed case possibly linked to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election to file its appeal under seal.
By Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Netflix movie “Roma” and British historical romp “The Favourite” from Fox Searchlight led nominations for the Oscars on Tuesday with 10 nods apiece in a history-making best picture lineup. They will compete for the top prize of best picture with musical romance “A Star is…
The White House is admitting that they have no plan and no clue how they are going to end the government shutdown that Trump caused.
(Reuters) – Nominations for the 2019 Oscars, or Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie industry, were announced on Tuesday. The awards will be handed out on Feb. 24 at a ceremony in Hollywood. Best Picture “A Star is Born” “Vice” “Roma” “Green Book” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “Black Panther” “The Favourite” Best Actor Bradley…
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Marvel Studios film “Black Panther” made Oscars history on Tuesday, landing the first best picture nomination for a superhero movie, as crowd-pleasing blockbusters muscled into a contest recently dominated by art-house fare. Other box-office hits among the eight nominees for the movie industry’s top prize included musical remake…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump enforce his policy barring certain transgender people from joining or staying in the military as the justices put on hold lower court rulings blocking the plan on constitutional grounds.
Trump’s shutdown is nearly five weeks old, and as millions of Americans are going without pay, a potential crisis is hitting America’s airports. Millions of people traveled over the just-concluded holiday weekend, and it was reported that the percentage of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners missing work has hit 10 percent. The TSA workers…
Rep. Joe Neguse (D., Colo.) said Friday that the House Judiciary Committee will “likely†investigate perjury charges against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Joe Neguse, a freshman member of the Judiciary Committee, made the comments to a group of his constituents on Friday. He said that he was very concerned about perjury claims against Kavanaugh…
Fraidy Reiss started the organization, Unchained at Last, in 2011 to push for an end to child and forced marriages after her own horrific experience of being forced to marry a violent man at the age of 19. Since then she has found that federal immigration law loopholes have allowed the practice of forced child…
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is starting to cause real pain for some of the most vulnerable Americans, according to The New York Times. This includes millions of homeless people as well as millions of others who are one just one small crisis away from ending up on the streets themselves. And most…
