Alabama Republican Roy Moore, whose unsuccessful 2017 campaign for the U.S. Senate was marred by allegations he sexually assaulted or pursued teenage girls while in his 30s, said on Friday that he may again run for the Senate.
As President Donald Trump vociferously pushes for a physical barrier across the country’s southern border, young people claiming to be eligible for protection under the Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) program increasingly face a less publicized barrier: heightened demands for paperwork.
The 18-foot-high (5.5 meters) steel barrier is meant to deter illegal immigration. But its position inside the border has turned it into a destination for human smugglers trafficking large groups of asylum seekers fleeing poverty and violence.
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s Justice Department is unlikely to grant Democrats in Congress access to underlying evidence from Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, a top congressional Republican said on Friday. If Representative Doug Collins is right, Democratic-led congressional committees that have launched…
The poll found that 53 percent believe the campaign “worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election,” while 32 percent do not and 15 percent said they were not sure.
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Constitution explains how a president can be removed from office for “high crimes and misdemeanors” by Congress using the impeachment process. But the Constitution is silent on whether a president can face criminal prosecution in court, and the U.S. Supreme Court has not directly addressed the question….
During an interview with Al Jazeera English, Erik Prince got busted for lying to the House Intelligence Committee about a meeting he attended with the Trumps at Trump Tower in August 2016.
A federal court jury in Central Islip, New York, found former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano guilty of bribery, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.
Republican corruption has reached the point where they are actively celebrating the fact that Mitch McConnell will obstruct an anti-corruption bill.
The Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee requested all documents related to Trump’s plan to move Pentagon money to fund his wall. Read the letter from Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee: [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019.03.07-Approps.HASC-Border-Wall-DOC-REQ-03072019174224.pdf” title=”2019.03.07 Approps.HASC Border Wall DOC REQ-03072019174224″] The lawmakers wrote, “While the President has issued a national emergency proclamation,…
A man who was wounded in a shooting at an Illinois warehouse last month has sued the state police for wrongly allowing the shooter to buy the handgun he used to kill five co-workers and injure others, local media said.
Adult film star adulterer and implicated felon Trump went to Alabama and sign Bibles for storm victims and volunteers.
After Trump spent his “executive time” trying to trash Michael Cohen, Rep. Eric Swalwell confronted the president and asked for his testimony under oath to Mueller or Congress.
As part of their bill to fight corruption, House Democrats passed an amendment that requires Donald Trump to release his business tax returns.
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, who was considered a top candidate to become the next secretary of defense, has decided to resign after almost two years to return to academia, U.S. officials told Reuters, leaving another vacant post at the top level of the Pentagon. Wilson was not…
For Fox News executive Bill Shine lasted all of eight months as Trump’s communications director, as the White House announced his resignation on Friday. The White House provided this statement to PoliticusUSA Assistant to the President and Communications Director, Bill Shine offered his resignation to the President yesterday evening, and the President accepted. Bill continues…
House Democrats have passed a comprehensive election reform bill (H.R. 1) with every single Republican voting against voting rights.
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – Campaigners for gender equality marked International Women’s Day on Friday with protests, discussion panels and walkouts as well as celebrations. In one of the first protests of the day, several hundred women gathered in central Madrid around midnight to bang pots and pans and demand more rights for women…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) – Two U.S. House Democrats on Thursday asked the White House and Justice Department to turn over documents that could show whether Republican President Donald Trump sought to intervene in the regulatory review of AT&T Inc’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. In letters released on Thursday, House Judiciary Committee…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), desperate to increase her standing in the 2020 presidential polls, today called for the breakup of tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook. In a Medium blog post, Warren named specific “anti-competitive” mergers she wants reversed, including: Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram; Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods and Zappos; and Google’s…
U.S. job growth almost stalled in February, with the economy creating only 20,000 jobs as construction and retail payrolls dropped, which could raise concerns about a sharp slowdown in economic activity.
President Donald Trump went to Twitter this morning to share with the world his initial comments about Paul Manafort‘s sentence which was handed out last night by federal Judge T.S. Ellis in Alexandria, Virginia. Trump tweeted: “Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear…
The Miami Herald reports this morning that Donald Trump last month was photographed partying with the founder of a chain of Florida day spas that are known for being involved with human trafficking and prostitution. According to the Herald, Li Yang, the wealthy founder of the chain of profitable day spas attended Trump’s Super Bowl…
Even though the Trump administration has refused to provide Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s security clearance files to the House Oversight Committee, they appear to have gotten them anyway. According to a confidential source in the White House, the Oversight Committee was given the documents by a staffer who now could be under fire for…
Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election chances took another hit today when a new poll was published in Michigan showing his support in that state has severely dissipated since 2016. In the 2016 election Trump won Michigan by just 10,000 votes, representing .27% of the total votes cast. The new poll shows that the vast majority of…
The inauguration committee set up for Donald Trump in 2016 reportedly received large amounts of illegal contributions from shell companies that were set up to hide the involvement of a foreign contributors. The Guardian is reporting that the creators of three shell organizations each gave $25,000 to the record $107 million fund for President Donald…
