By Tom Hals (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants. The ruling is slated to take effect on…
Trump’s purge of the Department of Homeland Security has put the final nail in his always-ridiculous national emergency declaration coffin.
Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will certainly try, but she will never be able to outrun her cruel and inhumane immigration legacy.
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the agency that provides protection for him and other top U.S. officials, the White House said on Monday, a day after the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The dismissal of Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex”…
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell is officially the 18th Democrat to declare his candidacy for president, but the field is as strong as it is large.
If there was any remaining doubt about the president’s childishness, his treatment of outgoing Secret Service head Randolph Alles should clear it up.
Among other offenses, Patten pleaded guilty to communicating with U.S. lawmakers and the media on behalf of the Opposition Bloc, a Russia-aligned political party in Ukraine, without disclosing that work to the Justice Department, in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Influential Democrats in early primary states are standing with Joe Biden as they believe the touching scandal has not damaged his campaign.
U.S. judge on Monday issued an injunction halting the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their deportation cases in Mexico.
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Tuesday on a bill to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules repealed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump.
Trump told border agents during his visit to California to defy a judge’s order and break the law by denying migrants entry into the US.
Defense officials warn that US troops could face consequences in the Middle East after Trump overruled the Pentagon and declared Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist group.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran warned on Monday that Washington’s designation of its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization could endanger peace and stability in the Middle East and beyond, state TV reported. Tehran also took retaliatory action by naming the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) as a terrorist organization and the U.S….
The existing deal will not be allowed to go forward because it was based on an erroneous interpretation by the former Obama administration that the Cuban baseball federation was not part of Cuba’s communist government, a senior U.S. official said.
By Lesley Wroughton and Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday branded Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, an unprecedented step that raises the specter of retaliation from Tehran in an increasingly tense Middle East. It is the first time the United States has formally labeled another country’s…
It isn’t a coincidence that after the Secret Service expressed concerns about Trump letting spies into his private club, Trump fired the Secret Service Director.
Reports are circulating that Trump is planning a full-scale purge at Homeland Security as part of his plan to implement his court blocked immigration policies.
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told Trump and his White House that picking on children doesn’t make them look tough on immigration.
Trump wants to resume putting migrant kids in cages, which is one of the reasons why Kirstjen Nielsen was pushed out.
A Trump-supporting Georgia congressman, Rep. Doug Collins, has demanded that House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) invite special counsel Robert Mueller to come testify before his committee “without delay.†House Judiciary Ranking Member @RepDougCollins  has asked Chairman @RepJerryNadler to invite Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the committee “without delay.” INBOX: House Judiciary Ranking…
Last week House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass) sent a letter to the IRS Commissioner demanding six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns. This started a huge legal and political fight in Washington, with both sides prematurely claiming victory. Neal and other House Democrats have said the federal law is clear, and…
The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to pursue a nuclear agreement with the government of Saudi Arabia, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. Specifically, OSC “is looking at whether officials were retaliated against for raising concerns about the administration’s work related to a Saudi nuclear…
Since becoming Speaker of the House in January, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has had to balance the goals of far-left progressives in her party with moderate Democrats who won districts in 2018 that Donald Trump had carried in 2016. And, in ways that have surprised a lot of skeptics, she has done an excellent job…
A panel of experts on CNN’s New Day on Monday was unanimous. They all said that President Donald Trump will have a very hard time finding a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief who will also be able to win confirmation in the Senate. While discussing the firing of former Secretary of Homeland Security…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has guaranteed victory for her party in the 2020 elections. One of the ways she will make good on her promise is by making sure the House passes popular bills which will be rejected by the White House and the GOP-controlled Senate. One such bill — to put back…
