A battle over the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico Policy” is being played out in the court system. The Trump administration pushed an emergency stay motion through to the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th district ...
“It was really a matter of lobbyists scratching each other’s backs. ‘We’ll throw a pile of coal money at trying to destroy Bears Ears, if you grazing chaps will throw some cow money at our ...
“They just want the attention on the issue because they don’t want to talk to us about policy.” White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Democrats will never get Trump’s tax returns on Fox ...
“If true, these new reports raise grave questions about what derogatory information career officials obtained about Mr. Kushner to recommend denying him access to our nation’s most sensitive secrets.” On March 28, 2019, the Senate ...
“If political appointees weren’t stopping the government’s own scientists from doing their jobs, this brain-damaging, wildlife-killing horror of a pesticide would already be banned.” (By Beyond Pesticides) A set of documents obtained by the Center ...
“By recognizing and legitimating Israel’s annexation of Golan, Washington is virtually inviting other international predators to seize what they want.” In a reversal of long-held Washington and international policy, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation ...
Trump pledges veto in response to bipartisan vote ending national emergency declaration at the southern border. On Thursday, 12 Republicans joined Democrats in the U.S. Senate and voted to end Trump’s declaration of an emergency ...
“Donald Trump is most responsible for the cyber attack on the Venezuelan electricity system.” As Venezuela struggles through the sixth day of a blackout that has affected as much as 70 percent of the country, ...
Denuclearization talks between Trump and Kim Jong-un abruptly fell apart over the easing of sanctions on North Korea, but not all hope is lost for future talks. Last Thursday the second meeting between President Donald ...
“We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption … and into obstruction of justice.” (By Tim Ahmann, Reuters) – The House Judiciary Committee will seek documents from more than 60 people ...
Under the Constitution, the president, vice president and “all civil officers of the United States” can be removed from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” (By Richard Cowan, Reuters) – Investigations ...
Factcheck.org took a look at Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee yesterday and broke down the discrepancies between statements made by Cohen and President Trump. (FactCheck) Michael Cohen gave public testimony under oath ...
After testifying in a closed-door hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Michael Cohen testified Wednesday morning in a live televised hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Cohen will testify again on Thursday in ...
Trump’s national emergency declaration at the border is being spun all the way around. (FactCheck.org) Both sides are spinning the facts in response to President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the Southwest border: As ...
The UN wrapped up a preliminary investigation into the Khashoggi murder despite frustration over lack of access. A U.N.-led team, headed by French diplomat Agnes Callamard, sent to Turkey to investigate the killing of Saudi ...
“All I want to do is be able to watch,” Trump said in an interview regarding his plan to keep troops in Iraq to monitor Iran. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump told CBS that ...
Bipartisan frustration over Trump’s use of tariffs in trade wars has lead to a new bill to curtail the President’s power. United States lawmakers are taking steps to reduce the president’s power to level import tariffs ...
One of the many reasons President Trump is advocating for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico is because he believes that a border wall will help stop the flow of illicit opioids into ...
The masses of asylum seekers at the U.S. southern border will now have to wait in Mexico for their trial dates. Many of the people in the migrant caravans arriving at the US border are ...
Roger Stone is getting his day in court after being woken up by FBI agents Friday morning. Special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI arrested long-time Trump ally Roger Stone in a pre-dawn raid at ...
We have a deal, but will it last? Trump announced Friday that a deal had been reached between the President and U.S. lawmakers to fund and open the government through February 15. The announcement came ...
The Democratic Party has a new deal that just might entice President Trump. According to multiple reports, House Democrats are drafting a new offer to bring Republicans and President Trump back to the table and ...
In response to Trump declaration, President Nicolas Maduro gives diplomats from ‘imperialist’ U.S. 72 hours to leave the country. (Common Dreams) President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela officially cut off dipomatic ties with the U.S. government ...
Could The Punisher be the antihero America needs? Films and TV shows these days are rarely championed by both sides of the political spectrum, but the exception may be Marvel’s “The Punisher”, with its second ...
It’s been a month since a meeting at the White House between Trump, Schumer and Pelosi turned into a shouting match and the Trump-Pelosi drama has only intensified since. Exchanges between President Trump and Nancy ...
“The goal of the new branch is ‘to defend satellites from attack’ and ‘perform other space-related tasks’ or something”, Space Force Netflix trailer. Comedic actor Steve Carell is set to star in a new Netflix ...
The US and Russia are on the verge of pulling out of a crucial treaty that ended the Cold War era arms race and kept missiles out of Europe. After a meeting in Geneva between ...
Guzmán’s trial is a telenovela-style explainer on why a wall is unlikely to stop the lucrative U.S.-Mexico drug trade. (The Conversation, by Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong) The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ...
“I love my country, these are complicated issues” but that regardless of political affiliation, “you’ve gotta believe we can do better,” – Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers. Acclaimed film director Spike Lee joined ...
Who was really behind the tax bill passed by the Trump administration? (MapLight) A nonprofit trade association whose members include some of the largest corporations in the nation increased its political donations by more than ...
The United States is now in its longest ever government shutdown, but how is that actually affecting departments? Parts of the U.S. federal government remain closed in what is turning out to be the longest shutdown ...
A new PBS documentary takes a look at six dictators from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein—and how they shaped the 20th century. Airing Wednesday nights in six hour-long installments starting January 9, “The Dictator’s Playbook” started ...
On Monday, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel vowed to hire a federal employee to work on his show every night until the government shutdown ends. It marked the 17th day of the shutdown, which ...
Critics of the Trump administration are arguing that the oil sector is receiving preferential treatment during the government shutdown. The United States has experienced two-government shutdowns over the past six years. While most people would ...
(FactCheck) On the day he met with congressional leaders to discuss the budget stalemate, President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading claims about the Southwest border and the wall he wants to build: Trump ...
A lawsuit against the Trump Family Foundation seeks more than $2.8 million in restitution plus additional penalties from members of the Trump family for allegedly misusing charitable assets. (The Conversation, by Daniel Hemel, Assistant Professor of Law, University ...
“Honestly, if you’d asked me 20 years ago I would have laughed, I really don’t know.” Angelina Jolie appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today program on Friday and when asked if she would consider a ...
Using shell entities to circumvent campaign coordination rules is a hardly new concept, and something that often occurs without consequence — giving consultants free rein to exploit these tactics. (Open Secrets, by Anna Massoglia) The Trump campaign ...
Investigators in New York are looking into how Trump’s inaugural committee spent and received donations. More drama unfolded Thursday as news broke that President Trump’s inaugural committee is reportedly under investigation by federal prosecutors at the ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore) In a contentious Oval Office meeting, President Donald Trump and the Democratic congressional leaders — Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer — disagreed over funding for a border wall, ...
On Wednesday, AMI chairman David Pecker admitted to paying an ex-Playboy model $150,000 to kill her story about an extramarital affair with President Trump. On the same day that President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael ...
The Trump administration said it would again revoke the reporter’s press pass after a two-week restraining order expires. (Common Dreams) CNN requested an emergency hearing Monday after the White House warned reporter Jim Acosta that it ...
(RFE/RL) For the past two years, U.S. foreign policy has been roiled by Donald Trump’s presidency as he questioned long-standing tenets of Washington’s alliances and relationships. Now it’s about be roiled yet again as Democrats, ...
A new documentary from Lebron James looks at the history of the NBA and its effect on culture, African American issues and activism in the U.S. “Shut Up and Dribble,” a new three-part documentary about ...
Trump is trying to ramp up support for Republicans as the country heads into the midterm election on Tuesday by fearmongering – regardless of actual facts. They say that desperate times call for desperate measures ...
A new lawsuit filed in court on Monday names President Trump and family as defendants and accuses them of participation in a fraudulent marketing scheme. Four people filed a complaint against President Donald Trump, members ...
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office. (FactCheck.org) In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: The jobless rate dropped to the lowest in nearly half a ...