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White House readies plan to extend about $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in Trump's escalating trade war - An announcement could come as soon as Tuesday, according to two people briefed on the matter. This is the latest sign that growing tensions between the United States and other countries will not end soon.
House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed President Donald Trump's plan to revoke security clearances from top former national security officials as just a mild form of "trolling," rather than a serious attack on dissent. Graphic shows six individuals from whom Donald Trump is considering revoking security clearances; 2c x 5 inches; 96.3 mm x 127 mm; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders points to a reporter to take a question as she speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, Monday, July 23, 2018, in Washington.
Senator Orrin Hatch tweeted at Google that he wasn't dead after search results suggested he had died last September. It's the third time in recent months that Wikipedia vandals have attacked Hatch's page after they renamed him "Sheev Palpatine" and claimed he had a flatulence problem.
National Corn Growers Association President Kevin Skunes presented NCGA's 2018 President's Award to North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. The President's Award is given annually at NCGA's Corn Congress meeting in Washington to a leader who has worked to advance issues important to corn growers and agriculture.
Stan Collender : "The deadline for Congress and President Donald Trump to come to an agreement that will avoid a government shutdown this fall - which may be a much more frequent threat and occurrence these days than it used to be but would still be anything but routine - is approaching quickly and neither the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have done anything to make it less likely."
FILE PHOTO: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp speaks with visitors to the state capitol about the "SEC primary" involving a group of sou - Republican voters in Georgia on Tuesday will choose their party's nominee for governor in a two-man faceoff that has become a proxy battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and the state's popular Republican governor, Nathan Deal. In May, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, who has Deal's endorsement, finished ahead of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
The Associated Industries of Florida -one of the leading business groups in the Sunshine State-threw its support behind state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam for governor on Monday. AIF's Board of Directors endorsed Putnam who is running in next month's Republican primary against U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.
President Donald Trump is "exploring the mechanisms" for revoking the security clearances of half a dozen former Obama administration officials and critics of his presidency.
California's top-two primary carried the risk of producing only candidates of one party on the November ballot. This actually happened in a number of legislative and congressional districts, but they were not any of the contested ones.
DONALD Trump has threatened to strip former officials of their security clearances after they criticised his summit meeting with Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump has threatened to strip former officials of their security clearances after they criticised his summit meeting with Vladimir Putin.
A unidentified woman protests at Broad Street for the pending arrival of Vice President Mike Pence at the Union League, in Philadelphia, Monday, July 23, 2018. Dozens of demonstrators dressed as characters from the novel-turned-TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" descended on downtown Philadelphia to protest Pence's visit.
Police said they arrested Presschara McVay, 16, Monday morning and charged her with murder and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon . Officers said McVay was involved in the robbery and shooting death of Abraham Wallace on Waddell Street in northwest Charlotte in November 2017.
Investigators say a passerby called authorities July 12 after spotting an emaciated teen near Chandler. The 15-year-old boy was found living in a barn and eating sticks, leaves and grass to survive.
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is exploring "mechanisms" to revoke security clearances for former U.S. officials who have criticized him for his handling of the Russia investigation and his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday. Sanders said the administration is reviewing clearances for former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI director director James Comey, former national intelligence director James Clapper, former CIA director Michael Hayden, former national security adviser Susan Rice and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.
President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of a half dozen former Obama administration officials and critics of his presidency. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that the president is "exploring the mechanisms" to strip clearance from former CIA director John Brennan, along with former FBI director Jim Comey, former national intelligence director James Clapper and others.
Republican gubernatorial candidates Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp are facing off in a runoff election Tuesday following a crowded seven-person Republican primary in May. In a tweet on Saturday, President Trump endorsed Kemp, which could affect the outcome of the race.
A Georgia lawmaker is the latest public figure caught with his pants down on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen's new cable TV series, this time literally, as the state legislator exposes his bottom, speaks with a mock Asian accent and yells a racial slur all in the name of fighting terrorism. In Sunday night's broadcast of Cohen's Showtime series "Who Is America?" Cohen poses as an Israeli military expert who persuades Republican Rep. Jason Spencer to take part in several outlandish exercises.
Senator Rand Paul will be meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon to request that disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan have his security clearance revoked. Brennan has been working in the media and bashing Trump for airtime, even accusing the president of treason following the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a series of unhinged tweets.
The release of new documents relating to the genesis of the Russia probe - and President Donald Trump's response to those documents Monday morning - throw the asymmetry between the parties that is the driving fact of our politics right now into perhaps its starkest relief yet. Broadly speaking, many Republicans have tacitly enabled or actively aided in efforts to pervert the basic functions of government in service of preventing the full truth about Russian sabotage of U.S. democracy from becoming publicly known, all to shield Trump from accountability.
This release was highly unusual. In fact it was unprecedented. These were unclassified more or less by accident when President Trump unilaterally declassified the notorious "Nunes memo," leaving the door open for the Freedom of Information Act request that led to this release of the underlying documents on which it was based.