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In the days after Superstorm Sandy ravaged New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie crisscrossed the state, assessing damage, hugging evacuees and projecting the image of a man in charge. In a famous show of bipartisanship, he welcomed President Obama to New Jersey as the state sought federal funds to help with damage.
President Donald Trump is starting work later and ending the day earlier in 2018, according to internal White House documents obtained by Jonathan Swan of Axios.com . Trump is postponing the beginning of his work day until 11 a.m., taking fewer meetings and and demanding more "executive time" in which he is unscheduled for official duties.
In July, MSNBC host and former Rep. Joe Scarborough showily announced on Stephen ColbertA s CBS show that he was leaving the Republican Party. No one on the Republican National Committee flew a flag at half-mast.
None of this is normal. Try to picture Barack Obama declaring that David Axelrod had "lost his mind," George W. Bush saying that Karl Rove "is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look," or Bill Clinton's lawyers sending James Carville a cease-and-desist letter threatening "imminent" legal action.
After almost a year in office, President Donald Trump still hasn't appointed a director for the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. He's proposed cutting millions of dollars from HIV and AIDS prevention programs.
As we approach the end of President Donald Trump's first year in office, the list of extraordinary things he has done -- for both good and ill -- is nothing short of remarkable. Trump inspires such deep emotions in his critics and supporters that many have struggled to objectively assess his presidency.
It is amazing how quickly the Republican Party has permitted President Trump to completely pervert and take over the party lock, stock and barrel. His leadership and their willing support have exposed the Republican Party as the party of the rich and for the rich at the expense of the vulnerable.
President Donald Trump signed the tax cuts bill into law just before Christmas, making the Christmas holiday weekend a little brighter and cheerier for the vast majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. The new law's positive effects have already begun.
Barack Hussein Obama just gave an interview with the newly-engaged Prince Harry with the BBC. The conversation marks the first interview since Obama left the Oval Office.
When Robert Mueller was appointed in May to oversee the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, he was universally praised as the perfect choice. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a vocal supporter of President Trump, tweeted that Mueller 's "reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity."
In the wake of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's guilty plea and the news that he has become a cooperating witness, right-wing media and certain House Republicans have stepped up their baseless and fact-challenged attacks on Special Counsel Bob Mueller and the FBI in a desperate attempt to discredit the investigation as it gains potency and to create political space for President Trump to fire Mueller. Leading the charge is Sean Hannity with his fellow Fox evening prime time hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram and weekend host Jeanine Pirro following closely behind.
Out of every 1,000 Americans who die, only two pay the federal estate tax, which brought in $18 billion, or less than 1 percent of U.S. tax revenue, in 2016. It's remarkable, then, that such a minor tax has become a major partisan battleground.
During Barack Obama's eight years in office, he was regularly branded a socialist by the right for his perceived hostility towards capitalism and business. According to Republicans in Congress, the "left-wing" president was "attacking capitalism" and freedom, and advancing a blatantly socialist agenda.
The Justice Department is officially going after Hillary Clinton over the Uranium One scandal and President Trump is jubilant over it. So is the rest of America.
President Trump talks with reporters as he leaves the White House on Saturday for Camp David in Maryland. There were two, not necessarily mutually exclusive, explanations for President Trump's appeal to white working-class male voters in the heartland.
's rocky first year in office, White House aides view imminent victory on a tax overhaul as a starting point to strengthen his weak approval ratings ahead of key congressional elections next November. 's poll numbers needed to start rising to limit the damage in 2018 elections in which his fellow Republicans' continued control of Congress will be at stake.
President Donald Trump removed climate change from the list of worldwide threats menacing the United States on Monday, a shift that underscores the long-term ramifications of the The document depicts Russia and China as combative rivals in perpetual competition with the U.S. But it makes no mention of what scientists say are the dangers posed by a ... (more)
How big a deal is Democrat Doug Jones' victory in the Alabama U.S. Senate race? Pretty big for the country. What does it say about next year's elections in Arkansas? Probably not that much.
Trump's new security strategy. December. 18, 2017 07:57. phark@donga.com. U.S. President Donald Trump will lay out a new National Security Strategy on Monday .