With Senate passage, bill to prevent shutdown goes to House

The Senate approved legislation to temporarily fund the government, a key step toward averting a federal shutdown after President Donald Trump backed off his demand for money for a border wall with Mexico. Senators passed the measure, which would keep government running to Feb. 8, by voice vote without a roll call Wednesday night.

Kellyanne Conway: Trump will ‘certainly’ look at stopgap…

Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway WaPost media columnist calls for banning Kellyanne Conway from the news 'Saturday Night Live' ponders life if Trump had never been elected with Baldwin, Stiller and De Niro George Conway rips Trump's defense of Daniels, McDougal payments MORE Donald John Trump READ: Transcript of James Comey's interview with House Republicans Klobuchar on 2020: 'I do think you want voices from the Midwest' Israel boycott fight roils Democrats in year-end spending debate MORE would "take a look" at a short-term funding measure to keep the government open, but insisted that the administration was not backing off its demands for funding for a wall along the southern border.

What was Michelle Obama thinking after Trump’s inauguration? – Bye, Felicia.’

Standing in the doorway of a Boeing 747, former president Barack Obama has one arm wrapped around Michelle Obama. The pair are waving, smiles plastered across their faces.

Schiff: If Cohen deserves jail time so does Trump

Adam Bennett Schiff Schiff calls on Flynn to testify before House Intelligence Committee Stone admits to publishing false statements on InfoWars Trump White House preparing for 'knock-down, drag-out fight' with new House: report MORE Donald John Trump READ: Transcript of James Comey's interview with House Republicans Klobuchar on 2020: 'I do think you want voices from the Midwest' Israel boycott fight roils Democrats in year-end spending debate MORE 's former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen deserves jail time for campaign finance law violations, the president should not be precluded from facing a similar punishment.

Trump signed letter of intent for Moscow project in Oct. 2015, report says

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent in the effort to land a deal for a Trump property in Moscow, according to a document published Tuesday by CNN , after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani denied Sunday that anyone had signed such a document. The agreement dated Oct. 28, 2015 , more than four months after Trump announced his presidential campaign outlined the sale of the "non-exclusive right to use one or more derivates of the 'Trump' name" to Russian developer Andrey Rozov in a mixed-use project that would include "250 first class, luxury" condominiums and "one first class, luxury hotel" with commercial, office and parking components that are "consistent with the overall luxury of the Property."

The Latest: Senate Democrats will support GOP spending bill

The Latest on the fight over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and a potential partial government shutdown : Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says it's good news that President Donald Trump has apparently retreated from his demand that Congress pay for a border wall with Mexico. Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats prefer to find a way to fund all government agencies through Sept.

Newt: Trump Won’t Quit Fighting for Border Security

Democrats may be winning a short-term victory on keeping the government open, but President Donald Trump is "probably trying to get past the Christmas season," and he will keep fighting for border security, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday. "I have always thought having been through shutdowns when I was speaker, I don't think shutting government down on Christmas Eve is particularly big win for anybody," Gingrich told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."

Judge says Trump’s ex-security chief Michael Flynn sold country out

Washington - President Donald Trump's former national security chief on Tuesday received a delay in sentencing for lying over Russian contacts, after a judge threatened him with stiff jail time and said: "You sold your country out." Russia collusion investigation head Robert Mueller had proposed Michael Flynn receive no jail time for lying to investigators about his Moscow ties -- and in his own pitch to the court last week, Flynn had requested the same.

Farm bill’s federal hemp provision could disrupt Humboldt County cannabis economy

A major agriculture bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week could legalize hemp at the federal level, allowing farmers across the country to cultivate hemp, but that doesn't necessarily spell good news for Humboldt County. The bill, which now awaits President Donald Trump's signature, includes a provision that lifts hemp off of a list of federally criminalized drugs.

Russian Trolls and the Trump Campaign Both Tried to Depress Black Turnout

Perhaps the most striking takeaway from a pair of new reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee is the consistency and persistence with which Russian trolls sought to depress the black vote in the 2016 election. That workers for the Internet Research Agency-a "troll farm" with close ties to the Kremlin-targeted African Americans has been clear for more than a year, emerging in a series of reports in fall 2017, and then receiving new attention in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's February 2018 indictment of the IRA and several associated individuals.

White House digs in on border wall demand, risking shutdown

Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border despite lawmaker resistance from both parties. President Donald Trump kept up the pressure on Democrats Monday, tweeting: "Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!" On Sunday, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said: "We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration."

Comey says House Republicans are ‘shameful’ after interview

Former FBI Director James Comey had harsh words for House Republicans on Monday, saying their silence in response to President Donald Trump's attacks on the Justice Department is "shameful." Comey said Republicans "have to have the courage to stand up and speak the truth, not be cowed by mean tweets or fear of their base."

Giuliani: a Over my dead bodya will Mueller interview Trump

With a number of probes moving closer to the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and his attorney unleased a fresh series of attacks Sunday on the investigators, questioning their integrity while categorically ruling out the possibility of a presidential interview with the special counsel. Trump and Rudy Giuliani used Twitter and television interviews to deliver a series of broadsides against special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York.

More Powerful Than a Russian Troll Army: The National Enquirer

New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep - The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee Silicon Valley may have done 'bare minimum' to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told - Sen. Warner 'deeply disappointed' Google not on Capitol Hill - The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that social media companies might have provided the "bare minimum" Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow 'Up To November 2016' - Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal "all the way up to...November of 2016."

I Have Seen the Future of a Republican Party That Is No Longer Insane …

New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep - The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee Silicon Valley may have done 'bare minimum' to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told - Sen. Warner 'deeply disappointed' Google not on Capitol Hill - The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that social media companies might have provided the "bare minimum" Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow 'Up To November 2016' - Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal "all the way up to...November of 2016."