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U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, dismissed U.S. Justice Department arguments that the court had no authority to second-guess the cross-border permit that was issued by the State Department. Conservation groups and Native American organizations contend in the lawsuit that an environmental review of the project completed in 2014 was inadequate.
In this June 15, 2016, file photo, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., laughs during an interview with The Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Franken has spent much of his nine years as senator trying to shed his funnyman image and digging into issues.
This year, even more than last year, people are dreading talking politics over Thanksgiving dinner. A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that 58 percent of people celebrating the holiday are not excited about the prospect - and Democrats are less excited than Republicans.
Pass the turkey - but maybe hold the politics. The already-fraught topic now includes allegations of sexual misconduct against politicians of various political stripes.
When Donald Trump appointed Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General, it was widely assumed that his permanent replacement would be a Republican. But the scandals and allegations surrounding Republican nominee Roy Moore have challenged that assumption.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing from the south lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on November 21, 2017. President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing from the south lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on November 21, 2017.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House Tuesday in Washington for a Thanksgiving trip to Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House Tuesday in Washington for a Thanksgiving trip to Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
Our readers shared their thoughts on Donna Brazile after she questioned the legitimacy of Trump's election after allegations of Russian meddling. Donna Brazile, who led the Democratic National Committee during the last leg of the 2016 campaign, says revelations about Russian meddling make her " absolutely " question the legitimacy of Donald Trump's election.
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives during the ASEAN-U.S. 40th Anniversary Commemorative Summit on the sideline of the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Manila earlier this month. In the eyes of U.S. President Donald Trump, an American basketball player caught shoplifting in China is a "very big deal," but accusations of sexual assault against teenage girls by an Alabama Senate candidate don't mean much.
The White House is disputing a Democratic senator's claim that top economic adviser Gary Cohn faked bad reception to get President Donald Trump off the phone. Delaware Sen. Tom Carper said Wednesday in a CNN interview that he and other Democrats had been in a meeting with several White House officials discussing tax reform when the president called from Asia.
The United States declared the ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be "ethnic cleansing" on Wednesday, threatening penalties for military officials engaged in a brutal crackdown that has sent more than 600,000 refugees flooding over the border to Bangladesh. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed Myanmar's security forces and "local vigilantes" for what he called "intolerable suffering" by the Rohingya.
Mainstream national Republicans have rejected Roy Moore, the GOP's U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, after nine women accused him of sexual misconduct. "Let me just tell you, Roy Moore denies it," Trump told reporters this week.
Two Republican groups say they have no plans to support embattled Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore after President Donald Trump all but endorsed him. Officials with the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee said Wednesday the organizations have made no changes in their decision to withdraw financial and field support from Moore's campaign.
It's that time of year when we gather with family and friends to share a meal and catch up, swap stories, and perhaps, if your family is like mine, steer clear of talking about Donald Trump over our turkey dinner. But while some of us want to avoid politics at mealtimes, others across the country are looking to dive right into them.
Fifty-four years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. While Lee Harvey Oswald was declared to be his killer, conspiracy stories abounded.
President Donald Trump faced a backlash Tuesday over his tough immigration policies after announcing that 59,000 Haitians who took refuge in the United States following the 2010 earthquake must return home. Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle blasted the decision to repatriate the Haitians within 18 months, removing the Temporary Protected Status they received after the disaster, which killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince.
In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective. Before we think of establishing a Palestinian state, he mused , "it is time we reassessed whether the modern model we have of sovereignty, and unfettered sovereignty, is applicable everywhere in the world."
Silent for more than a week, President Donald Trump all but endorsed embattled Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore on Tuesday, discounting the sexual assault allegations against him and insisting repeatedly that voters must not support Moore's "liberal" rival.