Trump signs aid and debt bill over some GOP objections

Congress on Friday sent President Donald Trump a massive package of $15.3 billion in disaster aid linked to an increase in the nation's borrowing authority that angered conservative Republicans who hissed and booed senior administration officials dispatched to Capitol Hill to defend it. The House voted 316-90 for the measure that would refill depleted emergency accounts as Florida braces for the impact of Hurricane Irma and Texas picks up the pieces after the devastation of the Harvey storm.

In book, Clinton admits mistakes, casts blame for 2016 loss

In this April 6, 2017 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Women in the World Summit in New York. In a candid and pointed new book, Clinton relives her stunning defeat to Donald Trump, admitting to personal mistakes and defending campaign strategy even as her return to the stage refocuses attention on a race Democrats still can't believe they lost.

The Latest: Cat 1 Hurricane Katia making landfall in Mexico

7, 2017. . People who evacuated from bars check their phones in the street in La Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, after an earthquake shook buildings forcefully and knocked out power in the area, just before midnight on Thursday, Se... A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego.

The Latest: Trump sides with 3 Texas churches against FEMA

President Donald Trump is taking the side of three Texas churches that are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency over disaster relief funds. The president writes on Twitter, "Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey ."

Making deal with Dems, Trump shows he’ll do what it takes: Susan Shelley

President Donald Trump shocked Capitol Hill Republicans on Wednesday by quickly agreeing to a deal proposed by House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Trump signed on to a three-month extension of the deadlines to raise the nation's debt limit and fund the government, avoiding a shutdown, and attaching the deal to a bill for hurricane aid.

In angry new book, Clinton defends campaign strategy

In a candid and angry new book, Hillary Clinton relives her stunning defeat to Donald Trump, admitting to personal mistakes and defending campaign strategy even as her return to the stage refocuses attention on a race Democrats still can't believe they lost. Clinton is unsparing in her criticism of Trump and also lays out some of the factors she believes contributed to her loss: interference from Russian hackers, accusations leveled at her by former FBI Director James Comey, a divisive primary battle with Bernie Sanders, even her gender.

Trump signs NFIP extension in Harvey relief package

President Donald Trump signed a $15 billion disaster relief package for Tropical Storm Harvey that includes an extension of the National Flood Insurance Program to Dec. 8. "The President appreciates Congress putting aside partisan politics and acting quickly to ensure that first responders, local officials and federal emergency management personnel have the resources they need to respond to the natural disasters impacting our nation," the White House Press Secretary said in a statement on Friday.

Trump makes the right move on Dreamers

President Donald Trump pulled the plug this week on the so-called Dreamers' program that gave deportation relief to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, ending the amnesty order created by President Obama. In the end, this matter is not about whether the Dreamers' amnesty program was good or bad; it is about whether we are going to require that the people's representatives make the nation's laws, or confer an imperial power on presidents to make whatever laws they see fit to make.

Feds pay NYPD $26m for guarding Trump Tower

Feds pay their Trump card! New York taxpayers reimbursed $26 million for guarding the Donald's Fifth Avenue tower between election and inauguration day New York state is getting nearly $26 million in federal funds to reimburse law enforcement agencies for costs associated with guarding President Donald Trump , his family and their Manhattan residence. Congresswoman Nita Lowey announced the grants Wednesday.

5 DACA myths debunked

Since President Barack Obama put it into place in 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, has shielded 800,000 people who were illegally brought to the United States as children from deportation -- but not without its fair share of controversy. First, some critics slammed it as unconstitutional, and more recently, a group of states threatened to file a court challenge to the program.

Has Trump been tamed by his generals and the Pentagon?

Foreign policy crises comes and go, but the power struggle between an unorthodox and ignorant president and America's military machine is eternal. With North Korea repeatedly demonstrating the potency of its nuclear arsenal, the president and the Pentagon are struggling to counter a new threat to U.S. allies in Asia and potentially to the United States itself.

Clinton: I relied on prayer, yoga and ‘my fair share of Chardonnay’ after ‘devastating’ 2016 loss

Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was devastated and drained after her loss to Donald Trump in 2016, but regained her strength by relying on a mix of prayer, yoga and "my fair share of Chardonnay." Clinton, speaking at an event focused on her faith at New York's Riverside Church, said she did not think she was going to lose heading into Election Day and was entirely thrown by the defeat.

The Latest: Trump Jr. denies collusion with Russia

Donald Trump Jr. says he met with a Russian lawyer last year simply to learn about Hillary Clinton's "fitness, character or qualifications," insisting he did not collude with Russia to hurt her campaign against his father. Trump Jr. described the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York in a statement at the outset of the Senate panel's interview.

‘Preposterous and insulting’: Cardinal fires back at Steve…

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, fired back at Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, following Bannon's suggestion that the Catholic Church was economically motivated to oppose Trump's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "You might imagine I was rather befuddled to see it," Dolan said on Sirius XM's Catholic Channel on Thursday.

Ellen DeGeneres’ coming out was ‘greatest thing’

The 59-year-old talk show host revealed in 1997 that she was gay, shortly before her title character in hit sitcom 'Ellen' did the same thing, and she was initially warned she could "destroy" the show by taking it in the same direction as her personal life, but she has no regrets about anything. She told TIME Firsts: "I was warned by my publicist at the time -- everybody said, 'We could destroy this whole show.'