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The Trump administration has fulfilled another one of Donald Trump's campaign promises by rescinding the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program implemented under Barack Obama that could have allowed as many as five million illegal aliens with children who are citizens or lawful permanent residents to remain in the country if they met certain criteria. DAPA was blocked by the courts from implementation, which the Department of Homeland Security cited as a reason for rescinding the program.
Let's put aside for a moment the question of whether anyone connected to President Donald Trump colluded with Russia in its attempts to hack the 2016 election. Let's not get into an argument about whether the effort changed any votes, not to speak of the outcome.
The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander in chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trump's young presidency.
The annual GOP-Democrats baseball game raises money for charity. . Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., applaud a message by President Donald Trump on the ... .
U.S. President Donald Trump's speech on Cuba was a "grotesque spectacle," but the island's government will continue working towards better relations with the majority of Americans who back detente, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday. Trump announced a partial rollback of the normalization of relations with Cuba on Friday in Miami, the heartland of Cuban exiles, in a theater named after the leader of the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of the island in 1961.
A heightened sense of unease gripped the White House on Thursday, as President Donald Trump lashed out at reports that he's under scrutiny over whether he obstructed justice, aides repeatedly deflected questions about the probe and Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged hiring a private lawyer to handle fallout from investigations into Russian election meddling. Pence's decision to hire Richard Cullen, a Richmond, Virginia-based lawyer who previously served as a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, came less than a month after Trump hired his own private lawyer.
Last week, when former FBI Director James Comey gave his long-awaited public testimony about his apparently rough-and-tumble relationship with President Donald Trump, he painted a bleak picture. The essence of Comey's testimony was that the president asked him to drop an investigation of retired Lt.
The president's tweets appeared to be a response to reports that Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation into Russian election interference to include whether Trump has obstructed justice. The Washington Post first reported the news on Wednesday evening.
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., left, listen as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 15, 2017, during an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered asylum to the former director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation , James Comey. Putin said that Comey's release of records of his conversations with President Donald Trump equated to being an activist, like former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who lives in Russia under asylum.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is scheduled to go to Capitol Hill on Thursday morning to defend draconian cuts to his agency's budget and climate programs. I will be checking my ears for burns.
US President-elect Donald Trump features on a magazine front cover on a Shanghai news stand, on December 14, 2016 Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for Donald Trump and the target of an FBI probe into Russian election interference, has been telling potential clients that he's still got access to the president. Manafort has recently told a Chinese construction magnate that he could persuade the Trump administration to support any deal they made together because he remains in contact with the president and his team despite the federal investigation of his campaign activity, reported Politico .
US President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2017 after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in nearby Alexandria, Virginia. US President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced reports that the special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether he tried to obstruct justice, calling it a "phony story."
Pfeiffer will replace current Daily Caller White House reporter Kaitlan Collins, who will join CNN as a White House reporter on Monday. "The apprentice has now become the master.
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure Wednesday that would make it harder for the Trump administration to unilaterally ease sanctions against Russia. Senators on both sides of the aisle negotiated the measure, and that rare bipartisan cooperation continued into the final vote - it was 97 to 2. The only senators who voted against the measure were Republicans Rand Paul and Mike Lee.
The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign is now examining whether Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, according to a report. Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Mr Trump's personal lawyer, responded to the Washington Post's report, saying: "The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal."
A deal between the United States and Qatar for F-15 fighter jets and a visit to Doha by two American warships on Thursday showed the vital military links Washington maintains with a country now in a dispute with several other Arab nations. Qatar remains the home of some 10,000 American troops at a major U.S. military base in the Mideast.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull deliver brief remarks to reporters in New York, U.S. May 4, 2017. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts as he sits in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, June 15, 2017.
Twelve years after his father was brutally murdered, Jack Reid Jr. stood in a courtroom Wednesday as the victim of another crime - a violent home invasion last year in which a man barged into... The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday, sending a message of confidence in the U.S. economy despite evidence ... (more)