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President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday allowing states to withhold federal family planning dollars from clinics that provide abortion services, a move that effectively deprives Planned Parenthood and several other family groups of a significant source of funding. The move marked the 12th time that Trump has signed a resolution under the 1996 Congressional Review Act abolishing a rule issued under President Barack Obama.
Is the Trump administration shifting away from the vision of smaller government candidate Donald Trump and the Republican platform championed in the 2016 campaign? over the weekend, President Trump said he wanted to keep the Export-Import Bank most conservatives in Congress want abolished. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told an off-camera session with reporters Tuesday the Trump administration was seeking a mass reorganization of Cabinet Departments and federal agencies and to make them run more efficiently.
Rep. Joe Barton's, R-Texas, answers a question from an attendee of the town hall meeting April 14 about his vote against a 2009 bill that would federally mandate regulations on maternity leave. The town hall meeting was filled to its capacity April 13 in Mansfield, Texas.
Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo on Thursday denounced WikiLeaks as a "non-state hostile intelligence service," and he singled out Russia as one of the anti-secrecy organization's top collaborators. Pompeo is the latest top official in the Trump administration to note that Russia hacked into the emails of Democratic staffers with the intention of influencing the 2016 presidential election.
Britain's GCHQ spy agency played a key role in alerting US intelligence to contacts between Donald Trump's campaign team and Russian operatives, according to a report. The electronic "listening" agency first became aware of suspicious "interactions" between figures connected to Mr Trump and known or suspected Russian agents in late 2015, The Guardian reported, citing a "source close to UK intelligence".
In a news conference and a pair of interviews, President Donald Trump gave skewed accounts of U.S. relations over time with Russia, auto jobs and health care under his watch. TRUMP: "We may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia."
With films about war, refugees and the environment, politics appear poised to steal the spotlight at this year's Cannes Film Festival. "We are in a suspenseful moment for the world.
President Vladimir Putin's meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not produced any positive shift yet in Russia-US relations, the Kremlin says. Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader on Wednesday gave Mr Tillerson his view of the causes of the current "deadlock" in bilateral ties.
Democrats have been making accusations against Donald Trump and his team, claiming that they have been working with the Russian government, and therefore, Russians will be infiltrating our government. It turns out, Democrats got it partly true - only now, some evidence has been found to show that the Russian stooge is one of their own .
Donald Trump An infrastructure plan coming a . But when? Scarborough praises policy shifts: 'Trump is finally doing what we've been hoping' 'Idiocracy' creator says it might have been too optimistic MORE promised a $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson look at each other as they shake hands after the news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Amid a fierce dispute over Syria, the United States and Russia agreed Wednesday to work together on an international investigation of a Syrian chemical weapons attack last week.
President Donald Trump hasn't been in the White House for 100 days, yet he's already reversed himself on many of his key campaign promises. In several interviews this week, the president has forged new positions on topics ranging from NATO to Chinese currency manipulation.
US President Donald Trump has reversed stance in the space of 24 hours on an array of populist positions he adopted during the election campaign. The about-faces suggest the mercurial Mr Trump may be favouring a more pragmatic, moderate approach to the hardline economic nationalism that helped elect him.
With President Donald Trump's approval rating currently at 41 percent - a historic low for most U.S. presidents at this point in their terms - analysts are scrambling to evaluate his first 100 days in office. Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics hosted a panel discussion to delve further into this issue, debating the successes and failures of Trump's first 100 days.
The United States and China have struck what appears to be an unusual bargain as President Donald Trump says he won't label Beijing a currency manipulator and voices confidence Chinese President Xi Jinping will help him deal with North Korea's mounting threat. Another result of the diplomatic wrangling: a surprising Chinese abstention on a U.N. resolution condemning a Syrian chemical weapons attack.
President Trump did the right thing, the necessary thing, in striking Syria's Shayrat Air Base in response to the Assad regime's gruesome gas attack on civilians. In so doing, the president sharply reversed his own past stance and positions his team took just days ago on Syria.
In a pair of interviews, President Donald Trump gave a skewed account of auto jobs and health care under his watch and flatly contradicted himself on how long he's known his right-hand strategist, Steve Bannon. "Many years," Trump said of their relationship back in August, when he made Bannon his campaign chief.
Rebuffing President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the GOP health care bill seemed like a major political misstep for Iowa Rep. David Young, who quickly was punished by a political action committee linked to Speaker Paul Ryan. Nearly three weeks later, voters in Young's southwestern Iowa district - Republicans and Democrats - say the GOP congressman made the right move.