Dems: Trump’s tax secrecy complicates legislative overhaul

The Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns is going to make this year's promised overhaul of the tax code "much harder." Sen. Charles Schumer says Trump is opening himself to second guessing about his motives for supporting different policies and that the average American will think he's making changes because "it's good for him."

In 2018, it’s Hogan’s race to lose

Gov. Larry Hogan emerged from the 2017 General Assembly session upbeat about what he had just accomplished. And why not? He came into the year with the most ambitious legislative package of his term, touching on a wide variety of issues beyond the economic and taxation themes that animated his campaign, including proposals dealing with the environment, public health, education, ethics and even paid sick leave for workers.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return for the ‘X-Files’ audiobook

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny during Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, in Chicago./Barry Brecheisen The stars will reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in "The X-Files: Cold Cases", and Audible Original project based on Joe Harris' graphic novels. "The X-Files" creator Chris Carter will serve as producer and creative director on the project.

What a US president wants and what he must do are two different things

US President Donald Trump walks on the south lawn after arriving at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 9 April 2017. [EPA/Olivier Douliery] Donald Trump may want the United States to be less involved in the world but the reality is that the US is deeply involved, writes George Friedman.

The Obama Administration’s Zeligby Victor Davis Hanson Susan Rice is…

The Benghazi deceptions, the selling of the Iran deal, the Bergdahl trade - one 'expert' kept turning up to peddle falsehoods. usan Rice is the real version of Woody Allen's cinematic character Zelig, who in the movie of the same name popped up almost anywhere as an expert on anything.

Trump denies climate change, but could one day be its victim

Not far from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, one expert after another warned Monday about the dangers that rising sea levels pose to Florida's coast. Not that surprising, except this was a Senate committee field hearing challenging the position shared by President Donald Trump and many Republicans in Congress that climate change isn't real.

LA County leaders will weigh legal defense fund, other measures to help undocumented immigrants

A trio of motions aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants and others threatened with deportation, including putting $1 million into a legal defense fund, are scheduled to be voted on Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. City and county officials first proposed the ideas late last year in response to President Donald Trump's pre-election remarks about deporting people who live in the country illegally.

Trump records call for GOP hopeful in House race in Kansas

President Donald Trump stepped into a surprisingly competitive special congressional election in Kansas Monday, recording a get-out-the-vote call on behalf of Republican candidate Ron Estes. The robocall from Trump came as the contest also pulled U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to Wichita to campaign for Estes and amid a flood of out-of-state GOP money ahead of Tuesday's election in the 4th Congressional District of southern Kansas.

U.S. lawmakers raise doubts on sale of smart bombs to Saudi Arabia

A group of U.S. lawmakers said on Monday they had requested more information from President Donald Trump's administration about the potential sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, expressing concern about civilian casualties in Riyadh's campaign in Yemen that delayed the deal last year. Thirty mostly Democratic lawmakers signed the letter to U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, citing expectations that the administration plans to go ahead with the sale.

Donald Trump predicts greatness for new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch

US President Donald Trump has praised new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch during a White House swearing-in ceremony as a jurist who will rule "not on his personal preferences but based on a fair and objective reading of the law". In the Rose Garden ceremony, Mr Trump said Americans would see in Mr Gorsuch "a man who is deeply faithful to the Constitution of the United States" and predicted greatness for the 49-year-old former appeals court judge from Colorado.