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Rene Perez, aka Residente, co-founder and lead singer of Puerto Rican band Calle 13, has slammed the United States for being one of the most "racist" countries on the planet. "[US president Donald] Trump helped identifying the racists, you can see them with the little cap," Residente said this month, alluding to the red "Make America Great Again" headwear that is popular with Trump supporters.
Just before the AHCA vote on Friday, Speaker Paul Ryan yanked the bill from the floor knowing he didn't have the necessary votes for passage. It is a stinging failure for Ryan's first legislative effort with a Republican in the White House and at the moment, leaves Obamacare fully intact.
For years, family members of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and insurance companies tried through the courts to hold Saudi Arabia or businesses and organizations there responsible for the terrorist attacks.
A federal judge in Virginia ruled against a Muslim civil-rights group that sought to block the proposed travel ban by President Donald Trump's administration. The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga is at odds with rulings from federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland who have issued orders preventing the bulk of the executive order from taking effect.
President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, a key figure in investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, has volunteered to be interviewed by lawmakers as part of an increasingly partisan House probe into the Kremlin's alleged meddling in the 2016 election. In this July 17, 2016 file photo, then-Donald Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convent... The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, on Friday announced the prospect of an interview with Paul Manafort, and Nunes canceled a previously scheduled public hearing in which officials in former President Barack Obama's administration had agreed to testify about the Russia investigation.
President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it a "great day for American jobs" and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change. TransCanada CEO Russell Girling speaks with President Donald Trump in Washington.
President Donald Trump and GOP leaders pulled their bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act off the House floor Friday when it became clear that the bill would fail. President Donald Trump, flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Vice President Mike Pence, speaks Friday in the Oval Offic... House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, with Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., behind her, said Friday that "Today is a great day for our country, what happened o... Thwarted by two factions of fellow Republicans, from the center and far right, House Speaker Paul Ryan said former President Barack Obama's health care law, the GOP's No.
Think Trump would boast about Russia's Bolshoi Ballet performing at one of his "get out the vote" campaign rallies? Think the mainstream media might trumpet such an event as the Holy Grail, Golden Fleece and Smoking Gun of that ever-elusive "Russian collusion" with his campaign? "The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them.
It's fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in. When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures.
Faced with the certain defeat of his effort to take health insurance away from millions of Americans, our fearless leader did not attempt to compromise, negotiate or even mend the program that has allowed millions of Americans access to health care. You can either vote for my bill or give up on making any reforms at all to Obamacare.
In a humiliating failure, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders yanked their bill to repeal "Obamacare" off the House floor Friday when it became clear it would fail badly - after seven years of nonstop railing against the health care law. Democrats said Americans can "breathe a sigh of relief."
Republican Gov. Eric Greitens will be visiting the U.S. Capitol this weekend to talk policy with federal officials, including President Donald Trump. A text Friday from Greitens' spokesman Parker Briden said the governor will meet with federal officials, including the president and Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, to talk about Missouri's policy priorities.
Under the dark gray cloud, amid the general gloom, allow me to offer a ray of sunshine. The last two months have brought a pleasant surprise: Turns out the much feared, much predicted withering of our democratic institutions has been grossly exaggerated.
'They own Obamacare!': Humiliated Trump lashes out at Dems after centerpiece health reform collapses in GOP vote fiasco and predicts they'll crawl back 'when it explodes - which it will soon' President Trump 'is furious that senior adviser Jared Kushner and Ivanka chose to go on a luxury ski vacation trip in Aspen while the GOP health care bill imploded' FBI raid a rural South Carolina home as they hunt for remains of 17-year-old woman who was 'gang raped, shot and fed to alligators' NASA moonwalker Alan Bean claims he 'knows the truth' about aliens and says they WOULD have made contact if they had visited Earth 'There was a boom': Pilot dead after Cessna crash lands next to a suburban Atlanta home and explodes into a fireball Love Actually - the happily ever after: Colin Firth has three kids with Portuguese wife, Liam Neeson's son is engaged to childhood sweetheart and Andrew Lincoln is ... (more)
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... UPDATE : House will vote on this bill TODAY.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... UPDATE : House will vote on this bill TODAY.
President Donald Trump went old school on Friday, calling reporters from The Washington Post and The New York Times to announce that he had ordered a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare pulled from consideration in the House when it became clear there weren't enough votes for passage. One of those reporters - Robert Costa of the Post - tweeted news from the surprise phone call a minute after getting it while the president was still talking.
Back in those early and innocent days of the last presidential campaign, the crowded Republican field was often referred to as a "clown car." It was funny at the time, if clichA d.
But maybe that's okay from Trump's and Ryan's perspective: The first, largest hurdle is clearing the House, and if clearing the House requires convincing conservatives that a little procedural hocus pocus can be done in the Senate to repeal all of the ObamaCare regulations in one fell swoop, why not convince them and let them pass the bill? The delay is said to be a defeat for President Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan, but both men have done about as much as they can.
KINGSTON - The plan was to hold a wake for Obamacare and funding for Planned Parenthood in Rep. John Faso's office on Broadway at 4:30 p.m. Friday.