What did Trump and Putin talk about? Only they know
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may have reached several historic agreements at their summit in Finland this week. Or, they may not have.
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Trump-Putin II: Planning fall event in aftermath of Helsinki
Unbowed by swirling criticism of his summit encounter with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump swiftly invited the Russian leader to the White House this fall for a second get-together. Cleanup from the first has continued with no letup and Trump belatedly decided Putin's "incredible offer" of shared U.S.-Russia investigations was no good after all.
Republicans withdraw Trump nominee for federal appeals court at last minute over race record
In stunning move, Mitch McConnell withdrew the nomination of Ryan Bounds for a federal appeals court seat minutes before a Senate vote Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator who is the Republican's only African-American member of the senate, said he could not vote for Bounds Writings from his time as a Stanford student showed Bounds, 45, had called multicultural groups at the university 'feel-good ethnic hoedowns' In a stunning move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has withdrawn one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees just minutes before he was set for a confirmation vote. Trump had nominated the assistant U.S. attorney in Oregon to be a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Translators stay in shadows, but Dems want Trump’s to emerge
In this November 1985, file photo, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, his wife Nancy Reagan and an aide, left, meet with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, his wife Raisa Gorbachev and an aide in Geneva, Switzerland. After a week of erraticism by President Donald Trump about what really went on in his private meeting in Finland with Russia's Vladimir Putin, history could use a fly on the wall.
Reversal: Kentucky restoring Medicaid benefits for thousands
Dental and vision care benefits will be restored for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients in a sudden reversal by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's administration following an outcry over the recent cuts. The coverage had been abruptly cut at the start of July after a federal judge rejected the Republican governor's plan to overhaul Kentucky's Medicaid program.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign strategist Tad Devine turns up 16…
The chief strategist for the Bernie Sanders campaign was in contact with Paul Manafort and a Russian alleged spy also indicted in the special counsel probe, according to new court filings. Tad Devine, who helped run the Vermont senator's Democratic primary campaign, shows up 16 times in a list of nearly 500 evidence exhibits published Wednesday evening by prosecutors in the Manafort case, reported the Washington Post .
Trump promotes job training as employers search for workers
President Trump says nearly two dozen companies are signing his pledge to provide job training and apprenticeship programs as a way to boost the U.S. economy. He says the nation needs "people with training" to fill vacancies.
Democrats attack Trump’s consumer watchdog pick in Senate hearing
There were heated exchanges in U.S. Congress on Thursday as Democratic lawmakers grilled President Donald Trump's pick to lead the country's consumer watchdog on her involvement in the government's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Democratic senators repeatedly pressed Kathy Kraninger, a senior government official, on her role in setting and implementing the policy slammed by both Democrats and Republicans and on whether she had relevant experience to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .
Donald Trump says media’s goal is to see him go to war with Russia
His unfounded assertions come days after a summit with Putin in Helsinki, after which Trump was widely condemned for seeming to side with Putin over U.S. intelligence officials WASHINGTON President Donald Trump lashed out anew at the news media on Thursday, suggesting that reporters are slanting their coverage of his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin with the aim of provoking a possible war. "The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war," the president wrote amid a series of morning tweets.
U.S. agency enters $1.5 mln judgment on payday lender but slashes return of funds
The U.S. consumer finance watchdog ordered an Alabama-based payday lender on Thursday to return $500,000 to borrowers who were overcharged, a fine that people familiar with the matter said was only a third of what the prior Obama-era head of the agency had sought. The settlement between Triton Management Group Inc and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was signed by Mick Mulvaney, who President Donald Trump named in November as the agency's interim director.
PODCAST: Oy, Such a Bad Week
Trump in Helsinki brown-nosing Putin. Trump on with Tucker Carlson threatening the viability of NATO.
US political spending getting more secretive with IRS change
Political spending in the U.S. is about to become even more secretive after the IRS this week dropped a requirement that many nonprofits have to provide lists of their major donors. The federal government will stop collecting donor information from certain types of nonprofit groups, including business associations, labor unions and "social welfare" organizations, which have become major players in the nation's politics over the past decade.
Trump slams rate increases by independent Federal Reserve
President Donald Trump on Thursday cast aside concerns about the Federal Reserve's independence, saying he was "not happy" with the Fed's recent interest rate increases. Trump told CNBC in an interview: "I don't like all of this work that we're putting into the economy and then I see rates going up."
White House says President Trump disagrees with Putin’s request to interrogate Americans
WASHINGTON The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump disagrees with Russian President Vladimir Putin's request to interrogate American citizens in exchange for helping American investigators look into Russian interference in the 2016 election. "It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement Thursday.
Analysis: Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $116 billion annually
Signs express support for Dreamers at a September 2017 rally in Portland to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA. Signs express support for Dreamers at a September 2017 rally in Portland to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA.
The stench from Trump’s execrable performance grows ever more…
As with a rotting fish, the stench from President Donald Trump's execrable performance in Helsinki only grows more putrid with the passage of time. The leader of the sole superpower was simpering and submissive in the face of a murderous dictator's "strong and powerful" lies.
Republicans foil Democrats’ attempt to subpoena State Department translator
Republicans foil Democrats' attempt to subpoena State Department translator who was present for every second of Trump and Putin's meeting White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that President Trump and President Putin's meeting in Helsinki had not been recorded Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have blocked a move to subpoena the American translator from the Helsinki summit to testify about the private talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The panel's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, said Thursday he wanted Maria Gross, the translator, who works for the State Department, to appear in closed session, saying Congress must 'find out what was said' during the two-hour meeting.
The case for censuring the president
Sixty-four years ago, the U.S. Senate censured the bullying demagogue Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin for conduct that "tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." McCarthy lingered in the Senate for 2 1/2 more years, but the censure essentially ended his early-1950s "Red Scare" reign of intimidation and character assassination.
Trump rejects Putin offer on interviewing suspects
Donald Trump has rejected Vladimir Putin's offer to allow the US to question 12 Russians accused of interfering in the 2016 election. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the proposal was "made in sincerity" by the Russian president but Mr Trump "disagrees with it".
The Latest: GOP senator says Trump is ‘misjudging’ Putin
Russian Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian ambassadors to foreign countries in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 19, 2018. Putin says his first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump was "successful" and is accusing Trump's opponents in the U.S. of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed.