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Mr Mueller is in charge of the investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The president has dismissed the probe as a "witch hunt".
The fight over President Donald Trump's $5 billion wall funds deepened Monday, threatening a partial government shutdown in a standoff that has become increasingly common in Washington. It wasn't always like this, with Congress and the White House at a crisis over government funding.
A major agriculture bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week could legalize hemp at the federal level, allowing farmers across the country to cultivate hemp, but that doesn't necessarily spell good news for Humboldt County. The bill, which now awaits President Donald Trump's signature, includes a provision that lifts hemp off of a list of federally criminalized drugs.
President Donald Trump signs the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2018. n Friday, the Washington Post published a much-needed, comprehensive analysis of the American military campaign in Syria.
Federal open-enrollment season rarely, if ever, seems to go smoothly. In 2017, President Donald Trump's administration cut the budget for Affordable Care Act advertisement by 90 percent, and slashed the window to sign up for new health-insurance plans by 15 days.
Perhaps the most striking takeaway from a pair of new reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee is the consistency and persistence with which Russian trolls sought to depress the black vote in the 2016 election. That workers for the Internet Research Agency-a "troll farm" with close ties to the Kremlin-targeted African Americans has been clear for more than a year, emerging in a series of reports in fall 2017, and then receiving new attention in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's February 2018 indictment of the IRA and several associated individuals.
Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border despite lawmaker resistance from both parties. President Donald Trump kept up the pressure on Democrats Monday, tweeting: "Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!" On Sunday, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said: "We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration."
Former FBI Director James Comey had harsh words for House Republicans on Monday, saying their silence in response to President Donald Trump's attacks on the Justice Department is "shameful." Comey said Republicans "have to have the courage to stand up and speak the truth, not be cowed by mean tweets or fear of their base."
With a number of probes moving closer to the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and his attorney unleased a fresh series of attacks Sunday on the investigators, questioning their integrity while categorically ruling out the possibility of a presidential interview with the special counsel. Trump and Rudy Giuliani used Twitter and television interviews to deliver a series of broadsides against special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York.
New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep - The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee Silicon Valley may have done 'bare minimum' to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told - Sen. Warner 'deeply disappointed' Google not on Capitol Hill - The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that social media companies might have provided the "bare minimum" Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow 'Up To November 2016' - Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal "all the way up to...November of 2016."
New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep - The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee Silicon Valley may have done 'bare minimum' to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told - Sen. Warner 'deeply disappointed' Google not on Capitol Hill - The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that social media companies might have provided the "bare minimum" Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow 'Up To November 2016' - Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal "all the way up to...November of 2016."
New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep - The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee Silicon Valley may have done 'bare minimum' to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told - Sen. Warner 'deeply disappointed' Google not on Capitol Hill - The Senate Intelligence Committee has been advised that social media companies might have provided the "bare minimum" Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow 'Up To November 2016' - Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal "all the way up to...November of 2016."
It is a requirement of the political exile to write a book decrying the forces that drove you away. The task becomes a bit awkward, however, when you're exiled not from your old country but just your old green room; when your former comrades are not in hiding but in power; when you insist that you're the same while everyone else has suddenly changed, even if the changes began long ago and you chose not to notice.
Last month, the White House sent written answers in response to the special counsel's questions about possible collusion with Russia Rudy Giuliani, US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, rejected the prospect of Trump sitting down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. Fox host Chris Wallace followed up, pressing Giuliani on whether the special counsel wanted to speak with Trump.
In this Sept. 27, 2017 file photo, Chief Justice John Roberts speaks during the Bicentennial of Mississippi's Judiciary and Legal Profession Banquet in Jackson, Miss.
On Thanksgiving morning, President Donald Trump expressed his gratitude for American troops but also aired some of his political grievances. Add Donald Trump as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Donald Trump news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
U.S. President Donald Trump hinted on Thursday he may visit Afghanistan, scene of one of America's longest wars but a country he has yet to visit almost two years into his presidency. Delivering a Thanksgiving holiday message by teleconference to troops in Afghanistan, Trump told a U.S. Air Force general he would see him back in the United States, before adding: "Or maybe I'll even see you over there.
U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte is pinning his third campaign in two years on Montana residents being better off economically since President Donald Trump took office and that the voters will give him some of the credit. Gianforte has tied his political fortunes to Trump as he seeks his first full term in Montana's only House seat.
President Donald Trump took the low road in recent attacks against two of the most promising Democrats running in high profile governor's races, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in Florida and former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams in Georgia. On Saturday night the president told a crowd at a rally in Pensacola that Gillum is "a radical socialist ... who will not do good things for Florida," according to CBS News .
With rallies scheduled Sunday in Georgia and Tennessee, Trump has told supporters that a Democratic Congress will seek to reverse his accomplishments. President Trump: Democrats will try to wipe out all that we've done if they win control in Congress With rallies scheduled Sunday in Georgia and Tennessee, Trump has told supporters that a Democratic Congress will seek to reverse his accomplishments.