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President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of being an "MS-13 lover" and dismissed a Democratic Senate candidate as a "tool" of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a line of attack likely to become familiar as he boosts Republican congressional candidates ahead of midterm elections. Trump's visit to Nashville, Tennessee, promoted the Senate candidacy of Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who was expected to face former Gov. Phil Bredesen in the race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
The Federal Reserve is preparing to ease a rule aimed at defusing the kind of risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial meltdown. The Volcker Rule, crafted by regulators 4 1/2 years ago, changed the way the biggest U.S. banks do business.
Comedian Roseanne Barr has apologised to a former Barack Obama aide for a tweet comparing her to an ape and to her colleagues who lost their jobs following the cancellation of her sitcom. US TV network ABC cancelled Barr's show, Roseanne, after she sent a tweet referring to Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes.
Roseanne Barr says losing her television show is nothing compared to being labelled a racist "over one tweet", as the fallout from her social media comments and subsequent sitcom cancellation continued. Hours after saying she was leaving Twitter, Barr returned to the social media platform to share posts both supporting her comments made about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and praising American television network ABC's decision to cancel her show Roseanne.
With a tantalizing tweet, President Donald Trump seemed to tease a positive jobs report on Friday, a protocol-defying step that moved markets and raised questions about the appropriateness of the president publicly hinting at information that could make or lose fortunes. Treasury yields jumped and the value of the dollar increased within seconds of Trump's 7:21 a.m. tweet that said he was "looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning," suggesting that traders likely were making investment decisions based on what they extrapolated from Trump's post.
"If you can't stomach Trump, just don't vote for the other people and don't vote at all," was Bruce Carter's refrain to voters in the summer of 2016. Carter, armed with vehicles wrapped in photo collages of famous black Republicans and speeches touting how Donald Trump's business experience would benefit black communities, was an atypical fixture on the Trump campaign trail.
On the day Donald Trump was elected, a 20-gallon tank of gas cost a Mississippi driver $36. Today, The American Automobile Associations says that same 20 gallons costs $52.
At a West Virginia rally on tax cuts, President Donald Trump veered off on a subject that likely puzzled most of his audience. "Nine of your people just came up to me outside.
The case of a California man who pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is moving closer to sentencing. It's a sign that that aspect of the Mueller investigation may be drawing to a close.
President Donald Trump has accused the federal investigators probing his campaign's alleged ties to Russia of "meddling" in the US midterm elections. "The 13 Angry Democrats working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be MEDDLING with the mid-term elections, especially now that Republicans are taking the lead in Polls," Mr Trump tweeted.
In language that echoed that of his accusers and critics, President Donald Trump alleged on Twitter that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team was "MEDDLING" in the upcoming midterm elections and blamed Democrats for "Collusion." The tweet Tuesday was the latest example of the president co-opting the terminology of his accusers in an effort to tarnish political enemies.
"The Border Patrol's May arrest numbers are due to be released early next month, and immigration hawks, including the president, now treat them as a kind of barometer for [Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen's performance."
President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents. The photos were taken by The Associated Press in 2014, when President Barack Obama was in office.
President Donald Trump has accused special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team of "meddling" in the upcoming mid-term elections, and blames Democrats for "collusion". Mr Mueller is leading the probe into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the help from Trump campaign aides.
President Donald Trump is accusing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team of "MEDDLING" in the upcoming midterm elections and blames Democrats for "Collusion."
President Trump said Tuesday that Democrats are the ones "meddling" in the upcoming midterm elections by continuing the Russia investigation. "The 13 Angry Democrats working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be MEDDLING with the mid-term elections, especially now that Republicans are taking the lead in Polls.
A photo of "caged migrant children" went viral among liberals critical of President Donald Trump last week, that is until the image got an Obama-era date stamp, RT.com reported . The photo of two children sleeping in a detention facility run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started making its rounds late last week, the news website reported.
More than a year ago, when U.S. Reps. Todd Rokita and Luke Messer began angling for the 2018 U.S. Senate nomination just as President Donald Trump commenced a fitful start, there was the big question: Are you sure you want to give up safe House seats to run in a first Trump mid-term? MSNBC's Steve Kornacke provided the grist: Since 1998, incumbent senators in "hostile states" were 21-3.
HERE IS WHAT YOUR NEXT FEW WEEKS WILL SOUND LIKE a BURGESS EVERETT and ELANA SCHOR: "Senators to Trump: It's do-or-die time on DACA": "Cory Gardner, the leader of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, delivered an urgent message to President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation earlier this month: Congress and the White House need to act pronto on immigration reform. The closer we get to the election and certainly post-election, the more difficult it will be,' the Colorado Republican recounted telling the president.
In this June 18, 2014, file photo, young boys sleep in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz.