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President Donald Trump speaking the media on May 25, the same day he signed an executive order making it easier to fire federal workers. CREDIT: Joshua Roberts President Trump signed a series of executive orders late Friday making it easier to fire federal government workers and weakening the clout of the unions that represent them.
A Utah man jailed in Venezuela on weapons charges nearly two years ago was released Saturday after U.S. officials and his family pressed for his freedom from the South American country. "We are grateful to all who participated in this miracle," Joshua Holt's family said in a statement.
President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un left South Korea's President "perplexed" and sparked angry protests in Seoul. One sign read: "We condemn Trump."
President Donald Trump on Friday accused Democrats of "rooting against" upcoming nuclear talks with North Korea, and said his political opponents were trying to coddle gang members. With the 2018 midterm elections on the horizon, Trump has gone out of his way to poke Democrats.
"We want to see how the briefing went to today and how much we learned from it," Giuliani said in a Thursday phone call. "If we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos apparently wasn't around to see it, but a message to her was projected on the Education Department's headquarters in Washington about policy on LGBTQ youth, asking, "How do you sleep at night?" The Human Rights Campaign, with artist Robin Bell, displayed data Wednesday night from a recently released survey revealing experiences of about 12,000 LGBTQ teens, taking aim at Trump administration policies that advocates say have targeted these young people. The survey was conducted by the Human Rights Campaign - the largest civil rights organization working in the United States to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people - and University of Connecticut researchers.
The White House says President Donald Trump intends to sign legislation next week to help people with deadly diseases try experimental treatments. Legislative director Marc Short says Trump will also soon sign a bill giving veterans greater access to private medical care at taxpayer expense.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump granted a posthumous presidential pardon to legendary boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxing heavyweight champion. Johnson, who died in 1946, was convicted of violating The Mann Act in 1913 after taking his white wife, Lucille Cameron, across state lines for what the white jury called "immoral purpose."
President Donald Trump walks out of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 25, 2018, as he heads to Marine One for a short trip to Annapolis, Md., to speak at the United States Naval Academy graduation. President Donald Trump walks out of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 25, 2018, as he heads to Marine One for a short trip to Annapolis, Md., to speak at the United States Naval Academy graduation.
A day after aborting a summit with North Korea's leader, President Donald Trump sounded an optimistic note Friday about future negotiations, saying it is even possible that a meeting could take place on June 12 as originally planned. "We'll see what happens.
Democratic lawmakers said on Thursday they heard nothing in classified briefings by the FBI and intelligence officials to support President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated allegation that the agency placed a "spy" into his 2016 presidential campaign to help his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, held two unusual classified briefings for senior lawmakers of both parties in the wake of the Republican president's claim.
The number of white-collar prosecutions is on track to hit a 20-year low under President Donald Trump, after reaching a high in 2011 during the Barack Obama administration, according to a nonprofit research center that analyzes government data. A total of 3,249 cases were brought during the first seven months of the U.S. government's 2018 fiscal year, which runs from October 2017 to April 2018, according to a case-by-case analysis of government data by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday called off his planned June summit with Kim Jong Un, blaming "open hostility" from the North Korean regime and warning Pyongyang against committing any "foolish or reckless acts." US President Donald Trump informed Kim Jong Un he is canceling their nuclear summit next month in Singapore, in a letter released by the White House In a letter to Kim, Trump announced he would not go ahead with the high-stakes meeting set for June 12 in Singapore, following what the White House called a "trail of broken promises" by the North.
FBI Director Christopher Wray departs the Capitol through a basement corridor after House and Senate lawmakers from both parties met for a classified briefing about the federal investigation into President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 24, 2018.
President Donald Trump has granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson's name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially charged conviction. "I am taking this very righteous step, I believe, to correct a wrong that occurred in our history and to honor a truly legendary boxing champion," Trump said Thursday during an Oval Office ceremony.
President Donald Trump is twisting the words of his predecessor's national intelligence director as part of his stepped-up effort to trash the credibility of the special counsel's Russia investigation. In a tweet Thursday, during a stormy week on Twitter by the president, Trump said James Clapper acknowledged there was "Spying in my campaign," meaning an informant implanted inside the operation.
President Donald Trump has issued a series of tweets and statements about his concerns that elements of the FBI and Department of Justice were spying on his presidential campaign in 2016. On Thursday, Trump said that former National Intelligence Director James Clapper had acknowledged there was "Spying in my campaign."
The primary campaign season in Oklahoma is getting heated with both candidates for attorney general accusing each other of lying. The campaigns for Mike Hunter and Gentner Drummond have sent Oklahoma TV stations letters demanding the other's ads be pulled.