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The Trump administration on Friday announced a new regulation that would outlaw "bump stocks," the mechanical device used by the Las Vegas shooter to make his rifles fire like more lethal automatic weapons. President Donald Trump announced the regulation in a Twitter message a day before the so-called March for Our Lives, which was organized by young people after the mass slayings at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
As anyone who's uploaded an ill-advised photo from a college party knows, Facebook is where your old mistakes come back to haunt you years later. That turns out to hold just as true for the company itself - a fact executives at the behemoth social network have been discovering to their chagrin this week, amid international furor over the political strategy firm Cambridge Analytica's illicit access to a vast trove of Facebook user data.
America's so-called "Dreamer" immigrants and supportive lawmakers were left fuming and fearful Friday after anti-deportation measures were left out of a federal spending bill signed by President Donald Trump. More than six months after Trump announced he was scrapping an Obama-era programme that protected hundreds of thousands of immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children, he signed the controversial measure into law - then blamed Democrats for the collapse of immigration negotiations.
In past White Houses, the removal of a national security adviser would be the culmination of much drama and hand-wringing. Yet President Donald Trump's decision Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was only Act III in another week at the Trump White House.
President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure Friday averting a government shutdown at midnight, acting just hours after saying he was considering a veto. Trump complained that the legislation does not fully fund his plans for a border wall with Mexico and does not address some 800,000 "Dreamer" immigrants who are now protected from deportation under a program that he has moved to eliminate.
Even for an administration that seems to thrive on wrong-footing allies and opponents alike, the last 24 hours has been remarkable. Early this morning, Donald Trump tweeted out that he might veto the omnibus bill that his White House had pledged he'd sign.
The Pentagon announced on Friday that President Donald Trump nominated Jackson to the position of rear admiral from his current position of rear admiral . The nomination, which secretary of defense Jim Mattis announced, would give Jackson his second star and a bump in pay.
U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprising threat on Friday to veto Congress' newly passed $1.3 trillion spending bill, a move that raised the specter of a government shutdown ahead of a midnight deadline to renew funding for federal agencies. In a tweet on Friday morning Trump said he was displeased about immigration issues in the bill, even though the White House had given assurances on Thursday that he would sign it.
The letters printed on Sunday highlighted your two favorite targets - President Donald Trump and Pastor Robert Jeffress. The seemingly endless drumbeat of negative coverage of these two men rarely mentions their great accomplishments.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus says it would support President Donald Trump if he vetoed a $1.3 trillion spending bill. Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, chairman of the freedom caucus, says in a tweet the group would "fully support" a veto.
The Trump administration alleged Friday that Iranian government-linked hackers conducted a "massive and brazen" hacking scheme, breaking into the accounts of roughly 8,000 professors at hundreds of US and foreign universities, as well as private companies and government entities, to steal huge amounts of data and intellectual property. The indictment unveiled by the Justice Department directly links the individuals charged with the hacks to the Iranian government, saying the perpetrators were working for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other government clients.
The president's Twitter response to the former vice president's comments come as the U.S. faces a problem with bullying. Why spat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden might hurt anti-bullying efforts The president's Twitter response to the former vice president's comments come as the U.S. faces a problem with bullying.
President Donald Trump is replacing US National Security Adviser HR McMaster with Bush-era defence hawk and former United Nations ambassador John Bolton. Mr Bolton, who has backed attacking North Korea and Iran, told Fox News his job would be to ensure the president has "the full range of options".
The U.S. Congress voted early on Friday to approve a $1.3-trillion government funding bill with large increases in military and non-defense spending, sending it to President Donald Trump, who was expected to sign it into law. With Trump's signature, the bill will avert a threatened government shutdown and keep federal agencies funded until Sept.
Congress has approved a $1.3 trillion measure bestowing hefty increases on military and domestic programs. It gives President Donald Trump just a nibble of the money he's wanted to build his wall with Mexico.
European Union leaders called on Friday for a temporary exemption from U.S. import duties on steel and aluminum to be made permanent, saying they reserved the right to respond in an "in a proportionate manner" to protect the bloc's interests. The 40-day exemption granted by Washington was like U.S. President Donald Trump "putting a gun to our head," Belgium's prime minister complained.
President Donald Trump 's proposed ban on military service by transgender individuals is supposed to go into effect Friday but it's unclear if the White House will announce any new policy. Add LGBT as an interest to stay up to date on the latest LGBT news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Congress gave final approval Friday to a giant $1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late scuffles and conservatives objections to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House. Senate passage shortly after midnight averted a third federal shutdown this year, an outcome both parties wanted to avoid.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe kept personal memos describing interactions with President Donald Trump that are similar to the notes compiled by dismissed FBI chief James Comey, the Associated Press has learned. It was not immediately clear whether any of Mr McCabe's memos have been turned over to or been requested by special counsel Robert Mueller, whose criminal investigation is examining Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee March Dinner at the National Building Museum on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. "As great as this president is, he's occasionally wrong." So spoke Senator Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, by way of explaining his opposition to President Donald Trump's tariffs.