Trump’s Mueller Problem
The fateful morning began like so many others in the White House residence. The President turned on the television and started to stew.
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Trump’s opponents race to the courthouse to thwart him
When President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 12 he would stop subsidies to health insurers critical to the Obamacare law, the response from Democratic state officials was swift and predictable: a lawsuit by 18 state attorneys general was filed within 24 hours. FILE PHOTO: The SoCal Health Care Coalition protests U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on healthcare at UC San Diego in La Jolla, California, U.S. on October 12, 2017.
Jerome Powell, Trump’s pick to lead Fed, would be the richest chair since the 1940s
In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, file photo, Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome Powell talks with others before a Board of Governors meeting at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington. President Donald Trump said Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, that he is likely to make his selection for the next Federal Reserve chairman from five candidates, a group that includes Powell.
Donald Trump is set to name a new head of the Federal Reserve
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Democrats Send the Country Further Down a Path of Division in Virginia
In Call With Times Reporter, Trump Projects Air of Calm Over Charges - President Trump projected an air of calm on Wednesday after charges against his former campaign chief and a foreign policy aide roiled Washington, insisting to The New York Times that he was not "angry at anybody" "You Can't Go Any Lower": Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment - After Monday's indictments, the president blamed Jared Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller.
Trump said to pick Jerome Powell as Fed chairman, replacing Janet Yellen
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome Powell to the top job at the U.S. central bank, according to four people familiar with the decision. Trump has said he will announce his pick Thursday afternoon.
Donald Trump plans to pick Fed Governor Jerome Powell as Fed chairman, replacing Janet Yellen
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell to the top job at the US central bank, three people familiar with the decision said. Trump, who has said he'll announce his pick on Thursday, would be choosing a former private-equity executive who favours continuing gradual interest rate increases and sympathises with White House calls to ease financial regulations.
House GOP’s evolving tax bill leaves retirement plan intact
House Republicans would leave intact current tax rules on retirement accounts popular with middle class Americans and maintain a top income tax rate for million-dollar earners as negotiators scrambled to finalize the first major overhaul in three decades. The legislation is a long-standing goal for Capitol Hill Republicans who see a once-in-a-generation opportunity to clean up an inefficient, loophole-cluttered tax code.
Appeals court nominee Grasz assures senators he would follow court precedent
Omaha attorney Steve Grasz repeatedly assured members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he would adhere to judicial precedent and not allow his personal views to interfere with his judgment if he is confirmed as a nominee to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dems Raise More Questions About Jeff Sessions’ Testimony on Russia
Democrats on Wednesday questioned again whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forthcoming with Congress amid news reports he killed a suggestion by former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos to set up a meeting with Republican candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Jeff Sessions concealed his meetings with Russians, and he had an obligation to be more forthcoming about the meeting that involved Papadopoulos as well," Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told Manu Raju on CNN.
Book review: Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump, a Political Odyssey
It has been nearly a decade since the first "Facebook election" set us on our current course of superficiality in political discourse. Today we are inured to candidates and voters alike taking just a dash of politics along with their pop culture, late-night hosts, and ESPN sports-cum-social justice.
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., attends a news…
Police found a note inside the truck used to run down pedestrians in Manhattan. The note indicates the alleged terrorist carried out the attack in the name of ISIS.
Trump calls for ending visa program after NY attack, blasts Democrats
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday seized on the deadly New York City truck attack to step up demands for stricter U.S. immigration laws, asking Congress to end a visa program that let the Uzbek suspect into the country and saying he might send him to Guantanamo Bay. In a day of harsh recriminations over Tuesday's attack that killed eight people in America's largest city, Trump appeared to assign some blame for an incident that authorities have labeled as terrorism to top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, who accused Trump of politicizing a national tragedy.
Trump kills class-action rule against banks, lightening Wall Street regulation
President Donald Trump signed a Congressional resolution on Wednesday that lets banks block customers from filing class action lawsuits, partly delivering on his election campaign promise to lighten U.S. financial regulation. U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a tax reform industry meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2017.
Mueller is unraveling Russian manipulation. Let him finish his job.
Has there ever been a covert action that backfired as disastrously as Russia's attempt to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign? Granted, we know all the reasons Moscow is gloating: Donald Trump is president; America is divided and confused; Russia's propagandization of "fake news" is now repeated by people around the world as evidence that nothing is believable and all information is manipulated and mendacious. But against this cynical strategy there now stands a process embodied by special counsel Robert Mueller, which we will call, as a shorthand: "The Truth."
House GOP scrambles to finalize tax bill despite opposition
House Republicans on Wednesday scrambled to finalize the first major tax overhaul in three decades amid opposition from GOP lawmakers fearful about constituents losing a cherished deduction for state and local taxes. Top Republicans vowed to release the measure on Thursday after missing a self-imposed Wednesday deadline and dismissed rumors that the unveiling might be further delayed.
Trump opioid panel wants drug courts, training for doctors
In this Oct. 26, 2017, photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walks on the stage during after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump spoke on combatting drug demand and the opioid crisis in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump's commission on the opioid crisis called Nov. 1, 2017, for more drug courts, more training for doctors and penalties for insurers that dodge covering addiction treatment.
John McCain just keeps trolling Donald Trump
That's Sen. John McCain's warning to the country - and his party - about the dangers of submitting to the rising tide of populism, isolationism and nationalism being sold by President Donald Trump. The Arizona Republican's speech - delivered at his alma mater US Naval Academy on Tuesday - was the second time this month he has delivered a broad-spectrum critique of Trump and Trumpism.
The most important race of 2017 is getting very close
If you're looking for one race this fall to tell you what people make of the first year of the Trump presidency, your best bet is the Virginia governor's race where next week, voters will choose between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie. The race has long looked like Northam's to lose.
Trump demands ‘much tougher’ immigration law after NY attack
By BY ZEKE MILLER and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON - Roused by the first major ISIS-inspired attack on U.S. soil since he took office, President Donald Trump urged swift repeal of an immigration program that brought the suspect to America and laid into a political foe he said was responsible for it - though Republican George H. W. Bush signed the law. Trump insisted Wednesday that Congress must end the visa lottery program under which Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov entered the country, and he ordered still tighter scrutiny of immigrants already subject to what he calls "extreme vetting."