Trump Begins a 17-Day Vacation
Like many denizens of Washington DC, President Donald Trump is escaping the heat that smothers the nation's capital in August. But his respite is anything but brief.
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Some young immigrants are considering seeking their American dreams elsewhere
Karla Estrada Sanchez, of Los Angeles, gazes outward in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug 03, 2017. “Unjust and outdated immigration laws will not dictate who I am as a person and a professional.
Former Mexican president chides Trump for vacation
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox chides President Trump for taking a vacation Fox tells Trump he can "just leave" if he isn't happy with his job. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: https://usat.ly/2wvxefu Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has taken another sharp jab at President Trump on Twitter, questioning why the American president needs a vacation and urging Trump to "just leave" if he isn't happy with his job.
Donald Trump continuing bloody wars
Before the election, Trump called the Afghanistan war a mess . Now he's sending more troops to make a bigger mess.
Israeli officials say under-fire McMaster a great friend of Israel
Source tells Israeli paper that security figures are 'constantly impressed by how pro-Israeli' the US national security adviser is despite criticism in US Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with US National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster on May 22, 2017. Israeli officials responded to mounting allegations that US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is anti-Israel, saying that these were blatantly false and he was a staunch supporter of the Jewish state.
Anderson Cooper’s Show Mocks Vacationing Donald Trump With Snarky Chyron
What Cooper did take issue with, however, was Trump's regular mocking of his predecessor, former President Barack Obama , whenever he took time off.
On the sweltering Gulf coast, climate change is a workplace hazard
Adolfo Guerra, a landscaper in this port city on the Gulf of Mexico , remembers panicking as his co-worker vomited and convulsed after hours of mowing lawns in stifling heat. Other workers rushed to cover him with ice, and the man recovered.
The leadership vacuum of American politics | Farmer
The political health of the country may actually be worse than the appalling fact that an ignorant, incompetent Donald Trump is president. What could possibly be worse: The reality that the country is living with a dangerous vacuum when neither major political party has the leadership or an agenda coherent and popular enough to govern.
Latino community is small, diverse, growing – and anxious
It's there in the form of an ankle bracelet he has worn since he was arrested along with two co-workers one morning this spring on their way to an interior-painting job in Oakland - the thing feared by Latinos like him who live here without legal status. Marroquin, 47, is grateful that he was spared the fate of one of his co-workers, who was immediately deported.
A Donald Trump map of America: President has colourful words for places he likes, or hates
When President Donald Trump looks at America, he sees two very different worlds: He's visited inner cites he declared to be "worse than almost any of the places in the Middle East," he slammed New Hampshire as a "drug-infested den." And he's championed "beautiful" cities full of "massive crowds" and "true American patriots," often in states that voted for him.
Trump court appointee did not clear Wisconsin vetting
President Donald Trump's pick to fill a long-standing federal appellate court vacancy never cleared a state vetting commission, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin's office said Friday. Trump's administration announced Friday morning that he had chosen Milwaukee attorney Michael Brennan to fill the opening on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
People Noticed Something Odd In the Garage Area of Obama Family’s New $5.3 Million Home
Barack Obama and his family may have left the White House, but their new digs aren't too shabby. The Obamas relocated into a multi-million dollar home in Washington, D.C., which is currently being renovated.
Trump rallies his base as Mueller probe grows
As a special counsel investigation into his campaign accelerates, President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to rally his political base with warnings that any outcome other than vindication will be an attempt to thwart the will of voters.
Inside the bills aimed at checking President Trump on firing Mueller
Republican and Democratic senators concerned that President Donald Trump may try to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller have introduced legislation aimed at protecting the former FBI director's role leading the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and possible ties to Trump associates. Under current rules governing how a special counsel can be removed, Trump can't fire him directly.
James Comey is writing a book – and we know he’s been keeping thorough notes
The former FBI director just signed a deal with publisher Flatiron Books for his first book, a not-yet-titled exploration of "what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions," a news release says. "Using examples from some of the highest-stakes situations in the past two decades of American government, Comey will share yet-unheard anecdotes from his long and distinguished career," Flatiron, a division of Macmillan, said in the release.
Surveillance drone to fly at Trump golf course during visit
Golfers and neighbors of Donald Trump's New Jersey course will have something more than just the president to look out for over the next few weeks. A tethered unmanned surveillance aircraft will be flying over the Bedminster area as part of a test while Trump is staying at his home on the golf course on a 17-day vacation that starts Friday, the Secret Service said in a privacy notice issued this week.
5 things for Friday, August 4: Russia probe, Trump, gun sales, Harvard diversity
There's A LOT going on, so let's get straight to what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door . Federal investigators exploring whether Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russians have seized on Trump and his associates' financial ties to Russia as one of the most fertile avenues for moving their probe forward, according to people familiar with the investigation.
US warns against ‘staggering’ leaks, vows crackdown
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday vowed a tough crackdown on people revealing classified or sensitive national security information, threatening to jail leakers and branding such illicit acts a betrayal to fellow Americans. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly fumed about "illegal leaks" and even lashed out publicly at Sessions last week for taking what he called a "very weak" position on the issue.
Flynn files new financial form reporting ties to data firm
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is revealing a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the Trump campaign, The Associated Press has learned. The disclosure of Flynn's link to Cambridge Analytica will come in an amended public financial filing in which the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general also discloses income that includes payments from the Trump transition team, according to a person close to Flynn who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity Thursday to describe details of the filing made to the White House.
Under pressure, Trump White House can sound familiar
For President Donald Trump's ever-evolving communications staff, the force that drives their days often appears in a tweet. The subject matter might be difficult to predict, but the means by which it arrives can feel as certain as the very early rising sun.