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Dan Pfeiffer, former assistant and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, thinks he knows the exact date the modern era of fake news was born: April 27, 2011. "I had walked into the briefing room that morning with 50 copies of Barack Obama's birth certificate," Pfeiffer recalls in a memoir, " Yes We Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump ," set to be published next week.
While the focus was on judgment calls by former FBI Director James Comey, Republicans immediately seized on secondary findings by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, including that five FBI officials expressed hostility toward Trump before his election as president. Horowitz said their actions have been referred to the bureau for possible discipline.
U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. A House Republican immigration plan would curb the Trump administration's widely criticized policy of separating children from parents seeking asylum at the U.S. border, but other provisions may lessen its chances of being enacted.
The strangeness of the largest migrant children's center in the United States, near the border with Mexico, shows up in the details. Here, there are 1,469 boys, ages 10 to 17, housed inside the 250,000-square-foot shell of a former Walmart superstore.
Promising to hold FBI officials accountable for any misconduct related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails during her time as Secretary of State, the FBI Director on Thursday said that while a new internal report made clear there were errors in judgment linked to that investigation, it did not show the FBI wrongly dealt with that politically sensitive investigation. "This report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper considerations actually impacting the investigation that was under review," the FBI chief said, referring to the Clinton email probe, though he made clear, the actions of certain officials would be under further review.
In this file July 7, 2016, photo then-FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee to discuss Hillary Clinton's email investigation, at the Capitol in Washington. The Justice Department's watchdog faults former Comey for breaking with protocol in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
... 65% of hispanics view Trump unfavorably. Time to change his rhetoric?" In July 2015, Schlapp wrote a column for US News & World Report in which she said Trump "needs to apologize" and "take back his remarks about Mexicans, for the good of his own ...
In this Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Virginia GOP senatorial hopeful, Corey Stewart, gestures during a news conference at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. Stewart, a conservative provocateur and supporter of President Donald Trump won Virginia's Republican primary Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in the U.S. Senate race, and he has promised to run a "vicious" campaign against incumbent Tim Kaine.
The Senate sided with the Trump administration to vote down a GOP plan that would have given Congress greater oversight over deals between foreign and U.S. firms that could affect national security. The legislation, pushed by by Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., failed to clear a procedural hurdle when the Senate blocked it with a 35-to-62 vote.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, called the prevalence of suicide, especially among LGBT teens, "a serious problem that requires national attention" in a speech delivered on the Senate floor to commemorate Pride Month. "No one should ever feel less because of their gender identity or sexual orientation," Hatch said Wednesday, describing the bullying, discrimination and even estrangement experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
Freeland's visit comes a... . Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters after meeting with Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
Two women talked about their abortions. Another who worked at Toys R Us for 33 years said a Wall Street leveraged buyout left her facing unemployment without severance.
That's the lesson many Republicans are drawing from Rep. Mark Sanford's surprise defeat Tuesday in his primary election in South Carolina. The victor, state Rep. Katie Arrington, repeatedly highlighted Sanford's criticism of the president.
Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof says the "establishment got crushed" when he knocked off the incumbent Republican in a state legislative primary Tuesday night. But now, the flamboyant pimp may need some help from the GOP establishment to win in November.
Hillary Clinton and James Comey will be back in the headlines Thursday as a watchdog official for the Justice Department releases a report on the Obama administration's handling of the Clinton email scandal in the runup to the 2016 election. The report - by Inspector General Michael Horowitz - is widely expected to criticize Comey, the former FBI director, for his public statements in July 2016 and October 2016 about the federal investigation into Clinton's use of a private email while she was secretary of state.
His meeting with G7 leaders played well with his base, who see the president as putting America's economic interest first. And he's coming off from a historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un that could lead to a denuclearization of that rogue nation and almost certainly has brought us back from the brink of war.
A day after MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews called out President Trump for "coming out like a kiss butt" in dealing with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, the liberal pundit reveled on Wednesday in comparing Republicans to North Korean soldiers and comments by Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker that GOPers are part of a "cult" for enthusiastically backing President. Not surprisingly, Matthews seemed a little confused about whether to make the Republican comparison to those who committed mass suicide in Jonestown by first ruling at 7:21 p.m. Eastern that "Corker's not exactly a bomb thrower and he's not comparing this guy to James Jones and drinking the kool-aid and cults and that's pretty deep."
New York 's attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a court to shut down President Trump 's charitable foundation, accusing him of abusing the foundation to enrich himself and help his political campaign. Barbara Underwood brought the lawsuit in state court in New York against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Mr. Trump , and his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. She said the foundation, created in the 1980s, hasn't held a board meeting since 1999, leaving Mr. Trump to run it "according to his whim."
The pension crisis that threatens the retirement savings of 1.5 million Americans also poses the risk of driving the U.S. economy into a tailspin, a panel of witnesses told a congressional panel. Witnesses from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and businesses, including UPS, told the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multi-employer Pension Plans that should the estimated 150 to 200 multi-employer pension plans that are in danger become insolvent, the companies that paid into those plans would be held liable.
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a longtime ally of embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt, said Wednesday it might be time for Pruitt to "leave that job." "Every day, something new comes up," Inhofe told conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.