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President Donald Trump started a trip to Texas by privately meeting families of some of the 10 people killed in a school shooting this month. A White House spokesman said he was "moved" by the May 18 shooting at Santa Fe High School, which left eight students and two substitute teachers dead.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he's considering commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of corruption, and pardoning lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart, who served a stint in federal prison after being convicted of charges related to a stock sale. Hours earlier, Trump said on Twitter that he will pardon conservative commentator and Obama critic Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance fraud.
A trial attorney for imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says she's excited that President Donald Trump is considering commuting the Democrat's 14-year prison sentence for corruption. Lauren Kaeseberg tells The Associated Press the sentence was too harsh.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., joins members of the Bridgeport business community to discuss recent progress and future development of the downtown area. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., joins members of the Bridgeport business community to discuss recent progress and future development of the downtown area.
Shannon Kula, a Farmington resident and longtime U.S. Senate employee, filed paperwork Wednesday with the Federal Elections Commission to run for Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty's soon-to-be vacant seat. Kula was employed most recently as director of the Women's Leadership Center at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws but later said he was targeted for his conservative views. "Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today," Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
President Trump said Thursday he would pardon conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza - and said he was considering clemency of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart as well. "Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today.
In this May 20, 2014 file photo, conservative scholar and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, left, accompanied by his lawyer Benjamin Brafman leaves federal court, in New York. President Donald Trump says he will pardon conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza who pleaded guilty to campaign finance fraud.
President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he didn't fire FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investigation, despite previously citing that as the reason. His lawyer, meanwhile, blasted federal investigators as "a lynching mob" the Trump team will "knock the heck out of" in the end.
Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions "beleaguered" and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president's inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general's job. The White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and the president's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, pleaded with Trump during a heated Oval Office meeting to keep Sessions, warning that his dismissal would only pour gasoline on the Russia investigation.
Activists urge Cory Booker, Bob Menendez to speak out on Gaza killings Representatives from the senators' offices met with protesters, who hand-delivered a letter on the violence in Gaza. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2LN08zZ Bella August, of Montclair, Alice Golin, of Glen Ridge, and Jon Moscow, of Teaneck, participate in a rally protesting the violence inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli Occupation Forces at the Gaza border in front of the offices of Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez in Newark, NJ on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.
As President Donald Trump publicly lashed out again at his own Attorney General on Wednesday over the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, a key Republican in Congress said for a second day that a top secret briefing provided to a handful of lawmakers last week showed no evidence of FBI misconduct, as agents were simply trying to figure out what Russia was doing with respect to the Trump Campaign and the 2016 elections. "I think if the FBI were at the table this morning, they would tell you that Russia was the target, and Russia's intentions toward the country were the target," Gowdy said on CBS "This Morning."
This combination photo shows President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Moon Township, Pa., on March 10, 2018, left, and Kim Kardashian West at the NBCUniversal Network 2017 Upfront in New York on May 15, 2017. Kardashian West arrived at the White House for a meeting with presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law.
AUSTIN - Laurie Felker Jones immediately thought of her two kids when she learned about the Trump administration's family separation policy. "When I heard about what was happening, it was very easy to look at my children and understand what It's like when they're afraid and understand what it's like to be there for them or when we can't be there for them for some reason," she said.
On a Tuesday evening in February 2017, I stood up on the floor of the U.S. Senate and launched into a review of the record of President Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions. Part way into my speech, I started reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King.
More than two weeks after the storm Hamden residents are looking for assistance to repair and clean up the damage." Mark Baselice said, "There's so many tree that came down we can't afford to take these out."
President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday aimed at helping people with deadly diseases try experimental treatments, calling it a "fundamental freedom" that will offer hope and save lives. Joined by families dealing with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, and other diseases, Trump signed the so-called Right to Try bill and said he never understood why the issue had lagged for years and Congress hadn't acted sooner.
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a sometimes brash political outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhodes scholar and Navy SEAL officer made him a rising star in the Republican Party, resigned Tuesday amid a widening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser. The 44-year-old governor spent nearly five months fighting to stay in office after the affair became public in January in a television news report that aired immediately following his State of the State address.