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President Donald Trump confirmed Friday he is under federal investigation and appeared to single out a senior Justice Department official for criticism, underscoring his growing frustration with the persistent focus on Russia's involvement in the 2016 election and possibly his campaign. "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt," the president wrote.
On Friday, President Trump loved them back, enacting a tougher policy toward Cuba as he basked in celebratory cheers that recalled his campaign rallies. Casting it as a "great day" for the people of the communist island of Cuba, Trump powered into Miami and announced a sweeping change in diplomatic relations intended to rebuke his predecessor's executive changes and spur commerce and personal freedoms.
President Donald Trump speaks about the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scales of La. at a baseball practice, Thursday, June 15, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington before the start of an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives.
President Trump announced a dramatic reversal Friday of the Obama administration's Cuba policy, restoring restrictions on U.S. travel to the island and new prohibitions on financial transactions that benefit the communist regime's military. "We will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer," Mr. Trump said in Miami.
An associate professor at Central Connecticut State University claims the leftist gunman who opened fire this week on Republican members of Congress was "driven by Trump and trumpism." In a blog post highlighted by Campus Reform, associate professor Jerold Duquette argued Thursday that President Trump and "trumpism," or rhetoric employed or inspired by the president, can drive "intellectually feeble" and "mentally unstable" people to commit political violence.
President Donald Trump has responded angrily to reports that he is under criminal investigation, deriding a "witch hunt" against him led by some "very bad" people. He was answering accounts that he is personally being investigated for obstruction of justice with a characteristic scorched-earth defense: Claiming mistreatment of historic proportions and calling into question the probity of his accusers.
Just over three years ago, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (Florida) nominated me to attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), one of the nation's five...
President Trump will announce Friday a drastic change in the U.S.-Cuba relationship, swapping a policy of cultural exchange to bring about democratic ideals for something closer to the embargo-style policies from past decades. White House officials said Trump plans to cut off income to the Castro regime, with the hopes of bringing about free elections, by once again limiting tourism and trade to the island.
The annual GOP-Democrats baseball game raises money for charity. . Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., applaud a message by President Donald Trump on the ... .
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., left, listen as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 15, 2017, during an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives.
In this June 7, 2017, file photo, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback gave a statement to the media in Topeka. Brownback signed a bill Thursday, June 15, that would increase spending on the state's public schools in an effort to comply with a court mandate.
A California Army veteran who eventually became homeless after serving several tours overseas and trying to transition back to civilian life was surprised with a new car San Francisco police are responding to a shooting at a building near the Bayshore Freeway, the department said in a tweet. This morning's shooting at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia shattered what was meant to be some good old fashioned fun.
Federal agencies working to restructure themselves are focusing primarily on serving their customers better rather than ways to cut the workforce, leaders told a Senate panel Thursday, which promised thorough oversight of the Trump administration's reorganization efforts. Agency leaders said they were taking seriously suggestions from their rank-and-file employees on how to institute more efficiencies as part of their reform planning.
US President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2017 after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in nearby Alexandria, Virginia. US President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced reports that the special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether he tried to obstruct justice, calling it a "phony story."
The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign is now examining whether Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, according to a report. Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Mr Trump's personal lawyer, responded to the Washington Post's report, saying: "The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal."
Twelve years after his father was brutally murdered, Jack Reid Jr. stood in a courtroom Wednesday as the victim of another crime - a violent home invasion last year in which a man barged into... The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday, sending a message of confidence in the U.S. economy despite evidence ... (more)
Sorry, Justin Trudeau. DA solA , Emmanuel Macron. You've been replaced as the West's sexiest politicians by a socks-and-sandals retread from the seventies whose young fans never experienced that decade's failed Labour policies, the same ones Jeremy Corbyn, the party's current leader, wants to re-enact.
Among the attendees at Saturday's annual Sidney Chism political picnic were Terry Lynch, County Commissioners Eddie Jones and Van Turner, Karl Schledwitz, Commissioners Willie Brooks and Melvin Burgess, and Assessor candidate Shawn Lynch. Shelby County Assessor Cheyenne Johnson , a Democrat, will not be running for reelection and instead will be supporting the candidacy of Shawn Lynch , a legal adviser in her office and the son of well-known local businessman and civic figure Terry Lynch .
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., left, listen as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into contacts between Trump ... (more)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was given the opportunity "to separate fact from fiction and to set the record straight" on the swirling charges of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the firing of FBI Director James Comey for investigating it all. Disappointingly, he didn't do so in his testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.