‘Weekend Update’ mocks Jeff Sessions, Alabama drive-in theater for ‘Beauty and the Beast’ ban

"Weekend Update" anchor Michael Che, above, delivers a joke about the Henagar Drive-In Theater's refusal to screen "Beauty & the Beast" on "Saturday Night Live" on March 4, 2017. During the weekly "Weekend Update" segment, anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che landed several jokes at the expense of Sessions and then the Henagar Drive-In Theater in DeKalb County for announcing its ban on the new "Beauty and the Beast" film .

Hillary Clinton appears to read Pence email headline in viral photo A …

A photo of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appearing to read a newspaper headline about Vice President Mike Pence's use of private email while he was governor of Indiana has gone viral. According to the Huffington Post , Clinton was flying from Boston to New York on Friday when fellow passenger Caitlin Quigley sneaked a snapshot of the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, who was sitting in coach next to aide Huma Abedin.

BLM planning rule gives locals a voice

Late last year, the federal Bureau of Land Management issued a new and long overdue rule - called Planning 2.0 - that gave a wider range of voices the opportunity to weigh in on how federal lands can be used and developed for decades to come. Planning 2.0 was grounded by an idea at the heart of American democracy: that people most affected by public policy decisions deserve to be heard.

Our View: Focus on statea s needs

Money and ambition always play leading roles when the Florida Legislature is meeting. And the 2017 session, which is set to open Tuesday, promises to be scrappier than usual - with skirmishes breaking out even as the ceremonial opening-day speeches and traditional displays of unity still ring in the air.

US Vice-President Mike Pence takes centre-stage at traditional comedic white-tie dinner

Donald Trump has declared that the media are the "enemy of the people", but his vice president showed he is still willing to joke around with reporters - and poke fun at himself - in a venerable Washington tradition.

Otters are sweet relief from witless war on EPA

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan joins Senate colleagues and President Donald Trump at the White House for the signing of an executive order requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its "waters of the U.S." regulation. Feb. 28, 2017.

On – SNL,’ a very special pie for Jeff Sessions

For Kate McKinnon's Jeff Sessions, the skit started with a box of chocolates but ended with a much less delectable pastry. The cold open for this week's "Saturday Night Live" drew its inspiration from "Forrest Gump," with McKinnon's Sessions eating chocolates on a bench in Alabama, dropping bizarre and hammy metaphors in a thick Southern drawl, and addressing the recent controversy surrounding the nation's top prosecutor.

Alaska governor asks Trump to throw his weight behind Alaska LNG project

Alaska's governor is asking President Donald Trump to lend his support to what he termed an "ideal" megaproject - the $45 billion Alaska gas pipeline - as the president moves ahead with his $1 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. In a Feb. 7 letter addressed to Trump, Gov. Bill Walker also includes the ultimate federal wish list to help expedite the Alaska LNG project that seeks to sell huge reserves of North Slope gas to Asian utilities.

Trump claims Obama wire tapped his N.Y. offices

President Donald Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters in the run-up to last fall's election, providing no evidence to support his explosive claim and drawing a flat denial from Obama's office. Leveling the extraordinary allegation about his predecessor in a series of four early morning tweets, Trump said Obama had been "wire tapping" his New York offices and suggested he had meddled with the "very sacred election process."

Sessions slams ‘unfair’ criticism of meetings with Russian Federation

He told the Senate Judiciary Committee that when he was a U.S. Attorney, he "personally" litigated four civil rights cases, which he listed as among his most significant cases. "When Senator Sessions testified under oath that 'I did not have communications with the Russians, ' his statement was demonstrably false, yet he let it stand for weeks", Cummings said .

Graham vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of Trump’s wiretapping claims

Sen. Lindsey Graham promised South Carolina residents Saturday that he would "get to the bottom" of President Donald Trump's unverified accusation earlier in the day that former President Barack Obama wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower. "I'm very worried that our President is suggesting that the former President's done something illegally," the Republican lawmaker said at a packed town hall meeting.

Lindsey Graham Nails The Problem With Trump’s Wiretapping Claims

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday that if former President Barack Obama actually wiretapped Donald Trump 's phones, either legally or illegally, it would be the biggest scandal since Watergate. Speaking at a town hall in Clemson, South Carolina, Graham addressed Trump's baseless claims that Obama eavesdropped on him prior to the 2016 election.

GOP senator demands more info from Trump on wiretapping claims

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday called on President Trump to release information backing up his bombshell claims that former President Barack Obama GOP senator demands more info from Trump on wiretapping claims Vicente Fox slams Trump as a 'so-called' president Trump ratchets up Obama attack with wiretapping allegation MORE "We are in the midst of a civilization-warping crisis of public trust, and the President's allegations today demand the thorough and dispassionate attention of serious patriots," Sasse said in a statement. Sasse noted that any such wiretap would have taken place with authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court , unless it took place without authorization.