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New York Times reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis filed the paper's latest passionate defense of an amnesty plan for young illegals -- Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, or DACA -- in Saturday ' s edition. Warning that Trump risked appearing "particularly hardhearted," Davis shamelessly used Hurricane Harvey as a political weapon to prop up the initiative put in place by President Obama in 2012, after Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act, in " Storm Complicates a Decision on Whether to Keep 'Dreamers' Program.
The controversial trip Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took with his wife Louise Linton last week is being reviewed by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Inspector General. Mnuchin flew to Kentucky with Linton, who came under fire for her condescending tirade after a woman criticized the Scottish-born actress for posting an Instagram photo of herself disembarking a government plane.
For the past year, Ms. Luna's middle school classroom lessons have taken a personal turn because for some of her students, old fears have been renewed - fears that they or their parents could be deported.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain had some choice words for President Donald Trump in a blistering op-ed published just as Congress is getting ready to come back from vacation and face a host of important deadlines. The Washington Post op-ed is titled "It's time Congress returns to regular order," but it is McCain's knocks on Trump that are getting passed around on social media Friday.
Is there a rationale for having contractors play this role instead of U.S. troops other than "Erik Prince runs a contracting company"? pic.twitter.com/aPyVmw0IpD For the past year, Erik Prince has been peddling an idea that should alarm anyone who has followed his career: We should replace U.S. troops in Afghanistan with mercenaries, preferably his The generals laughed at Prince, and thankfully the president went with the non-mercenary option. But Prince refuses to disappear, excoriating the generals in a recent op-ed for The New York Times , and pushing again for mercenaries, suggesting "it is not too late to alter the course."
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, submitted a letter to Congress disputing allegations made against him in an explosive and unverified 35-page dossier which claims that Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in his favor. The dossier, compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, paints Cohen as a central figure in the Trump-Russia controversy, alleging that he was a key player in "the ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon's campaign and the Russian leadership."
Donald Trump did what a president is supposed to do yesterday, visiting Corpus Christi for a briefing on hurricane relief efforts, talking up Texas and praising those on the front lines of the catastrophic flooding. As a levee was breached, reservoirs overflowed and Harvey dumped more rain on the battered Houston region, the president and his FEMA director demonstrated that the feds are coordinating with state and local officials in trying to aid the tens of thousands of displaced residents.
As the sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., Joe Arpaio was an authoritarian and incompetent disgrace to public service. He bragged of confining inmates in conditions so harsh that they amounted to a " concentration camp ," and in his zeal to find illegal immigrants he engaged in naked racial profiling - even after a federal court ordered him to stop.
President Donald Trump's response to Harvey victims, in terms of actual post-hurricane aid, could be a real test for the White House and Congress now that the cost of recovering from the weekend hurricane has been estimated in the billions. This is Trump's first political experience with a big disaster assistance package and comes at a time when budget and spending issues are dividing Congress.
President Trump gives a thumbs up to a crowd of supporters at the Phoenix Convention Center during a rally last week. If you picked up a print copy of The New York Times Friday you may have noticed something unusual about it - something missing.
Iowa Democrats apparently ran out of gas between Caucus Day and Election Day in 2016, but nine months later, that's changed. "We've had more enthusiasm since the election results than we had prior to Nov. 8," Linn County Democratic Party Chairman Bret Nilles told Fox News.
A rainbow flag flies as people protest U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving in any capacity in the U.S. military, in Times Square, in New York City, New York, July 26, 2017. The White House is expected to soon give the Pentagon guidance on implementing President Donald Trump's order to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
President Donald Trump speaks as Steven Mnuchin, his fiancee Louise Linton, and Vice President Mike Pence participate in a ceremonial swearing in for Treasury secretary. A government watchdog group is looking into the timing of Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton's trip to Kentucky that gained notoriety following a dramatic exchange on Instagram, saying the trip "seemed to be planned around the eclipse."
The emergence of Great Wall Motors as a potential partner for Jeep highlights just how much Fiat Chrysler, Jeep's owner, has looked to China to help bolster its fortunes. The New York Times notes that Fiat Chrysler has openly sought investors for two years and, as early as last year, the carmaker sent a team specializing in mergers and acquisitions to China.
President Donald Trump is losing key support in three states that helped him win the White House during the 2016 presidential election, according to a poll released Sunday. The majority of voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania no longer approve of the president, according to a series of polls conducted by NBC News and Marist College in New York.
Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled chief strategist who helped President Trump win the 2016 election but clashed for months with other senior West Wing advisers, is leaving his post, a White House spokeswoman announced Friday. John F. Kelly, the retired four-star Marine Corps general brought in late last month as White House chief of staff, has been contemplating dramatic changes to West Wing staffing that included firing Bannon .... "This was without question one man's decision: Kelly.
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WHAT a difference location can make. Having at first blamed "many sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump appeared in the White House's Diplomatic Room on Monday to denounce racism as "evil" and describe the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists as "criminals and thugs".
By the time members of Congress return from recess next month, only a fraction of their constituents will have had the opportunity to stand up in a public meeting and question them on issues dominating the conversation in Washington. Less than a third of representatives confirmed that they are holding traditional town halls with their constituents during their month-long break from Capitol Hill.
Travis Brown, 33, of Sand Springs Mont., stands next to a fence at a cattle corral while waiting for local cowboys to divert some of his cattle into a trailer.Tim Craig/The Washington Post Travis Brown, 33, of Sand Springs Mont., stands next to a fence at a cattle corral while waiting for local cowboys to divert some of his cattle into a trailer.Tim Craig/The Washington Post SAND SPRINGS, Mont. - In this part of Montana's rugged eastern prairie, Erwin Weder and the other ranchers and cowboys are not used to feeling kicked around.