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Director Sebastian Junger at the Los Angeles premiere of HBO Documentary Films' "Which Way Is the Frontline From Here: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington," on April, 4, 2013. Sebastian Junger has a message for lawmakers: the partisan warring of politicians in Washington DC is hurting the American military more than they realize.
WASHINGTON - House Republicans headed toward a vote Thursday on dismantling sweeping financial rules established under President Barack Obama that were designed to head off economic meltdowns like the one that caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and homes during the Great Recession.
Jeh Johnson makes remarks after U.S. President Barack Obama introduced him as his nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, October 18, 2013. Obama on Friday nominated former Pentagon attorney Johnson, a national security expert who had a role in ending the military's ban on gays in the military, to be Homeland Security chief.
A prominent leader of the abstinence-only sex education movement has been appointed to a senior position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, joining several other social conservative activists in the leadership ranks at HHS.
Former FBI Director James Comey will tell the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him to pledge his loyalty and to end the agency's investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to his prepared remarks posted online Wednesday. "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty," Comey said Trump told him in his prepared remarks, posted on the website of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attend the Kennedy Center Honors show December 4, 2016 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Michelle Obama revealed a secret about Barack Obama's formal wear during his eight years in the White House: He wore the same tuxedo and shoes the entire time.
On Nov. 9, 2016, in the stunned afterglow of Republicans taking the White House and holding both chambers of Congress, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor put it plainly: "It is now time for Republicans to govern," he said on CNBC. "There'll be no excuses now.
Voters decided Tuesday on the Democratic and Republican candidates to represent their party in the Nov. 7 contest. New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states with governor's races.
Leaked NSA documents revealing that Russia engaged in election-related hacking efforts just days before the election directly contradict what former President Barack Obama told the American public. Speaking at a year-end news conference in December, Obama told the public that Russian interference in the election ceased after he told Russian President Vladimir Putin to "cut it out" in early September.
Former US President Barack Obama waves before he is awarded the German Media Prize 2016 in Baden-Baden, Germany on May 25, 2017. Former U.S. president Barack Obama will be in Montreal today to deliver a keynote speech to a sold-out audience at the city's convention centre.
The day after President Donald Trump asked James B. Comey, the FBI director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, the New York Times reports, citing current and former law enforcement officials. Comey believed Sessions should protect the FBI from White House influence, the officials said, according tothe Times, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the FBI director and the president were inappropriate.
A San Juan County commissioner says this week's meeting with U.S. Department of Interior staff "went really well," even as the clock is winding down to Saturday's deadline for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to make a recommendation on the fate of Bears Ears National Monument. "We know how special it is to be invited back there and asked to give our input, so trust me, we are taking it very seriously.
President Donald Trump is accusing Senate Democrats of slow-walking his nominees, but his blame is misplaced. It's the president who is lagging behind his predecessors in naming candidates for key government posts during his first five months in the office.
Former US President Barack Obama waves before he is awarded the German Media Prize 2016 in Baden-Baden, Germany on May 25, 2017. Former U.S. president Barack Obama will be in Montreal today to deliver a keynote speech to a sold-out audience at the city's convention centre.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump are hosting a Sunday night fundraiser for Ford's Theater, the venue where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. It's easy to dismiss Trumps Twitter ramblings as just that, but when you read them in the format of a White House press release, they sound way more serious, yet simultaneously more ridiculous.
The White House director of legislative affairs acknowledged Monday that the ongoing investigations into possible links between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign have undoubtedly detracted from the administration's agenda. But he said he's expecting plenty of legislative accomplishments nonetheless.
Christine Lui Chen, a 36-year-old health care executive in New Jersey and mother of two small children, had never considered entering politics, focusing instead on her family, her career and her community. That all changed in January, 13 hours after she attended the Women's March on Washington.
Parking in D.C. is tough enough, but the new arrivals to DC's Kalorama neighborhood -- the Obamas and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband -- all come with Secret Service security details, which need parking spots, too. The Secret Service has become a fixture in the Kalorama neighborhood, with the Obamas and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, moving in.
President Donald Trump is accusing Senate Democrats of slow-walking his nominees, but his blame is misplaced. It's the president who is lagging behind his predecessors in naming candidates for key government posts during his first five months in the office.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to sign a memorandum of agreement with Trump's Justice Department that would include an independent monitor of the Chicago Police Department but no court enforcement. Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to sign a memorandum of agreement with Trump's Justice Department that would include an independent monitor of the Chicago Police Department but no court enforcement.