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President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for churches Thursday The order also is created to allow religious groups to avoid a mandate to provide contraception coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act, potentially expanding an exemption that had been carved out in the courts. However, the nonprofit determined that the executive order, in its current state, would not affect the rights of the people.
When the president says, “I'm, like, a smart person,” you know he nurses deep insecurities about his intelligence. When he says, “I'm 'really' rich,” you know that he knows that you know that, really, he probably isn't.
In this Dec. 4, 2012, file photo, coal export opponents, from left, Wayne Spitzer, Ginger Hughes and April Beasley show their disapproval of a pro-coal speaker who was giving public testimony on a proposed Cherry Point coal export terminal near Bellingham, Wash., at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center in Spokane, Wash. American Indian tribes and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest have successfully fought a slew of fossil fuel export projects in recent years and pushed for local regulations to prevent new proposals.
Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart "with a clean slate", Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. The former ExxonMobil CEO, who was decorated in 2013 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, had said previously that the relationship between the two nuclear powers had hit its lowest point since the Soviet collapse in 1991.
Last year, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects won the competition to design the Obama Presidential Library. Now, we are getting an early glimpse of what the library might look like.
When Donald Trump was merely a real estate mogul, he exaggerated flamboyantly and reporters considered it charming: He promoted Trump Tower as a 68-story building, even though it has only 58 floors. When Trump was a presidential candidate, he lied enthusiastically, but that didn't prevent him from winning: He insisted falsely that he opposed the Iraq war from the start, to cite only one of many instances.
An explosive new report published Saturday by The Washington Post paints a portrait of Donald Trump whose "state of mind" has alarmed those close to him this week following the outraged public and congressional reaction after he fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. In fact, one source told The Post, Trump may be suffering from a "paranoid delusion."
Hanging in a corridor outside the Pentagon press office, a blow-up of a Time magazine cover shows a weary US soldier drawing deeply on his cigarette. Barbed wire and snowy foothills loom behind him.
Hundreds wait in below-freezing temperatures to get into the Eastern Shore Mission of Mercy free dental clinic in Salisbury, Maryland, on March 10. Hundreds wait in below-freezing temperatures to get into the Eastern Shore Mission of Mercy free dental clinic in Salisbury, Maryland, on March 10. Dee Matello, right, waits in subfreezing temperatures with hundreds of others for free dental care at a clinic in Salisbury, Maryland, on March 10. Matello, who owns a small vending machine business with her husband, says she hasn't seen a dentist in years.
Sessions directs federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects, a reversal of Obama-era policies. Sessions directs federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects, a reversal of Obama-era policies.
Barack Obama's ascendancy to the presidency was a curse on black America's political heritage. - Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report It is no secret that the folks over at Black Agenda Report have never cottoned much to ex-President Obama.
U.S. environmental regulators have cleared the path for a stalled copper and gold mine in Alaska by agreeing to settle current lawsuits and other issues over the project, which had drawn environmental concerns over its potential impact on the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in a statement on Friday, said the settlement does not guarantee the proposed mining project in southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay region would ultimately win approval but that its review would now be carried out "in a fair, transparent, deliberate, and regular way."
The situation with North Korea should have been handled by former President Barack Obama and his predecessors, President Donald Trump said in an interview airing in part Friday, but he believes his own administration has handled it "very well, very firmly." "The North Korean situation a very, very dangerous one for South Korea, for Japan, frankly for China, and for the rest of the world," Trump told NBC News' Lester Holt in an interview recorded Thursday and airing in part on Friday's "Today" show.
China will seek to burnish President Xi Jinping's stature as a world-class statesman at an international gathering centered on his signature foreign policy effort that envisions a future world order in which all roads lead to Beijing. The Belt and Road Forum opening Sunday is the latest in a series of high-profile appearances aimed at projecting Xi's influence on the global stage ahead of a key congress of the ruling Communist Party later this year.
The mainstream media got burned over the last several days on anonymously sourced stories that turned out not to be true. One of them was the allegation that days before his firing, Comey requested additional resources for the Russian counterintelligence investigation.
In an exclusive interview with NBC's Lester Holt, President Donald Trump claims that he was going to fire former FBI director James Comey regardless of recommendations to do so, claiming responsibility for an action that sparked instant outrage with most Democratic and some Republican lawmakers. Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe says the Russia probe is still ongoing.
China will seek to burnish President Xi Jinping's stature as a world-class statesman at an international gathering centered on his signature foreign policy effort envisioning a future world order in which all roads lead to Beijing. The "Belt and Road Forum" opening Sunday is the latest in a series of high-profile appearances aimed at projecting Xi's influence on the global stage ahead of a key congress of the ruling Communist Party later this year.
President Donald Trump demanded loyalty from James Comey over dinner in January but the former FBI director, whom Trump fired Tuesday, only promised "that he would be honest with him always," according to news reports Thursday. Trump said Thursday he fired Comey, 56, who was nominated in 2013 by President Barack Obama, because he was a "showboat" and "grandstander."
Conservative senators are pushing to diminish insurance coverage requirements imposed by President Barack Obama's health care law as Senate Republicans try fashioning legislation overhauling the nation's health care system.