Senators seek evidence to support Trump’s wiretapping claim

The leaders of a congressional inquiry into Russia's efforts to sway the U.S. election called on the Justice Department Wednesday to produce any evidence that supports President Donald Trump's explosive wiretapping allegation. Declaring that Congress "must get to the bottom" of Trump's claim, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., asked Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente and FBI Director James Comey to produce the paper trail created when the Justice Department's criminal division secures warrants for wiretaps.

Susan Stamper Brown: Democrats Just Bullies with a Russian Fetish

One of the Democrats' latest Russian conspiracies is so terrifying, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., says it's giving him a "knot" in the pit of his stomach. A knot, because Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn't live in a bubble when he served in the Senate .

Trump making us all conspiracy theorists

Last weekend, President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama - without any evidence - of ordering Trump's phones to be wiretapped during last year's presidential campaign. It was only the most recent in a bewildering number of conspiracy theories the president and his circle have embraced over the past year.

Governors’ comments about GOP plan to replace health law

Some governors, including Republicans, are unhappy with a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law and say they will work on their own legislation to compete with the House bill introduced Monday. A sampling of their comments: "We want to make sure that we continue to be a state where virtually everybody is covered and people feel they have the access they need and the coverage they need to stay healthy."

GOP push on health plan; conservatives, Dems oppose it

Over the strong objections of key conservatives and Democrats, House Republican leaders are forging ahead with a health care plan that scraps major parts of the Obama-era overhaul. The House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee intended to convene what were expected to be marathon sessions today to start voting on the legislation.

Tie-breaking mayor’s vote makes Hillsboro a sanctuary

On a tie-breaking "yes" vote by Mayor Steve Callaway, the Hillsboro City Council narrowly passed a resolution declaring Hillsboro a sanctuary city Tuesday night, March 7. A packed Shirley Huffman Auditorium, monitored on all sides by about 30 Hillsboro Police officers over the course of the meeting, erupted in cheers when Callaway announced at 10:45 p.m. that Resolution 2552 had prevailed.

FBI asks Justice Department to refute Trump’s wiretap allegations

New York [U.S.A.], Mar. 6 : The Federal Bureau of Investigation has urged the Justice Department to rebuke President Donald Trump's allegation that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower prior to elections, CNN quoted two sources as saying. "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory.

Critics say Carson’s slavery and immigration remarks similar to Obama’s

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House panel OKs health bill OK, industry groups say ‘no’

Republicans on a pivotal House committee scored an initial triumph in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, using a pre-dawn vote Thursday to abolish the tax penalty his statute imposes on people who don't purchase insurance and reshaping how millions of Americans buy medical care. Yet the Ways and Means panel's approval of health care legislation only masked deeper problems Republican backers face.

It’s the truth according to Trump. Believe it.

President DonaldTrump has no evidence for his incendiary claim that Barack Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower, and denials have come not just from the former president and his director of national intelligence but from Jim Comey - the man Trump has showered with praise and retained as his FBI director. "The president firmly believes that the Obama administration may have tapped into the phones at Trump Tower," Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared on NBC's "Today" show Monday morning.

Lawyers Warn More City Immigrants Will Need Their Help

The Legal Aid Society warned that New York City's unique program for helping detained immigrants going through deportation hearings will need $12 million in the next fiscal year, nearly twice as much as its current budget. Adriene Holder, the attorney in charge of the Legal Aid Society's civil practice, said the program was already taking more cases than expected toward the end of President Barack Obama's administration.

Panetta: Trump’s ‘Dangerous Games’ Weaken Presidency

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said President Donald Trump's "dangerous games" - like accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his Trump Tower telephones during the campaign - "weakens the office of the presidency." "No such wiretap took place," Panetta, who also served as CIA director under Obama, told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room."

House intel committee will probe Trumpa s wiretap accusation against Obama

The House intelligence committee will investigate President Donald Trump's claim that Barack Obama ordered his phones tapped during the closing days of last year's presidential election campaign, the committee's chairman announced Tuesday. Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican, said the claim would be part of the committee's first open hearing on Russian meddling in the U.S. election, which is now set for March 20. The witness list for that hearing, Nunes said, includes the heads, or former heads, of most of the major American intelligence agencies and may grow.

Obamacare Replacement Proposed

Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate fire from Democrats. In a battle waged since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, Republicans including President Donald Trump have long vowed to repeal and replace the law.

Obama s Rasputin Moves into the Bunker

Politics, it is said, makes curious bedfellows, and the longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and presidential adviser and confidante Valerie Jarrett is curious indeed. It had become curiouser and curiouser with the news that Jarrett is moving into Obama's D.C. home, which is to serve as the nerve center to the resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump.