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Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says President Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is on the "far extreme right" and slammed congressional Republicans for what he said was the "theft" of a Supreme Court seat. He was referring to former President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat, which Republicans refused to consider as Obama's term reached its end.
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto is the recipient of a $3.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative founded by Priscilla Chan and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, the philanthropic initiative is giving $3.1 million to Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to help with programs to counter the eviction and displacement of families upended by runaway housing costs.
The leader of Italy's populist right-wing Northern League is a big fan of The Donald-and he's hoping Trump's rise will help usher in a new era in European politics. Salvini, 43, is the leader of Italy's Northern League -a populist, right-wing faction in Italian politics that calls for deporting all illegal immigrants, exerting more control over the country's borders, and taking Italy out of the eurozone common currency.
Many Americans disagree with some or even all of President Donald Trump's policies and actions. Some of them have pulled out all the stops in their opposition, even to the point of making ethnic slurs against the first lady, Melania Trump.
Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well-positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections. While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.
I write to express vehement opposition and outright disgust of President Donald Trump's misguided executive order banning Muslims from seven countries in Africa and the Middle East. First, Republicans made a big deal that former President Barack Obama had an imperial presidency because he issued executive orders, bypassing Congress.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer holds up paperwork highlighting and comparing language about the National Security Council from the Trump administration and previous administrations, at the White House on Jan. 30. The Trump administration has launched a raft of ill-considered, reckless and wrongheaded foreign policy initiatives in its first two weeks, from banning entry by citizens of a country that is its partner in war to needlessly alienating the leaders of two of the closest U.S. allies . One thing Trump has decidedly not done, however, is downgrade the participation of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the deliberations of the National Security Council.
Congressman Tom McClintock, a Republican from California, on Saturday faced a rowdy crowd at a packed town hall meeting in Northern California, and had to be escorted by police as protesters followed him shouting "Shame on you!" McClintock was constantly interrupted and booed as he defended his party's national agenda during the hourlong event at a theater in downtown Roseville, the population center of his sprawling congressional district, the Sacramento Bee reports. Hundreds of protesters stood outside chanting "Vote him out," while those inside the theater held signs that read "Resist," "Dump Tom McTrump," and "Climate change is real."
Some Facebook users are announcing that they are leaving the social media site because they have grown weary of the political vitriol that dominates the discourse there. They wanted a virtual neighborhood where friendly people shared family news, announcements, and engaged in pleasantries and good-natured banter, not a political gladiatorial arena.
A 68-year-old San Antonio man whose life prison sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama is back in jail after authorities say he crashed his car into another vehicle while fleeing from officers following a drug deal. Gill was arrested in 1990 and sentenced to life for cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy.
Donald Trump's unpredictable foreign policy could hamper long-standing U.S. intelligence-sharing partnerships as countries react to a president who seeks closer ties to Russia and is unafraid to offend American allies by cracking down on immigration or getting angry with friendly leaders. Veteran spies say intelligence relationships are built to weather storms between political leaders.
Hundreds of protesters in northern California booed and chanted, "Shame!" on Saturday as police escorted Rep. Tom McClintock out of what quickly became a heated town hall. The Republican congressman held the gathering at the Tower Theater in Roseville to defend his party's agenda and President Trump's policies, including the controversial executive order on immigration and refugees.
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made a "frank admission" and declared he will "stand firm" against Donald Trump, according to Channel Nine. Mr Turnbull sat down with Nine Network's Political Editor Laurie Oakes for a "wide-ranging" interview on 60 Minutes tonight; but after a week of news which described President Donald Trump's disastrous phone call to Mr Turnbull as "the worst call ever ", it's no surprise the interview focuses on our alliance with the US.
The Department of Homeland Security complied with a judge's orders Saturday and stopped enforcing President Donald Trump's controversial entry ban, and the fast-moving legal dispute over the president's powers could land at the nation's highest court. On Saturday evening, Trump administration lawyers filed a notice to appeal the Seattle federal judge's decision from Friday night that imposed a temporary, nationwide halt to Trump's order barring refugees and those from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the country.
It's no secret that President Trump's family has played a key role in shaping the new administrations' politics, and a new report reveals the extent to which Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, hold sway over the president. As first reported by Politico , Ivanka Trump and Kushner personally helped squash a potential executive order that would have rolled back LGBT protections created during the Obama administration.
His favorite megaphone is Twitter, often sending tweets from an "old, unsecured Android phone," especially while watching TV at night, according to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman . Trump's aides have tried to take the phone from him, but they've been unsuccessful.
In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with House and Senate legislators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. For all of the White House's early bravado,Trump has taken office with few concrete plans for how to make good on his pledge to unravel President Barack Obama's foreign policy and tackle some of the biggest national security challenges facing his administration.
Under so-called deductible-credit plans, the deductible diminishes year by year for policyholders who don't spend a lot on health care. Supporters say these programs reward good health by helping customers reduce their costs.
Refugee resettlement organizations are bracing for significant funding cuts and possible layoffs over the coming months during President Donald Trump's temporary refugee ban.
It has been two weeks since he took over, imposing his dark vision upon this country. It has been two weeks since he declared war on religious minorities, our environment, our democracy.