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Last week, for the 10-year anniversary of the Bear Stearns failure, Marketplace released an hourlong interview with the key economic policymakers involved: Former Federal Reserve chair Ben S. Bernanke, George W. Bush administration treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., and former New York Federal Reserve president Timothy F. Geithner, who would later become President Barack Obama's treasury secretary. Listening to their recounting of the start of the financial crisis, I found myself unexpectedly wistful.
Every time Trump tweets a misspelling or misuses a word, there is a surge in dictionary searches for the "exact configuration" of the letters he used, according to data released by Dictionary.com.
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. The average cost of the cheapest silver-tier plan increased 32% across the US. Gold-tier plans saw a 19.1% increase.
"Sexual assault crimes remain tragically common in our society, and offenders too often evade accountability," Trump's presidential proclamation read. Since 2001, the U.S. has observed April as sexual assault awareness month, with some advocates holding events to mark the month since the 1990s, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center .
The 17-year-old from Houston applied to 20 of the best universities in the US. He was admitted to every single one with a full ride and $260,000 in additional scholarship offers.
More than half of Americans think President Trump is doomed in his 2020 re-election bid, according to a new CNN poll released Thursday. Per the poll, 54% said said they think Trump will lose in 2020.
Thursday's revelation from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that the massive Foxconn complex planned for Mount Pleasant would emit toxins exceeding most other manufacturing plants in the eastern part of the state wasn't a big surprise. Given the magnitude of the complex that will employ up to 13,000 people, one would logically conclude that it will produce more product than any other plant in the region and, therefore, more toxins.
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is blaming his sudden ouster from President Donald Trump's administration on "political forces" that he says are bent on privatizing the agency and putting "companies with profits" above the care of veterans. Shulkin, the lone holdover from President Barack Obama's administration serving in Trump's Cabinet, blasted a "toxic" and "subversive" environment in Washington that made it impossible for him to lead.
President Donald Trump's most urgent political problem doesn't involve Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin or the hundreds of thousands of voters who marched for gun control. Rather, it's that his diehard supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers.
European Union ambassadors discussed on Wednesday possible new sanctions on Iran, diplomats said, under plans aimed at persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve an international nuclear deal with Tehran. The EU could decide to impose the extra measures under discussion in Brussels at a foreign ministers' meeting next month, four diplomats told Reuters.
The president ousted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and replaced him with Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who declared Trump to be in "excellent" health in January. Michael Snyder / AP / Mario Anzuoni / Markku Ulander / Joshua Roberts / Tim Chong / Jim Urquhart / Jorge Dan Lopez / Mike Segar / Carlo Allegri / Reuters / The Atlantic In a tweet Wednesday evening, the president announced he was replacing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who in January declared Trump to be in "excellent" health.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is being replaced, President Trump tweeted Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation and uncertainty about his fate. Trump said he is nominating Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, official physician for the president and his predecessor Barack Obama, to be the next VA secretary.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday replaced Dr. David Shulkin, the former Morristown Medical Center president, as secretary of veterans affairs. The action capped weeks of rumors about Shulkin's future in the Trump administration, especially after the agency's inspector general questioned a $122,334 taxpayer-financed trip to Europe last July.
In this photo provided by CBS News, David Axelrod, adviser to the Obama campaign, talks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Axelrod spoke about President Barack Obama's intent during the presidential debate and again said he thought Romney was dishonest in his answers.
When Mike Coffman was growing up in Aurora, it was a small white military town on the outskirts of Denver. In the half a century since then, wave after wave of immigrants and refugees have transformed it into a vibrant, racially mixed suburb.
A state Senate committee Tuesday called for a statue of former President Barack Obama to be erected in the state where he was born. A state Senate committee is calling for a statue of former President Barack Obama to be erected in the state where he was born.
Whether you believe it was a miss in Michigan or a Russian-led mission in America, Donald Trump seized power in 2016 without the support of the majority of the American people. In just over 200 days, the American people will get a chance to fight back and reclaim control.
This is not the 19th century, when politicians sometimes settled their differences with pistols at dawn. Americans expect their leaders to settle disputes in a civilized manner.
New York, California and other states vowed on Tuesday to stop the U.S. government from asking in the 2020 census whether people are citizens, arguing the question could stop immigrants from participating and skew the makeup of Congress. The U.S. Census Bureau decided to include the citizenship question in the once-a-decade questionnaire, saying an accurate count of citizens would help protect minority rights under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.