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Under a new government contract awarded to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on the plane currently used by President Donald Trump. Both of those units, which are used to store food, were installed on the plane when it was originally delivered in 1990, according to the Air Force.
Too many conflated being a Republican with Christianity, as if identifying with a political party meant that one automatically espoused a very specific set of religious beliefs. Naturally, as the months of the season continued on and Trump became the last man standing, this mindset grew even more popular.
Many of the so-called Dreamers worried about their immigration status are starting to reconsider their opposition to a possible wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report Friday from the San Francisco Chronicle. President Donald Trump's wall at the border wouldn't be so bad, some groups are now saying, so long as it means citizenship for the nearly 700,000 people brought into the country through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
In this Jan. 26, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Just last month, Trump was crowing about his chances for seeing the U.S. post 3 percent economic growth in 2017 and scoffing at the skeptics who predicted much less.
In this opinion column, Max Boot argues that President Donald Trump is treating the US presidency like a reality TV show. But as president, he has proved to be the worst salesman for America.
"The monstrosities being carried out in our name, and with our tax dollars, are no less our responsibility when we ignore them," Kolhatkar writes. The greatest impact of Donald Trump's first year as president has been kept out of sight from most Americans.
Margot Robbie did yoga with Barack Obama - and spent the whole class worried her husband would accidentally flash the former President. The 'I, Tonya' actress and her spouse Tom Ackerley - who she wed in December 2016 - went on honeymoon to Tahiti and unexpectedly bumped into some familiar faces when they went to a local gym, including the former President of the United States.
What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.. were babbling and belittling thousand-dollar bonuses and increased take-home pay for American workers.
Former President Barack Obama called himself "basically a liberal Jew" when speaking this week about his relationship with Israel and the Jewish community, Haaretz reported Friday . Speaking at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, Obama's remarks were the first public statements he's made about Israel since leaving office.
Eric Schultz, an aide and deputy press secretary for former President Barack Obama, said "we would have been impeached" if that administration had spent millions replacing refrigerators on Air Force One, The Hill reported Friday . Replacing the plane's aging refrigerators will cost nearly $24 million, due to equipment requirements put in place by the White House Military Office and the Air Force, Defense One reported Wednesday .
New York will continue to provide Medicaid benefits to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children - no matter what officials in Washington do with the program that protected them from deportation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former Democratic President Barack Obama protected certain immigrants who entered the country as children from deportation.
His rightward slide during his run for president and his centrist slide in the past weeks have been well documented. The Salt Lake Tribune) Mitt Romney speaks at the Tech Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Friday, January 19, 2018.
It is remarkable that the January 20-22 government shutdown was greeted with a collective shrug from the public. Compared to Newt Gingrich's epic 1995-96 tussle with Bill Clinton and Ted Cruz's showdown with Barack Obama in October 2013, this one barely registered on the national radar.
Oprah Winfrey listens in the East Room of the White House during a November 2013 ceremony where President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom. Oprah Winfrey listens in the East Room of the White House during a November 2013 ceremony where President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom.
Former New York Mayor-turned anti-oil activist Michael Bloomberg has yet to render a judgement about his successor's highly-publicized climate change lawsuit against oil companies. Bloomberg refuses to address the controversy, while other prominent activists take a skeptical approach toward the pursuit against Exxon Mobil and other companies criticized for producing emissions some argue contributes to global warming "Fundamentally, solving the climate problem is about looking to the future, not the past," Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, told Axios in an interview Thursday.
In this Jan. 21, 2018, photo, lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol Building as night falls in Washington, and Congress continues to negotiate during the federal government shutdown. The deal that ended the government shutdown also further cut taxes, adding billions more to the national deficit.
It wasn't only Democratic-leaning counties in Oregon that voted to impose a tax on hospitals and health insurers to pay for Medicaid for low-income residents - several counties that voted for Donald Trump also helped propel the ballot measure to resounding "yes" vote. As president, Trump endorsed Republican bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid.
The stock market is going up. It has been since March 2009, qualifying this bull run as a Marathon Bull - and people who couldn't care less before are paying attention now.
Want to receive this post in your inbox every morning? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more. The man Barack Obama once dubbed the "most popular politician on Earth" is attempting a comeback after his chosen successor was impeached, the economy tanked and a massive corruption scandal erupted during the rule of his Workers' Party.
"I had my legs blown off in Iraq, and because I had my legs blown off in Iraq, people are listening to me. I'm not going to get my legs back, and that's fine, but if that gives me a platform to talk about the things that are important to me, like education and jobs, that's great."