Why not President Oprah? Awards speech has Democrats buzzing

Oprah Winfrey's impassioned call for "a brighter morning even in our darkest nights" at the Golden Globes has Democratic Party activists buzzing about the media superstar and the 2020 presidential race - even if it's only a fantasy. Even so, for Democrats in early voting states, and perhaps for a public that largely disapproves of President Donald Trump's job performance, the notion of a popular media figure as a presidential candidate is not as strange as it once seemed, given the New York real estate mogul and reality TV star now in the White House.

Trump to order 200,000 Salvadorans to leave U.S.

The Trump administration will end temporary legal immigration status for 200,000 Salvadorans who have been living in the U.S. for nearly two decades, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. The decision means that Salvadorans who currently have Temporary Protected Status must return to their homeland by September 2019 or become undocumented immigrants if they choose to remain without legal protections.

Oprah’s speech: Start of a presidential run?

After her extraordinary speech on Sunday night, it's the big question of Monday morning: Is Oprah Winfrey interested in a presidential bid? "President Winfrey" was the talk of the Beverly Hilton ballroom after Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes . And the "Oprah for president?" possibility was a top story on morning TV.

Trump physical unlikely to shed light on mental fitness

President Donald Trump's staunch defense of his own mental acuity this weekend all but ensured the questions mounting about his fitness will increase in the coming week, which is set to culminate Friday with his first known medical exam since taking office. Coming amid a previously-unheard-of debate over the mental capacity of the country's oldest president at the time of his first election, the yearly presidential physical has attracted renewed attention from a capital now consumed with Trump's mental health.

Israel (Finally) Bars Foreign BDS Groups from Entering Israel; Obama, …

Israel has finally had enough and banned from entering the country foreign groups that support the anti-Israel BDS movement including the Obama-Hamas terrorist allied American group Code Pink. Code Pink was one of six US groups banned.

Can US do to Trump what Philippines did to Estrada?

US President Donald Trump signs a bipartisan bill to stop the flow of opioids into the United States. Photo: EPA cascade of leaks and revelations coming out of US President Donald Trump's White House in the first month of the new year has left us facing three possible conclusions, all equally unsettling: the president of the United States may well be a kook, a crook or an incompetent perhaps some combination of the three.

Trump, Republican lawmakers pore over agenda at Camp David

THURMONT, Md. - Emerging from closed-door meetings with Republican leaders, President Donald Trump on Saturday held out the prospect of a deal with Democrats on the fate of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children but appeared to put a welfare system overhaul - once a top White House priority - on the back burner.

News Analysis: Experts say Senator Hatch retirement major shift in U.S. politics

With the announcement this week that U.S. longest-serving Senate Republican Orrin Hatch will retire soon, political pundits weigh in on a major shift in the country's political landscape. Utah, a large western state with a small population, is traditionally conservative with a history of producing famous national politicians including Hatch, who has been serving in the Senate for 41 years.

Ap Fact Check: Trump’s empty boasts on aira

It's been a week of bogus boasting by President Donald Trump and members of his administration as they took unearned credit for airline safety, pollution cleanup and major advances in care for veterans. From left, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, attend a news conference following a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018.

Fact check: Trump’s claims over airline safety, veterans and pollution

US president Donald Trump and members of his administration have taken unearned credit for airline safety, pollution clean-ups and major advances in care for veterans. The president ignored fatality-free years in aviation during the Obama administration when he declared 2017 the safest year on record and suggested that was because he has kept a sharp eye on airlines.

Obama will be the first guest on Letterman’s new Netflix talk show19 minutes ago

With his new monthly Netflix talk show, David Letterman is returning to the limelight – and bringing former president Barack Obama with him. Obama will be the first guest on "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman," set to begin Jan. 12, Netflix announced Friday.

U.S. agency starts review for Alaska mine project opposed by environmentalists

U.S. regulators formally launched a review process on Friday that could produce a permit a Canadian mining group needs to build the Pebble Mine copper and gold project in southwest Alaska, which is opposed by environmentalists. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that regulates the development and dredging of wetlands, has published the completed permit application from the Pebble Limited Partnership on its website.

President Trump presses Congress for $18 billion to build border wall Source: Cox Media Group

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