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President Donald Trump's appointment of his budget director as interim director of a consumer financial protection agency championed by Democrats was challenged in a lawsuit filed in federal court Sunday night.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is right to be irked that it is not him but first daughter Ivanka Trump who will lead the US delegation to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India. The annual event is put on by the State Department and in the past has been attended by Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama.
I officially take back all the good things I wrote about Charles Barkley again. Just when I think the guy is sane, he goes out and says something truly offensive.
Niki Tsongas was first elected in 2007, breaking a decades-long streak of male dominance in the state's congressional delegation. No woman had represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House or Senate for 25 years, since Rep. Margaret Heckler had been defeated.
Why are so many women now speaking out about the sexual abuses they've experienced for years? Is there anything unique about the time we're now living through that has encouraged them to end their silence? I can't help but think that their decisions are part of something that's happening throughout much of American society right now - a backlash against what has been the growing domination of America by powerful and wealthy men who came to believe they can do whatever they want to do, to whomever they choose. "When you're a star, they let you do it.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks at the Federalist Society's 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. ORG XMIT: DCSG102 Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks at the Federalist Society's 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.
More than 2,000 conservatives in tuxedos and gowns recently filled Union Station's main hall for a steak dinner and the chance to cheer the man who saved the Supreme Court from liberal control. Justice Neil Gorsuch didn't disappoint them, just as he hasn't in his first seven months on the Supreme Court.
The special counsel's lawyers plan by the end of this month to sit down with White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, to find out what she might know about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. "It never happened," Hicks told the Associated Press on Nov. 10, 2016, days after the election.
More than 2,000 conservatives in tuxedos and gowns recently filled Union Station's main hall for a steak dinner and the chance to cheer the man who saved the Supreme Court from liberal control. Justice Neil Gorsuch didn't disappoint them, just as he hasn't in his first seven months on the Supreme Court.
Rep. Bruce Poliquin is showing his true colors with his vote in favor of the House tax cut for the rich. Poliquin ran as a so-called deficit hawk for two elections but that was merely cover for voting against anything while Barack Obama was the president.
A woman accused of mailing potentially deadly homemade bombs to then-President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016 was arrested, in part, due to cat hair, a cigarette box and an almost-destroyed shipping label bearing her address. Julia Poff, 46, mailed the devices in October 2016, along with a third package that she sent to the Social Security Administration, near Baltimore, according to an indictment.
Ivanka Trump is condemning recent tabloid coverage of President Barack Obama's eldest daughter Malia, saying the college student deserves privacy and ought to be "OFF limits." The president's daughter tweets: "Malia Obama should be allowed the same privacy as her school aged peers.
Ivanka Trump is condemning recent tabloid coverage of President Barack Obama's eldest daughter Malia, saying the college student deserves privacy and ought to be "OFF limits." NEW YORK - Ivanka Trump is condemning recent tabloid coverage of President Barack Obama's eldest daughter Malia, saying the college student deserves privacy and ought to be "OFF limits."
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety via the Houston Chronicle shows Julia Poff, a woman accused of mailing potentially deadly homemade bombs to then-President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016. Poff was arrested, in part, due to cat hair, a cigarette box and an almost-destroyed shipping label bearing her address.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and named one of his lieutenants to immediately take over as acting director, setting up a potential standoff with the Trump administration over the controversial agency's leadership. In a memo to the consumer watchdog's employees, Cordray said his current chief of staff, Leandra English, would become deputy director and automatically rise to acting director when he leaves.
Garcetti is a two-term mayor of the second-largest city in the US, and served on the City Council for 12 years. He pointed to President Donald Trump's election in 2016 and Barack Obama's elections in 2008 and 2012 as evidence that the rules of presidential politics have changed.
Conservatives have a new court-packing plan, and in the spirit of the holiday, it's a turducken of a scheme: a regulatory rollback hidden inside a civil rights reversal stuffed into a Trumpification of the courts. If conservatives get their way, President Trump will add twice as many lifetime members to the federal judiciary in the next 12 months as Barack Obama named in eight years .
Syria's fragmented opposition agreed to form a single bloc to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad at a meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, giving a boost to a Russian-led diplomatic drive to end the 6 1/2-year civil war. "We have agreed with the other two branches" of the opposition "to send a united delegation to take part in direct negotiations in Geneva" comprising 50 members, Bassma Kodmani, a leader of the High Negotiations Committee, the main anti-Assad group, said early Friday after two days of talks, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya reported.
Malia, left, and Sasha Obama attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony on the Ellipse in Washington in 2015. This week, conservative media outlets and tabloids have been circulating and reporting on videos that they claim show Malia Obama - former president Barack Obama's oldest daughter who is a student at Harvard - kissing a young man before a football game and blowing smoke rings.