Senate confirms Trump nominee for top Fed job
President Donald Trump has pledged to "do a big number" on the 2010 financial reform law known as Dodd-Frank. Now he has his own point man for the job.
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Before he was president, Donald Trump tweeted this cartoon about electing a ‘moron’
Amid multiple reports of infighting among senior Trump administration cabinet officials, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that his commitment to the President is still "strong." In 2014, while Barack Obama was president, Donald Trump tweeted a cartoon that showed one of the founding fathers of the United States saying, "I keep thinking we should include something in the Constitution in case the people elect a ****** moron."
5 Living Presidents to Attend Hurricane Benefit Concert in Texas
The nation's five surviving former presidents will attend an Oct. 21 benefit concert for the victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation said Wednesday. The concert - "Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal" - will be held at Texas A&M University and will be attended by former Presidents Bush 41, along with Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.
EDITORIAL: Abuse by the administrative state
The spirit of the Obama administration lives - only Barack Obama is gone - in the bureaucracies that imagine they were established to harass taxpayers. One of these is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , or the CFPB , one of the toxic vegetables in Washington's alphabet soup.
Correction: Abortion Coverage-Illinois story
Flanked by supporters, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner announces at a news conference that he'll sign legislation allowing state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Chicago.
Coates promotes new book ‘We Were Eight Years in Power’
The award-winning author and journalist spoke before hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night at the New School in Manhattan, discussing his rise from obscurity to fame over the past few years and the country's transition from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump. Coates, who turned 42 last week, was interviewed by his editor, Chris Jackson, as he discussed "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy."
Missouri Democrats aim for upsets, Republicans look to hold seats in several upcoming contests
The Missouri Capitol stands at dusk on the final day of the 97th Legislature at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City on Friday, May 16, 2014. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com The Missouri Capitol stands at dusk on the final day of the 97th Legislature at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City on Friday, May 16, 2014.
GOP pushes late-term abortion ban toward House passage
Republicans are pushing a bill banning many late-term abortions toward House passage. President Donald Trump is prepared to sign it, but it won't reach him because it lacks the votes to clear the Senate.
Bodyguard gives harrowing account of Benghazi attack
This June 28, 2014, file courtroom sketch, United States Magistrate, Judge John Facciola, swearing in the defendant, Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khattala, wearing a headphone, as his attorney Michelle Peterson watches during a hearing at the federal U.S. District Court in Washington. The trial of Khattala, the Libyan militant accused of being the mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi attacks is scheduled to begin on Oct. 2, 2017.
Trump condemns a oeact of pure evila in Las Vegas
President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history as an "act of pure evil" and said the nation was "joined together in sadness, shock and grief" after more than 50 people were gunned down in Las Vegas. He said he would be going to Las Vegas on Wednesday "on a very, very sad moment for me for everybody no matter where you are, no matter what your thought process."
Iconic Detroit fence makes endorsement in mayor’s race Read More
An east-side privacy fence that for years bared the words "Obama for America" in faded red spray paint has covered the statement with a new political endorsement. This election season, the fence on Elmwood Street at E. Forest wants you to vote "State Senator Coleman A. Young" for mayor, which is sort of the name that the underdog candidate goes by.
Trump welcomes Thailand’s junta leader at White House
In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China.
Trump to point out efforts to undo Obama regulations
President Donald Trump has set out to upend some of President Barack Obama's regulations, which he says circumvented Congress in the first place and cost American businesses and the economy billions of dollars. Without any major legislative accomplishments to point to despite the advantage of a Republican-controlled Congress, Trump on Monday is giving a speech highlighting his own directives to agencies, which have been ordered to cut two regulations for every new one imposed.
Trial to open for suspected mastermind of Benghazi attacks
A trial of the suspected mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks will unfold this week in a federal courtroom in Washington, three years after he was captured by U.S. special forces in Libya and brought to the U.S. on a 13-day trip aboard a Navy ship. Opening statements will take place Monday in the case against Ahmed Abu Khattala, whom prosecutors describe as the ringleader of the attacks at a diplomatic compound that killed four Americans and became a political flashpoint given its timing weeks before President Barack Obama's re-election.
Democrats critical of Trump on North Korea: He ‘fails to understand’ what war would be like
If Tillerson is wasting his time, its only because his boss fails to understand the catastrophic consequences of war on Korean Peninsula. https://t.co/s3JQfLfNi4 - Adam Schiff October 1, 2017 Or maybe @POTUS just didnt have Rexs phone number so decided instead to have what should have been a private discussion in public! https://t.co/1ptA9OPhE5 - David Axelrod October 1, 2017 Direct talks w/ #NorthKorea are our best chance to freeze missile, #nuclear tests.
Barack Obama ‘quizzes Prince Harry about love life’ at Invictus Games
Barack Obama is just as fascinated by Prince Harry's love life as the rest of us, it would seem. Barack Obama is just as fascinated by Prince Harry's love life as the rest of us, it would seem.
Manafort wiretap means FBI bugged Trump
Robert Romano Guest Columnist A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court warrant was obtained against former Trump campaign manager and chairman Paul Manafort at a time when he had an apartment at Trump Tower and was either actively working on the campaign or still in contact with the campaign, according to the Sept. 19 CNN report.
Barack Obama – quizzes Prince Harry about love life’ at Invictus Games
Barack Obama is just as fascinated by Prince Harry's love life as the rest of us, it would seem. The former US president is said to have cheekily quizzed the prince about his romance with Meghan Markle during an encounter at the Invictus Games.
President Donald Trump steps through the door of Air Force One at…
President Donald Trump steps through the door of Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
Trump choice of Price successor will reveal strategy
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks during a National Foundation for Infectious Diseases news conference recommending everyone age six months an older be vaccinated against influenza, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Washington.