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Voters' views of President Donald Trump's performance should spell trouble for his party in the midterm elections, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union." "What we're seeing in Alabama, what we're seeing in Virginia, New Jersey and in states all across this country, are large voter turnouts, are people standing up and fighting back and demanding that we have a government that represents all of us, not just the 1 percent," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday.
President Trump finishes out the year at Mar-a-Lago, tax reform accomplished - President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, "You all just got a lot richer," referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier. Facing Republican attacks, FBI's deputy director plans to retire early next year Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
Authorities said Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, was shot and killed by police Friday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after he fired several times at law enforcement officers throughout the city. The string of shootings began just steps from the state's Capitol building when El-Mofty fired several times at a Capitol Police officer and then, shot and injured at a state trooper.
Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter. McCabe spent hours in Congress last week, facing questions behind closed doors from members of three committees.
Once Arkansas allows medical marijuana sales, veterans in the care of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs physicians can discuss the drug with their doctors, but that's it. In the federal government's eyes, marijuana is an illegal, Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning the VA won't recommend, prescribe or pay for cannabis.
As we are inundated ad nauseam with countless images of the grinning "Three White Men," in their self-congratulatory post legislative win celebrations and photo ops, let us not forget who will benefit, and who will be left behind in the wake of the GOP's, "huge tax cut." The clear winners, of course, are the 1 percent, the huge corporations, healthy young employed Americans, and Wall Street.
When it comes to corruption - my emphasis - the current Administration has not distinguished itself from any previous administration - Jamaica Labour Party or People's National Party - and that is where I have a distinct problem. While the bar is never lowered or heightened based on biases, our current Andrew Holness is the only prime minister who wrapped himself in the mantle of being a transformational leader.
In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times.
President Trump will never have a full complement of political appointees if the Senate doesn't start voting more quickly, according to a Republican who thinks he can convince Democrats to speed up the process. "We may disagree on the exact solution or the exact timing of the solution but, we understand there is a real problem," Sen. James Lankford told the Washington Examiner .
For the rest of December, Washington Examiner reporters will be exploring what 2018 has in store in a number of areas, from the White House and Congress to energy and defense. See all of our year ahead stories here .
Mr. Trump faced more than 100 judicial vacancies when he entered the Oval Office, including one on the U.S. Supreme Court. You might not know it from the sea of negative press coverage involving the White House, but President Donald Trump can tout some significant accomplishes as 2017 draws to a close.
With an annual defense budget of $700 billion, shouldn't America join in keeping America on the cutting edge of science? It is unfortunate that the Review-Journal's editorial policy has not changed with the newspaper having new ownership. The editorials at the state's largest newspaper continue to be denigrating and rarely positive.
For the most part, I agree with Victor Davis Hanson's column on President Donald Trump and his tweeting . But I disagree that the president needs to stop.
Republicans who hope their Senate disaster in Alabama will scare voters away from other outsider, longshot conservatives should spend some time with Michele Evans. Three thousand miles from the scene of Republican Roy Moore's stunning defeat, the Nevada Republican doesn't see a connection between Moore and her preferred Senate candidate, Danny Tarkanian, who is trying to unseat incumbent Dean Heller after several failed election attempts.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who has become lightning rod for criticism of the bureau from President Trump and other Republicans, is expected to leave the bureau early next year after he is eligible for retirement, an official said Saturday. McCabe, who served as the agency's acting director this summer after Trump fired former director James Comey, has faced Trump and GOP attacks on the FBI's handling of politically charged investigations into both Hillary Clinton's emails and the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
"I will stay strong for all of you, please stay strong for me," Meghan McCain asked of other families facing cancer this holiday season. Meghan McCain Meghan McCain attends the 2015 Trevor Project NextGen Fall Fete on November 13, 2015 in New York City.
The Latest on President Donald Trump and his tweets about the FBI : President Donald Trump is again questioning the impartiality of the deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, who is planning to retire from the bureau in the months ahead after being buffeted by attacks over alleged anti-Trump bias in the agency. In a tweet Saturday, the president wrote: "How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin' James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation be given $700,000 for wife's campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?" McCabe spent hours behind closed doors on Capitol Hill this week being grilled by lawmakers on two separate committees.
As reported at The Hill , FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is planning to retire in the coming months amid accusations from Republicans of partisanship and bias within the law enforcement agency. WHAT? This corrupt SOB needs to be fired prior to being fully eligible for any pension.
President Donald Trump unloaded on deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe and former FBI director James Comey on Saturday, accusing Comey of being a leaker and McCabe and his wife of accepting donations from former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while investigating her email use. Trump and his allies have mounted an intense campaign against perceived bias and anti-Trump sentiment within the FBI in recent days.