Top Democrat says Trump firing of Mueller could provoke a constitutional crisisa

The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, responding to escalating Republican attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said on Wednesday that if US President Donald Trump fires Mueller, it "has the potential to provoke a constitutional crisis." Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Mark Warner denounced attacks on Mueller's impartiality and said the special counsel's investigation of ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia must be "able to go on unimpeded."

With shutdown clock ticking, GOP struggles for spending deal

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks through Statuary Hall for final passage of the Republican tax reform bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday. Republicans muscled the most sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws in more than three decades through the House.

A growing chorus of intel officials is sounding the alarm over Trump’s allies’ attacks on the FBI

Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden sounded the alarm this week after Donald Trump Jr. unloaded on the Department of Justice and the FBI. Hayden said Trump Jr.'s suggestion that the nation's top law-enforcement agency was tainted with bias against President Donald Trump was "an appeal to the heart of autocracy."

Letter: The word ‘conservative’ once meant careful and thoughtful

In all the years I've heard Senator Elizabeth Warren speak or have read articles about her, I've never once heard her cite her ancestry with regard to any issue she that was speaking about. The only people who make anything of this are the yahoos who think that by pointing to something irrelevant, like birth heritage, they discredit their target.

‘The worst plot ever’: CNN’s Berman battles Rep….

CNN's John Berman on Wednesday went to war with Rep. Jim Jordan over the congressman's public accusation that the FBI conspired against then-candidate Donald Trump last year. As Berman noted, then-FBI Director James Comey notoriously re-opened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, a move many credit for handing Trump the election.

A month after Border Patrol agent’s death, his fiancee has no answers

One month after a Border Patrol agent died and another was injured in a nighttime incident near Van Horn, Texas, FBI investigators still have drawn no clear conclusion about what happened, according to Jeanette Harper, an FBI special agent and spokeswoman for the agency's El Paso office. But Angela Ochoa, the fiancee of Rogelio "Roger" Martinez, the agent who died, believes the answers may lie with surviving agent Stephen "Michael" Garland, who reportedly cannot remember the night in question.

2 days away, Republicans still don’t have a plan to avoid shutdown

As House Republicans spilled out of a closed-door meeting Wednesday night, it was clear that things hadn't gone well. Members gave wildly varying accounts of the proposal that's being cobbled together to keep the government open ahead of Friday's shutdown deadline.

Democrats troubled as GOP senators show little urgency to…

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, looks over his papers as he walks to the Senate Chamber to deliver a speech about the future of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, looks over his papers as he walks to the Senate Chamber to deliver a speech about the future of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

How Republicans pulled off the biggest tax overhaul in 30 years

Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, second from left, speaks during an event to celebrate Congress passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with, from left, President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and fellow Republican members of the House and Senate on the South Lawn of the White House on Dec. 20, 2017.

Standing Up for Coal Industry Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Former Vice President Al Gore should have used this month's "24 Hours of Reality" internet broadcast to encourage the Trump administration to withdraw all carbon-dioxide emission rules on future power stations. Then the United States could replace its old, inefficient coal-fired power plants with modern, clean, efficient coal stations, just as they are doing in Europe, India and China.

Shutdown looms as GOP tries for spending deal

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‘Exquisite leadership’: Republicans celebrate tax bill and heap praise on Trump

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. Washington: As he stood outside the White House on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump basked in the praise of Republican lawmakers assembled around him.

U.S. passes landmark tax bill: What it means and what it does to Canada

In the dying hours of debate, with the United States poised to pass its most sweeping tax reform in decades - including far-reaching provisions touching health care, the economy and the national debt - a senator mentioned how it would also reach the northern neighbour, Canada. "We're not gonna have any more pharmaceutical companies buying donut-makers in Canada and move their headquarters to get a lower tax rate," said Sen. Johnny Isakson, in a slightly bungled reference to Burger King buying Tim Hortons and relocating north.