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Rabbi Beth Singer led those gathered at City Hall in prayer Sunday after praising the late mayor's justice, mercy, and humility. The 65-year-old Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants and San Francisco's first Asian-American mayor, died last week.
Returning from Camp David on Sunday night, Trump told reporters he's not happy with the way the investigation is being handled. President Trump speaks to reporters on the south lawn of at the White House Sunday after returning from Camp David.
The White House gang was all there in the latest "Saturday Night Live" cold open, with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as US President Donald Trump - this time reflecting on his "amazing first year in office." "That's right, you can finally say that again, because the war on Christmas is over," Baldwin's Trump says.
Registration will allow you to post comments on timesunion.com and create a timesunion.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Mark Hamill and Ted Cruz got into a Twitter battle Sunday, but Cruz lost terribly.
Former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder called for mass protests if President Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller. This is the second warning Holder has issued this week in respect to rumors about President Trump relieving Mueller of his duties as special counsel.
Trump's new security strategy. December. 18, 2017 07:57. phark@donga.com. U.S. President Donald Trump will lay out a new National Security Strategy on Monday .
When Harry interviewed Barry: Barack Obama jokes around with Prince Harry as he's questioned for the royal's guest editing slot on BBC radio in the UK CNN political commentator comes under fire for branding a Georgetown student an 'anti-Semitic bigot' because he was wearing a 'bacon suit' Thousands of passengers are left stranded at beginning of holiday getaway as power outage at Atlanta causes 'pandemonium' at the world's busiest airport with more than 600 flights in and out canceled Sen. McCain 'doing well' and in 'good spirits' says son-in-law - though won't be on hand for the final tax reform vote Trump and Putin speak AGAIN as Russian president phones Camp David to thank Trump for CIA tip that prevented St. Petersburg terror attack British female diplomat is found dead in Lebanon after being 'raped, murdered and dumped by the side of a motorway' 'Missing' Monet last seen in 1895 is ... (more)
Thousands are left stranded at start of Christmas travel rush as power outage at Atlanta causes 'pandemonium' at the world's busiest airport with more than six HUNDRED flights canceled CNN political commentator comes under fire for branding a Georgetown student an 'anti-Semitic bigot' because he was wearing a 'bacon suit' Trump and Putin speak AGAIN as Russian president phones Camp David to thank Trump for CIA tip that prevented St. Petersburg terror attack 'Missing' Monet last seen in 1895 is found on a GOOGLE search: Eagle-eyed art historian recognizes the painting from a postage stamp size picture from a private listing in New Orleans When Harry interviewed Barry: Barack Obama jokes around with Prince Harry as he's questioned for the royal's guest editing slot on BBC radio in the UK Sen. McCain 'doing well' and in 'good spirits' says son-in-law - though won't be on hand for the final ... (more)
Republicans, confident they've found the votes to pass a massive tax overhaul, entered the next phase of their effort Sunday, attempting to sell the plan to a public that polling suggests is deeply skeptical. GOP leaders argued that the tax bill - the final version of which was unveiled Friday - is aimed primarily at helping the middle class, brushing aside nonpartisan analyses that show the bulk of the legislation's benefits would go to the wealthy and to corporations.
A Democratic lawmaker on Capitol Hill cited Rebbe Nachman of Breslov during a House hearing last week focusing on an investigation by special prosecutor Robert Mueller into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including allegations of collusion by some Trump campaign members with Russian officials. While questioning Rod Rosenstein, the Trump Justice Department's Deputy Attorney General, last week, California Democrat Eric Swalwell invoked a popular saying of the founder of the Breslov Hassidic movement, Rebbe Nachman.
Science fiction fans won't see their suspicions of extraterrestrial life confirmed; but the U.S. is looking into it That's the takeaway from two investigations, published in the New York Times and Politico , which found that the Pentagon was, for a few years, doing research into UFO sightings. The program was pushed by former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid.
A Republican senator disagreed with people from his own party who've said special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election is completely compromised because of anti-President Trump texts sent by one agent involved. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said on CBS' "Face The Nation" Sunday the investigation isn't totally tainted because one agent - kicked off of the probe in July - sent texts critical of Trump in 2016.
President Trump and his allies escalated their war of words against the FBI this week, claiming bias among investigators looking into the Trump campaign as Democrats warned that such attacks could set the stage for the removal of special counsel Robert Mueller. After days of going after the FBI, whose reputation he said was "in tatters," Trump took aim at the bureau's handling of two allegedly biased agents on Friday as he left the White House for an event at the FBI Academy .
This week's episode of The Daily Caller News Foundation's "Alternative Facts" discussed media coverage of FBI agent Peter Strzok, a federal agent with strong anti-Trump sentiments who was intimately involved with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Prior to joining Mueller's team, Strzok was a lead investigator on the Bureau's investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server.
President Donald Trump is not on the ballot in 2018, but the White House is planning a full-throttle campaign to plunge the president into the midterm elections, according to senior officials and advisers familiar with the planning. Trump's political aides have met with 116 candidates for office in recent months, according to senior White House officials, seeking to become involved in Senate, House and gubernatorial races - and possibly contested Republican primaries as well.
"At the end of the day what you had is people like [Treasury Secretary Steven] Mnuchin, who himself is worth $300 or $400 million dollars, or the president of the United States who is worth several billion dollars, as you mentioned, some 4,000 to 5,000 lobbyists doing everything that they could to write a bill which significantly benefits the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations," Sanders said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Sanders said that Republicans will turn to cutting "Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid" to offset upwards of $1 trillion in lost revenue, a scenario he said was "grossly unfair" to middle class families.
Dispelling a swirl of rumors about how Sgt. La David T. Johnson, 25, of Miami Gardens, Florida, died, the report has determined that he was killed by enemy rifle and machine gun fire as he fled the attack by an offshoot of the Islamic State group about 120 miles north of Niamey, the capital of the African country.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn pushed back Sunday against Democrats griping about the tax reform bill, saying they have refused to participate despite being invited to do so by Republicans. "Our Democratic colleagues simply refused to participate in the process," Mr. Cornyn, Texas Republican, said on ABC's "This Week."
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, talks with reporters in the Capitol after signing the conference committee report to advance the GOP tax bill, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017.( The U.S. tax system needs to be reformed, but giving $1.5 trillion in tax breaks to millionaires and corporations is bad public policy. This bill blows out the deficit, deepens America's wealth gap and imperils safety net programs.