Trump-tied lobbyists cash in on their connections, report says

A supporter of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump held a "Drain the Swamp" sign during a rally last year in Ohio. - The day after the presidential election, the Washington lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck touted its Republican team's "significant relationships a with those who will steer the incoming Trump administration."

Thompson leads efforts to ban gun accessory that made Vegas shooter more lethal

Congressman Mike Thompson on Thursday led a letter to President Trump, urging him to take action to prohibit “bump stocks,” the accessory that allowed the Las Vegas shooter's semi-automatic weapons to function as fully automatic weapons, his office announced. The Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force joined the task force's 13 co-chairs in signing the letter, they said.

Both Parties’ Extremists Working to Lose Next Election

Almost no one disagrees that our two major political parties, the oldest and third-oldest in the world, have become increasingly extreme and estranged over the past decade. It's a startling contrast with the state of political conflict in the dozen or so years after the fall of the Soviet empire.

Congressman Tim Murphy abruptly quits over abortion flap

Pro-life Republican congressman Tim Murphy who told his mistress to get an abortion abruptly QUITS - without completing his term US Congressman Tim Murphy announced Wednesday night that he would retire at the end of his term in January 2019 Murphy applauded the HR 7 bill in January which states no federal funds will be used to pay for abortions: 'I proudly sponsored and voted for this important bill' An anti-abortion Republican congressman who once asked his mistress to terminate a pregnancy abruptly resigned from the House of Representatives on Thursday, less than 24 hours after he had said he would retire at the end of his term in January 2019.

Harvey Weinstein: ‘right wing conspiracy’ behind sex shame

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary supporter Harvey Weinstein thinks a 'right wing conspiracy out to get me' is reason he has been revealed as serial sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein believes the revelations of inappropriate sexual behaviour against him are part of a right-wing 'conspiracy' to take him down Echo of his close friend Hillary Clinton's claim is at the forefront of his mind, sources familiar with his thinking tell DailyMail.com New York Times revealed series of accounts of his conduct including Ashley Judd telling how he wanted her to watch him shower Exclusive DailyMail.com photographs showed him waving goodbye to feminist lawyer Lisa Bloom who he hired; he is adapting her book into a movie Harvey Weinstein believes the allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour against him are part of a right-wing 'conspiracy' to take him down, DailyMail.com can reveal.

White House, NRA, Congress agree on regulating bump stocks

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaking, joined by, from left, former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., call for action on gun safety legislation with fellow Democrats on the ... A federal judge is denying a death-row challenge from a Utah prison inmate whose double-murder case was chronicled in the book "Under the Banner of Heaven." . A federal judge is denying a death-row challenge from a Utah prison inmate whose double-murder case was chronicled in the book "Under the Banner of Heaven."

Report: Trump-tied lobbyists cash in on their connections

The day after the presidential election, the Washington lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck touted its Republican team's "significant relationships with those who will steer the incoming Trump administration."

White House rips Senate Intel panel for producing ‘zero evidence’ of collusion after 9-month probe

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders urged members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday to "focus on other things," a day after the panel said its probe into possible collusion between Trump associates and Russian officials remains open.

White House to release immigration demands to Congress by next week

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Thursday that President Trump will roll out his priorities for immigration reform by next Wednesday. "The president will be laying out his responsible immigration plan over the next week," Sanders told reporters during the briefing.

Senior House Dem: Time for ‘a new generation of leaders’

In this July 25, 2016 file photo, Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Sanchez says it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other veteran leaders to make way for a new generation of Democratic leaders.

Senator Marco Rubio: Cuba’s dictatorship keeping secrets about attacks on U.S. diplomats

Cuba's apartheid dictatorship is continuing its strategy of saying it knows nothing about the attacks on U.S. diplomats and playing dumb. The only ones who are looking dumb, however, are the useful idiots in the U.S. who continue to defend the corrupt and brutally repressive Castro regime.

International stars revive Egyptian tourism

For almost six years, we had missed that enthusiasm and excitement of hosting our favorite celebrities and seeing their photos around the pyramids, between monumental temple pillars in Luxor, or even lounging at our beautiful, sunny beaches. Egypt's iconic monuments and paramount history have placed it on the top of most - if not all - international figures' bucket lists, from the year one; Agatha Christie , Patricia NIXON and U.S. President Richard Nixon , Louis Armstrong , Muhammed Ali , Amitabh Bachchan , Princess Diana , Shakira , Barack Obama , Salma Hayek , Paris Hilton , Van Diesel , and many more.