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Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Chicago will keep fighting President Donald Trump's immigration policies with a federal lawsuit alleging it's illegal for the federal government to withhold public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities. Emanuel said Sunday that Chicago won't ''be blackmailed'' into changing its values as a welcoming city.
The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in suburban Minneapolis, like other US mosques, occasionally receives threatening calls and e-mails. But leaders say they are frightened after a weekend attack in which an explosive shattered windows and damaged a room as worshipers prepared for morning prayers.
Vice President Mike Pence called out a New York Times article that said he was establishing a "shadow campaign" to run for president in 2020. SEE MORE: President Trump's Top Generals Are Empowered And Working Overtime On Saturday, the Times story said Pence has been "creating an independent power base, cementing his status as [President Donald] Trump's heir apparent and promoting himself as the main conduit between the Republican donor class and the administration."
The Trump cult has decided that Fox News doesn't provide the extreme level of Hitleresque propaganda that they crave, so what did they do? Launch their own "Real News" Trump weekly online news channel. The first episode was launched by Trump daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence vehemently denied on Sunday a New York Times report that he was positioning himself to run for president in 2020. While President Donald Trump has given no indication he won't run for re-election, the Times reported Saturday that a number of top Republicans, including Pence, have been building fund-raising committees with an eye on the 2020 election.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Department of Justice during an announcement about leaking of classified information on Aug. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Department of Justice during an announcement about leaking of classified information on Aug. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Sunday that the expanding investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is continuing apace, even as President Donald Trump dismissed the probe as "a total fabrication."
Abdul Mohamed photographs the damage outside of the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn., on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. An explosion damaged a room and shattered windows as worshippers prepared for morning prayers early Saturday.
Something strange has been happening lately in Washington when the most powerful man in town, the president of the United States, makes a headline-grabbing declaration on some new policy. Some recent presidential statements have been simply ignored, tuned out as meaningless noise by the federal apparatus he runs.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren won't face voters for more than a year, but the broad outlines of the effort to unseat the Massachusetts Democrat, and her re-election pitch to voters, are taking shape. Two Republicans have announced their candidacies, two others are said to be weighing runs, and conservative political groups are chipping away at the candidate.
During an interview on NBC's Meet the Press , Flake said one of his regrets over the past few years is that the GOP didn't do enough to stem the tide of birtherism. Regarding the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Flake told host Chuck Todd that this was an example of Republicans placing party over country.
While former President Barack Obama was celebrating his birthday on Friday, Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was signing a measure that will make his birthday, Aug. 4, a new state holiday beginning in 2018, The Hill reported. "Barack Obama Day" will be "observed throughout the state as a day set apart to honor the 44th President of the United States of America who began his career serving the People of Illinois in both the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate, and dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Americans and building bridges across communities," the article explained.
Following his first meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson since Congress approved new sanctions against the Kremlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his country is ready to work at resuming normal relations if the the US "pulls back from confrontation." "Naturally, such actions, including the illegal retention of our diplomatic property since December of last year, could not remain unanswered, and won't be in the future.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that Donald Trump Jr's meeting with a Russian lawyer was a "bad idea" but he trusts Special Counsel Robert Mueller to give Team Trump a fair shake. "Bob Mueller is a good man, in my experience with dealing with him when he was director of the FBI and I was U.S. attorney," Christie told CNN's "State of the Union."
Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the Mississippi Delta. During a summer that feels like a sauna, the trailer's air conditioner has conked out.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., thinks more members of the Republican Party should have stood up to President Trump years ago, beginning with his support for the birther movement as not appropriate for conservatives to embrace. "I wish we as a party had stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going on," Flake said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush lashed out at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., amid an information technology procurement scandal involving one of her former staffers. "The incompetence and terrible judgment displayed by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and House Democrats is jarring," Bush tweeted Saturday, with a link to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece detailing the controversy surrounding IT aide Imran Awan.
"It is absolutely true that the vice president is getting ready for 2020, for re-election as vice president," Conway said. White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that President Trump plans to be a two-term president in playing down reports that he may be shying away from the idea of running in 2020.
"I really do think we probably ought to turn our attention to the debt ceiling and funding the government and tax cuts until we can really get all the parties together," Johnson said. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said it is probably time for legislators to focus on areas of work like taxes and the economy while continuing to negotiate on a healthcare bill in the background.
The 1987 INF Treaty prohibits the development, deployment and testing of ground-launched ballistic or cruise missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles. The United States and Russia have repeatedly accused each other of violating the treaty.