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Two years after the White House was adorned in rainbow colors to commemorate the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, gay rights activists and lawmakers are preparing to march on Washington again, saying the current President threatens to erase those gains. Gay rights activists plan to air their concerns at the "Equality March for Unity and Pride" in Washington on Sunday as well as at 50 sister marches at cities across the country this month.
The uncertain science of political prediction has seen pollsters derided in recent years for calling outcomes that fail to hit the mark. A successful prediction this time around was the Ipsos-MORI poll for the BBC/Sky/ITV, analysed by Professor John Curtice, which said the Tories would end up with 314 compared with its actual 318, with Labour on 266 to its actual 261.
Winter became spring, and spring quickly is morphing into summer. And activists from NJ 11th for Change continue to show up for "Fridays Without Frelinghuysen" in Morristown.
Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... Donald Trump is no friend of the truth-he's got no mind for details, lies liberally whenever it suits him, is uniquely vulnerable to conspiracy theories and perhaps has no grasp on reality at all.
Congressional investigators have spent close to six months now, digging into possible ties between the campaign of President Donald Trump and the Russian government, and a handful of key figures have captured their attention. With the blockbuster testimony of the former FBI director behind them, here are the top five subjects under scrutiny from the Hill: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is at the top of just about every investigators' list of possible witnesses.
U.S. President Donald Trump departs to spend the weekend at his New Jersey golf estate from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. June 9, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump departs to spend the weekend at his New Jersey golf estate from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. June 9, 2017.
A federal judge in Detroit agreed Friday to put a halt to court proceedings that sought the release of a legal memorandum believed to have been created by Rudy Giuliani to help justify President Donald Trump 's controversial travel ban. The former New York City mayor made a splash in late January - a day after an early version of the travel order was signed - when he said on Fox News that the president had asked him before his inauguration to assemble a commission that would look for ways to "legally" institute a travel ban targeting Muslims.
A recent report has indicated that as a result of a public tussle with the current presidential administration, the hit Broadway show, Hamilton, has seen a drop in visits from Republican politicians. The New York Daily News reported that "Shortly after the November election, waves were made when actor Brandon Victor Dixon - who plays Vice President Aaron Burr in the show - addressed Pence at curtain call, urging him and the Trump administration 'to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.'
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff speaks to his supporters in Georgia's 6th Congressional District: Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Democrat Jon Ossoff is leading Republican Karen Handel in the special election race for Georgia's traditionally conservative sixth district, a new poll finds. The poll, conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , shows the 30-year-old Democrat leading by seven points: 51 per cent to Ms Handel's 44. Mr Ossoff, a first-time candidate, boasts a large majority with women voters.
The most stunning thing in James Comey's testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was what he said about special prosecutors, also called special counsels. “After former President Clinton met on the plane with the attorney general, I considered whether I should call for the appointment of a special counsel and decided that would be an unfair thing to do because I knew there was no case there,” Comey testified, speaking of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
The new acting chief of one of Washington's major banking regulators has agreed to stay away from issues involving dozens of former legal clients, including 14 banks that the agency oversees, according to his ethics agreement. Keith Noreika, who represented lenders as a private lawyer, plans to recuse himself from matters related to JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc., firms the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regulates. Democratic lawmakers had already questioned whether Noreika's close ties to the industry would prevent him from being an impartial watchdog.
"Hamilton" is still the hottest ticket in town, but demand for the much-coveted seats have dropped among one sector: Republican pols. Interest from the right side of the aisle started to sag after Vice President Mike Pence's much discussed visit to the red-hot Broadway hit , Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis told us at the Public's annual gala at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
White House social media director Dan Scavino violated the law when he used an official-looking Twitter account for campaign purposes, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has concluded, issuing Scavino a letter of admonishment. The agency also warned that if Scavino engages in prohibited political activity again, it will be considered "a willful and knowing violation of the law, which could result in further action."
In March, President Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama of wiretapping him. At the time, I wrote that in the unlikely event that Obama were to file a defamation claim against his successor, the former might have a case.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand doesn't mince words on the subject of whether President Donald Trump has kept his promises to the American people. She raised the issue during a speech at the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University on Friday.
As previously reported, the Trump Administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 includes a plan to merge the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . Pragmatically, this would add the OFCCP's broad responsibilities to an already overburdened EEOC, without providing the EEOC any additional funding to accomplish its newly added workload.
In this March 24, 2017, file photo, White House press secretary Sean Spicer gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The AP reported on June 9, 2017, that a story claiming Spicer told reporters President Donald Trump has the power to change the way English words are spelled is a hoax.
When outsiders think of Puerto Rico, a couple of things probably come to mind: It's a small island in the Caribbean. People mostly speak Spanish there.
In a fight between Donald Trump and Senate Democrats' oversight authority, Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley just took a powerful stand on the side of Democrats. The veteran Iowa Republican is not happy with Trump's gag order on federal agencies, calling a new Department of Justice policy of shutting down oversight requests from Democrats "nonsense."