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The "Saturday Night Massacre" was one of the most dramatic turns of events in the Watergate scandal -- the political drama that rocked the United States in June 1972 and led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon months later. President Nixon and the Attorney General's office were locked in a political standoff over Nixon's refusal to comply with orders to release recordings of White House conversations.
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"The American Health Care Act as it reads now is a high cost, high risk health care bill," says South Dakota AARP Director of Communications Leah Ganschow. "There is the age tax which is the piece of the bill that we particularly take opposition to," says Ganschow.
President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey throws a huge cloud of doubt over the bureau's investigation into allegations of Trump campaign ties to Russia. The FBI and three congressional committees have been investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and possible Trump connections.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 35 percent more arrests nationwide in roughly the first three months under President Donald Trump compared to the same period last year, though arrests were down 23 percent over 2014, according to government data. Nationwide, ICE made 41,898 arrests from Jan. 20 to April 29 compared to 31,128 in that period last year, according to ICE data.
Dozens of retired teamsters held a rally Tuesday just outside the government agency tasked with overseeing retirement funds. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver joined the rally near Union Station at the Employee Benefits Security Administration Offices to raise the profile of a bill introduced Tuesday by Senator Bernie Sanders and co-sponsored by Missouri Sen. Oak Street, which lines up with the Heart of America Bridge and goes by the federal courthouse, the City Hall and Sprint Center, has seen unending construction over the years.
Trump abruptly fired FBI director James Comey in the midst of the bureau's investigation into Trump's ties with Russia. On Wednesday, he may meet with Russia's foreign minister.
The Trump administration has not even decided yet on whether it wants to stick with a three-country deal or pursue separate two-country deals with Canada and Mexico, says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Rosss said the Trump administraton's goal "is to increase overall trade while reducing our trade deficit."
Washington, DC: US President Donald Trump has ignited a political firestorm by firing FBI Director James Comey, who had been leading an investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign's possible collusion with Russia to influence the election outcome. The Republican president said he fired Comey, the top US law enforcement official, on Tuesday over his handling of an election-year email scandal involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
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President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey Tuesday, saying it was necessary to restore "public trust and confidence" in the nation's top law enforcement agency following several tumultuous months. "The FBI is one of our nation's most cherished and respected institutions, and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement," Trump said in a statement.
President Donald Trump has "dismissed" FBI Director James Comey, according to multiple media outlets and a statement from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer: A copy of Trump's letter to Comey was obtained by BuzzFeed's Chris Geidner .
Two influential Republican congressmen are blasting a Department of Health and Human Services memo to division heads as a "potentially illegal and unconstitutional" infringement on whistleblowers' rights to call attention to waste, fraud and abuse in the executive branch. The May 3 memo from HHS Secretary Tom Price's chief of staff, Lance Leggitt, instructed employees not to have "any communications" with members of Congress or their staffs without first consulting the department's assistant secretary for legislation.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey after his attorney general and deputy attorney general recommended his removal. "The FBI is one of our nation's most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement," Trump said in a statement.
Adjutant Gen. of the Georgia National Guard Brig. Gen. Joe Jarrard, Teresa Jones, Gary Bottoms, Kingston, Phil Kent, Nancy Couch and Angella Ochletree.
Our worst fears about President Barack Obama's successor are being realized. According to most national polls, presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a statistical dead heat for the popular vote.
Now that Senate Republicans are plunging into a protracted, divisive debate over the monstrous House GOP health bill, top Democratic strategists are consumed with questions. How can the party seize on this moment to hold GOP lawmakers accountable in 2018, keep the grass roots engaged, and, more broadly, bring about a period of Democratic renewal? In a new memo to fellow Democrats, two senior Democratic strategists are arguing that the party must highlight the fact that the GOP health bill would not only leave many millions of people stranded without coverage - but, crucially, it would do this while delivering an enormous tax cut to the rich.
Hundreds of protesters encircled the Success Academy charter school on West 118th Street in Harlem for hours today while House Speaker Paul Ryan toured the inside-out of earshot of the fusillade of criticism the demonstrators fired at him as well as Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, who invited the GOP leader. Reports surfaced yesterday that Ryan would take Moskowitz up on her invitation to visit the Harlem Success Academy, triggering a salvo of political opprobrium toward the charter school founder, whom President Donald Trump briefly considered appointing his secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
In this April 7, 2017, photo, a large display stands in the lawn of the main Josephine County library branch in Grants Pass, Ore. The library system in Josephine County has been operating as a nonprofit on donations and volunteer hours since it lost public funding, but a measure on the May 16 ballot could restore limited tax dollars by creating a special library tax district.