Analysis: Trump risks turning Breitbart into an enemy by sidelining Bannon – Fri, 14 Apr 2017 PST

The seeds of Breitbart's resentment were sown months before President Donald Trump cut down chief strategist Stephen Bannon this week. Now the question is whether the hard-right news site that cheered Trump to victory - and sent Bannon, its former chairman, to the White House - will turn on the president.

FBI director: Public should be aware agenda-driven fake news – Fri, 14 Apr 2017 PST

FBI Director James Comey said Americans should be aware of foreign efforts to undermine confidence in U.S. elections and mindful of the possibility that what they're reading might be part of an organized disinformation campaign. U.S. adversaries, including Russia last year, have "used all kinds of vectors to try and influence and undermine our own faith in our democratic processes" and have relied on increasingly sophisticated tactics, the FBI director warned.

North Korean official: Pyongyang ready for war if Trump wants it

President Donald Trump's tweets are adding fuel to a "vicious cycle" of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's vice foreign minister told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Friday. The official added that if the U.S. shows any sign of "reckless" military aggression, Pyongyang is ready to launch a pre-emptive strike of its own.

Trump has made US ‘more vicious’ and aggressive, North Korean official says

North Korea's vice foreign minister on Friday blamed President Donald Trump for escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula through his tweets and expansion of military exercises, saying the U.S. was becoming "more vicious and more aggressive" under his leadership than it had been under President Barack Obama. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang, Vice Minister Han Song Ryol also warned the U.S. against provoking North Korea militarily.

U.S. open to further action on Syria: White House

This satellite image provided by Digital Globe shows an image captured on April 7 of the northwest side of the Shayrat air base in Syria following U.S. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile strikes on Friday He told ministers in Lucca last week US missile strikes were necessary as a matter of USA national security, and indicated the Trump administration may not be done with Assad. Once that threat "has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria", he told CBS' "Face the Nation ".

US senators say food aid constraints delay help amid famine

As President Donald Trump seeks to cut foreign aid under the slogan of "America First," two U.S. senators are proposing making American food assistance more efficient after meeting with victims of South Sudan's famine and civil war. Following a visit to the world's largest refugee settlement in northern Uganda with the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told The Associated Press on Saturday that the U.S. "can deliver more food aid at less cost" through foreign food aid reform.

Blackstone Valley Democrats eager to turn energy into action

U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern told a crowd at the Uxbridge Progressive Club Thursday night that, like pretty much all the others in the room, he was unhappy with the presidential election, the conflicts of interest, and the "tweets, the temper tantrums, the erratic behavior" coming from President Donald J. Trump. "We worry very much about our country in a way we never did before," the Worcester Democrat told some 70 people at Go Blue in the Blackstone Valley, an event hosted by the Uxbridge Democratic Town Committee to re-energize Democrats in the region. Democrats from not only Uxbridge, but Northbridge, Milford, Westboro, Douglas, Worcester, Blackstone and Charlton filled the room.

Democrats pressure Trump to keep national monuments

Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. Obama infuriated Utah Republicans when he created the monument in late December on 1.3 million acres of land that is sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.

In first public appearance as CIA director Pompeo reiterates how much …

"CIA Director Mike Pompeo blistered WikiLeaks in a speech Thursday, calling WikiLeaks a 'hostile intelligence service' aided by Russia and accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making 'common cause with dictators.' The former Kansas congressman was speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., his first public address since becoming director.

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn discusses myth of a ‘post-racial America’ at Emanuel AME Church

Joseph P. Riley, Jr.'s students from The Citadel had a front row seat at Emanuel AME Church as audience members -- including former state legislator Lucille Whipper -- asked U.S. Rep. James Clyburn questions. Clyburn was the featured speaker Thursday, April 13, 2017.

Trump signs bill allowing states to cut funding to abortion providers

President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday allowing states to withhold federal family planning dollars from clinics that provide abortion services, a move that effectively deprives Planned Parenthood and several other family groups of a significant source of funding. The move marked the 12th time that Trump has signed a resolution under the 1996 Congressional Review Act abolishing a rule issued under President Barack Obama.

Trump, Budget Boss Send Signal of Shift on Small Government

Is the Trump administration shifting away from the vision of smaller government candidate Donald Trump and the Republican platform championed in the 2016 campaign? over the weekend, President Trump said he wanted to keep the Export-Import Bank most conservatives in Congress want abolished. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told an off-camera session with reporters Tuesday the Trump administration was seeking a mass reorganization of Cabinet Departments and federal agencies and to make them run more efficiently.

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