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Republican Sens. Mike Lee, Pat Toomey and James Lankford are scheduled to attend the kick-off to Charles and David Koch's libertarian Seminar Network in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday.
US President Donald Trump speaks before a signing ceremony for executive orders and memorandums in the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 2017, in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his "very strict" crackdown on Muslim immigration was working "very nicely," amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.
Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Trump, Putin discuss 'mutually beneficial' trade, security Will President Donald Trump usher in a new era for U.S.-Russian relations, or are the two powers going to continue down the path as geopolitical foes? Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2017 file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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A candidate for the Democratic National Committee blames Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 election on her decision to tap Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate. Vincent Tolliver joined the 10 other candidates running to be the next DNC chair at a "Future Forum" in Houston Saturday and said the party would be singing a different tune if Mrs. Clinton chose someone other than Mr. Kaine, who was seen as too moderate by some Democrats.
President Trump signed an executive order halting all refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days, among other provisions. Here's what the order says.
An initial volley in a potential barrage of legal challenges to President Donald Trump's new restrictions on immigration came on Saturday on behalf of two Iraqis with ties to U.S. security forces who were detained at New York's JFK Airport. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the men are challenging the directive on constitutional grounds.
"They've been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians.
Republican lawmakers are fearful about the potential political fallout if their eventual replacement of President Barack Obama 's health law doesn't deliver, and they didn't hold back at their recent policy conference. "We'd better be sure that we're prepared to live with the market we've created," Rep. Tom McClintock , R-Calif., was quoted as saying in Saturday's Washington Post, one of the media organizations that obtained an audio recording of a private session at last week's GOP strategy retreat in Philadelphia, "That's going to be called 'Trumpcare.'
Even though polling suggests an overwhelming majority of Americans want President Donald Trump to curtail his social media presence, he's expanded it - becoming the first U.S. president to formally join Snapchat . The president, who has a very active presence on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook, will now be able to send videos and messages to his supporters on yet another popular platform, presumably in an effort to bypass the traditional press and to perpetuate his persona as a more accessible and unfiltered POTUS.
Lawyers for two Iraqis with ties to the US military who had been granted visas to enter the United States have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the US government after they were detained when they arrived in New York Friday. The lawsuit could represent the first legal challenge to Trump's controversial executive order, which indefinitely suspends admissions for Syrian refugees and limits the flow of other refugees into the United States by instituting what the President has called "extreme vetting" of immigrants.
U.S. President Donald Trump's first conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin since taking office is causing concern among European allies and consternation among fellow Republicans about the future of U.S. penalties imposed on Moscow. Trump was noncommittal before Saturday's scheduled telephone call about whether he was considering lifting the economic sanctions.
The Dutch government announced Saturday it's putting 10 million euros into an international fund it has launched to finance access to birth control, abortion and sex education for women in developing nations after President Donald Trump cut U.S. funding for such services. Lilianne Ploumen, the minister for foreign trade and development co-operation, said she was making the initial contribution and launched the fund - "She Decides - Global Fundraising Initiative" - with a website .
President Donald Trump's first conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin since taking office is causing concern among European allies and consternation among fellow Republicans about the future of U.S. penalties imposed on Moscow. Trump was noncommittal before Saturday's scheduled telephone call about whether he was considering lifting the economic sanctions.
According to Forbes , he may receive a $20 million advance for his memoir. Esther Newberg , co-head of ICM Partners' publishing unit, says that he is likely to garner more advance money than any other president in history for his book.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker , who has called for admitting more Syrians , blasted President Donald Trump's suspension of the refugee admittance program as "fundamentally un-American" and promised to "fight it every step of the way." Booker returned from visiting a refugee camp in the Middle East last August and called on the U.S. to address "a humanitarian crisis of a scale rarely witnessed in the last 50 years."
Scott Simon talks with Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, one of several congressional Republicans who expressed concern about the fast repeal of Obamacare in a closed-door meeting.
Members of Massachusetts' all-Democratic congressional delegation are condemning Republican President Donald Trump's executive order Friday that indefinitely suspends the United States' Syrian refugees program, temporarily halts all other refugee admissions and blocks immigration from some majority-Muslim countries with terrorism concerns. Sen. Elizabeth Warren recalled meeting a seven-year-old Syrian refugee on a Greek island 15 months ago.
From when Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States last Friday through the end of this week, news broke from the White House at a rapid-fire pace unlike anything seen previously. Trump signed executive orders en-masse, most of which cemented concrete action on his most prominent campaign promises.
Washington, Jan 28 - US President Donald Trump's 'extreme vetting' executive order to bar entry to the US to refugees and immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries has evoked widespread condemnation, including from Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. The extreme vetting order will suspend the entry of immigrants and non-immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, whereas refugees from Syria were indefinitely banned.