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The White House on Tuesday doubled down on President Trump's bizarre claim that voter fraud cheated him out of a popular vote victory and the new leader's chief spokesman said he wouldn't rule out requesting an investigation into the bunk claims. "It's a concern that he has about voter fraud," Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during his second-ever daily press briefing when asked about the commander-in-chief's claim that widespread voter fraud helped Hillary Clinton win the popular vote.
Ask any American born before 1960 for an example of corporate greed resulting in environmental disaster and the odds are good that he or she will name Love Canal. Love Canal, for readers who don't know, is a neighborhood in the city of Niagara Falls, N.Y. that was once a chemical waste dump.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will announce a candidate next week to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. "We will pick a truly great Supreme Court justice," Trump told reporters who asked about the vacancy as the president signed paperwork to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an aggressive defense on Tuesday of California's liberal policies on immigration, health care and climate change during his State of the State address, vowing to fight the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress if they threaten to roll back state policies. The Democratic governor, who has made fighting climate change a legacy issue, also noted the state's successes in cutting unemployment, closing a multibillion-dollar deficit, boosting school funding and expanding rights for immigrants who are in the country illegally.
Georgia Rep. Tom Price , Donald Trump 's pick to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on Tuesday rejected conflict of interest and abuse of power accusations related to stock investments. Price has been criticized for actively trading in stocks for Australian pharmaceutical company Innate Immunotherapeutics during the time that he was promoting legislation that could affect the company .
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo either radiation or surgery for treatment, he announced Tuesday. Dayton revealed the information a day after he collapsed at the podium while giving the annual State of the State address.
Senate Democrats are offering President Donald Trump a $1 trillion proposal to upgrade the nation's aging infrastructure - but he'd have to split with Republicans to get it. In their first major bid to force Trump's hand on a policy issue where the President's populism is at odds with spendthrift congressional GOP leadership, top Democrats unveiled their infrastructure package Tuesday.
The "King of Bankruptcy" just got a step closer to becoming America's next commerce secretary. But Wilbur Ross first had to promise not to censor or intimidate climate scientists.
President Donald Trump believes millions of votes were cast illegally in last year's election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday. "The President does believe that, I think he's stated that before, and stated his concern of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign and continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence people have brought to him," Spicer said.
President Donald Trump believes millions of votes were cast illegally in last year's election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday, but he wouldn't provide any concrete evidence for the claim, which has long been debunked. "The President does believe that, I think he's stated that before, and stated his concern of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign and continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence people have brought to him," Spicer said.
President Donald Trump is expected to take executive action Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines. That's according to a person with knowledge of the action.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday will propose spending $1 trillion on transportation and other infrastructure projects over 10 years in an attempt to engage President Donald Trump on an issue where they hope to find common ground. Details of the plan provided to The Associated Press include $200 billion for a "vital infrastructure fund."
Congressional analysts Tuesday projected that President Donald Trump has inherited a stable economy and a government that is on track to run a $559 billion budget deficit for the ongoing budget year. The new estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office say the economy will hold relatively steady, with economic growth rising slightly to 2.3 percent this year and unemployment averaging less than 5 percent for the duration of Trump's term.
President Donald Trump is expected to take executive action Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines. That's according to a person with knowledge of the action.
Desperately seeking ammunition to defend their disastrous health care reform act, Sen. Charles Schumer and other Democratic Party leaders commissioned the Congressional Budget Office to report on the effects of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The CBO played the part of Chicken Little and obediently calculated that 32 million Americans would lose their health insurance coverage at the same time as premium costs would rise, all due to repeal.
THE BIG STORY: He can't help himself, and he isn't helping himself. It may have only been a few throwaway lines in his private meeting with lawmakers, but President Trump has managed to again hijack his own early narrative.
One of Donald Trump's first actions as US president was to sign an executive order to freeze non-military federal hiring. The move, White House press secretary Sean Spicer explained at a Jan. 23 press briefing, "counters the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."
The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, told his top agents from around the country that he had been asked by President Trump to stay on the job running the federal government's top law enforcement agency, according to people familiar with the matter. A decision to retain Mr. Comey would spare the president another potentially bruising confirmation battle.
Question: How many ways can the media describe President Trump's assertion on Monday that widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote in November's election? Here is a list of words and phrases used in headlines to chracterize a claim that Trump has made before and repeated during a meeting with members of Congress: The blank represents headlines that basically just stated what Trump said, without judging the veracity of his charge. A few examples: Whether and how to push back when Trump says something untrue is an ongoing question for news outlets.
The bill would ban the use of federal money for abortion, including in insurance subsidized through the Affordable Care Act. Smith ban on abortion funding up again in the House The bill would ban the use of federal money for abortion, including in insurance subsidized through the Affordable Care Act.