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The attorney general's noxious new policy of separating families at the border was only one highlight of his week by President Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Ever since his days as an Alabama prosecutor during the War on Drugs era, Trump's attorney general has been dead set on cracking down on poor people in a return to tough-on-crime law enforcement.
Embracing his role as party leader, President Donald Trump issued a stern warning at a rally Thursday that Democrats would disrupt the economic progress of his administration, imploring Republicans to mobilize during the 2018 midterm elections. Trump used one of his signature rallies in northern Indiana to paint a rosy picture of his presidency, pointing to low unemployment, "booming" job growth and optimism under his watch.
What will Democrats do once their entire "Resistance" narrative collapses around them, like a termite-ridden dormitory? Democrats have "resisted" Donald J. Trump at nearly every turn. Why? Trump, they argue, is an economically illiterate bully controlled by Moscow.
The instant analysis on cable TV of President Trump's decision to dump the Iran deal had a weary resignation to it: He said he would do this. Trump repeatedly promised to pull out of the deal on the campaign trail and had made it a target from the time that Barack Obama first entered into it in 2015.
A White House official dismissed a view expressed by Sen. John McCain about President Donald Trump's CIA nominee, saying Thursday at a staff meeting that "it doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway," two people in the room told The Associated Press. Kelly Sadler was discussing McCain's opposition to Trump's pick for CIA director, Gina Haspel, when she made the comment, according to the two people, who described feeling shocked and stunned by the remark.
At the start of his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, President Donald Trump discussed his announcement Tuesday afternoon that he is removing the US from the his predecessor Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and reinstating the nuclear sanctions that were suspended with the deal's implementation in January 2016. European and other international leaders responded angrily to Trump's move.
Speaker Paul Ryan mocked an effort by breakaway Republicans to force election-year votes on rival immigration proposals as a drive that would produce "show ponies," not legislation the president would sign into law. Ryan, R-Wis., said Thursday that since he's been unable to craft an immigration bill that could pass with GOP votes alone, the path to success requires legislation that gets support from both parties and White House.
President Trump's nominee for CIA chief, Gina Haspel, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. When Gina Haspel, President Trump's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, appeared for her confirmation hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, she faced one crucial challenge - and it wasn't to convince the committee that she possesses the necessary experience and aptitude for the position.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves a closed-door session where Republican senators met on the GOP effort to overhaul the tax code, in Washington, Dec. 1, 2017. A White House official has dismissed Senator John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's pick to head the CIA, saying, "It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway."
ELKART, Ind. - President Trump made good on a promise last year to campaign against Sen. Joe Donnelly during a campaign rally Thursday in Elkhart, attacking the Democrat as "Sleepin' Joe" and a "swamp person."
The U.S. House passed legislation to move forward with the licensing of the Yucca Mountain, Nev., repository for high level radioactive waste on Tuesday. The repository would give the Hanford nuclear reservation a place to dispose of high level radioactive waste encased in glass logs at the Hanford vitrification plant, as well as used nuclear fuel left from producing plutonium at Hanford for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
At Elkhart rally, President Trump and Vice President Pence call on Hoosiers to send newly minted GOP Senate nominee Mike Braun to Washington. Trump hits Sen. Donnelly hard on his home turf - and gives him a new nickname At Elkhart rally, President Trump and Vice President Pence call on Hoosiers to send newly minted GOP Senate nominee Mike Braun to Washington.
In this Aug. 16, 2016 photo, attendees walk past a live visualization of internet attacks across China during the 4th China Internet Security Conference in Beijing. A Chinese technology regulator has announced Sunday, Jan 23, 2017 a year-long campaign to root out services that allow people in the country to circumvent the government's Internet censorship.
Feeling no relief from anti-incumbent Republican primaries, Democratic senators in GOP-leaning states are working to convince voters they're free of Washington's stigma. The Democrats seeking re-election this fall in states Republican Donald Trump carried - the battlefront in the fight for Senate control -are portraying themselves as independent actors and known entities in hopes of inoculating themselves against Republican accusations that they are lockstep obstructionists to Trump's agenda.
Associated Press The crowd cheers as Vice President Mike Pence introduces President Donald Trump at the North Side Gymnasium in Elkhart, Ind., Thursday, May 10, 2018, during a campaign rally.
Now, President Donald Trump's supporters are pushing for him to be the next U.S. leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a move that's being met by smirks and eye rolls in Europe, where Trump remains deeply unpopular. But that's not stopping a growing list of champions from pushing the Nobel committee to consider Trump for the world's most coveted diplomatic prize.
A Republican senator is calling on the Turkish government to follow the lead of North Korea's regime and release an American pastor being held hostage in the NATO nation. Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, Oklahoma's James Lankford also discouraged Americans from traveling to or doing business in Turkey because the government there can "sweep up anyone for any accusation."
Former CIA chief legal officer John Rizzo fact checked Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on MSNBC Thursday after she made an incorrect claim about Gina Haspel's CIA background. During a Senate hearing on Haspel's nomination for CIA director, Feinstein incorrectly claimed that Haspel ran an interrogation program in the counterterrorism center of the CIA based off of a corrected statement by Rizzo.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney appeared on Fox Business on Thursday and defended the use of torture by claiming it worked on Sen. John McCain when he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.