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NJ Transit said it was investigating passenger reports of an announcement that ICE agents had boarded train 'looking for illegals.' NJ Transit suspends conductor after alleged immigration announcement NJ Transit said it was investigating passenger reports of an announcement that ICE agents had boarded train 'looking for illegals.'
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russian meddling in the election and possible connection to the Trump campaign, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2017. Sam Nunberg, a former political aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Monday he would refuse to comply with a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators want state law enforcement to be alerted when someone who isn't allowed to buy a gun tries to purchase one. U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey and Chris Coons on Monday said they will introduce a bill that requires federal authorities to notify states when a felon or a fugitive attempts to buy a firearm but fails the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
In this Feb. 27, 2018 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott talks alongside Andrew Pollack, right, whose daughter Meadow was murdered in Parkland during press conference at Miami-Dade Police Department in Doral, Fla. The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has put guns at the forefront, for now, in the U.S. Senate campaign in Florida.
Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Peter Hasson has been in something of a running sparring match with Illinois Congressman Danny Davis. Rather than picking apart the gun control debate or the Me Too moment, Davis can't seem to stop talking about Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
In this Feb. 21, 2018 file photo, Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during a CNN town hall meeting in Sunrise, Fla. The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has put guns at the forefront, for now, in the U.S. Senate campaign in Florida.
FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver picked apart a theory that Democrats have already won the House majority in 2018, arguing Monday that many pollsters predicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would beat President Donald Trump in a landslide in 2016. "Seems like people haven't learned too much from 2016," Silver tweeted Monday.
Robert Mueller's investigation shows no signs of being over "shortly after the first of the year" as indicated by Ty Cobb last year. After all, it's March 5, which is not exactly "shortly after" the first of the year.
We didn't fully realize just how hard it is to be president until we had one with no idea of what it takes to do the job. We didn't appreciate having a government that was relatively honest and free of venality until we had one riddled with corruption.
In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33. In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.
Trump is arguably the most thin-skinned president in modern times, and the slightest provocation will set him off on a tirade of insults, counterattacks, distractions and self-pity. He has called former FBI Director James Comey a leaker and falsely claimed the FBI was in tatters under his management.
President Donald Trump's administration appears unbowed by broad domestic and international criticism of his planned import tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying Sunday that the president is not planning on exempting any countries from the stiff duties. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union , White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said: "At this point in time there's no country exclusions."
An influential U.S. lawmaker said on Sunday all fairly traded steel and aluminum, especially from Canada and Mexico, should be excluded from President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs, as he sought to calm tensions at major trade talks in Mexico. Kevin Brady, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over U.S. trade policy, was speaking on the sidelines of the latest round of NAFTA talks among the United States, Canada and Mexico, where he said there had been progress in reworking the 24-year-old trade deal.
Booker, D-N.J., said he has talked to a number of federal lawmakers of both parties, who come from states that have legalized the drug and are opposed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement in January that the Justice Department once again would prosecute marijuana cases in states that have legalized the drug. Under President Barack Obama, Justice officials said they would let states enforce their own laws while the federal agency focused on drug cartels, on transporting marijuana into states that have not legalized it, and on making sure legal marijuana businesses are not used as a cover for illegal activities, including selling other drugs.
There's much to celebrate but plenty of cause for trepidation, too, as President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet Monday at the White House. For all his talk about brokering the "ultimate deal" between Israelis and Palestinians, Trump's long-awaited peace plan has yet to arrive, even as Palestinians and other critics insist it will be dead on arrival.
ABC says it will air a special interview with James Comey in April before the former FBI director's book is released. The network announced the interview will air on a "20/20" special on April 15. The interview will be conducted by "ABC News" anchor George Stephanopoulous.
Two Rio Grande Valley congressmen are pushing back against President Donald Trump's Easter Sunday declaration that any deal to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, is off the table. In a flurry of Easter tweets, Trump reversed his February claim that Republicans haven't forgotten young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents and were working hard to pass legislation regarding their temporary status.
President Donald Trump is embracing the potential for a trade war after announcing his intent to place tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, as he rebuffs allies who have pushed to be exempted from the stiff duties. The protectionist policy will be made official in the next two weeks, White House officials said Sunday, as the administration defended the decision from critics in Washington and overseas.
Former Trump adviser Carl Icahn apparently sold off millions of dollars of steel industry stock one week before Trump made his announcement. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.
Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to Elizabeth Warren as 'Pocahontas' to try to discredit a potential rival in 2020 by calling into question her claims of heritage US Senator Elizabeth Warren is hoping to defuse an issue that has dogged her for years, her claims of Native American heritage, ahead of a possible run for president in 2020. Last month, Warren addressed the National Congress of American Indians, trying to cast her family's story in the larger context of challenges facing native peoples.