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Under a new government contract awarded to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on the plane currently used by President Donald Trump. Both of those units, which are used to store food, were installed on the plane when it was originally delivered in 1990, according to the Air Force.
Yes, some were a bit frustrated that we posted about The New York Times' late Thursday night story about President Donald Trump wanting to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller last June. The fact of the matter is it never happened, but it would certainly rehash the Russian collusion hysteria that has gripped the news media since Trump won the 2016 election.
Alaska's congressional delegation has asked Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke to exclude most of the state from his draft plan for offshore oil and gas leasing. Earlier this month, Zinke had proposed opening 14 of Alaska's 15 offshore planning areas, all but the North Aleutian Basin in Bristol Bay.
U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez has invited the wife of detained immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Ragbir was in federal custody Saturday, several weeks after he was handcuffed and arrested during a routine check-in with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
In different circumstances, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be on a valedictory tour in her final months on the Supreme Court. But in the era of Donald Trump, the 84-year-old Ginsburg is packing her schedule and sending signals she intends to keep her seat on the bench for years.
Too many conflated being a Republican with Christianity, as if identifying with a political party meant that one automatically espoused a very specific set of religious beliefs. Naturally, as the months of the season continued on and Trump became the last man standing, this mindset grew even more popular.
Those egg people, the Russian bots that seemed to come out of the woodwork during the election season really did seem to have a preference. As lawmakers have studied how Russian harnessed social media to influence the election and activities surrounding the election, Twitter has been cooperating by examining accounts and weeding out accounts that have proven to originate from Russian troll farms.
Many of the so-called Dreamers worried about their immigration status are starting to reconsider their opposition to a possible wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report Friday from the San Francisco Chronicle. President Donald Trump's wall at the border wouldn't be so bad, some groups are now saying, so long as it means citizenship for the nearly 700,000 people brought into the country through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
In this Jan. 26, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Just last month, Trump was crowing about his chances for seeing the U.S. post 3 percent economic growth in 2017 and scoffing at the skeptics who predicted much less.
In this opinion column, Max Boot argues that President Donald Trump is treating the US presidency like a reality TV show. But as president, he has proved to be the worst salesman for America.
The discussion was already tense as Karzai urged Washington to help root out Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan, implying that more pressure needed to be exerted on Pakistani leaders. Biden's answer stunned Karzai into silence.
Wednesday, while the media continued to focus on the fallout over the impotency of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in leading the Democrat's unnecessary government shutdown, Republican leaders in the Senate concentrated on the courts. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, moved forward with hearings on President Trump's judicial nominees - including consideration of the president's nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Michael B. Brennan.
Red tape, bureaucratic hurdles and arbitrary roadblocks are pervasive in Washington, D.C. These obstacles not only result in irritation and inconvenience, but also have the capacity to cause great harm to the health and happiness of those suffering from painful disorders and diseases. Barriers to medical-grade marijuana research may be resulting in the preventable and unnecessary pain of countless Americans.
"Most folks in the anti-Trump movement are focused on the one place where they can and should be focused, on the midterm elections in November . Many of us share that not unrealistic hope - that a new Congress can locate its backbone in January 2019 and start to turn this wayward aircraft carrier around," Bunch writes.
"The monstrosities being carried out in our name, and with our tax dollars, are no less our responsibility when we ignore them," Kolhatkar writes. The greatest impact of Donald Trump's first year as president has been kept out of sight from most Americans.
Philippine president said he pities Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for being the focus of international criticism over her country's handling of the Rohingya refugee crisis. Suu Kyi and Duterte met in New Delhi this week at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders on the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-India ties.
U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived at the Davos Summit in Switzerland to participate in the World Economic Forum with other world leaders such as U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron. Notwithstanding a U.S. government shut down reflecting tension between the Democrats and Republicans in the U.S Senate, this will be the first time that a U.S. president will address the WEF.
A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a subordinate was kept on the campaign at Clinton's request, according to four people familiar with what took place.
Margot Robbie did yoga with Barack Obama - and spent the whole class worried her husband would accidentally flash the former President. The 'I, Tonya' actress and her spouse Tom Ackerley - who she wed in December 2016 - went on honeymoon to Tahiti and unexpectedly bumped into some familiar faces when they went to a local gym, including the former President of the United States.