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Immigrants and their allies hold a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in front of the Trump International Hotel in the District in September. President Trump's campaign against immigration has made that issue central to U.S. politics - in no small part because of the country's growing diversity .
Four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the devastation and difficulty recovering is still apparent across the island, something that U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas and other members of the congressional delegation from Massachusetts saw firsthand during a visit last week. Officials toured a community health center and a children's hospital, observed damage from a helicopter and met with leaders of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was criticized for an initially slow response, as they work to help the island rebuild.
FILE PHOTO: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a campaign event for Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Judge Roy Moore in Fairhope, Alabama, U.S., December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/File Photo President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday with a U.S. House of Representatives committee that is probing whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
An audit by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction released this past week revealed that a Department of Defense task force to support economic development squandered hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars. The audit of the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations was first requested in 2016 by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., after it was reported by SIGAR that the TFBSO had spent over $40 million to build "what is likely to be the world's most expensive gas station" in Afghanistan, as Special Inspector General John Sopko put it.
A CNN panel reacted with smirks and laughter on Tuesday morning over a report that President Donald Trump loves House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy because he makes sure that Trump is supplied with favorite red and strawberry Starburst candies - which are the only ones he will eat. According to a Washington Post report, McCarthy learned about Trump's love of Starburst last fall when he was alone with the president in his suite aboard Air Force One, stating, "We're there, having a little dessert, and he offers me some.
REVEALED: Starving children begged police for food when they were found chained to their beds after brave sister escaped and called cops who arrested their reclusive, bankrupt parents 'It was odd at that time of night': Housewife reveals bizarre encounter with thin, pale children just weeks before police found them shackled to their beds Three-year-old girl dies after being mauled by her pitbull called Remington just five days after her father bought the dog from a friend REVEALED: Ivy League student, 19, 'killed by a former classmate' had been stabbed more than 20 times before his body was found buried in a shallow grave 'The poverty of an aspiring immigrant's nation is as irrelevant as their race': Mitt Romney's thinly-veiled MLK Day swipe at Trump over his 's***hole countries' scandal Sundance Film Festival creates a new code of conduct amid Hollywood's sexual assault scandal as ... (more)
A U.S. Army veteran from Connecticut has filed a lawsuit against the Veterans Administration for leaving a scalpel in his abdomen for four years after he had surgery in 2013. Glenford Turner, 61, had been complaining about abdominal pain ever since he underwent a radical prostatectomy four years ago.
Trump spent the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. . Haitian community members protest near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Senator Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker... Good news, urbanites! New research suggests that you don't have to leave the city to reap some of the benefits of being in nature.
U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch - Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijing's interests, people familiar with the matter say - WASHINGTON - U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son US officials warned Kushner about friendship with Wendi Deng Murdoch: report - last year that his friend, Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch, could be taking advantage of her close friendship with Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump - , to promote China's business interests, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Washington, Jan 16 : US President Donald Trump has said he was "totally misrepresented" by those saying he used the term "s**thole" to describe African nations last week. He was responding to a claim by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin that he used "vile and racist" language during a meeting on immigration reform, BBC reported on Monday.
REVEALED: Starving children begged police for food when they were found chained to their beds after brave sister escaped and called cops who arrested their reclusive, bankrupt parents 'It was odd at that time of night': Housewife reveals bizarre encounter with thin, pale children just weeks before police found them shackled to their beds Three-year-old girl dies after being mauled by her pitbull called Remington just five days after her father bought the dog from a friend REVEALED: Ivy League student, 19, 'killed by a former classmate' had been stabbed more than 20 times before his body was found buried in a shallow grave 'The poverty of an aspiring immigrant's nation is as irrelevant as their race': Mitt Romney's thinly-veiled MLK Day swipe at Trump over his 's***hole countries' scandal Sundance Film Festival creates a new code of conduct amid Hollywood's sexual assault scandal as ... (more)
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We are now in day four or five of the "s-hole" crisis. I can't wait for Day 220, like what we used to watch on Nightline during the Iran hostage crisis.
It was simply surreal to watch President Trump perfunctorily read a statement praising Martin Luther King on Friday and then leave the podium without answering the shouted questions of reporters about whether or not he is a racist--legitimate questions generated by the president's own words in a meeting about immigration the day before.
The mainstream media's coverage of President Donald Trump is unprecedented in its lack of fairness and its constant negativity. It represents the ultimate weaponization of big reporting that's in sync with efforts by the shadow government to mobilize the national security apparatus and the other entrenched Deep State bureaucracies for the purpose of weakening and ultimately taking down the 45th president of the United States.
Chances of a government shutdown grew Monday as Republicans concluded that they would be unable to pass a long-term spending bill by the Friday deadline. GOP leaders are now turning to a short-term funding measure in hopes of keeping agencies open while talks continue, but Democratic leaders say they are unlikely to support any deal that does not protect young illegal immigrants.
Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and their Democratic followers laid a careful trap for their Republican tormentors, and then fell in it. The Republican leadership can keep them from climbing out if they're smart and show a little courage.
Sen. Charles Schumer wants federal transportation officials to urge foreign airlines to work better with the operators of New York's Kennedy Airport after winter weather woes cascaded into days of cancellations and delays this month. The Senate Democratic leader notes that the department issues documents allowing foreign airlines to operate in the U.S. He suggests that it "utilize that leverage" to encourage foreign carriers to "develop more meaningful communication systems and contingency plans" with Kennedy's governmental and private operators.