Taxi Drivers in New York Are Struggling. So Are Uber Drivers.

After a growing furor among Uber drivers in New York City in 2016 over plunging incomes, Uber relented and made a rare concession: It agreed to recognize a local driver group. The group, the Independent Drivers Guild, was not quite a union, but it would meet regularly with Uber management and advocate for drivers .

Rep. Nunes: If DOJ Does Not Turn Over Documents by Monday -…

Rep. Nunes: If DOJ Does Not Turn Over Documents by Monday - They Will Have 'Hell to Pay' by Wednesday Rep. Devin Nunes the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Father's Day. Rep. Nunes told Maria the Department of Justice leadership has until Monday to turn over the subpoenaed documents or they will have "hell to pay."

Trump: Madman, threat, terrorist, traitor

Peevish little spoiled brat Donald Trump is complaining that he's not getting enough credit for his stage, reality-show styled summit that wasn't with North Korean Kim Jong Un. Even his Republican lockstep followers offer - at best - lukewarm thoughts while Democrats, America's shrinking number of allies around the world and the media at large call it vague and lacking of details and clear objectives.

Schiff: White House using migrant kids’ grief and tears to build border wall

Adam Bennett Schiff Sunday Shows preview: Lawmakers, Trump allies discuss Russia probe, migrant family separation Giuliani: Mueller probe 'might get cleaned up' with presidential pardons Top Dems: IG report shows Comey's actions helped Trump win election MORE said on Sunday that the Trump administration is using the "grief, the tears, the pain" of immigrant kids as "mortar" to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "What the administration is doing, they're using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build their wall," Schiff said on "Meet the Press."

Transcript: Reps. Scalise and Richmond on “Face the Nation”

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise played in the annual congressional baseball game this week, one year after he was nearly killed by a gunman while practicing for last year's game. Scalise and Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond met while both served in the Louisiana legislature.

Congress tackles mounting opioid epidemic

House Republicans are beefing up their efforts to tackle the nation's deadly opioid crisis, but some experts question how effective their piecemeal approach will be. Congress is touting its recent flurry of action - the House is on track to pass more than 50 bills addressing the issue by the end of this week - on an issue that is hitting many constituents hard, and one that lawmakers are sure to hear about on the campaign trail this year.

Giuliani Melts Down Defending Trump Lies: ‘Lying Breaks One Of The Commandments — I Think’

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani dismissed President Donald Trump's misstatements and untruths on Sunday, but he admitted that lying breaks one of the Bible's Ten Commandments. During an interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper noted that Trump had lied about his role in crafting a statement to deny that his son met with a Russian lawyer to get "dirt" on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.

Giuliani Says Mueller Probe Should Be Investigated

President Donald Trump's attorney said Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election should itself be the subject of a Justice Department examination. "We want the Mueller probe to be investigated the way the Trump administration has been investigated, and we'd like to see a report with the conclusions," Rudy Giuliani said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

Comey made was the same error everyone made – assuming he knew…

Registration will allow you to post comments on StamfordAdvocate.com and create a StamfordAdvocate.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. For former Clinton campaign staff like me, the Justice Department Inspector General's report on the Clinton email investigation is an experience of frustrating vindication and mouth-dropping irony.

Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign

One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone - the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump - slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent. The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton , Trump 's presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election, according to Stone, who spoke about the previously unreported incident in interviews with The Washington Post.