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President Donald Trump on Friday defended a staffer who resigned in the wake of spousal abuse allegations as he signed into law a bill raising spending by over $300 billion over two years. To reporters at a White House event, Trump defended former staff secretary Rob Porter.
The 240-186 vote came in the pre-dawn hours, putting to bed a five-and-a-half hour federal freeze that relatively few would notice. The 240-186 vote came in the pre-dawn hours, putting to bed a five-and-a-half hour federal freeze that relatively few would notice.
Congress had weeks to pass another budget deal to keep the federal government open. Last night, Kentucky's junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, prolonged that process another few hours, filibustering the last-minute compromise over his complaints about increasing the federal deficit.
President Donald Trump offered his first comments on his former staff secretary Rob Porter who resigned Wednesday after allegations of abuse by two of his former ex-wives. "It was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he is also very sad.
Diane and John Foley , the parents of US journalist James Foley, deliver a speech translated by Radio France reporter Claude Guibal in the war reporters' memorial before the unveiling of a stone in honor of the war reporters killed in 2014, on October 9, 2014 in Bayeux, northwestern France, during the annual Bayeux-Calvados war journalism award week. The prizes were created in 1994 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Allied landing.
Oklahoma's attorney general says he was not asked by a convicted soldier or his family to support the soldier's request for a presidential pardon. An Indiana-born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance, will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could block... An Indiana-born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance, will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could block construction of a border wall with Mexico.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel tried to mock a court ruling protecting the free speech rights of bakers but instead only revealed that he has no idea what he's talking about. A California judge ruled on Monday that the state can't force Tastries Bakery owner Cathy Miller to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding.
Facebook is testing a new feature in which users can "downvote" certain comments made on posts, thus triaging the ones communally deemed most worthy of more public attention. The experiment, one of many for the social media company turned tech conglomerate, was spotted and publicized by multiple Twitter users, including tech writer Taylor Lorenz.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Friday that the state will be pursuing legal action against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for land losses he claims the Corps is directly responsible for causing. The lawsuit will focus on the land lost along the Intracoastal Waterway.
Details of Jimmy Garoppolo's new contract with San Francisco 49ers have become public, and it's not as bad as people initially painted it to be. Garoppolo's total deal is worth $137.5 million, but only $50 million appears to be fully guaranteed, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
A Christian university is sponsoring a pro-abortion event with Planned Parenthood where students come together to boast about their abortion tales and share stories about why getting an abortion was a great idea. Pacific Lutheran University , a Christian university in Tacoma, Wash., will host and event called "Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign."
Italian police in Pavia, Italy clashed with "anti-fascist" protestors attempting to disrupt a right-wing memorial service dedictated to Italians killed by communist partisans Wednesday, Ruptly reports. The service was dedicated to the victims of the Foibe massacres, mass killings perpretated by communist-backed, anti-Axis Yugoslav partisans against the local Italian population.
No company has applied to mine within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument since President Donald Trump's cut to national monuments went into effect, The Washington Examiner reported Thursday. Trump announced he was rolling back Utah's Bears Ears by about 85 percent in December.
The Trump administration is backing a set of actions aimed at lowering prescription-drug costs, including a cap on the dollar amount that American seniors pay each year for expensive prescription drugs.
Lawmakers pushed to enact a massive budget deal Thursday along with a stopgap temporary measure to prevent a government shutdown at midnight. Lawmakers pushed to enact a massive budget deal Thursday along with a stopgap temporary measure to prevent a government shutdown at midnight.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending and swells the federal deficit, ending a brief federal government shutdown that happened while most Americans were home in bed and most government offices were closed, anyway. The House and Senate approved a bill to keep the government funded through March 23, overcoming opposition from liberal Democrats as well as tea party conservatives to endorse enormous spending increases despite looming trillion-dollar deficits.
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia is demanding that a secret memo that describes President Trump's interpretation of his legal authority to declare war be released, according to a report. Kaine, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a letter late Thursday to release the seven-page document, NBC News reported .
A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama said this week it plans to invest millions of dollars in state-level elections in 11 states this year, with its heaviest focus on Ohio. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, said this year's election cycle is critical to affecting the congressional redistricting process.