New budget barrier: Pelosi opposes pact if no ‘Dreamer’ help

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with law enforcement officials on the MS-13 street gang and border security, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, in Washington. . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., smiles as he meets with reporters as work continues on a plan to keep the government as a funding deadline approaches, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018.

Trump fires starting gun on 2018 elections

It was easy to miss amid a 1,000-point stock market plunge, but President Donald Trump just launched his 2018 midterm election campaign. For once, Trump was doing what presidents normally do Monday, traveling to an electoral bellwether state, Ohio, to drum home themes of an economic renaissance laid out in his State of the Union address last week.

‘Trump Finding Ways To Kill Iran Deal’: Iran Foreign Minister

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late on Monday that US President Donald Trump is very dissatisfied with the JCPOA and is attempting to find ways to kill the deal. In a televised speech themed ?Iran's Regional and International Relations', he added: "The US is trying to distort realities but the JCPOA is part of the UN resolution 2231."

Comedians needle ‘non-braggadocious’ Trump as he touts economy while stocks plummet

President Donald Trump smiles during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2018. President Donald Trump opened himself up to scrutiny on Monday as he boasted about the booming economy, tying its growth to legislation that he signed into law, while the U.S. stock market took a record-breaking dive at the same time.

James Comey: Connecting the Dots

If Rep. Trey Gowdy, R- S.C., really believes the House Intelligence Committee's FISA memo does not vindicate President Trump, then he must also believe it does not answer the question of when Donald Trump stopped beating Melania. Gowdy made that claim , among others, in a series of tweets on Friday and in a "Face the Nation" interview on Sunday: Rep. Trey Gowdy said the release of the controversial FISA memo by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee does not discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

House Republicans working on averting another shutdown

House Republican leaders have come out with a plan to keep the government open for six more weeks while Washington grapples with a potential follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, immigration legislation. GOP leaders announced they would seek to pass the stopgap spending bill by marrying it with a full-year, $659 billion Pentagon spending bill that's a top priority of the party's legion of defense hawks.

Gaharu worth millions of ringgit seized, seven held

Kota Kinabalu: Forestry officials arrested seven people - a Cambodian and six illegal immigrants - for possession of protected gaharu wood worth millions of ringgit at a house in Keningau on Feb 2. Sabah Conservation Chief Datuk Sam Mannan said in a statement, Monday, that the seven were believed to have obtained the gaharu from protected forests, including parts of the Maliau Basin. "It is believed that the gaharu is worth millions of ringgit," he said, adding that the raid was made after a month-long surveillance.

Happy Talk On The Economy

In 2016, conservative commentators told us that Trump was doing well because the economy was performing so poorly, especially for average Americans. Trump said the same thing, using terms like "American carnage" in his inaugural address.

Garda Operation Ketch mounted to coincide with safe internet day #beincntrl

Garda Operation Ketch targeting child exploitation material coincides with Safer Internet Day when a new secondary schools programme will be launched to raise awareness of safe online behaviour. Sochna will, in conjunction with Webwise , be launching the 'Be In Ctrl' Secondary Schools Programme which aims to inform students of Online Exploitation, raise awareness of safe online behaviour and empower young people to seek help and report incidents to the Garda.

A House-vs.-Senate GOP Split on Intel Memo

The clearest sign that the House Republican memo criticizing the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide won't be a blow to special prosecutor Robert Mueller is the reaction of Republicans in the Senate. While President Trump claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him, no Republican senator has since come forward and joined him in that view.

Declassify? House Dems vote to air their Russia-probe memo

The House intelligence committee's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election spun further into charges and counter-charges among angry U.S. lawmakers and President Donald Trump Monday as the panel voted to release a second classified memo about whether the FBI and Justice Department conspired against him. This memo was written by Democrats on the panel who are pushing back against a GOP document, declassified by Trump last week, that criticizes the methods the FBI used to obtain a surveillance warrant on a onetime Trump campaign associate.

Preemptive North Korea Strike Is a – Gamble’ Not to Take, Hagel Says

Hitting North Korea with U.S. military strikes to dismantle or disrupt Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons capabilities is a "pretty big gamble I wouldn't want to take" because of the millions of lives at risk from the likely response, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. "I know something about this business, and I know the kind of conventional capability North Korea has," Hagel, a former Republican senator who led the Pentagon under President Barack Obama, said in an interview published Monday by Defense News.

Victorville prison staffing cuts put guards, public in jeopardy, union leader says

About 120 vacant jobs at the federal prisons in Victorville are expected to be lost in 2018 as the government cuts staffing nationwide. The head of the union that represents employees at the federal prison in Victorville said he plans to carry to Washington next week his concerns that nationwide staffing cuts will endanger the safety of guards, inmates and the public.

California legislative staff get whistleblower protections

Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, right, and Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, left, meet with reporters after the Assembly approved their bill to provide whistleblower protection for legislative staff members, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. If signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, the bill, AB403, will take effect immediately.