Hailee Steinfeld Apparently Likes To Box – Check Out Her Outfit In The Gym
Steinfeld posted a video of herself in the gym late Tuesday night hitting a speed bag, and it's pretty impressive. ( I'm not even going to try to lie here.
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Justifying Surveillance of Carter Page Would Have Been Pretty Easy
The FBI needed probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power, a standard that is not hard to meet. The controversy over FBI surveillance of Carter Page, who advised Donald Trump on foreign policy during his presidential campaign, tends to obscure how easy it is to get permission for a wiretap of a suspected foreign agent.
More Russian sanctions to come, Mnuchin says
New U.S. sanctions will follow the publication of a list of Russian billionaires and top Russian officials, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday. Mnuchin said the "oligarchs list" wasn't delayed by President Donald Trump's administration, after it was published late Monday, just as a congressionally mandated deadline was set to expire.
Ginsburg voices judiciary partisan fears, skips Trump speech
One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday. Ginsburg skipped President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, instead speaking at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island.
Other side pushes Democratic vision
In this July 26, 2017, file photo, Rep. Joe Kennedy , D-Mass., smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington. WASHINGTON -- Soaring stock prices under President Donald Trump have boosted investor portfolios and corporate profits but have not eased the economic anxieties of middle-class families, Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III said Tuesday night in the Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union address.
State’s GOP delegation gives high marks to speech
President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address got rave reviews from members of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation. The state's two U.S. senators and four U.S. representatives, who have praised Trump's first year in the White House, said Tuesday's speech struck the right tone.
These are the words Trump needed to say – but did not
President Donald Trump gave one of the longest State of the Union addresses in US history, and the teleprompter scrolled through themes and tropes that ring familiar to those who watch these speeches. We heard the touching stories of bravery and patriotism; we heard Trump boast of his successes - keeping the bragging to a more decorous level than his usual - and make some calls for national unity, not usually heard from the current White House.
The first couple reunites on the world stage
Melania Trump, whose appearances often generate public interest, strode into the Capitol Tuesday night with the public eager to read into whatever signals the President might exchange with his wife during the State of the Union speech. With the exception of her unorthodox decision to abandon her husband's vehicle for the ride from the White House to the Capitol building - and instead travel there in her own motorcade with her guests, arriving almost one hour before him - Melania Trump's interaction with the President was, essentially, State of the Union status quo.
Pressed on Trump, Pruitt softens ’16 assessment
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt sought to distance himself Tuesday from his 2016 statements that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump is a bully who, if elected, would abuse the Constitution. Pruitt made the comments in February 2016 while appearing on a conservative talk radio program in Oklahoma, where he served as the state's Republican attorney general.
Empowered and Authoritarian
Donald Trump hasn't created the massive "deportation force" he promised as a candidate for president. But he has done the next best thing-boosting, bolstering, and unleashing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, giving it broad authority to act at its own discretion.
Factcheck: Donald Trump’s claims in State of the Union address
THE FACTS: They are not rising any faster than they have before. Average hourly pay rose 2.5% in 2017, slightly slower than the 2.9% recorded in 2016.
Trump calls for optimism in spite of warnings of danger
Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a "new American moment" of unity in his first State of the Union, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and warning darkly of evil forces seeking to undermine America's way of life.
President Trump Makes an Appeal for Unity in a Divided Country
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a message of unity and progress on Monday evening during his first State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress.
Swing voters: Trump speech on ‘plus side of mediocre’
WASHINGTON President Trump's first State of the Union address did little to change the hearts and minds of a group of swing voters who liked his call for more vocational education and paid family leave but rated the speech overall as not terribly convincing. President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 in Washington.
VIBERT: Trump’s white bench bodes ill for American justice
The Capitol Rotunda is seen with the statue of George Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, ahead of the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump. From the rarified air President Donald Trump breathes, the state of the American union looks just fine.
‘He’d get himself indicted!’ MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace mocks…
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace mocked NBC's chief political correspondent's suggestion that President Donald Trump should have ad-libbed his State of the Union address. Chuck Todd said the president never really connected with his material, and he said the White House should have let him improvise more during the congressional address - but other panelists laughed.
‘100 percent’: Trump caught on hot mic guaranteeing GOP…
Donald Trump on Tuesday guaranteed Rep. Jeff Duncan he'll release a controversial memo by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes . Trump's promise to Duncan contradict the official White House position on the memo, which alleges surveillance abuse by the FBI and DOJ during the 2016 presidential election.
After address, Trumps ride back to White House in same car
It's not a question that typically needs asking. But yes, the White House says, Melania Trump rode back from the Capitol in the same car as her husband, President Donald Trump, after his State of the Union speech.
Trump warns of immigration peril, touts economy in address
Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a "new American moment" of unity in his first State of the Union address, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and warning darkly of evil forces seeking to undermine America's way of life. Trump's address Tuesday night blended self-congratulation and calls for optimism amid a growing economy with ominous warnings about deadly gangs, the scourge of drugs and violent immigrants living in the United States illegally.
Dems’ response to State of Union: ‘Bullies may land a punch’ but don’t win
WASHINGTON Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III says it would be easy to dismiss the first year of Donald Trump's presidency as "chaos" marked by partisanship and politics. But Kennedy says Trump has caused serious problems for the American people, including through proposals that target Muslims, transgender people and others.