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President Trump will reportedly support a pathway to citizenship for the 1.8 million young immigrants who were eligible for Obama-era protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as part of a broader immigration deal. Trump's offer, which top policy adviser Stephen Miller pitched to House Republicans on Thursday, would offer a path to citizenship for far more than the 690,000 current DACA beneficiaries who the White House said one day earlier would be the focus of an agreement.
Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who lost his Senate bid in December, is asking his supporters to help him pay the legal bills related to a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused Moore of pursuing sexual relations with her when she was 14. Moore's campaign sent a fundraising email to his backers Thursday, asking them to help him raise $250,000 for his legal defense fund. The conservative judge is currently being sued by Leigh Corfman, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore earlier this month.
Vice chairperson for the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament, Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong, has condemned the National Democratic Congress for granting refugee status to two former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought into the country in 2016 without informing Parliament. The Member of Parliament for Asante Mampong who was speaking on the Morning Xpress Thursday morning expressed disappointment in the matter and said the previous government could have added those details to their handing over notes before leaving office.
"It is clear that the United States can - and should - do more to increase international pressure against Maduro and his cronies," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., wrote in a letter to President Trump. President Trump needs to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime, according to a pair of senators worried about drug trafficking and terrorism in the troubled country.
In the opening scene of his final act on California's most prestigious political stage, Gov. Jerry Brown used much of his last State of the State address to remind everyone, in California and across the nation, of what's been accomplished in recent years. "Very few places in the world can match that record," he said Thursday to an audience of state lawmakers and guests gathered in the Assembly chamber of the state Capitol.
The Trump administration is following through on its promise to use more private contract prisons, with the Justice Department seeking to identify inmates to transfer out of government-owned facilities and to cut federal guard positions. The Bureau of Prisons has the stated goal of "increasing population levels in private contract facilities," according to a memorandum sent by the agency's Assistant Director for Correctional Programs Division Frank Lara on Wednesday and obtained by Government Executive .
President Trump will back a path to citizenship for DACA recipients and Dreamers who were eligible for the program but didn't apply if he gets $25 billion for the border wall, an end to chain migration and ending the visa lottery system, a new report said Thursday. The disclosure came during a conference call between Trump aide Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner who along with Chief of Staff John Kelly drafted the plan, and House Republican staffers that NBC News listened in on, the network reported .
The Government Accountability Office announced Thursday that it is adding the federal government's security clearance process to its High Risk List of federal programs that require broad transformation or specific reforms. The National Background Investigations Bureau, which is responsible for the process, has struggled to deal with the volume of applications for security clearances, required for many government jobs.
Wait, back up a minute. We just zoomed past a story that would have been a five-alarm scandal for any other administration, with weeks of screaming front-page headlines: “The President and the Porn Star.” The Wall Street Journal had the scoop on Jan. 12: “A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.” The porn star in question is a woman named Stormy Daniels.
Since news of President Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels broke , here's what we know of Melania's reaction: nothing. Yes, she cancelled her trip to Davos at the last minute, citing immovable conflicts in her famously light schedule.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has overseen what is said to be the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Risking death by sea or on foot, more than half a million have fled persecution in northern Rakhine state since August 2017.
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions was called in for an interview last week with the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, he turned to a friend and fellow Alabama lawyer to accompany him. The lawyer, Chuck Cooper, worked in the Reagan Justice Department and is well-known in conservative circles for his private-practice work on social causes, such as defending a California law that banned same-sex marriage.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is finishing its investigation into the meeting between Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign in June 2016 - and the committee chairman wants to release transcripts from closed-door interviews with Trump's son and others. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says he wants to work out an agreement with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California to release transcripts from interviews with Donald Trump Jr. and others who attended the campaign meeting in Trump Tower.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he wants to release the transcript of the committee's closed-door interview with Donald Trump Jr., joining Democrats on the committee who have pressed to make it public. Grassley said he will now move to release all of the panel's interviews involving the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Trump Jr., the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
The day your editor had another meltdown in his latest anti-Sheriff Robert Spoden rant, people in a local diner took notice. What started as a discussion amongst a table of regulars soon spread to other tables.
Here in Amerika, things are getting worse - not better - as the nation inches ever closer towards totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and "we the people" have none. On Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, immigration agents boarded a Greyhound bus heading to downtown Miami from Orlando and demanded that all passengers provide proof of residence or citizenship.
Oprah Winfrey listens in the East Room of the White House during a November 2013 ceremony where President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom. Oprah Winfrey listens in the East Room of the White House during a November 2013 ceremony where President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says Ethics Commission administrator Brian Bell may not seek re-appointment to his post. The Senate voted against confirming Bell on Tuesday.
On January 22, the Senate quickly and easily confirmed Jerome "Jay" Powell as the 16th head of the Federal Reserve. Unlike many of President Trump's picks for top jobs in Washington, Powell comes with very little controversy.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin endorsed the dollar's decline as a benefit to the American economy and it has had a mixed response from the crowd at Davos. (Source: Bloomberg)