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Senator Lindsey Graham has struck out at President Donald Trump over his alleged remarks describing several nations as "shithole countries."
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Tsongas: Puerto Rico needs ‘robust federal partner’
Four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the devastation and difficulty recovering is still apparent across the island, something that U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas and other members of the congressional delegation from Massachusetts saw firsthand during a visit last week. Officials toured a community health center and a children's hospital, observed damage from a helicopter and met with leaders of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was criticized for an initially slow response, as they work to help the island rebuild.
Ex-Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon meets with House panel on Russia
FILE PHOTO: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a campaign event for Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Judge Roy Moore in Fairhope, Alabama, U.S., December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/File Photo President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday with a U.S. House of Representatives committee that is probing whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
The time has come to privatize JFK Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport is always a step behind the curve. By the time its terminals opened to the public in 1948, they were already too small and out of date.
‘The president is a child’: MSNBC’s Joe and Mika rip…
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski urged Democrats to stop negotiating with President Donald Trump, and force Republicans to own their mistakes. The president headed back to Washington, D.C., from his Florida resort Mar-A-Lago with an immigration deal that's "probably dead," according to Trump, and a government shutdown looming unless Republicans can agree on funding.
‘This is like Spinal Tap’: CNN panel ridicules Trump…
A CNN panel reacted with smirks and laughter on Tuesday morning over a report that President Donald Trump loves House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy because he makes sure that Trump is supplied with favorite red and strawberry Starburst candies - which are the only ones he will eat. According to a Washington Post report, McCarthy learned about Trump's love of Starburst last fall when he was alone with the president in his suite aboard Air Force One, stating, "We're there, having a little dessert, and he offers me some.
MAFS Davina Rankin says online fame impacts relationships
REVEALED: Starving children begged police for food when they were found chained to their beds after brave sister escaped and called cops who arrested their reclusive, bankrupt parents 'It was odd at that time of night': Housewife reveals bizarre encounter with thin, pale children just weeks before police found them shackled to their beds Three-year-old girl dies after being mauled by her pitbull called Remington just five days after her father bought the dog from a friend REVEALED: Ivy League student, 19, 'killed by a former classmate' had been stabbed more than 20 times before his body was found buried in a shallow grave 'The poverty of an aspiring immigrant's nation is as irrelevant as their race': Mitt Romney's thinly-veiled MLK Day swipe at Trump over his 's***hole countries' scandal Sundance Film Festival creates a new code of conduct amid Hollywood's sexual assault scandal as ... (more)
Lawsuit: VA doctors left scalpel in Army veteran’s body 4 years after surgery
A U.S. Army veteran from Connecticut has filed a lawsuit against the Veterans Administration for leaving a scalpel in his abdomen for four years after he had surgery in 2013. Glenford Turner, 61, had been complaining about abdominal pain ever since he underwent a radical prostatectomy four years ago.
Trump accuses Democrat of undermining trust on immigration
Trump spent the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. . Haitian community members protest near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Nature boosts your mental health, and you don’t even have to leave the city to reap the benefits
President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Senator Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker... Good news, urbanites! New research suggests that you don't have to leave the city to reap some of the benefits of being in nature.
13 Children Hospitalized, Parents Jailed on Torture Charges
U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch - Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijing's interests, people familiar with the matter say - WASHINGTON - U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son US officials warned Kushner about friendship with Wendi Deng Murdoch: report - last year that his friend, Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch, could be taking advantage of her close friendship with Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump - , to promote China's business interests, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Official shares controversial Facebook post; Mayor: comment doesn’t reflect official views
A Franklin City Council member who also is a reserve sheriff's deputy shared a post on social media this weekend that referred to s***hole countries, Democrats, votes and the United States. Joe Ault, a Republican, shared a Facebook post Friday night from a "conservative group" that said "We bring people from s***hole countries because s***hole Democrats need s***hole votes so they can turn America into a s***hole.
Trump takes on US Senator Durbin on ‘racial slur’
Washington, Jan 16 : US President Donald Trump has said he was "totally misrepresented" by those saying he used the term "s**thole" to describe African nations last week. He was responding to a claim by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin that he used "vile and racist" language during a meeting on immigration reform, BBC reported on Monday.
The real reason women crave chocolate during their period
REVEALED: Starving children begged police for food when they were found chained to their beds after brave sister escaped and called cops who arrested their reclusive, bankrupt parents 'It was odd at that time of night': Housewife reveals bizarre encounter with thin, pale children just weeks before police found them shackled to their beds Three-year-old girl dies after being mauled by her pitbull called Remington just five days after her father bought the dog from a friend REVEALED: Ivy League student, 19, 'killed by a former classmate' had been stabbed more than 20 times before his body was found buried in a shallow grave 'The poverty of an aspiring immigrant's nation is as irrelevant as their race': Mitt Romney's thinly-veiled MLK Day swipe at Trump over his 's***hole countries' scandal Sundance Film Festival creates a new code of conduct amid Hollywood's sexual assault scandal as ... (more)
AP News Guide: Big decisions await Congress on immigration
Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. FILE- This Jan. 3, 2018, file photo shows the Capitol in Washington.
The media may be digging their own ‘s-hole’
We are now in day four or five of the "s-hole" crisis. I can't wait for Day 220, like what we used to watch on Nightline during the Iran hostage crisis.
Lawmakers go back to work amid sex misconduct fallout
In this Feb. 1, 2013, file photo, Alaska Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole, responds to a reporter's question at the Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska Legislature opens a new session Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, amid lingering fallout from the resignation of former Rep. Dean Westlake, who resigned amid accusations of inappropriate behavior toward female aides.
Politics | Horowitz: Trump Turns Celebration of MLK Into Surreal Occasion
It was simply surreal to watch President Trump perfunctorily read a statement praising Martin Luther King on Friday and then leave the podium without answering the shouted questions of reporters about whether or not he is a racist--legitimate questions generated by the president's own words in a meeting about immigration the day before.
The Unequal Rules of the Anti-Trump Blame Game
In a memorable scene from the 1986 blockbuster Crocodile Dundee , Paul Hogan and his reporter girlfriend are taking a nighttime "walkabout" in Manhattan when a thug suddenly steps from the shadow and demands their money. Warned that the intruder is brandishing a knife, the cool-as-a-cucumber Dundee says, in his broad Australian accent, "That's nawt a nyfe!" Then, whipping out his own larger, sharper one, he states, " That's a nyfe!" His quip got a big laugh from the audience and the movie thug got the message.
Fake News and Toxic Media Bias Are Nothing New – Just Worse
The mainstream media's coverage of President Donald Trump is unprecedented in its lack of fairness and its constant negativity. It represents the ultimate weaponization of big reporting that's in sync with efforts by the shadow government to mobilize the national security apparatus and the other entrenched Deep State bureaucracies for the purpose of weakening and ultimately taking down the 45th president of the United States.