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President Trump once again took up his criticism of the FBI's second-in-command, Andrew McCabe, Sunday morning after spending much of the previous day questioning McCabe's position in the bureau. Apparently quoting a segment from Fox News, the president alleged McCabe used his FBI email to promote his wife's campaign for the Virginia state Senate.
There appears to be consensus among Democrats and Republicans in the Iowa Legislature that there are problems with the state's privatized Medicaid program, but there is less agreement over what, if anything, legislators should do about it when they return to the Capitol in a few weeks. Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse are expected to address a range of topics when they gather in January, including taxes and water quality.
President Donald Trump again questioned the impartiality of the deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, who is planning to retire from the bureau in the months ahead after being buffeted by attacks over alleged anti-Trump bias in the agency.
One of her counterparts in California dismisses estimates of tax savings for most U.S. households and says the legislation is "just putting money in the pocket of the wealthy." And in Kansas, a Democratic candidate for governor says it's "a recipe for disaster" that previews inevitable cuts to popular programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed a GOP tax bill that rewards profitable corporations and wealthy families while putting middle-class and low-income families across the country at risk. All but one of New Jersey's 14 members of Congress -- including four of the state's five Republican House members -- voted against the bill.
Voters' views of President Donald Trump's performance should spell trouble for his party in the midterm elections, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union." "What we're seeing in Alabama, what we're seeing in Virginia, New Jersey and in states all across this country, are large voter turnouts, are people standing up and fighting back and demanding that we have a government that represents all of us, not just the 1 percent," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday.
President Trump finishes out the year at Mar-a-Lago, tax reform accomplished - President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, "You all just got a lot richer," referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier. Facing Republican attacks, FBI's deputy director plans to retire early next year Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
Authorities said Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, was shot and killed by police Friday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after he fired several times at law enforcement officers throughout the city. The string of shootings began just steps from the state's Capitol building when El-Mofty fired several times at a Capitol Police officer and then, shot and injured at a state trooper.
Out of every 1,000 Americans who die, only two pay the federal estate tax, which brought in $18 billion, or less than 1 percent of U.S. tax revenue, in 2016. It's remarkable, then, that such a minor tax has become a major partisan battleground.
The US Navy's research vessel Atlantis deploys the cable-controlled Undersea Recovery Vehicle off the coast of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, as part of the search for the missing San Juan submarine AFP/HO BUENOS AIRES: A sonar search for the Argentine submarine that disappeared on Nov 15 with 44 crew members on board has made a new contact in the South Atlantic, according to the navy. It will be investigated by the remotely-operated Russian Panther Plus submarine, while the US oceanographic research vessel Atlantis continues exploring the search area, the navy announced Saturday.
Russian submarines have dramatically stepped up activity around undersea data cables in the North Atlantic, part of a more aggressive naval posture that has driven NATO to revive a Cold War-era command, according to senior military officials. The apparent Russian focus on the cables, which provide Internet and other communications connections to North America and Europe, could give the Kremlin the power to sever or tap into vital data lines, the officials said.
Andrew McCabe, the FBI's deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits, according to people familiar with the matter. McCabe spent hours in Congress last week, facing questions behind closed doors from members of three committees.
Once Arkansas allows medical marijuana sales, veterans in the care of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs physicians can discuss the drug with their doctors, but that's it. In the federal government's eyes, marijuana is an illegal, Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning the VA won't recommend, prescribe or pay for cannabis.
As we are inundated ad nauseam with countless images of the grinning "Three White Men," in their self-congratulatory post legislative win celebrations and photo ops, let us not forget who will benefit, and who will be left behind in the wake of the GOP's, "huge tax cut." The clear winners, of course, are the 1 percent, the huge corporations, healthy young employed Americans, and Wall Street.
On the subject of clemency: Color us confused about President Trump's decision to free Brooklyn-born Sholom Rubashkin, in the pen for bank fraud after sneaking payments to undocumented immigrant workers in an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant. To quote the President's inaugural address on his credo for the country: "We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American."
When the Roman Empire took Judea in 63 BCE, it ruled through vassals. It lost Palestine briefly to the Iranians, but then came back and from 37 BCE ruled through a vassal king, Herod.
When it comes to corruption - my emphasis - the current Administration has not distinguished itself from any previous administration - Jamaica Labour Party or People's National Party - and that is where I have a distinct problem. While the bar is never lowered or heightened based on biases, our current Andrew Holness is the only prime minister who wrapped himself in the mantle of being a transformational leader.
In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times.
There's a valid argument against federal tax reform an argument that didn't apply to North Carolina's path-breaking reforms but congressional Democrats and their ideological allies are spending most of their time repeating misleading talking points about the bill. Will the legislation raise the federal tax burden on most Americans in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy? With regard to the final deal, the Left's standard allegation is valid only for some non-wealthy Americans, only in the very long run almost all Americans clearly pay less for the next few years and only if one assumes that tax breaks slated to expire in 2025 won't be extended.