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The stock market's performance in 2017 has been a surprise to almost everyone. Even those who thought that a Trump presidency would "drain the swamp" and unlock the gridlock have to be surprised at the market's strong performance as the swamp has not been drained and gridlock remains.
Former US attorney Preet Bharara said Sunday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein might have a conflict of interest over special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Speaking with Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, Bharara called it "odd and unusual" that Rosenstein could serve as a witness in the investigation while also while overseeing it, adding, "It would seem that there's a conflict."
Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser and son-in-law of President Donald Trump, has occasionally used a private email account for correspondence with fellow administration officials, his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, confirmed to CNN on Sunday. "Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business," Lowell said in a statement.
Trump says NFL national anthem criticism has 'nothing to do with race' and the league 'should change policy' - as he pointedly meets Marine One Pilot's family on his way back to Washington Sudanese bodybuilder gunman bursts into Tennessee church, killing one woman and wounding six others before being taken down by hero armed usher Jared Kushner 'has been conducting White House business through a secret email account' - setting it up months after Hillary Clinton was slammed for using a private server Eight-year-old boy is 'beaten to death with a hammer by his mom's ex as he tries to stop him sexually assaulting his younger sister' Anthony Weiner to be sentenced tomorrow for sexting a 15-year-girl and persuading her to get naked for him on Skype as prosecutors urge the judge to jail him for more than two years Son who 'killed his mother, grandparents and their caretaker with a baseball bat ... (more)
Senators James Lankford and Thom Tillis will hold a press conference Monday to announce the introduction of merit-based legislation that addresses the uncertain legal status of undocumented children. On September 5, the President ended the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals Executive Order program with a six-month delay, and called on "Congress to finally act."
The U.S. House on Monday is set to vote on a package of tax relief provisions designed to help people who have suffered losses from damage associated with hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, also making it easier for others to donate money to charities to help with disaster aid. "My bill specifically helps hurricane victims keep more of their paycheck, deduct more of the cost of their expensive property damage, and have more affordable and immediate access to money they have saved for their retirement," said Rep. Kevin Brady , who heads the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
This is a summary of a few items in the Idaho Weekly Briefing for July 17. Interested in subscribing? Send us a note at stapilus@ridenbaugh.com . Idaho picked up a large-scale wheat deal with China this week, as good economic news generally continued to roll.
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'Trump figures it bolsters his popularity with white Christians, his key demographic, if he is seen to be feuding with black athletes of the NBA and NFL, and if he is seen threatening genocide against North Korea.' Trump's dreary tweetstorm on Saturday was intended to gain him popularity with white supremacists and the covert racists on the right of the Republican Party, through beating up on uppity black athletes and impudent yellow peril Orientals.
Just a day after giving a major foreign policy speech in Wisconsin, Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a speech on Medicare for All at the annual convention for the CNA/NNOC in San Francisco. There's a lot of tsuris all over the place over the fact that Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar will be putting on a show-pony debate next week on CNN with the Clueless Twins, Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, on the subject of healthcare.
When Barack Obama was president, congressional Republicans were deficit hawks. They opposed almost everything Obama wanted to do by arguing it would increase the federal budget deficit.
President Donald Trump met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington in March. WASHINGTON - On the campaign trail last year, then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought the support of black voters by asking them, ''What the hell do you have to lose?'' ''We are losing essential freedoms,'' said Brittany Packnett, who became an advocate for criminal justice reform after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
Former Vice President and everyone's favorite creepy Uncle Joe Biden decided to take a shot at the President on Saturday night while speaking to the NAACP in Charleston, South Carolina. He discussed Trump's response to the Charlottesville riots, and why Trump was wrong for condemning violence on "many sides."
With the potential loss of more than a billion dollars in local aid at stake, legislative leaders and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy this week face their biggest deadline yet to finally reach a compromise budget deal for the fiscal year that began July 1. If they fail to vote on a compromise that can clear the House and Senate, then get Malloy's signature by Oct. 1, dozens of the state's wealthier towns will fall victim to a bare-bones executive order from the governor and will miss out on the first of a scheduled four payments for local schools.
The 17th century painting of George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham, was believed to have been a copy of the lost original. However, after conservation work carried out for the BBC series Britain's Lost Masterpieces, it has been reassessed and confirmed to be an authentic work by Rubens, who lived from 1577 to 1640.
A proposal by U.S. Republicans to repeal and replace the Obamacare health insurance program suffered serious new setbacks within the party on Sunday, when Senator Ted Cruz expressed his opposition and Senator Susan Collins dug in with strong criticisms of the legislation.
The Winnebago Tribe is hoping to reclaim land in Iowa that was once part of its reservation in northeast Nebraska , but local hunters are concerned they might lose access. The Sioux City Journal reports the 1,643 acres of land is owned by the federal government and attracts hundreds of hunters each year.
The nation's doctors, hospitals and health insurance plans are unified in their opposition to the latest Republican bill to dismantle Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. In a joint statement on Saturday, major groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, America's Health Insurance Plans and the BlueCross BlueShield Association called on the Senate to reject the bill sponsored by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy.