Meet Christopher Wray, Trump’s supposed nominee for FBI director

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will nominate former Department of Justice official Christopher A. Wray to take over as FBI director. Wray, who attended Yale University for undergraduate and law school, was nominated by former President George W. Bush to be the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

Corey Stewart, seen at a campaign rally in Virginia Beach, Va., is…

The front-runner in Virginia's Republican gubernatorial primary this year, Ed Gillespie, is campaigning on what traditionally would be considered an impressive political resume: former Republican National Committee Chairman, presidential adviser, lobbyist, and, in 2014, unsuccessful Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. In one campaign ad , Gillespie is seen alongside former President George W. Bush, and promises voters, "I know firsthand how the system works."

Cities push back as Trump aims to cut anti-terrorism funding

Cities are pushing back on the possibility of losing millions of dollars in U.S. anti-terrorism grants under President Donald Trump's spending plan - the third straight White House that has moved to cut the funding. The proposed budget would cut cash for the program from $605 million to nearly $449 million for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 and require cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas to pay 25 percent of the grants.

Stay the Course With Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran's president in a landslide, meaning that it is he who will be dealing with an antagonistic US President Donald Trump. What will their relationship mean for the 2015 international agreement that has, for now, frozen Iran's nuclear ambitions? The Iranian nuclear deal was the culmination of a decades-long pas de deux between the United States and post-revolutionary Iran - a push and pull, in which every step forward was seemingly followed by a step back.

Silicon Valley is ‘officially a retirement community for D.C. political vets’

A graying man - once the baby-faced press wrangler for Sen. Barack Obama's nascent presidential campaign - nursed an absinthe cocktail as he mingled near a former spokesman for President George W. Bush's 2004 reelection bid. Nearby, one of Sen. John McCain's most aggressive public advocates in his 2008 presidential campaign huddled with a man who spent the last several years as former President Bill Clinton's liaison with the public.

Protections for 27 National Monuments may be Curtailed, Cut

Twenty-seven national monuments, mostly in the West, face the curtailing or elimination of protections put in place over the past two decades by presidents from both parties, the Interior Department said. President Donald Trump ordered the review last month, saying protections imposed by his three immediate predecessors amounted to "a massive federal land grab" that "should never have happened."

Leaders cheer Great Lakes funding survival

Area activists, water-quality experts, and public officials were thrilled to learn the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative not only remained intact, but will continue to be funded at its current level of $300 million under the new federal spending plan. President Trump wanted to eliminate the program, often referred to as the GLRI.

Tom Hanks on gifting coffeemachines to White House reporters: – Those poor bastards need coffee’

Tom Hanks on gifting coffee machines to White House reporters: 'Those poor bastards need coffee' Washington Times, by Andrew Blake Tom Hanks has gifted coffee machines to the White House press corps three times since President George W. Bush took office, and the Academy Award-winning actor has a simple explanation why. "I've done that for Democrats and Republican administrations because those poor bastards need coffee," Mr. Hanks told television host Stephen Colbert on Friday.

Tom Hanks on gifting coffee machines to White House reporters: ‘Those poor bastards need coffee’

Tom Hanks has gifted coffee machines to the White House press corps three times since President George W. Bush took office, and the Academy Award-winning actor has a simple explanation why. "I've done that for Democrats and Republican administrations because those poor bastards need coffee," Mr. Hanks told television host Stephen Colbert on Friday.

Then Labor secretary-designate Alexander Acosta testifies

Acosta has been a federal prosecutor, a civil rights chief at the Justice Department and a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Senate confirms Alex Acosta as Trump's secretary of Labor Acosta has been a federal prosecutor, a civil rights chief at the Justice Department and a member of the National Labor Relations Board.

24 national monuments threatened by Trump’s executive order

Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: http://usat.ly/2q66Shx Sandstone formations rise from the Valley of the Gods under a full moon in the Bear Ears National Monument near Mexican Hat, Utah, Nov. 15, 2016. WASHINGTON - At least two dozen national monuments are at risk of losing their federally protected status as a result of President Trump's executive order asking for an unprecedented review of their designations.

Prepaid Card Users in Every State Could Lose Protections

About 23 million Americans and 1 in 10 households use prepaid debit cards, and more than $270 billion in payments was made on them in 2015-yet this Congress may choose to gut protections for them. Under the Congressional Review Act , or CRA, Congress has the power to veto new regulations finalized by government agencies.

Charity keeps America free

President Donald Trump's senior advisers, deep in the weeds of tax reform, are reportedly looking at ways to save the middle class by placing more financial responsibilities on the shoulders of the wealthy - and part of the plan being discussed is to limit the level of deductions charitable organizations can take. If we want a country where the government is subservient to the people - where the free market leads and the federal, state and local public sector classes follow - then charity is key.