Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
A day after President Trump defended the "very fine people" at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville last weekend, the 41st and 43rd presidents of the United States put out a joint statement calling on all Americans to "reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and racism in all forms." Like many Republicans making similar condemnations this week, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush failed to mentioned Trump, the man who necessitated the statement.
In 2001, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott got a dozen Democrats to vote for tax cuts sought by President George W. Bush. Now, for the tax plan backed by President Trump, the most Democratic votes Sen. Mitch McConnell could hope for is three.
President Donald Trump's declaration on the opioid crisis marks the 29th concurrent active national emergency in America -- a state in which the United States has existed for nearly four decades straight. "The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I am saying, officially, right now, it is an emergency.
Congress may have left town for August, but Virginia's governor's race is heating back up as both major-party candidates hit the TV airwaves with ads. Republican Ed Gillespie was first up, beginning a series of three spots on July 25. His Democratic rival, Lt.
President Donald Trump would like to interrupt his vacation to deliver the following message: Don't call this a vacation. The president has decamped from Washington to his private golf club in central New Jersey.
While most attention has been focused on the Russia elements of the bipartisan sanctions bill signed by President Trump on Wednesday, the legislation also for the first time targets Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for its support for terrorism. In recent weeks Iranian officials have warned that naming the IRGC a terror-sponsoring group could lead to violence, with armed forces chief Maj.
Five Democrats cast their ballots Tuesday afternoon opposing the confirmation of Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the country's top investigative agency. The vote was 92-5.
In 1619, in Jamestown, Va., the first elected legislative assembly in the New World -- the House of Burgesses -- convened in the choir loft of the town's church. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law , dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted the seeds of compassion."
This Aug. 24, 1992 file photo shows President Bush, right, and first lady Barbara Bush walking with their dog Millie across the South Lawn as they return to the White House. The job of first pet - an enviable White House gig with luxurious live-in privileges, after-hours access to the president and guaranteed positive press coverage - is not currently available.
By just about any measure, the Transportation Security Administration has been a failure. A recent undercover test provides even further evidence of this, as if any were needed.
Anthony Scaramucci, incoming White House communications director, takes a question from the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Friday, July 21, 2017. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption Anthony Scaramucci, incoming White House communications director, takes a question from the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Friday, July 21, 2017.
He wants to see the Houston Astros play in the World Series, which is possible this year. He wants to see the Houston Texans in the Super Bowl, perhaps a few years off.
He won't be behind a podium at the White House, but it's unlikely Sean Spicer will disappear from television. Spicer quit as White House press secretary Friday, ushered out with the wish that "I hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money" from Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump's new communications director.
President Donald Trump has drawn a new red line for President Bashar Assad of Syria, with U.S. officials describing preparations at a Syrian air base for a chemical weapons assault as they sought Tuesday to bolster Trump's threat to deter an attack. But the administration elaborated little on the president's unexpected, 87-word statement a night earlier that warned that Assad would "pay a heavy price" if he again releases toxic gas on rebel-held territory, leaving lingering questions in Washington and in the Middle East about Trump's intentions in Syria.
The Trump presidency appears to have sparked an unprecedented political polarization in consumer confidence, which is often viewed as a leading indicator for the economy's performance. While Democrats and Republicans have similar beliefs about how the economy is performing at the moment, they are now hugely divided over how it will perform in the future, research shows.
This Sept, 6, 1978 photo provided by the White House shows the principals in the Middle East Summit, from left, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, meeting for the first time at Camp David, Md.
Prominent conservatives including former Speaker Newt Gingrich fired off salvos at special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday, insisting that the man leading the probe into allegations of links between the Trump campaign and Russia is out to damage the president. But the wave of criticism sparked other Republicans to warn that any concerted push against the special counsel could be politically disastrous for the White House.
Republican Presidential candidate George Bush looks at his wife Barbara November 1, 1978 in Hoston, TX. Bush is campaigning for the presidential primary elections.