The face that launched a thousand policies and a thousand memes: “Uncle Joe” Biden to speak on his new cancer initiative at SXSW.
Day: March 6, 2017
Supreme Court sides with defendant claiming jury race bias
In this photo taken March 3, 2107, the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court ruled Monday, March 3, 2017, that racial bias in the jury room can be a reason for breaching the centuries-old legal principle of secrecy in jury deliberations.
Trump Signs New Order Blocking Arrivals From 6 Majority-Muslim Countries
President Trump has signed a new executive order blocking visas from being issued to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries to replace a controversial, now-suspended executive order known as the travel ban. Like the initial order signed Jan. 27, the new executive order blocks arrivals from specific majority-Muslim countries and suspends the entire refugee program for 120 days.
Mexico opens migrant defense centers at U.S. consulates
Epic death match between a giant python and a leopard with her cub as they dodge the snake’s darting bites to inflict mortal wounds on it in the Kruger National Park Trump signs new travel ban executive order that no longer targets Iraq and exempts green card holders – but it won’t take effect for 10 days The warnings signs that could mean YOUR partner is having an affair: People who have been cheated on reveal the tell-tale clues to watch out for ‘We’re not all cheaters’: Men reveal the things women get totally WRONG about them Wrong Direction! Astonishing footage shows snarling 1D star Louis Tomlinson ‘wrestling a photographer to the ground at LAX and manhandling a female fan who was fighting his girlfriend’ moments before police arrest him ‘I’m a b***h for getting hit by a celebrity?’ Woman ‘thrown to the floor’ in Louis Tomlinson airport scuffle claims she could have DIED from a … (more)
Slovenian president: Invitations for Trump to meet Putin in Slovenia still on
U.S. President Donald Trump waves to supporters as he walks the parade route with first lady Melania Trump and son Barron Trump after being sworn in at the 58th Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Slovenia’s president said Monday his invitation to host a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin still stands despite the talk of the Kremlin’s meddling in the American elections. Borut Pahor told The Associated Press that a “tradition” of first meetings between U.S. and Russian presidents in the small Alpine state shouldn’t be discarded – and Slovenia is also the U.S. first lady’s native land.
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The Trump administration has signed a new executive order that temporarily bans people from six majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. According to ABC News, the new executive order, effective next week, officially revokes and replaces the controversial order President Trump signed in late January that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked last month.
Sen. Bill Nelson Leads Gov. Rick Scott in Hypothetical 2018 Senate Race
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has a slim lead over Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott that’s if the two were to go head-to-head in a 2018 U.S. Senate matchup. A new poll from the University of North Florida suggests that Nelson has a six-point lead over Scott in a hypothetical Senate contest, according to Politico .
Daily Caller: Trump Quietly Allows Work Permit Extensions to Illegal Immigrants
Despite President Donald Trump’s assertion that undocumented foreign workers take away jobs from American citizens, the administration is extending work permits for six months for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from El Salvador who receive Temporary Protected Status , The Daily Caller reported on Monday. TPS, which is a designation for countries whose situation is considered too dangerous for its residents to return to, lasts for 18 months, but can be renewed by the secretary of Homeland Security.
Family Pushes Trump to Bring Back Ex-FBI Agent From Iran
The family of a man who went missing in Iran 10 years ago is calling on President Donald Trump to provide answers, The New York Times reports. Robert A. Levinson, private investigator, part-time CIA consultant and former FBI agent, went to Iran in March 2007 on a secret, unauthorized attempt to meet a possible informant on an island of the Iranian coast.
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President Donald Trump signed a travel ban affecting people from six majority-Muslim nations Monday, an effort to replace the original executive order that was struck down in court. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the revised travel ban Monday, not opening the floor to any questions, even though reporters asked them questions as they left.
Kremlin to Media: Keep Us Out of Trump Wiretap Claim
The Kremlin on Monday attempted to distance itself from the growing uproar over President Donald Trump’s claim that Trump Tower phones were wiretapped under the direction of President Barack Obama. “The Kremlin does not want Moscow to be associated with Washington’s internal affairs.
Democrats Resurrect McCarthyism on Trump, Russia
From newspaper opinion pieces to social media posts, the ghost of Sen. Joseph McCarthy roams the Washington, D.C. corridors and McCarthyism permeates the Democratic playbook, punctuated with the leadership’s incessant murmurings of “the Russians hacked the election.” As fallout of his investigation in the 1950s into Russian connections in the U.S., McCarthy was accused of conducting a “witch hunt” and was also indelibly linked to the Hollywood blacklist era.
US President Donald Trump signs revised immigration order
President Donald Trump signed a revised travel ban today that will temporarily halt entry to the US for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, though allowing those with current visas to travel freely. Trump directive aims to address legal issues with the original order, which caused confusion at airports, sparked protests around the country and was ultimately blocked by federal courts.
Supreme Court scraps case on transgender bathroom rights
The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court’s ruling in favor of a Virginia transgender student after the Trump administration withdrew the federal government’s guidance to public schools about the controversial bathroom policy. The justices were scheduled to hear the case later this month.
Sean Spicer hasn’t held an on-camera formal press briefing in over a week
White House Communications Director Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington on February 22, 2017. White House press secretary Sean Spicer is entering his second week largely off camera and out of the White House briefing room.
Cyberattack still idling Pennsylvania Senate Democrats
The computer network for Pennsylvania’s Senate Democrats remains shut down by what they call a “ransomware” cyberattack that’s being investigated by the FBI. Senate Democratic staff aides say Microsoft is working on the situation, although caucus officials haven’t said what, if any, ransom was demanded.
What to Know About President Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
“This is not a Muslim ban in any way shape or form,” a senior Department of Homeland Security official said Monday. “This is a temporary suspension of nationals from six countries that are either failed states at this point or state sponsors of terror.”
Poll: Majority supports special prosecutor for Russia investigation
A majority of Americans in a new poll thinks a special prosecutor should investigate the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. A CNN/ORC poll finds that 65 percent of Americans think a special prosecutor should handle the investigation and 32 percent think Congress can handle it.
Alexandra Petri:
No one can definitively state that they were in the room with him at any time. Pictures of him show a corpulent replica of Nikita Khrushchev.
Jennifer Burns:
Ayn Rand is dead. It’s been 35 years since hundreds of mourners filed by her coffin , but it has been only four months since she truly died as a force in American politics.
VStv Heard on the Street March 6
“There are a variety of issues. I mean, climate change is certainly having an impact on the fisheries.
Kathleen Parker:
Here in the long-ago Democratic stronghold of Alabama, the party is all but dead, say some of its disheartened members. Consider: Not a single statewide office is held by a Democrat; the state Legislature is dominated by Republicans with just 33 Democrats out of 105 House seats and eight of 35 Senate seats.
A Presidential Candidatea s Son Took a Piece of the Smithsonain. Herea s How the FBI Got It Back.
The FBI released a quick but curious bit of local news in June: Agents from its Art Crime Team had recovered a 141-year-old thank-you note, written by Charles Darwin, from a house in Northwest DC. The letter had been missing from the Smithsonian since 1978.
Bird flu found at commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, USDA says
A strain of bird flu has been found in a commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, the US Department of Agriculture and state government agencies said Sunday. The H7 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI, was found in a flock of 73,500 chickens in Lincoln County, in the central part of the state on the border with Alabama, the USDA said.
An angry weekend follows on heels of frustrations for Trump
President Donald Trump started his weekend in Florida in a fit of anger over his young administration getting sidetracked just days after his most successful moment in office. He returned to the White House late Sunday derailed – again.
Trump hotel is the place to be in the nationa s capital
At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel’s balcony restaurant, President Donald Trump dined on his steak – well-done, with ketchup – while chatting with British Brexit politician Nigel Farage. A few days later, major Republican donors Doug Deason and Doug Manchester, in town for the president’s address to Congress, sipped coffee at the hotel with Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
OP-ED: When waiting your turn isn’t an option
Ms. Koelling’s Feb. 27 guest perspective highlights a serious flaw in the arguments against those who support the current administration’s tough stand on immigration. Ms. Koelling chastises those who “willfully and disrespectfully ignore” the laws of our country, and deems it unfair to those immigrants who come here legally and wait their turn.
Dredging sought to combat erosion: Army Corps confirms it won’t fund…
As coastal erosion continues to threaten areas of the San Mateo County coastline with many suggesting the outer jetty at Pillar Point Harbor is exacerbating the degradation immediately south, locals have decided to take the reins after a federal agency declined to fund what some believe could be a solution – dredging the harbor. Last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its final report after a yearslong study confirming what many locals have long feared – the federal agency won’t pay to dredge the harbor.
Donald Trump will leave Iraq out of new Muslim travel ban – White House source
President Donald Trump will remove Iraq from a list of countries targeted in a US travel ban when he is expected to sign a new executive order on Monday after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts , a White House source said. The senior White House official said the new executive order would keep a 90-day ban on travel to the United States by citizens of six Muslim-majority nations – Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Donald Trump, Eric Trump, Melania Trump, Tiffany Trump, Ivanka Trump
At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel’s balcony restaurant, President Donald Trump dined on his steak – well-done, with ketchup – while chatting with British Brexit politician Nigel Farage. A few days later, major Republican donors Doug Deason and Doug Manchester, in town for the president’s address to Congress, sipped coffee at the hotel with Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
NCIS investigating posting of nude photos of female Marines
The Defense Department is investigating reports that some Marines shared naked photographs of female Marines, veterans and other women on a secret Facebook page, some of which were taken without their knowledge. The photographs were shared on the Facebook page “Marines United,” which had a membership of active-duty and retired male Marines, Navy corpsmen and British Royal Marines.
Trump presses Congress on wiretap claims
President Donald Trump turned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump’s telephones tapped during the election. Obama’s intelligence chief said no such action was ever carried out, and a U.S. official said the FBI has asked the Justice Department to dispute the allegation.
Republicans in Maine, Utah want Trump to undo monuments
Roxanne Quimby, the founder of Burt’s Bees, poses next to white pine in Portland, Maine, on March 14, 2011. Maine Gov. Paul LePage has asked Republican President Donald Trump to undo Democratic former President Barack Obama’s designation of a national monument and give back the land that was donated for it.
‘Trump to leave Iraq off new travel ban order’
Trump will remove Iraq from a list of countries targeted in a US travel ban when he is expected to sign a new executive order on Monday The official said the new executive order would keep a 90-day ban on travel to the US by citizens of six Muslim-majority nations WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump will remove Iraq from a list of countries targeted in a US travel ban when he is expected to sign a new executive order on Monday after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts, a White House source said. The senior White House official said the new executive order would keep a 90-day ban on travel to the United States by citizens of six Muslim-majority nations – Iran , Libya , Syria , Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Park service inauguration photos show Obama’s was bigger
Park service inauguration photos show Obama’s was bigger The photos support earlier photographic evidence that Trump’s inaugural crowd was much smaller than Obama’s. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2n8sLKH This pair of photos shows a view of the crowd on the National Mall at the inaugurations of then-President Obama, above, on Jan. 20, 2009, and President Donald Trump, below, on Jan. 20, 2017.
Casino industry to Congress: Uphold gambling disorders
The casino industry asked Congress on Tuesday to retain gambling disorders as a serious public health matter in any changes it makes to President Obama’s signature health care law. Industry representatives in a letter urged congressional leaders and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to recognize gambling disorders as an issue that merits inclusion in any replacement to the Affordable Care Act.
Pence fought against releasing records as governor
Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly stonewalled media requests to view public records when he was Indiana’s governor, including emails about state business distributed from a private AOL account that was hacked last year. Revelations Pence used the account to discuss homeland security and other official matters, first reported Thursday by the Indianapolis Star, are just the latest in a series of transparency battles involving the Republican’s tenure as governor.
Gorsuch willing to limit environmental groups
In this Monday, April 23, 2007 file photo, Cottonwood Canyon, center, branches off in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument east of Boulder, Utah. In 2011, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch showed his distaste for drawn-out litigation when he sided with a majority of other judges who found The Wilderness Society lacked standing in a lawsuit related to off-road vehicles on federal land, including in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Cirrus SR22T G6 Flight Trial
The airplane probably can handle it, but only if you slow down, keep the wings level and accept altitude excursions. While flying from the northeast to south Florida last week it was bumpy at all altitudes and everyone was trying to find a better ride.
FBI asks Justice Department to refute Trump’s wiretap allegations
New York [U.S.A.], Mar. 6 : The Federal Bureau of Investigation has urged the Justice Department to refute and reject President Donald Trump’s allegation that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower prior to elections, CNN quoted two sources, as saying. It said the FBI made such request since the President cannot order a wiretap of U.S. citizens’ phones.