Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian businessmen in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. the deputy head of the information security department of the FSB, Russia’s national security service.
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Trump Disparages Mainstream Media, Declares Press ‘Opposition Party’
Donald Trump is such a consummate liar that in coming months and years our democracy will depend more than ever on the independent press – finding the truth, reporting it, and holding Trump accountable for his lies. But Trump’s strategy is to denigrate and disparage the press in the public’s mind, convincing the public that it shouldn’t believe the press because it’s engaged in a conspiracy against him.
Senate Panel Backs Zinke, Perry
President Donald Trump’s choice to fill the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court could “make or break” his bas . . . Mike Huckabee has lashed out at the media for what he says is its nonstop nitpicking over President Donald Trump’s decis .
FiveThirtyEight: How Trump’s Pick Will Alter SCOTUS
Of President Donald Trump’s four shortlisted Supreme Court possibles, Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver would be closest to late jurist Antonin Scalia, someone whose beliefs the commander-in-chief wants echoed in his replacement, FiveThirtyEight.com says. Trump, who will announce his pick to replace Scalia on Tuesday reportedly is considering four names: Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, and William Pryor and Raymond Kethledge, federal judges on the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit and Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit, respectively.
Senate Democrats just made an unprecedented move to delay votes on Trump’s Cabinet nominees
Democratic senators on the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday boycotted votes on President Donald Trump’s picks for Treasury secretary and secretary of Health and Human Services, opening up a new front in the battle over the president’s Cabinet. Not a single Democratic senator on the committee showed up for the votes on Mnuchin or Price, boycotting due to what they consider unanswered questions in regards to Mnuchin and Price.
Who is Sally Yates? Meet the acting attorney general Trump fired for…
Acting attorney general Sally Quillian Yates, a longtime prosecutor from Atlanta, began her tenure as an Obama appointee two years ago by saying that pursuing justice was more important to her than bringing federal cases in court. “We’re not the Department of Prosecutions or even the Department of Public Safety,” Yates said in May, 2015, the week after she was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, the second-highest ranking position in the Justice Department.
Huckabee: Trump-Slamming Media Like ‘Hyperactive Greyhounds’
Mike Huckabee has lashed out at the media for what he says is its nonstop nitpicking over President Donald Trump’s decisions. “Is everything that President Trump does going to be treated by the media as an unprecedented outrage?” the former Arkansas governor says in a message posted Monday night on his Facebook page.
Trump’s talk about Muslims led acting attorney general to defy refugee ban
Sally Yates speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, June 28, 2016. Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, was fired Monday after she ordered the Justice Department not to defend President Trump’s executive order on immigration in court.
Erickson: Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Could ‘Make or Break’ His Base
President Donald Trump’s choice to fill the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court could “make or break” his base, according to political commentator Erick Erickson. “A large number of evangelicals backed Donald Trump, many begrudgingly, because of the United States Supreme Court” Erickson wrote for The Resurgent Tuesday.
Homeland Security: 872 Refugees Will Be Allowed to Enter US
Almost 900 refugees who were set to arrive in the U.S. that were not from any of the seven countries in the travel ban will be allowed to enter the U.S. through Thursday, a Department of Homeland Security official announced. The 872 refugees were already cleared and officially on their way to the U.S., Jennifer Sime, senior vice president for U.S. programs at the International Rescue Committee said in a Wall Street Journal report.
Despite Putin’s dark human rights legacy, some US conservatives praise him
Putin has ballooned into a huge issue in the confirmation hearing for Rex Tillerson, nominated by Trump to be secretary of state. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, grilled Tillerson over human rights violations in Russia in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, CNN reported.
Immigration order playing well to Trump’s fans around nation
President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries is playing well in Trump Country, those places that propelled him to the White House. The New York businessman and reality TV star promised to put America first during the campaign, his supporters say, and he’s doing it.
As opposition outcry grows, Trump defends immigration order
Defiant in the face of an international backlash, President Donald Trump pressed into his second week in office defending his sweeping immigration ban. Protests persisted at major airports, and concern mounted from U.S. diplomats and members of his own party.
Hawaii pushes back against presidential immigration order
Hawaii’s native Middle-Eastern and Muslim populations represent only a small faction of its overall demographic, but President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration has inspired backlash among politicians, lawyers and residents of the state – both from those who identify as Muslim and those who don’t. The order, signed by the president Friday afternoon, blocked any citizen of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the United States for a period of 90 days.
In new White House, a look at Trump’s inner circle
Since taking office 10 days ago, President Donald Trump has moved to consolidate power within a small cadre of close aides at the White House. He’s added a senior political adviser to the National Security Council and appears to have cut out Cabinet secretaries from decision making on some of his top policies, including the immigration and refugee order that led to protests, legal challenges and temporary detention of some legal U.S. residents this weekend.
Who is Jeff Sessions? Alabama Senator is poised to be Attorney General in Trump administration
The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet today to decide on the nomination of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to become the next U.S. Attorney General. The vote comes as the White House faces what could be a series of challenges over its controversial immigration order and just a day after President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she refused to defend his directive.
Trump Immigration EO wasn’t ‘extremely vetted’: Darcy cartoon
Americans can rest easy. President Donald Trump signed a discriminatory Executive Order banning Muslims from 7 countries, while allowing non-Muslims from the same countries in.
GOP pushing Price, Sessions, DeVos a step toward Senate OK
Republicans are muscling more of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to the cusp of Senate confirmation over Democratic objections, with committees poised to advance his picks to head agencies in the thick of partisan battles over health care, legal protections, education and the economy. Senate panels were expected Tuesday to advance Trump’s picks of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to be health secretary; Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to be attorney general; wealthy conservative activist Betsy DeVos to head the Education Department and Steve Mnuchin to lead Treasury.
Focus on Laois TD and Foreign Affairs Minster as he undertakes key engagements in Washington
The focus is on Laois TD and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Charles Flanagan this week as he travels to Washington DC for a 3 day visit. The Portlaoise based Minsiter will undertake a number of business engagements, as well a number of meetings with Congressional leaders.
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown is Dangerous for Workers
Relatives and supporters, left, of Swift & Co. meat processing plant workers, face off with Immigration Police at the entrance of a Swift & Co.
Bob Ferguson, Jay Inslee Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson,…
Washington became the first state to sue the Trump administration with a filing Monday over the president’s executive order restricting refugees and immigration. It likely will not be standing alone for long.
It s Tough When Your Base is Crazy
Sometimes you wonder why Democratic politicians are so crazed. But then you see stories like this that make it clear: Protesters shouted down Rhode Island Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse during a community event as they protested his vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director and pushed him to vote against other nominees.
Trump’s Supreme Court choice comes today
Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump is poised to nominate a replacement who’s three decades younger, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court. Trump’s Supreme Court choice comes today Nearly a full year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death left the Supreme Court shorthanded, President Trump is poised to nominate a replacement who’s three decades younger, setting off a pitched battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court.
Why Yates Had to Go
It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests all executive power – not some of it, all of it – in the president of the United States.
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The Manhattan District AttorneyA s Office is looking into the decades-old suspicious death of a reporter who at the time was investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Newspaper columnist and TV game show star Dorothy Kilgallen, 52, was found dead of an alleged drug overdose in her Manhattan townhouse on November 8, 1965 – just weeks before a trip she had planned to New Orleans to meet with a secret informant relating to an 18-month investigation she was conducting about KennedyA s assassination for a tell-all book.
Nation-Now 11 mins ago 5:27 a.m.”White privilege” essay contest…
When the town sponsored a student essay contest on the topic of white privilege, it was intended to provoke discussion in this wealthy, overwhelmingly white community on Connecticut’s Gold Coast. Contest organizers have been surprised by the reaction from some who say the question wrongly suggests race plays into the good life enjoyed in Westport.
Clash over refugee ban brings firing of Justice Dept. head
In an extraordinary public showdown, President Donald Trump fired the acting attorney general of the United States after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court. The clash Monday night between Trump and Sally Yates, a career prosecutor and Democratic appointee, laid bare the growing discord and dissent surrounding an executive order that halted the entire U.S. refugee program and banned all entries from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days.
Trump sacks attorney general Yates after rejection of executive order
Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general Sally Yates after she refused to enforce an executive order from the President to ban immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Trump sparked anger over the weekend after he issued the order, which prevents citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the US until further notice.
India IT stocks slip amid worries about stricter H-1B visas
The shares of top Indian IT companies sank Tuesday in response to news of proposed U.S. legislation that would require salaries for H-1B visa holders to be doubled. The aim: to make it harder for companies to replace American workers with those from countries like India.
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Top House Republicans say their outline for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law is a pathway to greater flexibility and lower costs for consumers. Democrats see a road to ruin for millions who’d face lost coverage and higher medical expenses, particularly the poor.
Hatch heralded as longest-serving GOP senator in U.S. history
Washington a Senate leaders heralded Sen. Orrin Hatch on Thursday as the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, while the Utah Republican turned the love-fest moment into a pitch to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees and give him “a little bit of leeway for him to make some verbal mistakes.” As of Thursday, Hatch, who first took office on Jan. 3, 1977, had served 40 years, one month and six days, surpassing the late Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska as the longest-serving Republican senator.
Violent protesters block Berkeley talk by Breitbart editor
The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for major protests against Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos on the last stop of a tour aimed at defying what he calls an epidemic of… Protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire prompting University of California at Berkeley officials to cancel a talk Wednesday by a polarizing editor of Breitbart News out of safety concerns Some Maine sixth-graders are pushing state lawmakers to pass a bill that would make it easier for residents to keep hedgehogs as pets Some Maine sixth-graders are pushing state lawmakers to pass a bill that would make it easier for residents to keep hedgehogs as pets The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog are set to announce whether the rodent will predict an early spring or six more weeks of winter The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog are set to announce … (more)
White House aims tough talk at foreign leaders
President Donald Trump’s administration sent the same unyielding diplomatic message on multiple fronts Wednesday, making it clear that the president and his team are using the same blunt talk with world leaders that he used last year to rally crowds on the campaign trail. Sharp words for Iranian and Mexican leaders stood as early manifestations of Trump’s promise of a tougher American approach to nations who don’t align with U.S. goals and values.
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If confirmed, the 49-year-old Neil Gorsuch would be the youngest justice on the court and could be shaping decisions for decades. Senate Republicans stood united behind President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, bracing for a bitter, weeks-long fight with Democrats over a conservative judge similar in philosophy to the late Justice Antonin Scalia Shulkin is in line to be the lone ex-Obama administration official serving in Trump’s Cabinet amid a conservative push to privatize several government services and fierce partisan battles over Trump’s other Cabinet nominees.
Mayor: Obamacare Repeal Could Leave 220K Uninsured in Philly
Tuesday is the deadline to sign up for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney says a repeal of the act without replacement will leave more than 200,000 people uninsured in the city of brotherly love.
Outside groups set tactics to put Trump pick on Supreme Court
Conservative groups are finalizing their strategy for a multimillion-dollar campaign to help get President Trump ‘s Supreme Court nominee confirmed. The Judicial Crisis Network is spearheading the effort with plans to spend $10 million on what the groups have dubbed “the most robust operation in the history of confirmation battles.”
Trump supporters say they are happy with immigration order
Don’t talk about airport protests in Trump Country. In the places that propelled now-President Donald Trump to the White House, the president’s fans couldn’t be much happier with his executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries.
How Trump’s Supreme Court pick could tilt abortion, unions and affirmative action
Since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February, the Supreme Court has been evenly divided between Democratic appointees and Republican ones. This has resulted in occasional deadlocks and many narrow decisions.
Top Justice official fired
President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night, after Yates ordered Justice Department lawyers earlier in the day to not to defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry into the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world.
Banks seeks repeal of device tax
Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, is leading a group of House freshmen who are urging the permanent repeal of the federal tax on medical devices.