In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000.
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The Latest on the health care debate as Congress begins work on a GOP-drafted overhaul : In the day’s first vote on Republican health care legislation, GOP lawmakers controlling the House Ways and Means Committee have blocked a Democratic attempt to delay the panel’s work for a week. Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett said there’s been little time to understand what’s in the legislation.
Women go on strike in US to show their economic clout
Organizers of the January Women’s March are calling for women to take the day off and enco… . FILE – In this Jan. 21, 2017 file photo, Gloria Steinem, center right, greets protesters at the barricades before speaking at the Women’s March on Washington during the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, in Wa… The mother of a slain Pennsylvania state police trooper says she is seeking a measure of justice for her son when his alleged killer stands trial.
Senate panel sets March 15 hearing for Trump’s labor nominee
Alexander Acosta, President Donald Trump’s new choice to be secretary of labor, pledged Wednesday to leave his position as a law school dean and resign from the board of a bank if he’s confirmed. Acosta, 48, is dean of Florida International University’s law school.
FBI Director Comey at cyber conference: ‘You’re stuck with me’
FBI Director James Comey listens as he is thanked for speaking at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., March 8, 2017. FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday he has no plans to step down any time soon, days after he reportedly pushed back against President Donald Trump’s allegations that the Obama administration had tapped his phones during the 2016 election.
China grants preliminary approval to 38 new Trump trademarks
China has granted preliminary approval for 38 new Trump trademarks, paving the way for President Donald Trump and his family to potentially develop a host of branded businesses from hotels and golf clubs to bodyguard and concierge services, public documents show. Trump’s lawyers in China applied for the marks in April 2016, as Trump railed against China at campaign rallies, accusing it of currency manipulation and stealing U.S. jobs.
The Wall Street Journal: Obama furious over Trump tweets accusing him …
The rapport between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is unraveling, with the president convinced that Mr. Obama is undermining his nascent administration and the former president furious over Trump tweets accusing him of illegal wiretapping, people close to the two men said. The budding feud between two men who share the unique bond of membership in the commander-in-chiefs’ club is a fresh distraction in a Trump presidency that has been struggling to enact its agenda.
UN chief: Funding, support needed for AU troops in Somalia
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says it’s important for Congress to act quickly to extend a program aimed at widening veterans’ access to private-sector health care. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says it’s important for Congress to act quickly to extend a program aimed at widening veterans’ access to private-sector health care.
UK treasury chief to take cautious approach in budget
Hammond will del… . Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, poses for photographs during final preparations for his official 2017 budget announcement, in his office at the Treasury in London Tuesday March 7, 2017.
Trump admin quietly made asylum more difficult in the US
The Trump administration quietly made it more difficult for immigrants to seek asylum in the US last month, the latest in a series of steps designed to deliver on the President’s campaign promise to harshly enforce immigration laws. Supporters of President Donald Trump’s policies say the move cuts off an incentive for migrants to make their way to the US, where they are granted the chance to pursue asylum claims and sometimes build underground lives illegally.
House panels to launch fight in Congress over Obamacare replacement
A potentially lengthy U.S. legislative fight over replacement of the Obamacare health law gets underway on Wednesday as two House of Representatives committees begin negotiating over changes to a Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump. Both Democrats and Republicans are expected to try to reshape legislation that dismantles key provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, Democratic former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement.
Facing test of resolve, Trump pushes ahead with North Korea review
Faced with a growing test of resolve for a new U.S. president who vowed while campaigning to get tough on North Korea, Donald Trump’s aides are pressing to complete a strategy review on how to counter Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear threats. Pyongyang’s latest missile launches and the assassination in Malaysia of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother have added urgency, driving home the need for Washington to confront the security challenge.
Ap Fact Check: Keystone XL, Dakota pipeline to be built without U.S. steel
In this Feb. 13, 2017, aerial file photo shows the site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County near Cannon Ball, N.D. American Indians from across the country are bringing their frustrations with the Trump administration and its approval of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to the nation’s capital Tuesday, March 7, 2017, kicking off four days of activities that will culminate in a march on the White House.
Donald Trump and the Flouting of the Goldwater Rule
In 1964, Fact Magazine produced a special issue entitled “The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater,” specifically addressing the mental health of then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater. As would be expected, the magazine did not pronounce Goldwater with a clean bill of mental health.
Trump’s New Immigration Order Is Still Not a ‘Muslim Ban’
Among many of Donald Trump’s campaign promises was a plan to reform a chaotic immigration system with better methods of vetting immigrants. Those who do not support the U.S. Constitution, American values or who desire to bring violence to our shores through terrorism would be screened out.
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Republican governors complain that a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law would force millions of lower-income earners off insurance rolls or stick states with the cost of keeping them covered. Governors, especially those from political battleground states, were generally cool to the bill put forth in the Republican-controlled U.S. House.
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No, not Jeff Sessions. Sessions was asked whether representatives of the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russian officials on behalf of the campaign, and Sessions said he didn’t know anything about that.
Acid victims redefine beauty in Bangladesh fashion show
Organizers said they hoped to highlight the fact that acid victims, too often over… . In this March 7, 2017 photo, a Bangladeshi acid attack survivor walk down the catwalk during the event ‘Beauty Redefined’ in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Facing test of resolve, Trump pushes ahead with North Korea review
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervises a ballistic rocket launching drill of Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the KPA in an undated photo. KCNA/via A view of the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 guided by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, February 2017.
10 Things to Know for Wednesday
An alleged CIA surveillance program disclosed by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, purporte… . Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., center, joined by, from left, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks about health care during a news conference on Capitol Hill i… .
‘Disingenuous and absurd’: White House slams resurfaced reports of…
The White House on Tuesday shot down resurfaced reports suggesting President Donald Trump met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in April, calling the accounts “disingenuous and absurd.” As revisited Tuesday by the liberal-leaning AmericaBlog , a report in the Wall Street Journal last May said Trump and Kislyak interacted at a reception that preceded a foreign-policy speech the then-Republican frontrunner gave at a Washington, DC, hotel.
Trump needs to go back, grab the horse
Last week I poked a little fun at President Donald Trump. Quite frankly, he’s such a fun target I simply can’t resist.
House intel chair: Media take Trump tweets too literally
The top Republican on the House intelligence committee said he has not seen any evidence to back President Donald Trump’s claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign and suggested the news media were taking the president’s weekend tweets too literally. “The president is a neophyte to politics – he’s been doing this a little over a year,” Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters Tuesday.
WikiLeaks reveals CIA files describing hacking tools
WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. The documents describe clandestine methods for bypassing or defeating encryption, antivirus tools and other protective security features intended to keep the private information of citizens and corporations safe from prying eyes.
Intel chair: No evidence of wiretap
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Tuesday that he had seen no evidence supporting President Donald Trump’s claim that his phones were tapped by the previous administration. But unlike many other members of Congress, Nunes did not demand that the administration explain the basis of Trump’s accusation, saying that “we were going to look into it anyway.”
News Analysis: Trump’s constant controversy could impact White House agenda
U.S. President Donald Trump is seeing more controversy than any other newly elected president in recent memory, and that might hurt his chances of passing his agenda. Trump, who shocked the world last November when he beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to win the presidential race, has careened from one controversy to another since inauguration in January.
Commission eyes spending by Linda Bean group backing Trump
The Federal Elections Commission is raising questions about last-minute expenditures by a pro-Donald Trump super political action committee that has already acknowledged making mistakes regarding the sources and amounts of its contributions and whose contributors include an L.L. Bean heiress. The FEC contends the Making Maine Great Again PAC may have violated rules that give PACs 24 hours to report expenditures of $1,000 or more in the two to 20 days before an election.
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House Republicans on March 6, released their long-awaited plan for unraveling former President Barack Obama’s health care law, a… The nation’s passionate debate about the role of government in providing health care for citizens and paying the costs is unlikely to be settled by the legislation House Republicans have unveiled. The nation’s passionate debate about the role of government in providing health care for citizens and paying the costs is unlikely to be settled by the legislation House Republicans have unveiled.
The Latest: Trump speaks with Kenyan president on terrorism
The White House says Trump expressed appreciation for Kenya’s contributions to the African Union Mission in Somalia during a telephone call Tuesday with Kenyatta. Trump also recognized the sacrifices made by Kenyan troops in the fight against al-Shabaab, the Islamic extremist group that’s taken hold in neighboring Somalia.
Ap Fact Check: How Trump’s Keystone XL story fell apart
In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, miles of pipe ready to become part of the Keystone Pipeline are stacked in a field near Ripley, Okla. It was a nice story while it lasted.
Stephen King ridicules Trump over wiretapping allegation
Best-selling author Stephen King is proving he can cook up a short story about President Donald Trump in 130-character increments. King took to Twitter over the weekend to ridicule Trump’s claim that his predecessor tapped the phones at Trump Tower before the election.
Here are the official photos that show Obama’s inauguration crowd was bigger than Trump’s
The National Park Service on Monday released hundreds of ground and aerial photographs its staff shot of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. It also released photos of the swearing-in of former President Barack Obama four and eight years ago.
Endless Wars Are The Real Scenes Of ‘American Carnage’
In his inaugural address, President Trump described a dark and dismal United States, a country overrun by criminal gangs and drugs, a nation stained with the blood seeping from bullet-ridden corpses left at scenes of “American carnage.” It was more than a little jarring.
UPDATE 1-Drugmaker shares slip as Trump tweets about pricing system
Shares of large U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies sold off on Tuesday after President Donald Trump said he was working on a “new system” to reduce prices in the industry. “I am working on a new system where there will be competition in the Drug Industry,” Trump tweeted.
Cartoons: Donald Trump, wiretapping and Twitter
So, President Donald Trump goes on a Twitter rampage about how President Barack Obama had his phones at the Trump Tower wiretapped during the 2016 election campaign, without a shred of evidence to back it up.
Democrats grill Rod Rosenstein on Russia
Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein faced a barrage of questions from Democratic senators Tuesday about how he would handle investigations into Russian meddling in last year’s election if he is confirmed to serve as the No. 2 official at Department of Justice.
Ruddy to MSNBC: Trump Campaign Had ‘Consensus’ on Surveillance
President Donald Trump was “pretty upset” over the weekend about his belief that former President Barack Obama had targeted him, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said Monday, adding that he had not seen Trump with “this level of anger about something in a long time.” “I saw him twice on Saturday, once at the lunch hour and then again at dinner, and I would describe him as not being a happy camper,” Ruddy told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
Here’s How the War on Women Could Land in the Supreme Court
During his campaign, President Donald Trump pledged his commitment to the anti-abortion movement and promised he would only appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade , the 1973 decision that made abortion legal.
Top Trump security adviser faces questions in rare hearing
The senior Army officer tapped by President Donald Trump to be his national security adviser faces questions from senators during a rare closed-door meeting amid intense scrutiny of the White House for alleged Trump campaign contacts with Russian officials. Lt. Gen.
Niall Ferguson
The president has declared war on the press. He cannot forgive the media for saying that the crowd at his inaugural was small.