Officials said Monday that the Obama administration– in its waning hours– defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking. A State Department official and …
“Relations with the E.U. are a matter for the U.K. government.” Within minutes of the ruling, which was not unexpected, Jeremy Wright, Britain’s attorney general, said outside the Supreme Court building in London that the government was disappointed …
WASHINGTON – For weeks, the members of an exclusive, mostly Jewish country club in the Maryland suburbs of Washington have been entangled in a bitter dispute over whether to exclude former President Barack Obama, who has played golf there, …
Cenk Uygur, founder of the Young Turks video network that has become virally popular among progressive voters, is launching a project called Justice Democrats to defeat members of the Democratic Party who have cast votes seen as unacceptable.
Eight years after Republicans united after a stinging electoral defeat to oppose President Barack Obama, Democrats are channeling an even deeper anxiety over President Trump – and a far shallower defeat – into a newfound burst of organizing. … And …
In a meeting with business leaders, President Trump on Monday made an eyebrow-raising claim. As part of an effort to make America more business-friendly, Trump said, “We think we can cut regulations by 75 percent.
“She understands that a forensic exam of the campaign is necessary, not only for her, but for the party and other electeds, and for the investors in the campaign,” said a close Hillary Clinton friend in Washington who, like several others, declined to …
“Barack Obama’s win rate before the Supreme Court is extremely low, lower than any president of this century,” said Eric Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago and an author of a new study on the subject.
President Trump is scheduled to meet with the leaders of Fiat Chrysler, Ford and General Motors today. On Monday, he told American executives to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
During his confirmation hearing, Tillerson had faced a grilling about his close ties to Russia and whether his business experience could translate into diplomatic skills.
… Democrats joined all but one Senate Republican in confirming Rep. Mike Pompeo as the new CIA director on Monday evening, failing a crucial first test of whether Democrats would present a united front to defend human rights and civil liberties in …
WASHINGTON – President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession with the election’s…
People close to Trump’s team acknowledged that his first weekend in office had been overtaken by the President engaging in a fight over crowd sizes and media coverage he perceived as negative.
One of the first orders of business for the Trump Administration was to take down the fiery red drapes that flanked President Obama in the Oval Office. The replacement … the very same drapes Hillary Clinton chose for her husband back in 1993. The …
The last 10% had not yet formed an opinion. Republicans and Democrats were sharply divided over the president’s performance, the poll indicated, with 90% of Republicans signaling approval and 81% of Democrats disapproving. Independents appear to be …
President Trump’s first visit to a government agency since taking office was to the Central Intelligence Agency yesterday, where he addressed a crowd of around 400 people in the intellegence community and set the tone for his incoming administration …
“Betsy DeVos has already met with each committee member in their offices, spent nearly an hour and a half longer in her Senate hearing than either of President Obama’s education secretaries, and is now answering 837 written questions – 1,397 including …
… questions about public education policy, philosophy and law. But as the child of one billionaire and the spouse of another, her path to confirmation is most likely smoothed by her record of spreading cash to Republicans on the committee, and in the …
A group of airline pilots will rally Tuesday outside the White House in hopes of getting President Trump to intervene on a ruling by the former Obama administration that they say could eliminate tens of thousands of U.S. airline jobs. The group of …
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