The Latest: White House Encourages Short-Term Spending Fix
U.S. News & World Report–14 hours ago
Who’s the Boss? News · Political News. The Latest: White House Encourages Short-Term Spending Fix. The White House is encouraging Congress to pass a …. The ban stems from evidence Russian cheating was widespread during the 2014 games. See More. Popular Articles. Israeli Troops Clash With …
Decline in Black Mayors Signals Political, Demographic Shift
Wall Street Journal–3 hours ago
The nature of urban leadership is changing as the number of black mayors in the nation’s big cities declines, a trend that risks diminishing prominent African-American voices in the public debate. In 2000, nine of the nation’s 25 largest cities had black mayors. Today, just four do. Over the same span, the …
How Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement Will Shape Palestinian …
Foreign Affairs–15 hours ago
The announcement has put Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a tough position. Abbas was already walking a political tightrope: he is in the middle of a delicate reconciliation process with his rivals in Hamas, and he faces a public deeply skeptical of his leadership and of the United States’ role in the …
White House turns to above-the-law political defense
CNN–Dec 4, 2017
Dowd told Axios: “(The) President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under (the Constitution’s Article II) and has every right to express his view of any case.” The motivation for Dowd’s introducing his point at this moment — long before Mueller has concluded his probe — is …
Tillerson: US, Russia Could Normalize Ties but for Ukraine
U.S. News & World Report–43 minutes ago
Who’s the Boss? News · Political News. Tillerson: US, Russia Could Normalize Ties but for Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is holding up the Ukraine …. See More. Popular Articles. Catalan Separatists March in Brussels · Russian Military: Mission Accomplished, Islamic State Defeated in Syria …
The Odds of Impeachment Are Dropping
The Atlantic–Dec 3, 2017
Since Robert Mueller became special counsel in May, the chances of the House of Representatives passing articles of impeachment—and the Senate ratifying them—have probably gone down. That’s because impeachment is less a legal process than a political one. Passing articles of impeachment …
The depressing lesson of political sex scandals
The Week Magazine–2 hours ago
In January 1992, a woman named Gennifer Flowers held a press conference in which she claimed that she had a years-long affair with Bill Clinton, who was then leading the race to be the Democratic nominee for president. At the time I was working for one of Clinton’s rivals, and I called up a good friend of …
FBI Director Heads to Hill After Trump’s Attacks on Agency
U.S. News & World Report–5 hours ago
Some Republicans will likely echo Trump’s concerns about what they see as politicalbias in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Like Trump, they have seized on revelations that an FBI agent …
Trump Jr. Avoids Questions About Talks With Father
U.S. News & World Report–11 hours ago
Trump Jr. released messages last month that showed him responding to the WikiLeaks’ Twitter account three times, at one point agreeing to “ask around” about a political action committee WikiLeaks had mentioned. He also asked the site about a rumor about an upcoming leak, and tweeted a link that the …
Politics podcast: John Blaxland on new foreign interference laws
The Conversation AU–12 hours ago
The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed … The government’s new foreign interference laws propose broad changes to politicaldonations, counter-surveillance, and lobbying in Australia.
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