Category: Government

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is expected to testify that President Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials during the 2016 campaign, according to a report by ABC News. Flynn is saying that Trump “directed him to make contact with the Russians,” ABC’s Brian Ross said Friday, just moments after Flynn entered a guilty plea for […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo in as soon as a few weeks, according to multiple media reports. President Trump brushed aside reports that he is considering replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, though multiple news outlets say Tillerson could be shown the door within weeks. Pressed about […]

President Donald Trump blasted top congressional Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as all talk, no action and “weak” on key issues like crime and immigration after the duo canceled a meeting with him on Tuesday. “They’ve been all talk and they’ve been no action, and now it’s even worse — now it’s not even […]

A White House ethics lawyer reportedly resigned last week. James Schultz, whose work included ethics and financial disclosure issues, is planning to go back to his private practice at Cozen O’Connor, a Philadelphia-based law firm, Politico reported. “That was something Don [McGahn, the White House counsel] and I discussed very early on,” Schultz told the […]

The FBI reportedly did not inform U.S. government officials that a Russian hacking operation was attempting to breach their personal emails. According to an investigation by The Associated Press, the bureau possessed evidence for a year that showed the officials were targets of a Kremlin-linked hacking entity known as Fancy Bear. The AP said that […]

Michael Flynn’s lawyers recently told lawyers for President Donald Trump that they can no longer discuss special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing sources involved with the case. The move could be a sign that Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, is cooperating – or negotiating an agreement – with […]

President Trump is spending this Thanksgiving weekend at Mar-a-Lago. It’s his first trip back since April, when his private club closed for the season. Since his inauguration 10 months ago, the president has visited at least one of his properties on 34 out of his 45 weekends in office (including this one). And out of […]

A federal judge has permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick issued the ruling on Monday in lawsuits brought by two California counties, San Francisco and Santa Clara. Orrick said Trump cannot set new conditions on spending […]

WASHINGTON –  Unemployment rates fell to record lows in Idaho and Tennessee in September, and dropped in 9 other states. The Labor Department’s report on state unemployment also showed the extent of Hurricane Irma’s damage in Florida, which lost 127,400 jobs that month, or about 1.5 percent of total jobs in the state. Most of […]

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, failed to disclose campaign emails regarding Russian overtures to the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to congressional investigators, top senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday. In a letter circulated to media outlets, chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Kushner […]

Six House Democrats on Wednesday launched the latest official effort to oust President Trump, introducing five new articles of impeachment revolving around the central theme that the president is a danger to the country. “Given the magnitude of the constitutional crisis, there’s no reason for delay,” said Rep. Steve CohenStephen (Steve) Ira CohenImpeachment calls grow […]

North Korean state media said Wednesday that President Trump has been “sentenced to death by the Korean people” as Trump returns from an Asia-Pacific tour in which he made a point of repeatedly slamming Pyongyang and leader Kim Jong Un. “He should know that he is just a hideous criminal sentenced to death by the […]