Category: Government

The Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching a major decision point in its investigation into Russia’s election interference where lawmakers will weigh in on whether members of President Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow. The question risks dividing a panel that has kept a bipartisan facade for nearly two years since the committee began its investigation. The […]

The White House is planning on tackling cannabis reform after the midterm elections, according to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. Rohrabacher tells FOX Business that the Trump administration has made a “solid commitment” to fix marijuana regulation. “I have been talking to people inside the White House who know and inside the president’s entourage… I have […]

President Trump on Tuesday said his daughter Ivanka would be a “dynamite” choice to replace outgoing United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced her resignation earlier in the day. “There’s nothing to do with nepotism but the people that know, know that Ivanka would be dynamite,” Trump said to reporters on the South Lawn of the […]

The narrow confirmation of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh over the weekend marked a major political victory for President Trump – and the beginning of a new battle for Democrats, who are now shifting their message to threaten possible impeachment against the newest high court justice and question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself. After a grueling […]

WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is flying Monday with President Donald Trump on Air Force One to a police chiefs’ conference in Florida and the president said before leaving that he has no plans to fire the overseer of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. “No, I don’t,” Trump responded when asked if he […]

Former U.S. Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright both questioned the dramatic negative effects the Trump administration has had on the United States and its people Sunday. Speaking with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday, Powell criticized Trump’s attacks on the news media, close U.S. allies and even its own citizens. Powell lamented his three […]

The Senate voted Saturday to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, marking the end to one of the most rancorous confirmation fights in modern times and securing a rightward shift on the nation’s highest court. The chamber voted 50-48 to confirm Kavanaugh, mostly along party lines, after a weeklong FBI probe helped settle […]

Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court — and likely confirmation — could have a huge impact on midterm elections, now just 32 days away. On Friday, reaction to Sen. Susan Collin’s speech in support of Kavanaugh was immediate from Maine Democrats. It was another indication of the intensity felt on both sides of the debate. […]

Dozens of protesters immediately interrupted the Senate’s final vote on confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, screaming and yelling as they were removed from the gallery that overlooks the chamber. “The Sergeant in Arms will restore order in the gallery,” Vice President Pence, who was presiding over the vote, said as he […]

Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va on Friday said they intend to vote in favor of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation — two crucial votes that appear to secure Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the nation’s highest court. Moments after Collins spoke on the Senate floor announcing her intention to vote for the nominee, Manchin said in a statement he would […]

Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.), a key swing Republican vote, said Thursday that a new FBI report on Brett Kavanaugh has failed to corroborate Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation of sexual assault against the Supreme Court nominee. Flake said there was nothing in the FBI’s supplementary background check to corroborate the claims from Ford, which threw Kavanaugh’s […]