Category: Government

President gets an unexpected reaction in the assembly hall after claiming his administration has accomplished more than almost any other in U.S. history. President Trump was met with awkward laughter from a U.N. General Assembly audience on Tuesday while boasting of successes under his administration, but brushed off the response as he doubled down on an […]

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whose job hangs in the balance, will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday. “We’ll be determining what’s going on,” Trump said Monday afternoon before a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in New York. “We want to have transparency, we […]

EXCLUSIVE –  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied accusations of sexual misconduct that have threatened to derail his confirmation in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Monday. “What I know is the truth, and the truth is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone,” Kavanaugh told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum. The full interview with Kavanaugh and […]

President Trump polled staffers flying with him to and from a rally in Missouri on Friday over whether he should fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein following an explosive New York Times report published earlier that day, The Associated Press reported. The news outlet reported Sunday that Trump spoke with staffers on board and called […]

Christine Blasey Ford on Saturday said she would accept the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request to discuss an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, although the terms under which she might testify remained unclear as of mid-afternoon. In a letter to the committee, Ford’s lawyers said that she “accepts” the request to provide […]

WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was joking when he discussed wearing a wire to secretly record President Donald Trump and does not believe Trump should be removed from office through the use of procedures outlined in the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, according to Justice Department officials who requested anonymity to discuss the conversation. The […]

Last week, the Texas State Board of Education held a preliminary vote to streamline social studies curriculum standards in all public schools. That included the removal of several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller. In the past, Texas high school students studied Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State who was the first […]

President Trump on Friday delayed the release of documents related to the Russia investigation that he wants declassified, saying the Justice Department’s inspector general is reviewing them after “key allies” raised concerns. In a series of tweets, the president said he recently met with Justice Department officials about his request and that they agreed to […]

Raising the specter of a government shutdown in just 10 days, President Donald Trump complained Thursday that a spending plan pushed by congressional Republicans is “ridiculous” because it does not include funding for a border wall with Mexico. Trump tweeted that he wants to know “where is the money for Border Security and the WALL […]

Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, says she’s willing to testify next week under “terms that are fair and which ensure her safety.” The notice came in an email from her attorney to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republicans on the panel had set a 10 a.m. Friday deadline […]

President Trump tore into Jeff Sessions in an interview published Wednesday, going so far as to say “I don’t have an attorney general” — although he appeared to later soften the statement. In an interview with The Hill, Trump said the beleagured Sessions was absent and performing poorly in his role as the nation’s top […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to move forward with the sentencing of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, nearly 10 months after he pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his Russia contacts. The development Monday comes after repeated delays in Flynn’s sentencing. “The matter is now […]