Category: Government

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Texas law that would require the burial or cremation of any fetal remains. U.S. District Judge David Ezra wrote in his ruling issuing the permanent injunction that the law would cause a “near catastrophic” failure of the health-care system for women of childbearing age in Texas. Passed in 2017, the […]

With their supporters energized in opposition to Donald Trump, Democrats hold their widest advantage in midterm election vote preferences since 2006, when they seized control of both houses of Congress. Rebounding from a tighter contest in the spring, Democratic House candidates now lead their Republican opponents nationally by 52-38 percent among registered voters in a […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. –  Sen. Bernie Sanders took aim President Trump Monday morning during an appearance at Labor Day union breakfast in the state that holds the first presidential primary, but kept mum on a possible second White House bid for himself. The longtime independent senator from Vermont – who energized progressives across the country as […]

President Trump lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a string of tweets on Monday, accusing him of hurting Republican chances in the upcoming midterm elections with a series of Justice Department investigations. “Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead […]

Disapproval of Donald Trump is at a new high, support for the Mueller investigation is broad and half of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll favor Congress initiating impeachment proceedings against the president. Sixty percent in the national survey disapprove of Trump’s performance in office, numerically the highest of his presidency, albeit by […]

Barack Obama told a hushed congregation at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday that John McCain, his former Senate colleague whom he defeated for the presidency in 2008, always called on his fellow countrymen to be bigger, and better, than the “small and mean and petty” politics being practiced in Washington today. It was one […]

From Congress to the courts, Democrats are seeking to capitalize on efforts to bring President Trump’s tax returns into public view, hoping the documents could shed fresh light on possible conflicts of interest, foreign business deals and even the Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. Questions about Trump’s refusal to release his tax […]

Talks between the United States and Canada over the North American Free Trade Agreement reportedly broke up Friday without a deal, after a leak of off-record comments by President Trump roiled the high-wire negotiations, The Wall Street Journal reported. Still, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement Friday that officials are continuing to […]

AUSTIN, Texas –  Texas won’t allow schools to use state funding to educate immigrant children housed in federal detention. The Houston Chronicle reports that the Texas Education Agency this week told a charter school group that local schools that want to serve migrant students in federal custody can’t “do so with state education funding.” The […]

President Trump told Bloomberg in an interview Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will remain in his position until at least the upcoming midterm elections. “I just would love to have him do a great job,” Trump told the publication in an interview, before departing for a rally in Indiana. The president declined to comment […]

President Trump announced Thursday that he was canceling a pay raise due to most civilian federal employees in January, citing budgetary reasons. In a letter to congressional leaders, the president wrote that locality pay increases would cost $25 billion. Those increases would come on top of a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for most civilian employees. “We […]

WASHINGTON — After a week that saw President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman convicted on eight counts of fraud and his former lawyer plead guilty to felony campaign finance charges, the president’s job approval rating remains virtually unchanged, new polling from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal shows. But the stability in Trump’s approval […]