Category: Government

“I think it would be an asset to have Russia back in,” Trump said during an impromptu press conference at the summit. “I think it would be good for the world. I think it would be good for Russia. I think it would be good the United States. I think it would be good for […]

President Trump said Friday that he’s inclined to get behind a bipartian congressional bid to ease the U.S. ban on marijuana, The Associated Press reported. It said the proposal has potential to dramatically reshape the nation’s legal landscape for pot users and businesses. A national prohibition that puts pot on the same level as LSD […]

Nearly 120,000 names were left off the voting rolls in Los Angeles during Tuesday’s crucial jungle primary due to a printing error, local officials said. The 118,522 voters’ names were erroneously excluded across more than a thousand precincts in the state, local officials said. “We apologize for the inconvenience and concern this has caused,”  Dean […]

The Obama administration granted a license letting Iran access the United States financial system despite officials’ pledges that they would prohibit it, according to a draft report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “On Feb. 24, 2016, the Treasury Department issued a specific license to Bank Muscat to authorize the conversion of Iran’s rials […]

President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un got “on his hands and knees and begged” American diplomats to reinstate a planned meeting with Trump after it was cancelled last month. The former New York City mayor told The Wall Street Journal that Trump’s cancellation of the meeting, which is […]

More than 100 arrests have been reported after federal immigration agents raided an Ohio lawn and garden business Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s growing crackdown on employers suspected of hiring illegal immigrants. The Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents, carrying weapons, showed up at two Corso’s Flower & Garden Centers–one in the Lake Erie […]

The justices, in a 7-2 decision, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed an impermissible hostility toward religion when it found that baker Jack Phillips violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by rebuffing gay couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012. The state law bars businesses from refusing service based on race, sex, marital status […]

President Trump on Monday said he has the right to pardon himself but insisted he has no reason to do so because he has not committed a crime, doubling down on an argument his lawyers made to the special counsel leading the Russia investigation. “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the […]

Rudy Giuliani said early Sunday that President Trump “probably” has the power to pardon himself, but has no plans to do so. “He’s not, but he probably does,” Giuliani, who recently joined Trump’s legal team, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “He has no intention of pardoning himself,” Giuliani said. “That’s another really interesting constitutional question: […]

Allies of Hillary Clinton say they could see themselves supporting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for president in 2020, even as she rails against Wall Street and pulls Democrats away from some of Clinton’s more centrist positions. “If Elizabeth Warren decides to run for president, she will find support both from Hillary diehards who still want […]

President Trump said Friday that a high-stakes summit between him and Kim Jong Un is back on for June 12, following a lengthy meeting with a top North Korean official in the Oval Office. “We’ll be meeting on June 12 in Singapore,” the president told reporters after the North Korean emissary left the White House. […]

Planned Parenthood has been canceling abortion appointments for women in Arkansas this week, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a state law restricting the procedure. The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively let Arkansas’ law restricting medication abortions — in which women are given pills that cause a process similar to […]