President Donald Trump made a surprise stop by the White House’s summit on opioids today, where he suggested dealers face “the ultimate penalty” for their roles in drug-related deaths. The summit came more than four months after Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, though the decision faced criticism as it stopped short […]
Russia has developed a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible, according to President Vladimir Putin. Mr Putin made the claims as he laid out his key policies for a fourth presidential term, ahead of an election he is expected to win in 17 days’ time. The weapons he boasted of included a cruise […]
Washington (CNN)Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that chief of staff John Kelly is running the West Wing through a culture of fear and predicted more departures from the White House are to come, adding that “morale is terrible.” “The morale is terrible. The reason why the morale is terrible is that […]
National security advisor H.R. McMaster could leave the White House as early as next month, which would mark only the latest in a series of Trump administration departures, NBC News reported Thursday. Ford executive Stephen Biegun is among the possible successors for the Army lieutenant general, NBC said, citing five people familiar with the discussions. […]
Hope Hicks, President Donald Trump’s longest-serving aide and current communications director will resign her post in the coming weeks, the White House said Wednesday. The New York Times first reported that Hicks would resign and sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed she would be leaving to ABC News. After the news broke, President Trump […]
President Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights. “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at […]
Conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge made the announcement Tuesday on his website. The president plans to tap former digital adviser Brad Parscale, who is presently spearheading a pro-Trump outside group called America First Policies, the campaign announced in a statement that came out shortly after the Drudge report. According to Drudge, Trump plans to “stun […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond hearings. It’s a profound loss for those immigrants appealing what are sometimes indefinite detentions by the government. Many are held for long periods of time — on average, 13 months […]
The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades, according to data it released Tuesday. The New York City-based organization found 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 1,267 in 2016. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children. The justices refused to hear the administration’s appeal of a federal judge’s Jan. 9 injunction that halted […]
Trump on Monday claimed he would have run into a Florida high school to prevent a gunman from carrying out this month’s mass shooting. “You don’t know until you test it, but I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump told a gathering of governors at the White […]
President Trump on Saturday dismissed a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP memo outlining government surveillance abuses in the 2016 campaign as a “total political and legal bust,” claiming that it only confirms the ”terrible things” that were done by the nation’s intelligence agencies. The rebuttal, written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, concluded that […]
