The messy and contentious rollout of the executive order blocking entrance for refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations has dented the stock market surge enjoyed by President Trump since his election. Ever since winning the White House in early November, Trump has ridden a wave of stock market success as investors prepared for the […]
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Trump Keeps Obama’s Workplace Protections For LGBTQ’s
WASHINGTON – The White House said on Monday that President Trump would leave in place a 2014 Obama administration order that created new workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. In a statement issued in response to growing questions about whether Mr. Trump would reverse the Obama order, the White House said the […]
Donations Flood Into ACLU In Response To Travel Ban
“Clearly, this executive order has hit a live nerve with the American people,” Mr. Romero said. Thousands of protesters flooded airports across the country and took to the streets as word spread that immigrants and refugees were being blocked from entering the country, detained for hours by customs officials or taken off planes during the […]
WikiLeaks Wants To Publish Trump’s Tax Returns
WikiLeaks on Sunday urged people to submit President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpFeinstein to introduce two bills in response to Trump’s ban Trump warns senators ‘looking to start World War III’ Dems plan rally at Supreme Court to protest Trump’s executive order MORE’s tax returns so the organization could release them. “Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today […]
Trump Adds Bannon To Security Council Over Joint Chiefs Of Staff
In one of three executive actions Saturday, President Trump reshuffled the National Security Council to include his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and limited the roles of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The memorandum makes the chief strategist a regular attendee of the principals committee, the Cabinet-level interagency forum that deals […]
Judges Rule Against Parts Of Trump’s Immigration Ban
With what by legal standards was lightning speed, the judicial branch responded to President Trump’s immigration order on Saturday night, telling the president that he had moved too fast in barring people from seven mostly Muslim nations from entering the United States. But the court orders, from judges in at least four cities, were just […]
FedEx Supports Driver Protecting Flag From Protesters Flames
FedEx is backing a driver in Iowa who stopped flag-burning protesters from desecrating American flags in a confrontation caught on video that went viral, according to reports. Many on Twitter were calling him a hero. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported Friday that the video shows Matt Uhrin in a FedEx uniform scuffling with a small […]
Trump To Reduce Sanctions On Russia?
U.S. sanctions against Russia will be “under consideration” when President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold their first official conversation on Saturday, according to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. Asked whether sanctions imposed by the Obama administration for Russian interference in the U.S. election and intervention in the Ukraine would be on the […]
House Passes Bill To Eliminate Federal Abortion Funding Forever
The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would permanently codify existing law banning the use of federal funds for abortion services. Lawmakers approved the measure largely along party lines, with three Democrats joining Republicans in the 238-183 vote.The legislation, written by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), would also permanently prohibit the District of Columbia from using its […]
Trump Budget Nominee Supports Cutting Medicare, Social Security
President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s budget director, Rep. Mick Mulvaney , R-S.C., defended Tuesday his support of cuts to popular entitlement programs that Trump vowed to keep intact and emphasized that he would bring a “fact-based approach” to the role. In appearances before the Senate budget and homeland security committees, Mulvaney acknowledged […]
2016 Hottest Year On Record For 3rd Straight Year
The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice in that region has been in precipitous decline for years, and Arctic communities are already wrestling with enormous problems, such as rapid coastal erosion, […]
Trump Will Not Release Tax Returns
A top aide to President Donald Trump says he won’t release his tax returns, insisting that voters aren’t concerned about the issue. “The White House response is he’s not going to release his tax returns,” said Trump’s senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, on ABC’s “This Week.” “We litigated this all through the election. People didn’t care,” […]