It’s firearms appreciation season again, as Donald Trump and Mike Pence have been delivering speeches for the audience of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual conference.
John Kelly may not have joined the elite club of former White House chiefs of staff yet, but this week he joined another exclusive group: Donald Trump’s close confidantes who reportedly insult him behind his back.
Donald Trump’s tweets are a hallmark of his presidency. He considers his Twitter feed to be a key way of connecting with his supporters—even though the majority of Americans, many of his supporters, his party, and no doubt his lawyers have long thought that he should stop.
When he was nominated to be Trump’s chief of staff last July, John Kelly was hailed by commentators as the man who would rein in the US president, imposing a bit of military order and decorum on a chaotic White House. Less than a year later, it looks like Kelly himself could use a bit of restraint.
Bill Gates is obsessed with vaccines.
Before Donald Trump nominated Ronny Jackson to be his secretary of veteran affairs, the White House physician was cleared four times by the FBI, said press secretary Sarah Sanders today (Apr. 25). Jackson has served in the White House since 2006.
The Trump administration wants to turn back the clock on preventing teen pregnancy in the US by funding programs that urge young Americans to avoid sex altogether. It’s an approach that has failed before in a country that has long lagged its peers on the issue.
Gone are the days when France would splurge on gifts for its old ally America, and ship the Statue of Liberty across the Atlantic as a grand gesture of friendship. Emmanuel Macron, who accompanied by his wife Brigitte arrived in Washington, DC, today (Apr. 23) to visit Donald Trump and his wife Melania, brought a much simpler cadeau: An oak sapling.
The Grimm brothers’ seminal book of fairytales is over two centuries old. But the duo has been credited with a new story, “The Princess and the Fox,” just this month—with some help from artificial intelligence.
The US State Department published its first human-rights report under the Trump administration yesterday (April 20). The rights deemed worthy of promotion and protection by the State Department, however, appear trimmed when comparing them to the ones surveyed by the Obama administration.
Preparations for the April 27 summit between leaders of North and South Korea are underway, and include making it easier for the two men to call each other up.
Arizona public school teachers have voted to go on strike beginning April 26, following the example of colleagues in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky earlier this year.
Tammy Duckworth brought her 10-day-old daughter Maile Pearl Bowlsbey to work today—and made history as the first sitting US senator to do so. For that to be possible, the Senate had to vote to change its rules to allow babies on the floor, which required getting straight answers to a series of tough questions, such as whether the Illinois senator planned to change her baby’s diaper, or breastfeed, while in session.
Nikki Haley was just doing her job.
There aren’t many women in James Comey’s book—and there are only two he explicitly describes as leadership models. One is Helen Fahey, his onetime boss as a federal prosecutor. The other is Patrice Failor, his wife.
Starbucks often touts its progressive values. But its response to a recent episode of racial discrimination suggests that the coffee chain is operating under outdated ideas about what it takes to combat prejudice.
James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, is finally out. It is, the former FBI director says, a treatise on ethical leadership. But it feels more like a 150-page build-up to a 100-page tell-all about Comey’s role in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and his disastrous tenure in the first months after US president Donald Trump’s election.
James Comey did not hide his concerns about Donald Trump’s fitness to be US president in his book A Higher Loyalty to be released April 17—nor did he in his interview with George Stephanopoulos which aired tonight (Apr. 15) on ABC television.
NLawyers for Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to Donald Trump, argued in a hearing today that a recent FBI raid on his offices swept up sensitive documents that should be protected by client-attorney privilege. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has an interesting counterargument: Cohen is barely a practicing lawyer, anyway—which they claim to know because they’ve been reading his emails.
Excerpts of James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, leaked earlier this week and reviews have been unleashed—prompting a return of the New York Times legendary former chief book critic Michiko Kakutani (paywall). The former FBI head’s literary debut has already climbed to the top of Amazon’s bestseller books list, just like Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury did a few months ago.
Wendy Vitter is Trump’s latest nominee for district judge in Louisiana. Her nomination is highly controversial, and not only because the counsel for New Orleans’ Catholic archdiocese has only ever judged one federal case, over two decades ago. During her confirmation hearing, Vitter also made waves by refusing to discuss certain established US civil rights.
America’s maternal health is the worst in the developed world, and Texas is often cited as the symbol of the problem: With a reported 32.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, its situation was long believed to be the worst in the country. When a much-cited paper published in 2016 in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology noted that maternal mortality in Texas had seen a dramatic increase—40% more—between 2010 and 2012, America woke up to the urgency of addressing the maternal health crisis.
Donald Trump presented this week a nine-point plan to boost US economic mobility and reform the welfare system. According to the White House website, the proposed reforms “will restore independence and dignity to millions of Americans,” which typically means putting welfare recipients to work.
US senator Tammy Duckworth gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, yesterday (April 9). Maile Pearl is Duckworth’s second child—she has another daughter named Abigail—and the first-ever child to be birthed by a serving senator.
