Donald Trump will address the United Nations today, with a focus on US “sovereignty.” As White House advisors have explained in recent days, that means putting the will of the American people over that of the international community, trimming aid for countries and UN agencies that don’t agree with Trump’s positions, and questioning long-standing alliances and multilateral agreements.
On Sept. 24, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to face accusations he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old when he was also a teenager. The Congressional hearing could decide whether Kavanaugh receives a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the United States. It’s also shaping up to be a big-top moment in the ongoing circus that is American politics.
The White House is putting a 10% tariff on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, effective September 24, Donald Trump said in a statement Monday evening, to counter a “grave threat to the long-term health and prosperity of the United States economy.”
The top immigration-enforcement agencies in the US, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have a longstanding practice of suspending the enforcement of immigration laws during natural disasters. The agencies’ combined 80,000 employees are often drafted to help in post-disaster rescue and recovery efforts.
The Trump White House assault on the US Environmental Protection Agency has been brutal and well documented, including widespread staff reductions, a rolling back of rules and regulations that give the agency power, attempts to slash the agency’s budget, and efforts to undermine its very mission.
As Hurricane Florence churns up record-breaking waves on its way across the Atlantic, warnings about the strength of the storm are getting more strident.
“We’re as ready as anybody has ever been” for Hurricane Florence, US president Donald Trump said from the White House on Tuesday (Sept. 11), speaking about the Category 4 hurricane that’s barreling toward the US’s southeastern shore.
As the United States grappled with the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, many Americans were haunted by one question—could they have been prevented?
On Sept. 7, American troops shot live weapons in southeastern Syria that weren’t aimed at ISIS or another terrorist group—they were meant to deter Russians troops from invading a US base.
With his latest public appearance, Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped trigger a slide in company’s shares and may have scared off his HR chief for good. This time, Musk didn’t call anyone a pedophile, or potentially break US securities laws—he publicly smoked marijuana, on a talk show.
The US director of national intelligence says he didn’t write it. Ditto say the heads of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Housing, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the commerce secretary, the energy secretary, or the vice president. In a rare statement, even the first lady has disavowed it.
Donald Trump is so mentally unstable that members of his cabinet considered invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, an anonymous senior administration official writes in The New York Times.
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a US Supreme Court justice should be a shoe-in, but lobbying groups are still spending millions trying to convince American voters to support or oppose him.
Brett Kavanaugh finally got a chance to testify at the end of the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s tumultuous hearing about his Supreme Court nomination. But a moment during today’s recess threatens to overshadow his remarks.
About 30 people, most of them women, were arrested during Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation on Tuesday morning after shouting slogans and criticism at ruffled senators from the public gallery.
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee is off to a rocky start, with Democrats demanding the hearing be halted because regular order isn’t being followed.
Thanks to a whirlwind of executive orders, policy adjustments, and subtle bureaucratic changes, US immigration policy is looking more and more like the xenophobic 1920s. Back then, the US barred Asians, as well as Italians, Greeks, and people from Eastern Europe. This time, however, US immigration policies are focused on reducing the number of people from Muslim-majority countries, Mexico, Africa, and Central America.
Top White House lawyer Don McGahn is parting ways with Donald Trump as so many people do—messily, and with bad feelings on both sides. But part of McGahn’s legacy has little to do with his erstwhile boss: Well before Trump, McGahn played a crucial role in weakening US protections against compromised elections.
The US can’t afford to give its civilian workforce their planned raises, Donald Trump said today in a letter to Congress—so he’s cancelling them.
Vice president Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy at Senator John McCain’s memorial service in Phoenix, Arizona today, starting at 10am MST (1pm EDT).
The White House is “taking a look” into regulating Google, Donald Trump’s top economic advisor said Tuesday morning, after the US president tweeted in the early morning hours that googling “Trump news” turned up too many negative results.
Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that he’d reached a “very special” deal for American manufacturers and farmers, in a bilateral trade arrangement with Mexico he envisions as replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement that has included Canada.
Update Aug. 27 at 4:30 pm: The White House reversed course Monday afternoon, and will fly the flag at half-staff until McCain’s body is buried, the president said in a proclamation, as a “mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service.” Flags will be lowered on “all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels” until sunset on the day of McCain’s burial.
Prosecutors say David Pecker was instrumental in burying the stories of two women who say they had affairs with Donald Trump before the 2016 election. The CEO of AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer and Globe supermarket tabloids, also did a great service for Trump by printing wild stories about his opponents—while spiking a few about him.
