Several threatening and violent videos by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been removed from YouTube, but no one from the Google subsidiary wants to talk about it.
US education secretary Betsy DeVos’s 163-foot-yacht, the “Seaquest” was untied from its moorings and set adrift in the Huron Boat Basin in northern Ohio on Saturday night by an unknown person.
Donald Trump and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to put the EU-US trade war on hold in a hastily-called press conference in the Rose Garden today. After weeks of nasty remarks about Europeans cheating the US on trade, Trump spoke briefly about the “close friendship” that both sides share. “We made a deal today!” Juncker said.
Donald Trump’s sit-down in Washington, DC this afternoon with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to be tense. Both sides will negotiate the terms of an escalating trade war, which started when the Trump administration imposed tariffs on global steel and aluminum imports.
The Trump administration may have already deported parents of hundreds of detained immigrant children, new government data shows. Both the government and non-profit groups are struggling to locate those parents now, at the risk of never reuniting them with their kids.
Donald Trump is preparing a $12-billion financial aid package geared at reducing the damage his own trade policies are inflicting on American farmers. Details of the plan are scant, but the package is expected to be rolled out in September.
Alex Jones, the conspiracy-peddling online commentator, mimes shooting Robert Mueller in his latest online video, and says the US special prosecutor is going to “get it,” actions that appear to violate YouTube’s policy on threatening behavior.
Donald Trump and the White House unleashed a rollercoaster of self-contradiction this week, with a series of statements so cack-handed that right-wing media and Trump loyalists have embraced them as the deliberate “trolling” of America. They may have a point.
Several members of the Gang of Eight, a group of US Congress members who are sworn to secrecy on intelligence matters, want to know more about what Donald Trump discussed with Vladimir Putin. One way to find out: Summoning Trump’s interpreter to testify to the group.
Donald Trump continued to defend Russia and defy the US intelligence community today (July 18), saying there’s no evidence Russia continues to meddle in American elections (there is), and promising “great things” coming out of his Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin.
Republicans swiftly condemned Donald Trump’s performance at today’s joint press conference with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, in which the US president refused to back repeated findings by US intelligence agencies that Russia attacked the US 2016 election.
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sat down for their first handshake ahead of a US-Russia summit today, the US president appeared to wink at his Russian counterpart while flashing a tight smile.
Donald Trump has a long history of criticizing Mexicans and Muslims, black women, and people protesting racism. But the US president seemed to move a step closer to endorsing the far right’s white nationalist views during his trip to Britain, both in an interview with The Sun and a press conference Friday (July 13) with UK prime minister Theresa May.
Donald Trump is deeply unpopular in many countries outside of the United States—but perhaps nowhere more so than in Scotland.
It’s been three years since the House committee tasked with legal oversight of the US Department of Homeland Security actually had a hearing on the agency’s actions—a lapse that Democratic members of Congress are calling “indefensible.”
There’s probably no agency in the Trump administration that’s more controversial right now than ICE. The 20,000-strong Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the entity responsible for carrying out many of the White House’s hardline immigration policies, including deporting people who have been in the country for years.
Selecting a Supreme Court justice has always been a political process, one riven with behind-the-scenes maneuvering by donors, political parties, and hidden special interests. Donald Trump’s reality show approach to replacing Anthony Kennedy has exacerbated the situation, and the scrambling ahead of tonight’s 9pm announcement has been intense.
America’s generations-old battle over who gets to live in this nation of immigrants is raging anew, and the agency known as ICE has become a lightning rod.
Environmental Protection Agency secretary Scott Pruitt, known for his lavish expenditures and misuse of power, resigned today. In a letter addressed to Donald Trump, Pruitt cited “unrelenting” and “unprecedented” attacks on him and his family.
Late Tuesday afternoon (July 3), as most of Washington, D.C. was headed out of the office to celebrate the US’s Independence Day holiday, the Department of Justice issued a curious list.
The Trump administration is rolling back Obama’s policies on affirmative action in colleges.
Today, the Canadian government released a long list of US products worth C$16.6 billion ($12.6 billion) that will be subject to new import taxes.
Donald Trump opened a new manufacturing facility in Wisconsin with a golden shovel on Thursday, flanked by state governor Scott Walker, congressman Paul Ryan, and Foxconn chairman Terry Gou.
Brett Kavanaugh, a Washington, DC appeals court judge and former clerk for Supreme Court judge Anthony Kennedy, has quickly emerged as the top candidate to replace Kennedy when he retires.
