Construction on the US White House began in 1792. It has been almost continuously occupied by US presidents since 1800, barring a few years after the British set it on fire in 1814.
Democrats in America are getting excited about a “Blue Wave” they hope will sweep through November’s US midterm elections, giving the party control of one or both houses of Congress.
After seventeen died in a February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the White House issued a list of ways in which it promised to “secure our schools.”
Microsoft founder Bill Gates told his staff at the Gates Foundation, in a recently publicized video obtained by MSNBC, that he has had two meetings with Donald Trump since the president was elected.
The White House is discussing possible replacements for Department of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, because Donald Trump is unhappy with how she is running the massive agency tasked with keeping the US safe, according to two people briefed on the situation.
Russia didn’t just interfere in the 2016 US presidential election; it used the National Rifle Association to do it, Democrats on a US Senate Committee alleged today.
We have been here before. North Korea, a weaponized family-run dictatorship, seems close to an agreement with Western powers to disarm—only for things to fall apart before that happens.
In 1995, the US Congress voted to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. But until Donald Trump, presidents both Republican and Democratic resisted implementing the move, worried it could set off deadly violence. Yesterday, Trump’s advisors and family members Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner finally inaugurated the new Jerusalem embassy—while the death toll of Palestinian protestors ticked steadily up to over 50, including several children.
The worst fear lurking in the back of every mothers’ heads is “What if something terrible happens to my child?”
Plenty of people in Washington, D.C. receive six figure salaries to try to convince government officials to make decisions that benefit corporations, not the public.
It will be months, or years, before the world feels the full impact of Donald Trump ripping up the Iran nuclear deal. One thing that seems certain: The fraying relationship between the White House and European allies will come under further strain.
Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions could cost some of Europe’s biggest companies billions.
The NRA appointed Oliver North as its new president yesterday, May 7, in a reminder to the rest of the United States: Presidential scandals can be totally overcome—and so can criminal convictions.
In Oklahoma, schoolchildren use tattered history books that say George W. Bush is still president, and a third-grade teacher is pan-handling to pay for class supplies. Some Colorado school districts can only afford to hold classes four days a week. One Arizona teacher is paid so little that she works three other part-time jobs to make ends meet.
Donald Trump advisor and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s television interview blitz over the past 18 hours suggests the US president may have violated laws about campaign finance or financial disclosures, watchdog groups say.
Donald Trump’s recently-hired lawyer Rudy Giuliani offered up several surprises in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, and revealed that Trump had known of and financed a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a splashy, prop-filled press conference in Tel Aviv yesterday (April 30), where he alleged that Iran had a “secret nuclear weapons” program it has been “hiding for years from the international community in its secret atomic archive.”
Founded in 2001, Wikipedia is on the verge of adulthood. It’s the world’s fifth-most popular website, with 46 million articles in 300 languages, while having less than 300 full-time employees. What makes it successful is the 200,000 volunteers who create it, said Katherine Maher, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent-organization for Wikipedia and its sister sites.
As a legislator, Mick Mulvaney called the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) a “sick, sad, joke.” Now that he’s the head of the CFPB, he’s been undercutting the agency—while US consumers face a barrage of financial frauds, debt collection frauds, and unscrupulous lending practices.
In just over an hour alone with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, French president Emmanuel Macron appears to have changed the US president’s mind on a key pillar of his “America First” agenda—the Iran nuclear deal.
He is likely to “vent,” to be “hostile,” and believes what he says is “sacrosanct.” He is probably willing to hold a tough position for months, expecting the other side to fold. He is especially sensitive to bad press.
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey’s meticulously prepared memos of his meetings with US president Donald Trump were leaked to the press last night (April 19), within less than a hour of being shared with the House Judiciary Committee.
Updated: April 19, 8:30am
Donald Trump’s very first meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last year at the US president’s private Florida club was a highly anticipated event—Trump had promised a “tough” discussion after accusing Beijing of cheating on trade.
