Donald Trump’s meeting with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the US president’s private Florida club is supposed to touch on everything from the South China Sea to steel tariffs—but a potential summit between the US and North Korea is taking center stage.
Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Micheal Cohen is under investigation for “criminal conduct that largely centers on his business dealings,” according to a filing by federal prosecutors.
Few lawmakers have risen through the US political system in modern times with as much speed and fanfare as Paul Ryan, outgoing House Speaker.
After a long week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is done with the first round of his face-off with Congress.
Mark Zuckerberg left his normal uniform of gray t-shirt and jeans at home for his first-ever appearance under oath in front of US lawmakers, and pledged to tell the whole truth, wearing a trim navy suit and Facebook-blue tie.
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t planning on going anywhere.
US president Donald Trump is considering firing Robert Mueller, the Federal Bureau of Investigation special counsel investigating Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. He told reporters he’s mulling the possibility today after his personal attorney’s hotel room was raided by investigators.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prepared testimony for the US Congressional House energy and commerce committee, where he’ll be grilled on April 11, was published today (April 9). Much of it mirrors previous Facebook conference calls and statements, and his testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow (April 10) could look very similar.
As a private businessman, Donald Trump battled cabinet makers, mechanics, and painters, using bullying lawsuits and intimidation to negotiate a better “deal” for himself, by paying them less than promised.
There have been enough firings and resignations from the Trump White House that a pattern is starting to emerge. If it holds true this time, Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt should probably start cleaning out his desk.
Donald Trump has been unable to get funding from Congress for the “big, beautiful wall” he promised voters he would build on the US-Mexico border, so he offered up a new plan Tuesday (April 3): install US military troops there instead.
Thousands of US public school teachers from Oklahoma walked out of classrooms yesterday to protest huge cuts to state education funding. They’re protesting what some call a “crisis” in the Oklahoma economy and political system, which stripped funding from school supplies and salaries while giving huge tax cuts to corporations.
Teachers’ strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky are drawing attention to the dire state of public education funding in those US states. But failing to value educators is a nationwide problem—US teachers overall make some of the lowest relative salaries of educators in any developed country.
Democratic congress member Nancy Pelosi has become a top target of Republican campaign ads, which portray her as a big-spending liberal and a member of San Francisco’s elite.
A visibly upset Donald Trump said Friday he would support a $1.3 trillion bill to fund the US government, hours after tweeting that he might veto it.
In yet another shakeup at the White House, national security adviser H.R. McMaster has been replaced by hardline hawk John Bolton, who in the past has called for the US to bomb both North Korea (paywall) and Iran.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday that the company welcomes more regulation, particularly to bring transparency to political advertising online. But in recent months, Facebook has been quietly fighting lawmakers to keep them from passing an act that does exactly that, campaign transparency advocates and Congressional staff tell Quartz.
It is no secret that Donald Trump wasn’t the first choice of the Republican party, or some of its most powerful donors.
Facebook executives have been summoned in front of the US Congress yet again. This time they’re expected to explain why they allowed Cambridge Analytica, a marketing firm used by the Trump presidential campaign, to harvest the information of tens of millions of users without their consent.
Update March 23: Since publication, National Security Chief HR McMaster has been replaced and the US introduced new tariffs against China but eliminated most steel and aluminum tariffs.
Top officials at the White House and State department may have worked with conservative activists to purge career civil servants and diplomats who seemed “insufficiently loyal” to Donald Trump, House Democrats said today.
Larry Kudlow has a history of making poor calls when the economy looks to be hot. In late 2007, a time the National Bureau of Economic Research would later decide was the start of the recession, the cable-TV pundit argued that the “Bush Boom” was alive and well.
Pennsylvania’s special election has come down to a nail-biting finish, with Democrat Conor Lamb projected the winner in the early hours of the morning. It’s an astounding feat in a staunchly Republican district that Donald Trump took by about 20 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election.
Rex Tillerson seemed visibly shaken in his impromptu farewell speech on Tuesday (March 13), hours after news broke that the now-former US secretary of state had been fired by Donald Trump.
