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.
The Trump administration is behind deadline. A court has ordered that all immigrant children who were separated from their parents be reunited within the month: Kids who are younger than five years old are supposed to be reunited by July 10. The remainder of the estimated 3000 kids are supposed to be reunited by July 26.
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.
A career border patrol agent who has become the de facto spokesman for Donald Trump’s elusive border wall is likely to be named the new head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. An announcement could come as soon as Friday.
It’s going to be a tough week for the twenty restaurants, bakeries, and coffee houses in the United States with “Red Hen” in their name. Over the weekend, several were bombarded with death threats, nasty online reviews, and even eggs, after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Twitter she was was asked to leave the “Red Hen” restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.
The new Trump administration policy that automatically separates families at the US’s southern border has likely resulted in thousands of children, some as young as a year old, being taken from the parents.
The most lasting image from Donald Trump’s historic meeting with Kim Jong Un on June 12 came shortly after the first hand shake; the US president gave a thumbs-up to the young dictator, who smiled back
As Donald Trump flies back to the United States after his historic sitdown with Kim Jong Un, the big question remains: “What, exactly, did this summit accomplished?”
People fleeing domestic or gang violence do not qualify for asylum in the United States, attorney general Jeff Sessions said on Monday, overturning an earlier immigration board decision. The ruling could impact thousands of people.
The Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will only last through lunch, the White House says, a shorter-than-expected meeting time that raises new questions about what, if anything, will actually be accomplished.
