As president, Donald Trump has mostly made speeches outside the White House to politically charged groups that donated heavily to his campaign, or at massive rallies to support other Republicans running for Congress.
Donald Trump presented a new “immigration reform” proposal today at the White House that would upend the United States’ long history of welcoming the poor, striving, and needy, and reserve citizenship for people with higher education and fat paychecks.
The Trump administration is looking for a private contractor to move the dramatically increasing number of children detained at the US border with Mexico to shelters across the country.
The trade war is back on. This week, China vowed to raise tariffs on $60 billion of US goods, retaliating against tariffs the US government imposed on May 10. The White House is now threatening to levy 25% duties on all remaining Chinese goods the US imports.
Like most US laws about women’s reproductive choices, Georgia’s new “heartbeat bill” that bans abortion after six weeks will have a significant impact on men’s lives as well.
China’s latest tariff retaliation, announced today, will hit some $60 billion in US exports, including hundreds of agricultural, mining, and manufactured products, threatening jobs and profits at companies around the United States.
Beijing hit back at the Trump administration’s latest trade tariffs today, saying it would apply duties as high as 25% on more than 5,000 US products, a move expected to hit US exporters of everything from liquified natural gas to peanut oil.
Rick Smith, the founder and CEO of Axon, was studying finance in graduate school when two men he’d played high school football with were fatally shot after a road rage incident in an Arizona parking lot.
Donald Trump’s Twitter feed is playing an increasingly central role in the messy trade talks between the US and China.
Slack, the workplace messaging tool originally designed for media and tech industry offices, has become so ubiquitous in the US that it’s being adopted by dairy farms and luxury restaurants.
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Donald Trump’s canceled trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January still left US taxpayers on the hook for at least $3.2 million in car rentals and unused hotel rooms, according to an analysis of federal spending data by Quartz.
Donald Trump was praised by religious leaders of many faiths during the traditional National Day of Prayer today, but only one declared the White House “holy ground” and staved off demons.
In his sworn testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee May 1, William Barr answered five hours of questions, but raised brand new concerns about his conduct and fitness as the US’s top law enforcement official.
US attorney general William Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning will be closely watched for what he says about how he publicly represented special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.
Donald Trump, his children, and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit April 29 against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in an attempt to prevent the lenders from turning over information about the Trumps’ financial dealings that was subpoenaed by Congress.
Joe Biden’s long-awaited jump into the 2020 presidential race this past week has been marked by soaring oratory, jabs at Trump, insults from the White House—and hordes of American women asking each other, “Can you believe this %#&)*?”
With the entry of Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential race, there are now 20 declared Democratic candidates.
Donald Trump’s February 15 emergency declaration to siphon about $6.5 billion from military, drug enforcement, and other budgets so he can build his long-promised wall along the Mexican border is still stuck in the courts. But that isn’t stopping the Army Corps of Engineers, which handles most of the contracting duties for border wall construction, from getting ready to spend it anyway. In a pre-solicitation notice issued April 19, the Army Corps says it is seeking companies who want to pre-qualify to bid on “horizontal construction projects in support of the Border Infrastructure Program along the US-Mexico border” with a total value of up to $8 billion.
Five of the 19 Democratic candidates for US president appeared in a five-hour CNN town hall last night, taking questions from the audience and moderators about everything from gun safety to student debt to prisoners‘ voting rights.
US attorney general William Barr’s press conference about the Mueller report this morning was already being scrutinized for potential partisan bias—and then the full report came out.
A redacted version of the long-awaited Mueller report was finally released today by the US Department of Justice. Nearly two years in the making, the 450-page document traces the investigative efforts of special counsel Robert Mueller and dozens of FBI investigators and lawyers, and includes testimony from officials including former attorney general Jeff Sessions, director of intelligence Dan Coats, and Donald Trump’s own written answers to questions.
US attorney general William Barr held a press conference April 18 at the Department of Justice headquarters on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A redacted copy of Mueller’s report will be available on the DOJ’s website shortly. Here are his full remarks:
Elizabeth Warren stopped in a former airport hanger in Aurora, Colorado, part of the fast-growing Denver outskirts, yesterday (April 16) to talk climate change, healthcare, and inequality in America.
