Donald Trump is threatening once again to shut down the US government if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall between the US and Mexico. An animated spat with presumed incoming speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leader Charles Schumer at the White House this morning (Dec. 11.), shows how unlikely he is to get what he wants.
Maria Butina, a Russian graduate student in the US, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges related to being a spy for the Kremlin, which could reveal closer ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Russia, and the National Rifle Association.
Update, Dec. 12: Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison.
William P. Barr, the former attorney general under George H. W. Bush, could be returning to his old job, after Donald Trump nominated him today (Dec. 7) to fill the position held by Jeff Sessions.
Dec. 7, 2018 marks the 686th day that Donald Trump has been president of the United States. It may also prove to be one of the most chaotic for a White House that’s been marked by turmoil.
Uncertainty about the future of the global economy has roiled stock markets in recent weeks, but what’s scheduled to hit in March could be worse than anything we’ve seen so far.
Republican senators briefed by Central Intelligence Agency director Gina Haspel about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi Tuesday (Dec. 4) had an immediate reaction: Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman is guilty.
Updated Dec. 4 at 12:30pm EDT.
US president Donald Trump flew to more than 40 political rallies in the months leading up to the 2018 mid-term elections, to coax his loyal fans to come out to the polls for Republican candidates. A Quartz analysis of Trump’s travel schedule and the latest Department of Defense operating figures for Air Force One aircraft suggests the tab for the air travel alone was $17 million.
Donald Trump pledged on the campaign trail to get rid of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. His trade delegation did just that, at least in name, dubbing the renegotiated version of the deal USMCA, or US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, heads of the world’s two largest economies, are set to meet at in Buenos Aires for a “working dinner” on Saturday night that will have global repercussions.
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Update, Jan. 18, 2019: A new report alleges Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, potentially implicating the president further.
US senators voted overwhelmingly today to pull support from Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military activities in Yemen. The 63-37 bipartisan vote is a clear rebuke to the Trump White House, secretary of state Mike Pompeo, and the Saudi royal family.
In 2008, US investment banker Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in a Florida state court to soliciting an underage prostitute, was sentenced to 18 months in jail, and required to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life.
Donald Trump’s top security advisor, John Bolton, told reporters at the White House today that there was no reason for him to listen to an audio tape of Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, because there’s nothing he would “get from it.”
The US Homeland Security Department hasn’t had a deputy secretary since April. Now it doesn’t even have an acting deputy secretary.
The US government plans to use more aggressive forest management to prevent deadly fires like those in California that have displaced thousands in recent weeks.
The US State Department said today (Nov. 20) that it rejects a report that secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave the Saudi royal family a cover-up plan to divert attention from crown prince Mohammed bin Salman as journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder was investigated.
Georgia candidate for governor Stacey Abrams gave a non-concession concession speech on Nov. 16 that’s been lauded as a landmark moment for American civil rights. The speech took aim at Abrams’ Republican opponent Brian Kemp, who attempted to prevent tens of thousands of registered voters from casting a ballot, including a disproportionate number of African Americans, in his position as secretary of state. After several days in which the race looked close enough to trigger a run-off vote, Kemp ultimately won the governor’s mansion with 50.22%.
When US president Donald Trump visited Paradise, California, he offered some perplexing advice to the tens of thousands of people who have been displaced by the Camp Fire that’s burned over 140,000 acres of forest and thousands of homes.
Walmart’s longstanding policy of allowing people to park overnight at its stores have turned the lots into impromptu American camping spots, a home for everything from teenage carousing to radio broadcasts.
A bald Steve Carell mocks Donald Trump’s bankruptcies, hair loss, and relative lack of wealth while portraying Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a new Saturday Night Live skit.
Emails unearthed by a British academic and OpenDemocracy.net suggest that former Trump White House advisor Stephen Bannon and Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that employed him, advised the “Leave.EU” campaign and raised money for it.
