A third Republican congressman has called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step down, growing the group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill calling on Sessions to step aside.
Rep. Christ Stewart of Utah, a member of the House Intelligence …
Continue ReadingBillionaire Democratic activist, Tom Steyer, has purchased a copy of Fire and Fury, the controversial new anti-Trump book, for every member of Congress. Steyer told California’s KQED radio station that he plans on hand-delivering 535 copies of the …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump met with Republican leaders of Congress as well as several Cabinet officials today at Camp David to set the Republican Agenda for 2018. In comments to the press, the president said, “it will be tough to beat the …
Continue ReadingLawmakers on Capitol Hill invited a Yale University psychiatry professor to brief them about President Donald Trump’s mental health over two days last month. The meetings were attended by more than a dozen Democrats, and one Republican senator according to …
Continue ReadingA Breitbart editor has fired back at Donald Trump, in defense of Steve Bannon. The editor, Raheem Kassam, tweeted at the president, that his tweet was “outrageous even by POTUS standards.”
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The tweet was in response to a message …
Continue ReadingSpecial counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly looking into an interaction between first daughter, Ivanka Trump, and a Russian lawyer had on the same day that lawyer met with other members of the Trump family in June 2016.
The lawyer, Natalia …
Continue ReadingDemocrats are accusing Republicans of short-circuiting the investigation into Russian meddling by the House Intelligence Committee. They accuse Republicans of slow-walking the investigation, and failing to follow certain leads and call key witnesses.
Republicans refute that characterization, citing a long …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump is sticking to earlier demands for tighter border security in the ongoing negotiations over a permanent solution for those seeking protection under the DACA program. A spending bill must be passed by January 19 to avoid a government …
Continue ReadingThe home of Tina Johnson was destroyed by fire yesterday in Gadsden, Alabama. Johnson is one of the women who accused former Alabama senate candidate, Roy More, of sexual harassment in the weeks leading up to December’s special election. Arson …
Continue ReadingTwo Republican Senators have sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department asking it to look into whether a former British intelligence officer made false statements to the FBI about the way information that he compiled about Russian meddling in …
Continue ReadingThe US has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday to discuss the “troubling and dangerous situation” in Iran, it was announced Thursday. Protests have roiled the country over the past week. Twenty-one people have been …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump instructed White House lawyers to persuade Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, according to The New York Times. The lawyers attempted to persuade Sessions to remain involved in the investigation by citing two …
Continue ReadingThe list of US companies now giving bonuses to their employees because of the GOP tax plan passed last month now tops 100, according to the conservative Americans for Tax Reform. Most of the expenditures are in the form of …
Continue ReadingConservative mega donor Rebekah Mercer cut ties with Steve Bannon yesterday after Bannon and President Trump got into a very public row. Bannon called a meeting Trump family members took with Russian individuals “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” in newly-released …
Continue ReadingSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan has sided with a fellow Republican congressman in a dispute with Department of Justice officials over the surrendering of confidential information. The documents pertain to the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling.
Chairman of the …
Continue ReadingThe US economy added 250,000 jobs last month beating estimates of 190,000 in a jobs report released this morning. It was the strongest month of job creation since March 2017.
Professional and business services accounted for the most job gains …
Continue ReadingThe FBI has opened an investigation into the Clinton Foundation focusing on whether any political favors were exchanged for contributions to the Clinton family charitable organization. Agents from the Little Rock, Arkansas office have taken the lead in the investigation …
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