Senate again fails to override Trump’s border wall emergency declaration
The Republican-controlled Senate failed on Thursday to overturn President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration he has used to pay for…
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Hours before passing, Cummings signed subpoenas directed to two US immigration agencies
In one of his last official acts before his death, the late House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings signed two subpoenas for…
Continue Reading Ukrainian energy giant was a focus for Rick Perry and Giuliani associates
In the months leading up to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, multiple people associated…
Continue Reading O’Rourke struggles to outline specifics on proposed mandatory gun buyback
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke struggled to explain on Wednesday how he would make people who wish to do harm with an assault-style weapon to comply…
Continue Reading It’s official: Elizabeth Warren is our new Democratic 2020 front-runner
Within the first 10 minutes of Tuesday’s fourth presidential debate, you could tell something fundamental had changed in the race: Elizabeth…
Continue Reading Nancy Pelosi says Donald Trump is melting down. There’s lots of evidence she’s right.
After (yet another) hugely contentious meeting between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday, Democratic…
Continue Reading McConnell wants a Syria resolution stronger than what passed the Democratically controlled House
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull US troops from Syria, said Thursday he…
Continue Reading Obama says ‘Cummings stood tallest and most resolute when our country needed him the most’
Former President Barack Obama remembered the late Rep. Elijah Cummings on Thursday, saying the longtime Maryland Democrat “stood tallest and…
Continue Reading Elijah Cummings understood the meaning of struggle
The sudden passing of Elijah Cummings, the passionate and outspoken civil rights advocate and congressman from Maryland, is a major loss to American…
Continue Reading Trump to host G7 at his own Florida resort property
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced during a White House press briefing that the 2020 G7 summit will be held at Trump National…
Continue Reading READ: Trump European Union ambassador’s testimony before Congress
US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is speaking behind closed doors on Thursday before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and…
Continue Reading Trump tweeted a photo attacking Nancy Pelosi. She made it her Twitter cover photo.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday redirected an attack from President Donald Trump on Twitter, turning a photo he had tweeted of her during a…
Continue Reading Final simulator tests for 737 MAX expected to begin in early November, sources say
A select group of US and international airline pilots are expected to participate in the final round of simulator testing of Boeing’s new…
Continue Reading Here’s what we really need to be debating
Many heads turned when the moderators of the fourth Democratic debate ended the three-hour extravaganza with this: “…we’d like you…
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, key figure in Trump investigations, dies at 68
Rep. Elijah Cummings, a longtime Maryland Democrat and key figure leading investigations into President Donald Trump, has died at age 68, his office…
Continue Reading Wasserman Schultz says Cummings ‘had unmatched integrity, wisdom’
House Oversight Committee member Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz mourned on Thursday the passing of the panel’s chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings,…
Continue Reading Menendez says WH meeting with Hill leaders was ‘belligerent from the get-go’
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee said Thursday that a rancorous White House meeting on Syria — during which top…
Continue Reading Trump wrote letter to Erdogan telling him ‘don’t be a fool’
In an extraordinary letter sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week, President Donald Trump warned that he could destroy…
Continue Reading It’s now or never for Castro, Gabbard, Klobuchar and O’Rourke
For four Democrats, the CNN/New York Times presidential debate on Tuesday night could have been their last. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, former…
Continue Reading Trump and Graham: It’s complicated
Sen. Lindsey Graham is frantic. “He’s making the biggest mistake of his presidency,” the South Carolina Republican tells reporters…
Continue Reading Twitter tells Kamala Harris why it won’t suspend Trump’s account
Twitter told Sen. Kamala Harris that it would not suspend President Donald Trump’s account despite her urging the company to do so, according…
Continue Reading Trump explodes at Pelosi as more key impeachment testimony looms
President Donald Trump’s frustration with the Democratic impeachment probe is boiling over, with investigators set Thursday to peel back yet…
Continue Reading Supreme Court wrestles with immigration-related case as Sotomayor breaks the new 2-minute rule
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was so eager to jump into a case Wednesday concerning the tension between the federal government and states when it comes to…
Continue Reading Trump doubles down on Syria decision with false claims as Republican anger grows
President Donald Trump undermined his own senior officials, frustrated Republican allies, alarmed arms control specialists and further angered…
Continue Reading Pence and Pompeo to meet with Erdogan after Trump undermines their effort
A high-level American delegation tasked with brokering a ceasefire amid the Turkish incursion into Syria landed in Turkey Thursday morning to…
Continue Reading The surgeon general is shirking his job
Like any top-level White House appointee, Surgeon General Jerome Adams serves at the pleasure of President Donald Trump and owes him some measure of…
Continue Reading Small-dollar platform raises $297 million for Democratic candidates and causes in third quarter
Small-dollar donors contributed a record-breaking $297 million to liberal causes and candidates through ActBlue during the third quarter, the online…
Continue Reading Rudy Giuliani’s business dealings sit at the center of the deepening Trump-Ukraine scandal. Here’s the latest.
For months, investigators looking into Rudy Giuliani’s business dealings in Ukraine have dug into everything from possible financial…
Continue Reading ‘Forceful, blunt and undiplomatic’: the ambassador now at the center of the impeachment probe
When Gordon Sondland arrived in Brussels as the US ambassador to the European Union in July 2018, it didn’t take long before people were…
Continue Reading Wall Street Journal: Rick Perry spoke with Rudy Giuliani at Trump’s direction about Ukraine
Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he spoke with President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani at the President’s direction this…
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