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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The security chief for Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Saturday that the Saudi government had access to Bezos’ phone and gained private information from it. Gavin De Becker, a longtime security consultant, said he had concluded his investigation into the publication in January of leaked text messages between Bezos and … Continue reading "Saudis gained access to Amazon CEO Bezos’ phone: Bezos’ security chief"

Trump is so confident or delusional in his belief that he will get to nominate the replacement for RBG that he has his nominee already picked out.

Fox News's Chris Wallace flat out told Kellyanne Conway that she was making untrue statements about Mueller's findings.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) said that it is time for Congress to act to get the Mueller report as he had enough of Barr’s excuses and Trump’s tweets. Democrats want the Mueller report now Rep. Doggett said on MSNBC, “Well, I think it’s time to take action. We don’t have the 400-page Mueller report. We … Continue reading "House Democrat Calls For Action To Get The Mueller Report"

A new NBC News/WSJ poll found that instead of helping Trump, the president's lies and exaggerations about the Mueller report are harming his approval rating.

The White House has come up with a new lie as Trump's Mueller report cover story is falling apart.

By P.J. Huffstutter and Humeyra Pamuk CHICAGO/COLUMBUS, Neb. (Reuters) – At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water this month, satellite data analyzed by Gro Intelligence for Reuters showed. Farms from the Dakotas to Missouri … Continue reading "Exclusive: More than 1 million acres of U.S. cropland ravaged by floods"

"Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes," Russo said on Friday in a statement. Biden believes Flores has every right to share her own recollection, Russo added, and that it is a positive change for U.S. society that she has the opportunity.

Make no mistake, rich people love the GOP — and their tax cuts. According to a new study reported by Axios this morning, super-rich CEO’s of big corporations have been flooding the Republican Party with contributions. They want to keep their tax breaks coming, even as the United States faces record budget deficits, and possible … Continue reading "New Study Shows Rich CEO’s Are Buying the Republican Party"

The battle for control of the U.S. Senate in 2020 may be decided in the cornfields of Iowa. Incumbent Republican Senator Joni Ernst is a rising star in the GOP and her seat is supposed to be safe. But nothing is safe for Republicans now, after Donald Trump’s trade war. Trump’s tariffs have caused massive … Continue reading "Loyalty to Trump May Cost the GOP Senate Control in 2020"

A battle is brewing between Democrats in Congress and Attorney General William Barr over access to grand jury testimony, which is some of the most sensitive evidence obtained in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Barr said he is still reviewing Mueller’s entire final report, although he issued a summary of the report’s final conclusions. He … Continue reading "House Democrats Begin Fight to See Mueller’s ‘Critical’ Evidence"

Robert DeNiro was on “Saturday Night Live” again last night doing an outstanding job playing the role of former special counsel Robert Mueller. In the show’s cold opening sketch Alec Baldwin was also featured portraying President Donald Trump, doing his usual excellent job as well. The skit ridiculed how Attorney General Bill Barr (played by … Continue reading "SNL Hilariously Mocks Barr and Trump For Spinning the Mueller Report"

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Friday she was “very encouraged” by the Senate vote this week on the “Green New Deal,” the sweeping climate policy resolution she introduced last month, even though the Senate defeated it. The non-binding resolution, which proposes to eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a … Continue reading "U.S. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez ‘encouraged’ despite Senate rejecting ‘Green New Deal’"

NCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing. The decision issued late Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason leaves intact President Barack Obama’s policies putting the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea, part … Continue reading "Judge kills Trump order opening Arctic, Atlantic areas to oil leasing"

By Tim Reid EL PASO (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke will hold a major rally in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, a city thrust to the center of America’s immigration debate by President Donald Trump and the U.S government this week. O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, will kick off three rallies … Continue reading "Beto O’Rourke rallies on Mexican border that Trump threatens to close"

By Julio-Cesar Chavez EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in U.S. federal custody in December was caused by strep-induced sepsis, a Texas medical examiner’s autopsy report released on Friday showed. Jakelin Caal traveled with her father to a remote stretch of U.S. border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico, where … Continue reading "Guatemalan migrant girl in U.S. custody died of sepsis: autopsy report"

By Philip Pullella and Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Saturday that problems of migration would never be resolved by physical barriers but instead required social justice and correcting the world’s economic imbalances. Francis, starting a two-day visit to Morocco, also backed Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s efforts to spread a moderate form … Continue reading "Pope in Morocco says physical barriers won’t solve migration issue"

In short, Trump’s policies aren’t helping, and the prospects aren’t looking good.

One of my favorite book titles is that of Tom Moylan’s 1986 study of utopian literature: Demand the Impossible. He explains, if memory serves, that he saw those words spray-painted on a wall in the Paris streets during the 1968 mass rebellions. The phrase stayed with him, clearly, as it has with me The phrase … Continue reading "Democrats evolve to “demand the impossible” against GOP Cynicism"

Donald Trump likes to think he is an authoritarian ruler that can use the U.S. government as his personal playtoy, but he is in for a rude awakening.

With the administration renewing its push to take health care coverage from millions of Americans, health care is likely to be even more important in 2020. 

As his political situation becomes more desperate, Donald Trump has begun to threaten even more desperate moves to stop the influx of undocumented immigrants at the Mexican border. Yesterday Trump “threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico ‘doesn’t immediately stop all illegal … Continue reading "Trump Threatens Border Closing and Cuts in Aid to Central America"

The administration is behaving as they have all along, like people who know they're guilty and are working tirelessly to conceal the facts.

Donald Trump’s self-destructive decision to try to completely dismantle the Affordable Care Act, as the race for the 2020 election is just beginning, has Republican lawmakers and GOP consultants panicking. They know something that he apparently doesn’t know: that Trump’s moves on healthcare and other social programs will assure that he loses in 2020. And … Continue reading "A GOP Disaster Looms in 2020 Due to Trump’s Moves on Social Programs"

Stacey Abrams of Georgia is now a national powerhouse in Democratic Party politics, but few people know about it. After narrowly losing the governor’s race in the Peach State in November Abrams has quietly built a “massive political network” that will make her an instant force once she decides what her next move will be. She … Continue reading "Stacey Abrams Has Built a “Massive Political Network”"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Friday that Attorney General William Barr would “break the law” if he released Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report without redactions, as Democrats are demanding. The lawmaker, Representative Doug Collins, also criticized the panel’s Democratic chairman Jerrold Nadler for not accepting … Continue reading "House Republican says it would be illegal to release full Mueller report"

Republicans in Congress have begun a witch hunt, as they have started to plan their own probe into top Obama-era officials and the 2016 election. The GOP is obviously anxious to move past special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign. So now they are starting to investigate “the investigators,” … Continue reading "Republicans Begin Witch Hunt, Plan to Investigate Obama Officials"

The right-wing viewers of Fox News are very unhappy with the network’s chief legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano right now. And they have taken to Twitter to express their extreme displeasure with what Napolitano had to say about Bill Barr, the Mueller report, and comments made by Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). In … Continue reading "Viewers Roast Fox Legal Analyst For Agreeing With Adam Schiff"

The bad news for Trump is that Schiff is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and he’s dropped any pretense of accepting a Mueller decision as the final word on collusion.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) flatly stated that Congress would get the whole Mueller report, even the redacted sections. Adam Schiff Vows To Get The Mueller Report Schiff said during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: We’re going to compel the release of the report. This report is all going to come … Continue reading "Adam Schiff Just Shattered Trump’s Hope Of Burying The Mueller Report"

McConnell enraged Democrats in 2016 when he refused to hold confirmation hearings or a vote on Obama's choice of Merrick Garland to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. At the time, McConnell said that choice should be made by the winner of the November 2016 presidential election, which turned out to be Trump.

HHS announced on Friday they will be awarding Obria, a pro-life California health care group, $1.7 million each year for the next three years.

Trump went on a Twitter tirade on Friday night where he said that Republicans should take their "victory" and refuse to release the Mueller report.

In his latest letter to Congress, Attorney General Barr said that he would not be sending the Mueller report to Trump to edit, but he will be editing the report for Trump himself.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will probably talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping about the crisis in Venezuela.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on Friday that Attorney General William Barr should send Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report to Congress without redactions. “As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access … Continue reading "Nadler says Mueller report should be released to Congress without redactions"

"I do not believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or release it in serial or piecemeal fashion," he wrote.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would end the collection of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Agency in an effort to undo a widely criticized security measure passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. “The NSA’s sprawling phone records dragnet was born … Continue reading "Bipartisan lawmakers introduce bill to stop NSA’s mass data collection"

White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Friday that President Donald Trump is eager for a U.S. trade deal with Britain once it breaks away from the European Union.

Editor’s Note: Other news sources report that Trump will be allowed to assert executive privilege but hasn’t said that he will. By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to issue a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly 400-page investigative report into Russian interference in the 2016 election … Continue reading "Attorney General Barr to release *redacted* copy of Mueller report in mid-April"

By Jose Luis Gonzalez EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants are being held in a chain link enclosure in El Paso, Texas as the number of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the city overwhelms U.S. Border Patrol facilities, the agency said on Thursday. The enclosure holds migrants crossing the border illegally in … Continue reading "Migrants held in El Paso, Texas in a chain link enclosure"

Rush Limbaugh suggested that Republicans may be doomed in 2020 if Trump keeps attacking Obamacare.

Mark Mills joins the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the climate change debate and the science behind proposed green energy alternatives.

Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made it clear that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn't going anywhere as she also took out Devin Nunes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico “doesn’t immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the United States” from the region. Trump has repeatedly vowed to close the U.S. border with Mexico in the … Continue reading "Trump threatens to close U.S. border with Mexico next week"

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday stuck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy skimpy health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act requirements – part of administration efforts to chip away at the healthcare law. Judge John Bates of the … Continue reading "U.S judge strikes down Trump rule allowing ‘skimpy’ health insurance plans"

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told lawmakers on Thursday he did not know whether any of the approvals he authorized for U.S. companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia were made after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October last year.

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said in the document that the companies had requested that the Trump administration keep the approvals secret.

Frédéric Martel's book, 'In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy,' proves to be an appalling exercise in smearing the Catholic Church in order to grind a personal and theological axes.

Donald Trump is really going off the rails. His crazy antics might be funny if he weren’t the most powerful man in the world, who has the codes to America’s nuclear weapons. As head of both the U.S. military and the U.S. law enforcement agencies, Trump is in a unique position to abuse his power … Continue reading "Trump Must Be Removed From Office for Creating a New Enemies List"

To conservatives it is obvious that Ben Shapiro is not a member of the alt-right. Why is that so hard for many on the left to understand? Because they often don't understand conservatism at all.

For the past five days Donald Trump has continually claimed that he has been “totally exonerated” by Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. But a new poll released Friday shows that the majority of Americans are skeptical and are not buying Trump’s claims of exoneration. The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll … Continue reading "Americans Aren’t Buying Trump’s Claims of Exoneration"

Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was on CNN this morning and told host John Berman that he believes Adam Schiff has nothing to apologize for when it comes to accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia. He also said that Bill Barr’s summary of the Mueller report will not absolve Donald Trump of his … Continue reading "Himes: Barr’s Letter Won’t Absolve Trump of His Sleazy Behavior"

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch thinks Donald Trump is “repulsive” and “disgusting to look at.” Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough thinks Trump is “pathetic” and “sad.” As a result, Deutsch said this morning, the president should not be attacking or making fun of the appearance of anyone else. And Scarborough joined Deutsch as together they mocked Trump … Continue reading "MSNBC Panel: Trump is ‘Repulsive,’ ‘Disgusting’ and ‘Pathetic’"

Donald Trump keeps trying to undo the nation’s healthcare protections, and he keeps losing in court. The latest loss came when a federal judge struck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy cheap health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requirements. The rule … Continue reading "Trump Suffers Huge Losses in Court on Healthcare Rules"

More than 25 counties in Colorado have taken a page from the left's playbook, declaring themselves pro-gun zones akin to immigration sanctuary cities.

The miscarriage of justice in the hate crime hoax speaks volumes about the way identity politics has created a new form of entitlement.

Unfortunately, what could otherwise be a good book is ruined by the author's own self-importance and a sorry lack of central theme and guidance.

German leaders should be allowed to see how safe and united the European Union remains when all the American troops move out from everywhere east of the Thames.

Just like children of wealthy Hollywood elite, Jussie Smollett has ‘privilege’ that most of Chicago’s black male population does not: the privilege of being a wealthy, connected liberal.

In pursuit of a smoking gun that would validate their discontent with the president, media used trumped-up information to lead Americans into hating their friends and loved ones.

The story of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist, should remind us all that abortion hurts living babies.

Jussie Smollett's allegedly false police report investigation cost the city of Chicago $150,000 in police overtime and city resources.

Ron, a longtime campaign leader with the pro-life group 40 Days For Life, was praying outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic when he was attacked by a pro-choicer.

Turning mispronunciation into a micro-aggression just means helpful Americans will be dissuaded from helping immigrants with the cultural zeitgeist.

Odo’s origins will become clearer and form a major plot point in subsequent seasons. In the meantime, Odo returns to his role as the series outcast.

If you’re looking for a “legitimate” candidate for president, I’m an option.

By Patricia Zengerle and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s Republican allies tangled with one of Trump’s most prominent Democratic critics during a chaotic congressional hearing on Thursday and the U.S. attorney general revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry report is more than 300 pages long. Hours after Trump went on … Continue reading "Pelosi Blasts Republicans for Being Afraid of Truth and Competence"

Maddow cited previous investigations which released their reports either to Congress or the public almost immediately after they concluded.

While MSNBC and CNN largely steered clear of Trump's rally, Fox News devoted its airtime to the president as he threw a grade school tantrum in Michigan.

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday appeared at a closed door meeting of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee for the second time, four congressional sources said. It was not known what topics were discussed with Kushner, who is involved in developing an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan … Continue reading "Trump adviser Jared Kushner meets Senate intelligence panel for second time: sources"

Donald Trump repeatedly overstated his wealth on documents to lenders. Now, these documents are the focus of multiple investigations.

Trump threw his own Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under the bus as he falsely claimed that he has funded Special Olympics.

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the op-ed column that may vault think tank analyst Stephen Moore to a spot on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, he argues the Fed could have skirted recent rate hikes and dodged a wave of criticism by tying monetary policy to commodity prices. The Fed, Moore wrote … Continue reading "Trump’s Fed pick advocates return to a ‘rule’ that may never have existed"

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said that the Mueller report contains evidence against that anyone who reads it will view as damning.

President Donald Trump's pick to run the U.S. Department of Interior, a former energy lobbyist, faced tough questions during his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday about potential conflicts of interest and the administration's unpopular plan to expand offshore oil drilling.

By Tom Miles and Tim Hepher GENEVA/PARIS (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored its request to halt a subsidized tax break for Boeing in its main planemaking state of Washington as a 15-year-old transatlantic trade row edges toward tit-for-tat sanctions. The European Union said the WTO appeal … Continue reading "WTO says U.S. failed to halt state tax subsidy for Boeing"

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday overturned the Trump administration’s approval of plans by the states of Kentucky and Arkansas to impose work requirements on people seeking to obtain benefits from the Medicaid health insurance program. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ruled that the U.S. Department of Health and … Continue reading "U.S. judge blocks Trump’s approval of Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky, Arkansas"

Republicans and Trump think that they can run on the economy in 2020, but the Trump economy is growing less than Obama's.

Dear Cory Booker: There's no such thing as a 'gun show loophole.' There's also no such thing as a wife-beater 'loophole.'

Adam Schiff has turned the Trump attack on him into a platform to make the case that Trump colluded with the Russians.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) unloaded on Republicans after they called for him to resign as chairman of the committee. After Trump accused him of a crime, and Republicans tried to pressure him to step down from the committee, Schiff said: My colleagues may think it’s ok that the Russians offered dirt … Continue reading "Adam Schiff Explodes On Republicans After They Call For Him To Step Down"

What started as a Brady Bunch-esque half-hour show has turned into something far darker. Perhaps this just reflects the transformation of celebrity.

To say the U.S. can do better is one thing. To say American culture is a unique purveyor of racism and misogyny, as Biden does, is historical illiteracy.

Adam Schiff promised the existence of "damning evidence," and a scandal "beyond Watergate." Now, Republicans are calling for him to step down.

For wacky conspiracy theories you can’t beat Fox & Friends, Donald Trump’s favorite morning television show. Earlier this year they said that lower tax refunds this year were the fault of the American taxpayers instead of the Trump administration. And today they said that Former CIA Director John Brennan was behind the Mueller investigation, and … Continue reading "Fox & Friends Demand That Trump Seek Revenge on John Brennan"

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this morning filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that the company engages in advertising practices that facilitate housing discrimination based on racial, ethnic and religious differences. Breaking: HUD has just charged Facebook with “encouraging, enabling, and causing housing discrimination through the company’s advertising platform.” https://t.co/jglDmBIQk9 — … Continue reading "U.S. Government Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Facebook"

With the possible exception of former CIA director John Brennan, no one had a more uncomfortable post-Mueller report release than one James Comey.

CNN’s Joan Walsh has advised likely 2020 Democratic president candidate Joe Biden not to run, according to a report this morning in The Hill. According to Walsh, it would be better if Biden would support a woman candidate. She said that Biden has been saying that he wants to change what the former vice president … Continue reading "CNN Analyst Walsh Says Biden Shouldn’t Run in 2020"

Here’s an interesting question: if Donald Trump and his aides in the White House are claiming total exoneration from the Mueller report, why are they refusing to release the report that supposedly exonerates them? And here’s an equally interesting answer: because the Mueller report does NOT exonerate Donald Trump, but actually contains evidence of collusion … Continue reading "The Barr Letter Contains Evidence of Trump Collusion and Obstruction"

A new poll shows that Donald Trump is in trouble. According to the highly respected Quinnipiac University poll, the majority of American voters have already made up their minds that they will not vote to reelect the president in next year’s election. The poll also found that in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race, with … Continue reading "Most Voters Say They Definitely Won’t Vote For Trump in 2020"

There was Russian collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign, but it didn't come from Donald Trump.

The irony could not be richer. Within days of Mueller’s report exposing the mainstream media as highly paid scandalmongers, a USA Today editor branded The Federalist ‘not reliable.’

It is impossible for voters to be able to trust pie in the sky promises about new entitlements until our representatives have earned that trust by fixing the old entitlements.

Avenatti was interviewed on broadcast and cable news networks 214 times from March to November 2018.

Caught in scandal, Cardi B is challenging us, and with precedent on the line, our response will be revealing.

I am uniquely qualified to teach men my age how to alter the tricks a twenty-something dad has in his arsenal to fit a body and mind that are approaching middle age.

Corporations acted as cartels and filled our country with opioids. Connecting that to the epidemic of overdose deaths is not fake news.

It’s funny how 'rooting out misconduct' turns out to be code for 'covering up misconduct' when it comes to Rosenstein’s supervision of Ohr.

Should ERA win passage, the result would be a dramatically empowered federal government on issues it decides impact women. That's a threat to women, not a protection.

It's a blessing when someone chooses life. So how can communities come together and help make an expecting mother's burden a little lighter?

President Trump has at his fingertips a more promising opportunity to make good on his promise to the student victims of campus illiberalism he featured at the White House.

The NIH surreptitiously invests in all kinds of foreign public health research, effectively gambling our taxpayer money away with little accountability.

Trump is so scared of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) that he accused him of a crime and demanded that he be removed from office.

Rachel Maddow used example after example to show the Trump administration’s pattern of claiming to have done things that they haven’t done, and her point that this is why they shouldn’t be believed on the Mueller report. Maddow said: I mean, we should have known it was going to be like this when we got … Continue reading "Rachel Maddow Just Showed Why No One Should Believe Trump On The Mueller Report"

Attorney General William Barr met with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and would not agree to turn over the full Mueller report which is at least less than 1,000 pages long.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), who serves on the House Appropriations Committee, said that there is no way that Congress will cut Special Olympics funding.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has the Trump cover-up in high gear as he has refused to release the Mueller report for the third time.

The Republican claims that Robert Mueller is done aren’t true, as his grand jury is still hard at work on ongoing cases. Politico reported: The special counsel grand jury that investigated Russian collusion into the 2016 presidential election is “continuing robustly” despite the end of Robert Mueller’s probe, a federal prosecutor said in court Wednesday. … Continue reading "It Turns Out That Mueller Isn’t Done Yet, As His Grand Jury Is Still Working"

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the subcommittee chairman who sets the funding levels for the Department of Education told reporters that Trump and Betsy DeVos's proposed cuts to Special Olympics aren't happening.

Why does CNN’s Jeff Zucker claim that the organization and its wide array of journalists are not investigators while simultaneously touting themselves as investigators?

By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly half of all Americans still believe President Donald Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared Trump of that allegation. Americans did feel slightly more positive about Trump after learning the … Continue reading "Despite report findings, 53% said Trump tried to stop investigations into Russian influence on his administration"

By Amanda Becker (Reuters) – Top congressional Democrats on Tuesday attacked a legal move by the Trump administration to step up its assault on the Obamacare healthcare law, saying last November’s elections showed Americans want them to protect the Affordable Care Act. The Justice Department, in a two-sentence letter to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court … Continue reading "Democrats pounce as Trump administration ratchets up attack on Obamacare"

Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's presidential campaign on Wednesday released her tax returns for the years 2007 through 2018, offering the most comprehensive look to date at the finances of a 2020 White House candidate's finances, as she called on her rivals to do the same.

Lyman Stone joins the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss demographics, climate change, American fertility, and Twitter fights.

By Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress rejected President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to diplomacy and foreign aid budgets as dangerous to national security on Wednesday, setting the stage for a budget battle with the White House. The ranking Republican on the House of Representatives subcommittee … Continue reading "Republicans and Democrats blast Trump’s cuts to diplomacy and foreign aid as dangerous for national security"

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump.

The strategy paid off, insulating Trump from the legal jeopardy presented by a sit-down interview with the special counsel's team - an interview that Trump had said publicly he wanted to do. There was even a tentative date for the interview - Jan. 27, 2018 - though one of Trump's lawyers told Reuters he never intended to make the president available to Mueller. And Mueller never issued a subpoena demanding testimony.

The vote was 57 against the resolution in the 100-member chamber, with 43 Democrats voting "present," avoiding an up-or-down vote. Republicans won over Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and one independent senator, Angus King, who usually votes with that party.