Trump Presidency

Frustrated by Congress’s failure to break up the overworked, often-overruled U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, President Donald Trump is attempting to dilute what he considers to be the liberal bias of the San Francisco-based 29-seat circuit court by nominating three new conservative judges. The three nominees are California-based litigators Daniel Collins and […]

The hunt for leakers that was initiated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in August of last year yielded a major arrest on Oct. 16, with the apprehension of a Treasury Department employee on charges that she leaked financial intelligence documents on various subjects of the Russia investigation to a reporter at BuzzFeed News. Natalie Edwards, a […]

PHILADELPHIA—First lady Melania Trump is touring an intensive care unit at a Philadelphia hospital to learn about the care being given to newborns suffering from opiate withdrawal. She was late for the visit on the morning of Oct. 17 after her first flight was forced to return to a Washington area military base because of […]

WASHINGTON—Economists are divided over the impact of regulations on economic growth. The Trump administration, however, sees strong evidence that regulatory rollback is boosting jobs and economic growth. Since taking office, President Donald Trump frequently has said that over-regulation is a costly burden to American workers and businesses and pledged to rollback “unnecessary and ineffective” regulations. […]

The campaign to re-elect Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has to “essentially” lie about her support for abortion and hide that she accepts contributions from Planned Parenthood in order to attract moderate voters, several campaign staffers were recorded as saying. Talking to an undercover reporter from Project Veritas Action, McCaskill staffers said Planned Parenthood doesn’t donate […]

Two Republican candidates in Minnesota were assaulted following a staffer for the Minnesota Democrat Party being suspended for allegedly calling for Republican beheadings. The assaults are the latest in a wave of violent attacks against Republicans in the last several months. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was sent a letter that purportedly contained the poison ricin […]

Attorney General Jeff Session pushed back against judicial activism and encroachment on the Executive Branch in his Oct. 15 speech to the Heritage Foundation. Federal judges have been increasingly usurping power from the Executive, Sessions said. “Too many judges believe it is their right, their duty, to act upon their sympathies and policy preferences,” Sessions […]

Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Democratic incumbent in Missouri who’s running for re-election, is hiding her views on gun rights, efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, and her alignment with the views of former President Barack Obama, according to her campaign staffers and her own comments captured in undercover videos. McCaskill and her various staffers were […]

A day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released DNA test results divulging only minuscule amounts, if any, of her purported Native-American heritage, President Donald Trump called for a formal apology from Warren for deceiving Americans. Warren attempted to use the results as evidence to back up her claims of heritage, only to have it flatly rejected by […]

ROCHESTER, Minn.—Minnesotans are an independent bunch, so predicting the outcome of the midterm elections is more of a crapshoot here than for other states. It was the lone state that didn’t vote for former president Ronald Reagan’s re-election and has voted blue since Nixon’s 1972 victory. In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton won the […]

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Florida and later Georgia on Oct. 15 to survey the destruction caused by Hurricane Michael, which left the seaside town of Mexico Beach as a pile of rubble. Before the Trumps boarded a helicopter with Gov. Rick Scott at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, the president spoke […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Oct. 15 he had designated five groups, including Hezbollah and MS-13, as transnational criminal organizations (TCO), putting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge of a task force to target the groups with investigations and prosecutions. The other groups on the list are the Sinaloa Cartel, Clan de Golfo, […]

The former security director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence pleaded guilty on Oct. 15 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with reporters as part of the bureau’s investigation into unauthorized leaks. James Wolfe, 57, pleaded guilty to making one false statement to agents, according to the Justice Department. He was indicted […]

It seems no stone was left unturned in an all-encompassing interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” with President Donald Trump, from defending his administration’s policies against Russia and North Korea to Saudi Arabia’s missing journalist case. In the Oct. 14 segment that included some testy exchanges, network reporter Lesley Stahl sat down with Trump for her third such interview […]

President Donald Trump dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Saudi Arabia on Oct. 15 after speaking with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who told the president he has no knowledge of what happened to missing columnist Jamal Khashoggi. “I asked the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to immediately get on a plane, go to […]

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump went to Florida’s storm-ravaged Panhandle and Georgia on Oct. 15, to see the destruction caused by deadly Hurricane Michael. The president and first lady arrived at Eglin Air Force Base in the Panhandle, Florida’s northwestern region, and are scheduled to return to the White […]

 

A conservative nonprofit is rolling out a $1 million ad campaign on Oct. 14 to push the Congress to approve the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the new name for the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The deal includes labor provisions long-sought by Democrats. Combined with Republican support for the president, Congressional approval should be […]

President Donald Trump rebuked coverage by certain media of his comments related to Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee. Trump accused media—specifically NBC News, who later issued a correction—of twisting and cutting his full remarks made during an Oct. 12 rally where he praised a number of Ohioans. He said his statements about Lee were part of […]

WASHINGTON—The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is the first trade agreement in history to directly address the issue of currency manipulation, which could now serve as a precedent for future U.S. free trade agreements. Governments manipulate their own domestic currency in order to gain a trade advantage. The United States has long fought to deter this practice, claiming […]