Trump Presidency

President Donald Trump issued an order on Sept. 17 for the immediate declassification of three series of documents related to the Russia investigation and the spying on his presidential campaign. The first set of documents relates to the FISA warrant application to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, specifically pages 10–12 and 17–34 of […]

Just 12 percent of Americans mentioned some part of the economy as the top problem facing the United States, according to a Gallup survey conducted earlier this month. That’s down from 17 percent last month and is a record low since economic issues were first included in the poll. The polling company has been asking […]

President Donald Trump urged the Senate to pass a bill that would ban contracts that prohibit pharmacists from informing customers that paying with cash may cost them less than using their insurance plans. Insurance companies sometimes write the so-called gag clauses into their contracts with pharmacies, preventing pharmacists from advising customers on low-cost routes for obtaining […]

Federal regulators have proposed nixing a set of rules that made it possible for employees of franchise holders to go after the companies issuing the franchises for labor violations. The amended rules would help companies such as McDonald’s, which outsources most of its restaurants as franchises. It would also help companies that use contract workers […]

Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long is defending President Donald Trump’s criticism of Puerto Rico’s official figure for deaths caused by Hurricane Maria. Long said Trump, who says the death toll was improperly inflated to defame his administration, was defending the work FEMA has done in Puerto Rico. Maria hit Puerto Rico on Sept. […]

At the time that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017, the FBI didn’t have evidence to determine whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, according to excerpts of a closed-door interview between congressional investigators and former FBI attorney Lisa Page obtained by The Hill and Fox News. Page became one of […]

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump has directed aides to proceed with tariffs on about another $200 billion of Chinese goods, despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s attempts to restart trade talks with China, a source familiar with the matter said on Sept. 14. The timing for activating the additional tariffs was unclear. The green light for the tariffs […]

The House Intelligence Committee in the next few weeks will release dozens of transcripts of depositions it conducted as part of the Russia investigation, according to committee chairman Devin Nunes. The committee interviewed 73 witnesses (pdf) as part of its 14-month Russia investigation that concluded in March. Though around 70-80 percent of the interviews are not […]

Californians bought more apparel from President Donald Trump’s official store than people from any other U.S. state, marking a surprising development in a state that mainly backed Hillary Clinton in 2016. According to Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, California residents are buying more “MAGA” or “Make America Great Again” apparel than Texas and Florida, two states […]

A social media account that translates U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets into Chinese recently appeared on Twitter, attracting the attention of many mainland Chinese.

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The Treasury collected a record $1,521,589,000,000 in individual income taxes so far this fiscal year, up nearly 4.3 percent from the same period last year adjusted for inflation, according to Treasury data released Sept. 13 and historical data. On the other hand, the government is running a $898 billion deficit this fiscal year (ending Sept. […]

The middle-class American family is on the rise with the median household income for 2017 reaching a record high, a Census Bureau survey has shown. The median income rose to $61,372, from $60,309 a year earlier, when adjusted for inflation (xls). President Donald Trump celebrated the news on Twitter on Sept. 13, saying middle-class income […]

WASHINGTON—Cross the border into the United States with a child, claim asylum, and you’re home-free. That’s the message smugglers and migrants are hearing, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “Smugglers and traffickers understand our broken immigration laws better than most and know that if a family unit illegally enters the U.S., they are […]

WASHINGTON–The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which stops mergers it believes will push up prices, signaled Sept. 13 he was willing to consider tougher enforcement, a move that could affect high profile big tech companies but also energy producers, drug makers and a big swath of the U.S. economy. Joseph Simons, who was nominated […]

WASHINGTON–A Republican-led panel in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced a bill that would lock in individual tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul, a move widely seen as a partisan ploy to help Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 congressional elections. Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee voted 21-15 […]

WASHINGTON—Korean War veteran Hiroshi Miyamura was one of 33 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients heralded at the White House on Sept. 12. In April 1953, Miyamura’s company was about to be overrun by the enemy near Taejon-ni, Korea. Then-Cpl. Miyamura, a machine gun squad leader, “aware of the imminent danger to his men, unhesitatingly jumped […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed loosening regulations on methane leaks in the oil and gas industry. The new rules would save the industry hundreds of millions with only a marginal increase in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants. The change would give more breathing room to the hydraulic fracking industry, which has dominated […]

The vast majority of Americans have dismissed the idea that President Donald Trump acted illegally with Russia during the 2016 election, according to Frank Newport, the editor-in-chief of Gallup. Less than 3 in 10 Americans believe that Trump acted illegally in relation to alleged coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to a Gallup […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 12 directing the government to impose automatic sanctions on foreign individuals, entities, and nations in retaliation for attempts to interfere in U.S. elections. The president declared a national emergency to deal with election meddling. The order states that foreign interference poses “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to […]