Tammy Baldwin Tammy Baldwin Rips Trump For $62 Million In Farm Aid To 'Corrupt' Brazilian Companyhuffpost.com Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) has fired off an angry letter to President Donald Trump, demanding an explanation for why a $62 million payment — meant …
Donald Trump Judge bars Trump from building border wall sections with emergency fundsGuardian US - AgenciesA federal judge has blocked Donald Trump from building sections of his long-sought border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency. On Friday, the US district judge Haywood
U.S. Politics Why Is Trump Sending More Troops and Firepower to the Middle East? That's ClassifiedTIME - W.J. HenniganThe Trump Administration has spent the past month ringing alarm bells over what it has called “troubling, escalatory and dangerous” behavior by Iran. Yet government officials have shown very little evidence
Iran Why Would Any Country Trust America Again?slate.com - By Joshua Keating Thanks to Trump, any agreement made with a U.S. president is likely to be broken by the next one. Remember Sen. Tom Cotton’s letter to Iran? These …
Donald Trump Trump's Border-Wall-Contractor ScandalThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamThe president has been intervening in the process of producing a border wall, on behalf of a favored firm. Many of the tales of controversy to emerge from the Trump administration have been abstract, complicated,
Treason The President Implied the Former Director of the FBI Should Be Executed for Treason and Everyone Was Like, “Ha Ha, Classic”slate.com - By Ben Mathis-Lilley Donald Trump believes the investigation into his campaign’s connections to Russia, the one that was launched by the FBI and later carried out by …
Liberal View CNN Host Slams 'Stupid' And 'Dangerous' Doctored Videocrooksandliars.com - Karoli Kuns BOLDUAN: Let me show you the real video and then the fake so you can see it for yourself. BOLDUAN: YouTube removed the video, but it's still out there …
Politics Defying Congress, Trump sets $8 billion-plus in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, UAEReuters - By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion
Same-Sex Couples Trump administration reportedly to allow federally-funded adoption agencies to reject same-sex couplesFox News - Sam DormanPresident Trump's administration will reportedly reverse his predecessor's policy of blocking federal funding for religious adoption organizations that refuse to serve same-sex couples. Administration
Betsy DeVos Betsy DeVos Embodies The Corruption Of The Trump Administration. Why Aren't Democrats Grilling Her?buzzfeednews.com - Jeff Hauser The Secretary of Education is a comically unqualified billionaire who embodies how money buys political power. And she isn't being held to …
Houses House Fails to Pass $19 Billion Disaster Package After One Republican ObjectsU.S. News & World Report - Susan Milligan A single House member held up a bipartisan, negotiated $19.1 billion disaster aid package Friday, delaying assistance to communities hit by …
House Freedom Caucus One House Republican is holding up $19 billion in disaster aid fundingVox - Li ZhouAfter six months of congressional delays on disaster aid, one House Republican is determined to stall the process even further. On Thursday, the Senate — with buy-in from House Democrats and President
Michigan High court halts electoral map redrawing in Michigan, OhioAssociated Press - By MARK SHERMAN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday put on hold court orders in Michigan and Ohio to redraw electoral maps that federal judges found were too partisan. The high court action comes as it is weighing
Saudi Arabia Report: Trump Administration Plan to Bypass Congress in Arms Sale to Gulf Nationshaaretz.com The Trump administration is trying to push an emergency provision that would allow it to circumvent Congress and export billions of dollars of …
Business Blame it on Mother Nature: U.S. companies are feeling the effects of extreme weatherAxios - Dion Rabouin Already facing the uncertainty and increased costs of the trade war and a looming end of the business cycle, American companies are finding they now …
Business New IMF Study Shows Trump Is Wrong About Who’s Paying for the US-China Trade Warobserver.com - Sissi Cao For more than a year, President Donald Trump has claimed that imposing higher tariffs on China, the U.S.’s largest trade partner, will close this …
Purdue PharmaOxycontin maker Purdue 'leveraged its financial ties' to the World Health Organization to influence its prescription guidelinesdailymail.co.uk - Keith Griffith and Associated Press Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the embattled manufacturer of Oxycontin, influenced the World Health Organization's guidelines on the use of opioids for its …
U.S. Politics Infrastructure Week Is Still Just a Joke in WashingtonThe Atlantic - Elaina PlottAs a driver must survey the damage upon barreling into a pothole, so too must I reevaluate the jagged gaps in my reporting. As I write this, my heart crumbles—much like our nation’s infrastructure. It
U.S. State Department U.S. State Department Misses Deadline to Explain Whether Iran Arms Report Was Slantedhaaretz.com The U.S. State Department failed to meet a deadline on Thursday to provide information to three congressional committee chairmen looking into whether …
Brexit Brexit brings down May, Johnson stakes leadership claimReuters - By Elizabeth Piper, William James and Kylie MacLellanLONDON (Reuters) - Fighting back tears, Theresa May said on Friday she would quit after failing to deliver Brexit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue cleaner
Paul Manafort Manafort Sought Trump Job For Alleged Briber; Eager Kushner Responded: 'On It!'huffpost.com White House senior adviser Jared Kushner was apparently eager to help when Paul Manafort sought a top Trump administration job for a banker who has …
U.S. Politics Administration moves to revoke transgender health protectionAssociated Press - By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Friday to revoke newly won health care discrimination protections for transgender people, the latest in a series of actions that aim to reverse gains by
William P. Barr Trump just gave William Barr carte blanche to declassify information. What could go wrong?The Washington PostPresident Trump Thursday afternoon accused four former FBI officials of “treason” for their conduct in the early days of the Russia investigation. Thursday night, he handed his Attorney General William
Politics States pushing abortion bans have higher infant mortality ratesNBC News - Erika EdwardsA growing number of states have been passing highly restrictive abortion legislation aimed at overturning Roe V. Wade. Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have in recent weeks some
Harriet Tubman Trump to Harriet Tubman: Don't get uppityLos Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardMaybe Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin is correct when he says the reason for delaying the long-planned Harriet Tubman $20 bill is that he’s got his hands full at the moment fighting counterfeiting.
Play buttonNancy Pelosi Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supportersThe Guardian - Jim Waterson Media editorFacebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House speaker is drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting its
Donald Trump Losing yet another fight, Trump backs down on disaster-relief fundingMSNBC - Steve Benen Congress’ disaster-relief package has been stuck in Congress for months because Donald Trump had some specific demands: he wanted the legislation to …
Veterans Free food and Memorial Day deals for active military and veterans MondayUSA TODAY Money - Kelly TykoWhile Memorial Day is for honoring military personnel who died in service, businesses across the nation are showing veterans and active-duty military personnel a little love to thank them for their service.
U.S. Politics Arguments over rape and incest divide abortion opponentsAssociated Press - By DAVID CRARY, AP National WriterEven as the anti-abortion movement celebrates the sweeping bans passed in several states, it's divided by a widening rift over whether those prohibitions should apply to victims of rape and incest. The
