By Abby Phillip and Kelsey Snell February 27 at 12:55 PM President Trump will propose a federal budget that dramatically increases defense-related spending by $54 billion while cutting other federal agencies by the same amount, according to an administration official. CLICK IMAGES for links to videos. CLICK HERE for direct link to story. The proposal represents a massive increase […]
by Sarah Kliff Feb 25, 2017, 5:29pm EST Republican replacement plans for Obamacare would lead to significant declines in the number of Americans with health insurance coverage, according to an analysis presented Saturday at the National Governors Association and obtained by Vox. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. The analysis was conducted by the health research firm Avalere Health and […]
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM FEB. 24, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump turned the power of the White House against the news media on Friday, escalating his attacks on journalists as “the enemy of the people” and berating members of his own F.B.I. as “leakers” who he said were putting the nation at risk. In a speech to […]
By VIVIAN SALAMA and ALICIA A. CALDWELL Feb 24 2017 WASHINGTON (AP) — Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States. A draft document obtained by The Associated Press concludes that […]
By Greg Miller and Adam Entous February 24 at 8:47 PM The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, a politically charged issue that has been under investigation by the FBI as well as lawmakers now defending the […]
By Callum Borchers February 24 The White House on Friday barred news outlets — including CNN, the New York Times, Politico and the Los Angeles Times — from attending an off-camera press briefing held by spokesman Sean Spicer, igniting another controversy concerning the relationship between the Trump administration and the […]
By Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown, CNN 7:03 PM ET, Thu February 23, 2017 Washington (CNN) The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials […]
By Nick Paton Walsh, Salma Abdelaziz & Victoria Butenko, Feb. 23, 2017 Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) The setting was a Manhattan restaurant, and after 25 minutes what allegedly emerged was a pro-Russian peace plan for Ukraine that its author believes may have ended up in the White House. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to video. In a CNN interview, Ukrainian lawmaker […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 2/20/17 Rachel Maddow reports on the murky overlap between Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, Vladimir Putin, and the Donald Trump campaign and alerts viewers to watch for whether the Department of Justice under Trump continues to pursue a case against Firtash. Duration: 21:00 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story.
by BILL NEELY FEB 20 2017, 6:10 PM ET MOSCOW — A dossier on Donald Trump’s psychological makeup is being prepared for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among its preliminary conclusions is that the new American leader is a risk-taker who can be naïve, according to a senior Kremlin adviser. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. […]
