By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN FEB. 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night. CLICK IMAGE FOR LINK TO STORY Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet […]
Harriet Taylor | @Harri8t 3 Hours Ago President Donald Trump is prepared to deprive the State of California of federal funding if it votes to become a sanctuary state, he said in a Fox News interview. “If we have to, we’ll defund,” he said. “We give tremendous amounts of money to California.” California Democrats in the Senate stepped up their […]
By Abby Phillip February 4 at 7:43 PM WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump has long been effusive in his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. CLICK IMAGE FOR LINK TO FULL STORY In an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, which will air ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday, […]
By Mark Landler Feb 4, 2017 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by the Justice Department to immediately restore President Trump’s targeted travel ban, deepening a legal showdown over his authority to tighten the nation’s borders in the name of protecting Americans from terrorism. CLICK IMAGE FOR LINK […]
By Amy B Wang February 4 at 9:33 AM President Trump on Saturday morning ripped into a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block enforcement of his controversial travel ban. “When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot , come in & out, especially for reasons of safety &.security — big trouble!” Trump […]
By Renae Merle and Steven Mufson February 3 at 10:02 PM CLICK HEADLINE for link to story. President Trump on Friday launched a broad effort to ease regulations on Wall Street, setting up what is likely to be a protracted battle over how to unwind rules put in place after the last financial crisis. CLICK […]
By Jim Brunner, Jessica Lee and David Gutman Seattle Times staff reporters February 3, 2017 at 6:01 pm CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story: In a stunning rebuke, a federal judge in Seattle has ordered a national halt to enforcement of President Trump’s controversial travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations. U.S. District Judge […]
By SUSANNE CRAIG and ERIC LIPTON FEB. 3, 2017 Just days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump stood beside his tax lawyer at a Midtown Manhattan news conference as she announced that he planned to place his vast business holdings in a trust, a move she said would allay fears that he might exploit the Oval Office for personal gain. […]
By Nicole Gaouette and Ryan Browne, CNN Updated 4:26 PM ET, Fri February 3, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to video. Washington (CNN)The US military is scrambling to explain an embarrassing mix-up after it released video obtained from Sunday’s raid in Yemen that turned out to have already been published online. A military spokesman acknowledged it was released […]
By Marcy Kreiter @marcykreiter On 02/02/17 AT 8:58 PM CLICK IMAGE for link to story U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday called on the FBI to step up an investigation into whether Russia is blackmailing President Donald Trump, accusing the administration of giving “Vladimir Putin’s thugs … a thank you present” for meddling in […]
