Year: 2017

House Democrats’ campaign arm sent a team to Georgia to organize the sixth congressional district months ahead of the special election. Voters are to decide whether the effort was worthwhile, considering that progressives poured $23 […]

Democrats Protest Senate Republican Healthcare Secrecy

Democrats took to the Senate floor on Monday to express dissatisfaction over secret efforts by the Republican majority to repeal former President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill, known as Obamacare. In a series of inquiries and […]

U.S. Student Otto Warmbier Dies Days after Release from North Korea Detention

The University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, days after he returned home in a coma. The 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, had been […]

Federal Judge Narrows Injunction on Trump Travel Ban

U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson has reined in an injunction Monday in Hawaii, nullifying its impact on studies and policy reviews ordered under the directive Trump issued in March and billed as an anti-terrorism […]

Trump Middle East Doctrine Seeks to Compensate for Obama Policies

Several U.S. presidents have undertaken foreign policy initiatives that bear their names today. The process began with the fifth president James Monroe and the 1823 doctrine that gave notice to European powers not to interfere […]

House Intelligence Chairman Says Trump Did Not Collude with Russians

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Saturday there “was never any collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians”, calling on Washington to “stop chasing Russian ghosts around the closet”, Politico writes. The California Republican’s […]

Top Democrat Says White House Attacks on Mueller Won’t Stop Probe

The investigation into collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign is unchanged, ongoing, and “just getting started”, despite White House’s “besmirchment” attempts against special counsel Robert Mueller, Representative Adam Schiff said Sunday. “Newt Gingrich […]

Republican Senator Rubio Says Trump’s Cuba Policy Will Help ‘Individual Cubans’

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump’s new policy on Cuba will strengthen Cuban citizens while undermining the country’s military, The Washington Examiner reports. “When they get there, they have to spend their […]

Scalise’s Condition Upgraded to ‘Serious’

Doctors treating wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise have upgraded his condition from “critical” to “serious”, NPR reports. Scalise and three others were shot Wednesday morning at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. The 51-year-old […]

Google to Step up Efforts for Shutting Down Extremist Content

Google’s top lawyer said Sunday that the tech giant is undertaking measures to restrict terrorist-related content on the Internet, The Hill reports. “While we and others have worked for years to identify and remove content […]

Senate Democrats to Hold Talkathon Protest over GOP Healthcare Bill

Senate Democrats are planning to have a late-night talkathon Monday to protest GOP’s effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare, The Hill reports. Democrats are expected to speak from the Senate floor until at least midnight […]

Attorney Says Trump Is Not under Investigation

One of President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Sunday insisted “there is not an investigation of the president of the United States, period”, responding to reports that a Department of Justice investigation has expanded to investigate […]

Pro-Trump Groups Take Obama Out of Context in Georgia Election Ad

A radio ad from a pro-President Donald Trump group in Georgia is using former President Barack Obama’s words out of context to argue that Democrats don’t care about black voters, CNN’s K File reports. “Plantation […]

Senate Republicans Want to Question Former Attorney General on Clinton Probe

Senate Republicans are considering the possibility to require testimony from former Attorney General Loretta Lynch after ex FBI Director James Comey raised concerns about her involvement in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, The Hill reports. […]

Six Experts Resign from Trump’s HIV/AIDS Advisory Panel

At least six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) resigned in protest of the Trump administration, for which they say “has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic”, NBCNews reports. Counsel […]

Mercuria’s Graduates Join Trump to Announce Workforce Development Initiative

Graduates from Mercuria Energy’s apprenticeship program joined President Donald Trump Friday at the White House to emphasize the importance of workforce development in the United States. President Trump discussed plans to combat the skills gap […]

Thousands Protest after Officer Who Shot Philando Castile Found Not Guilty

Thousands of people gathered in St. Paul, Minnesota, Friday evening to protest a verdict that found a Minnesota police officer not guilty on all counts in his deadly shooting of a black man during a […]

Top Democrat Warns Trump Against Firing Mueller

Top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff, is calling on Congress to “unite to stop” President Donald Trump if he tries to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein or special counsel Robert […]

FBI Refuses to Release Comey Memos

The Federal Bureau of Investigation won’t be publicly releasing any memos that former Director James Comey wrote about his conversations with President Donald Trump because they might interfere with an ongoing investigation, The Hill reports. […]

Trump Hires Fourth Lawyer for Russia Investigation

President Donald Trump has hired another lawyer in the wake of the ongoing investigation into alleged ties between his campaign and Russian election meddling, The Hill reports. Washington legal veteran John Dowd will join Marc […]

President Trump Says His Cuban-American Friends Are `Very Happy’ with New Policy

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday evening that his Cuban-American friends “are very happy” with his newly unveiled policy on Cuba. “Back from Miami where my Cuban/American friends are very happy with what I signed today. […]

Top Democrat Wants Comey to Testify Again

Senator Dianne Feinstein, a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants former FBI Director James Comey to return to Capitol Hill to testify before her panel, and says Democrats are willing to back a […]

Trump’s Advisers Worried about His Russia Probe Obsession

President Donald Trump received three separate assurances from then-FBI Director James Comey that the President was not personally under investigation, but he may now be under investigation because he couldn’t let his obsession go, Politico […]

Pence Hires Watergate Veteran to Deal with Russia Probe

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has hired a personal lawyer to deal with requests from the special counsel investigating possible collaboration with Russia during the 2016 election, a top aide said Thursday. “The Vice President […]

Mueller’s Investigation Expands to Jared Kushner’s Business Ties

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia has expanded to include the finances and business dealings of senior adviser Jared Kushner, The Washington Post reports. Kushner, who is Trump’s […]

NASA Presents Latest Tech on Capitol Hill

NASA is set to present key space technologies before Capitol Hill lawmakers and staffers as the space agency faces a threat of budget cuts, The Hill reports. ‘NASA Technology Day on the Hill’ featured both […]

Trump’s Cuba Policy to Restrict Tourism and Military Business

President Donald Trump is set to announce increased restrictions toward Cuba on Friday after a nearly five-month review of the U.S.policy. During his campaign, Trump promised to crack down on the communist regime, The Hill […]

Trump Calls for Clinton-Russia Collusion Probe

President Trump said Thursday investigators should look into ties between Hillary Clinton’s family and Democrats, instead of his own “non-dealings” with the Kremlin. “Why is that Hillary Clintons family and Dems dealings with Russia are […]

Trump Ends Obama-era Program Protecting Immigrant Parents

The Trump administration scrapped an Obama-era policy that protected undocumented immigrants with children who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, known as the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), The Hill reports. Homeland Security […]

Justice Department Warns Americans against Believing Anonymous Sources

The Department of Justice issued a statement Thursday night warning the media and other Americans against believing anonymous sources. The department added that it doesn’t confirm statements from unnamed officials. “Americans should exercise caution before […]