Year: 2018

The Interior Department’s internal watchdog published an interim report on Tuesday in which it says that Secretary Ryan Zinke’s charter flights did not violate any laws, but that the department could have avoided some of […]

Trump’s Strikes on Syria May Help ISIS, Iraq Says

Iraq criticized President Donald Trump’s decision Friday to target Syrian government facilities suspected to be involved in the production of chemical weapons, saying such missile strikes undermined the wider effort to combat terrorism in both […]

Congress Renews Trump War Authority After Syria Strike

Several senators are renewing a discussion that was stalled for some time regarding President Donald Trump’s legal authority to use military assets to target terrorist groups overseas. On Monday, a group of bipartisan senators introduced […]

Sexual Awareness Month: Protesters Will Project ‘Rapist in White House’ Messages on Trump’s Hotel

The messages “Impeach Trump” and “There’s a Rapist in the White House” are set to be projected onto the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Monday night, in light of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in […]

Trump Admits He Made Mistakes With Cabinet Picks

President Donald Trump on Monday surprised everyone when he confirmed that he and his closest advisors have made several mistakes in assembling his Cabinet, which in recent times has already seen three departures. The Hill […]

White House Is Evaluating New Sanctions Against Russia

Only a day after a top diplomat indicated the U.S. was prepared to impose new sanctions on Moscow, the Trump administration said Monday it was evaluating prospects for new punitive measures against Russian entities and […]

Sean Hannity Is Cohen’s Third Mysterious Client

A lawyer representing Michael Cohen told a federal judge on Monday that the mysterious third client of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer is Fox News’s, Sean Hannity. Cohen was in court on Monday as regarding the […]

Federal Judge Denies Cohen’s Request That Prosecutors Not Review Seized Materials

A federal judge dismissed Monday afternoon President Donald Trump’s lawyer’s request that prosecutors not review the documents seized during last week’s raid. Judge Kimba Wood of Federal District Court in Manhattan denied an attempt by lawyer Michael […]

U.S. Plans to Retaliate Against China for Restrictions on Cloud-Computing Firms

The United States is looking at ways to retaliate against China’s restrictions on U.S. providers of cloud computing and other high-tech services, thus opening a new front in its trade fight with Beijing. Individuals familiar with the […]

Trump Accuses Russia, China of Playing Unfair Currency Devaluation Game

Russia and China were accused on Monday by President Donald Trump of devaluing their currencies while the United States raises interest rates. “Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps […]

Trump Says Comey, McCabe Committed Many Crimes

President Donald Trump accused Monday former FBI Director James Comey and his former deputy director Andrew McCabe of committing a number of crimes. President Trump, in his early morning Monday tweet, said that Comey, McCabe […]

NASA Is Launching New Satellite to Search for Exoplanets

NASA is launching a new satellite that is solely designed to detect planets orbiting distant stars beyond our solar system. The new satellite will be launched from Florida on Monday on a SpaceX rocket. The […]

National Security Aide to Pence Steps Down After Two Days in Office

Only two days after starting the position as new national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence, Joe Lerner stepped down on Sunday as a result of a behind-the-scenes White House argument which hit the […]

Comey Says There Is Some Evidence Trump Has Obstructed Justice

Former FBI director James Comey stated during an interview on ABC that there is evidence that President Donald Trump obstructed justice. During the interview with ABC’s host George Stephanopoulos which aired Sunday, Comey stated that […]

Sanders Not Informed If Trump Wants to Fire Rosenstein, Mueller

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated on Sunday that she is not informed of any ambitions that President Donald Trump has to fire or remove Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein or special counsel […]

Speaker Ryan Defends U.S. Trillion-Dollar Budget Deficit

“The trillion-dollar deficits could not have been avoided by the GOP-controlled Congress,” said Speaker Paul Ryan as a response to the critics within his party who state that the Republican leaders have behaved irresponsibly. “That […]

Comey: I Would Have Sent Clinton a Letter Even If I Knew It Will Help Trump Win

Former FBI Director James Comey stated in an interview that even if he had known it would help Donald Trump win the election, he still would have sent the letter that effectively reopened the investigation […]

Trump Attempts to Block Prosecutors from Examining Documents Seized in Cohen’s Raid

President Donald Trump’s team of lawyers in a letter addressed to a federal judge on Sunday asked her to stop federal prosecutors from reviewing the documents that were seized in Michael Cohen’s office and home, […]

Poll: Almost Half of U.S. Citizens Think Their Taxes Are Too High

A new poll shows that almost half of U.S. citizens think that their federal income taxes are too high. Although since President Donald Trump took office Republicans are more satisfied with their taxes, 45 percent […]

Democrats Blame Trump for Bad Economy

Democrats have indicated that President Donald Trump—not his predecessor Barack Obama—is responsible for the current state of the country’s economy, a tonal shift from earlier this year when top members of the party argued the economic […]

Hillary Clinton Slams Ivanka Trump: No More Inexperienced Trumps in WH

Hillary Clinton slammed Ivanka Trump’s prospect of becoming the first woman president of the United States in an interview on Dutch TV last week. “That’s not going to happen,” Clinton responded. “No,” she said, shaking […]

US and China will meet for the first time at a high level since Russia's attack on Ukraine as Biden tries to get Beijing's help with the war.

U.S. Trade Pressure on China is Further Escalating

The Trump administration is planning to increase trade pressure on China by threatening to block Chinese technology investment in the United States, The Wall Street Journal said in a report, citing officials familiar with the topic. […]

McCabe Violated FBI Policies, Justice Department Watchdog Reveals

Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe violated FBI policies in the way he once disclosed an ongoing investigation to a news outlet and later how he described that disclosure to authorities, the internal Department of […]

Comey: Clinton Was Under Investigation When Campaign Denied Reports

The FBI had already launched a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of email during the 2016 campaign when her campaign called for journalists to correct an article reporting that the bureau was considering such […]

Investors Not Deterred by U.S.-Russia Tensions, Experts Say

Concern over military and economic tensions between the United States and Russia were brushed aside by investors, who pumped as much as $7 billion into equities over the past week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch […]

Trump Allies Worried That FBI Seized Recordings from Cohen’s Office

Close associates and allies of U.S. President Donald Trump are worried that the FBI investigators that raided Michael Cohen’s office may have seized recordings of conversations made by Trump’s personal lawyer. The Washington Post reported […]

Trump Blasts Comey After Excerpts of His Book Get Published

Former FBI Director James Comey describes in his new book how he often questioned why President Donald Trump was not willing to issue criticism of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. In excerpts from A […]

CBO Says 80 Percent of Economic Gains Will Go to Foreigners

A new report by the Congressional Budget Office indicates that 80 percent of the economic growth generated by the Republican tax cuts, which President Donald Trump touted in a speech on Thursday, will eventually go […]

Former Speaker Boehner Says Trump Firing Mueller Is ‘Bad Idea’

Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner stated on Friday that President Donald Trump will be making a grand mistake if he used his executive power and order the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller or […]

Defense Contractors under Constant Cyber Attacks

As nation states and other hacking groups increasingly use malicious software to block information or manipulate data, cybersecurity experts say that defense contractors are facing more aggressive attacks. The experts also added that all the […]