Year: 2018

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow took the side of Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that passed a two-year budget recently, saying that will increase the national debt and deficit even though in 2009 he […]

EPA Admits Emails About Pay Rise Exist, Denies Pruitt Knew About Them

The Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Monday the content of internal EPA emails which seem to contradict the agency administrator’s claims that he was unaware of and didn’t approve big pay rises for two of his […]

Facebook CEO to Face Tough Questions From Congress

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is undergoing a two-day congressional inquisition that will be very public — and possibly pivotal for the massive social networking company he created, NBC informs. Zuckerberg visited with senators in closed-door […]

Amid U.S. Deficit Outlook Dems Fear Cuts in Social Security, Medicaid

President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans’ tax cuts and spending increases will have serious impacts on the U.S. deficit, a new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showed on Monday. The national budget is […]

Trump Lashes out at Attorney General Sessions and Ponders Firing Special Counsel Mueller

President Donald Trump has strongly criticized his Justice Department, his Cabinet members and his former political opponents using scorching remarks Monday evening, CNBC informed. The comments were made at a round-table meeting at the White House which was set to discuss the administration’s reaction to a suspected chemical […]

Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Putin’s Inner Circle

The Trump administration imposed new sanctions on seven of Russia’s richest men and 17 top government officials on Friday in the latest effort to punish President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle for interference in the 2016 […]

Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says Facebook Users’ Data Could Be Stored in Russia

The number of Facebook users affected by the recent data breaching scandal could surpass 87 million and the data could be stored in Russia, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie stated on Sunday, CNBC informed. Wylie […]

North Korea Prepared to Discuss Denuclearization with U.S.

North Korea has told the United States for the first time that it is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Donald Trump, a […]

Kudlow Tries to Calm Trade War Fears but Says Trump ‘Not Bluffing’ about China Tariffs

The new White House economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, attempted Sunday to calm fears about an economically damaging U.S.-China trade war but made clear that President Trump is “not bluffing” about introducing tariffs on China, Fox […]

Trump National Security Spokesman Michael Anton to Leave White House

National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton is resigning the Trump administration, the White House confirmed Sunday night, Fox News reported. Anton’s resignation comes the day before incoming national security adviser John Bolton assumes his new position. […]

Manafort Attempts to Suppress Evidence Seized by Mueller

Paul Manafort filed a motion Friday to suppress evidence special counsel Robert Mueller’s team found in a storage locker in Virginia. Politico reported that the former Trump campaign head is stating that Mueller unlawfully had access […]

President Trump Prepares for Possible Interview with Mueller

A White House official, familiar with the matter, said President Donald Trump has begun the initial steps of preparing for a possible interview with special counsel Robert Mueller in a clear sign that the President’s […]

Trump Probably Won’t Attend White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Friday with “Bernie & Sid in the Morning” on 77 WABC that he would probably skip the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, his second time not […]

Markets Drop as U.S.-China Trade War Escalates

As the trade war between the U.S. and China grows markets dropped precipitously on Friday. As White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted years of Chinese policies were to blame for the tit-for-tat tariffs […]

U.S. States Send Troops to Mexican Border

Following President Donald Trump’s calls for enhanced border security, Texas and Arizona will deploy National Guard troops to the Mexican border. According to Newsweek, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey said on Friday that about 150 guard […]

Trump Rejects Claims he Knew about Lawyer’s $130,000 Payment to Adult Film Star

President Donald Trump has rejected claims Thursday that he knew about his lawyer’s $130,000 payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels, CNBC informed. Trump spoke to reporters for the first time about the payment, made shortly before […]

Trump Proposes $100 billion in Additional Tariffs on Chinese Products

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has given instructions to the United States Trade Representative to think about $100 billion in additional tariffs against China, CNBC informed. “In light of China’s unfair retaliation, I have […]

USDA is Looking for Ways to Protect Farmers in Trade Dispute with China: Official

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is looking to find ways to shield farmers from the growing trade conflict between the United States and China, a department official said Thursday evening without providing details of options […]

New Details about Basis for Andrew McCabe’s Firing from FBI Revealed

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired last month for committing three violations of the bureau’s ethics code, Fox News reported. The violations were first revealed by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector […]

Justice Department Fails to Hand over FBI Documents

The Justice Department failed to meet an initial deadline to give the House Judiciary Committee 1.2 million documents related to the charging decisions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence […]

Medical Group Says ‘No Valid Reason’ to Ban Transgender Troops

The largest association of doctors in the United States is arguing that there is “no medically valid reason” to bar transgender individuals from serving in the military, countering President Donald Trump’s policy issued in March, […]

Senator Roberts: Farmers and Ranchers Should Not be Trump’s Collateral Damage

Republican Senator Pat Roberts criticized President Donald Trump administration’s trade dispute with China on Wednesday, stating that farmers and ranchers should not be Trump’s collateral damage. “These are real people, real families. You don’t use them as a […]

Mulvaney Responded to Warren’s Doubts

The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Mick Mulvaney, has responded to Senator Elizabeth Warren when she questioned his actions and leadership of the bureau. On Thursday, Mulvaney sent Warren a letter […]

Harvard University Facing Lawsuit over Alleged Discrimination in Admissions

A group that is suing Harvard University is demanding that it publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants, saying the records show a pattern of discrimination against Asian-Americans going back decades, The […]

White House: Trump is ‘Not Involved’ in Picking whether Amazon Gets Multibillion-dollar Pentagon Contract

President Donald Trump is “not involved” in the process of deciding whether Amazon receives a multibillion-dollar Defense Department cloud computing deal, the White House said Wednesday, CNBC informed. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the President has not taken […]

U.S. to Sanction Russian Oligarchs under Law Retaliating for Alleged Election-meddling

The Trump administration intends to impose sanctions to a number of Russian oligarchs according to a new law targeting Moscow in retaliation for alleged election meddling, Fox News has learned. It was not immediately clear how many Russian […]

POLITICO: White House Sees ‘Short-term Pain’ as Trump Stokes China Trade War

President Donald Trump and his top aides on Wednesday insisted the United States did not touch off a trade war with China, even as the two countries have stepped up retaliatory actions and as the […]

Oregon Governor Defies Trump, Says She Won’t Sent Troops to Guard Border

Oregon Governor Kate Brown said she will refuse any order from President Donald Trump to send Oregon’s guard troops down south to the US-Mexico border, Newsweek reported. Trump wants National Guard troops sent to the […]

Mexican Senators Call on Authorities to Halt Cooperation with U.S.

Mexican senators are calling on Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to halt the nation’s cooperation with the U.S. on various issues after President Donald Trump went on the attack against the country, The Hill reported. […]

Nunes Threatens to Enforce Subpoena over FBI Memo that Kick-started Russia Investigation

Congressional investigators are still facing blockades over FBI records, despite promises of cooperation from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to a letter obtained by Fox News on Wednesday, . The Republican […]