ENERGY/RICK PERRY: “As a photographer for the Department of Energy, Simon Edelman regularly attended meetings with Secretary Rick Perry and snapped pictures for official purposes. Now he is out of a job and seeking whistle-blower protections after leaking photographs of Mr. Perry meeting with a major energy industry donor to President Trump. Late last year, […]
1/17/2018
DEMS/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s chief of staff privately told a group of Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday [1-17-18] that Mr. Trump had not been ‘fully informed’ when promising voters a wall along the Mexican border last year, and said that he had persuaded the president it was not necessary. He also expressed optimism that […]
1/17/2018
DHS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “It was a made-for-TV moment, perfect for a presidential campaign advertisement. His fists clenched and his voice rising, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, delivered a 10-minute verbal thrashing to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week, recalling his ‘tears of rage’ when he learned that President Trump had used vulgarities to […]
1/17/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “In the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, Mahmoud Ferwana, 59, huddled beneath a flimsy nylon-and-sheet-metal roof while rain drenched the rest of his squalid home’s sandy floor. He earns money collecting broken stones; his children scavenge for copper. But none of it amounts to a living. The United Nations Relief […]
1/17/2018
FAKE NEWS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump tweeted out the winners of his ‘Fake News Awards’ on Wednesday [1-17-18] night, proclaiming, ‘And the FAKE NEWS winners are …’, with a link to the Republican National Committee website. There, an unsigned entry opened by saying, ‘2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and […]
1/17/2018
INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE: “The Department of Interior is rebutting concerns cited by members of the National Park System Advisory Board who quit on Tuesday [1-16-18]. ‘It is patently false to say the Department had not engaged the board when as recently as January 8 we were working with the board to renew their charter, schedule a […]
1/17/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “ISIS is in retreat, our economy is booming, investments and jobs are pouring back into the country, and so much more! Together there is nothing we can’t overcome–even a very biased media. We ARE Making America Great Again!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 08:11pm […]
1/17/2018
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Despite some very corrupt and dishonest media coverage, there are many great reporters I respect and lots of GOOD NEWS for the American people to be proud of!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 08:05pm […]
1/17/2018
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And the FAKE NEWS winners are… https://t.co/59G6x2f7fD” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 08:00pm […]
1/17/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA: “Athletes from North and South Korea will march together under a single flag at the Winter Olympics next month, the South said Wednesday [1-17-18]—part of a sweeping agreement on the Games that marks Seoul’s most ardent and public embrace of its nuclear-armed rival in a decade. The accord comes after a […]
1/17/2018
ECONOMY/HOLIDAY: “Main Street is BACK! Strongest Holiday Sales bump since the Great Recession — beating forecasts by BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. https://t.co/kDcGbMieSt” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 06:36pm […]
1/17/2018
BUSINESS/DONALDISM/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the campaign, I promised to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN by bringing businesses and jobs back to our country. I am very proud to see companies like Chrysler moving operations from Mexico to Michigan where there are so many great American workers! https://t.co/hz2q9UTfnF” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 06:32pm […]
1/17/2018
BUSINESS/TAXES: “I promised that my policies would allow companies like Apple to bring massive amounts of money back to the United States. Great to see Apple follow through as a result of TAX CUTS. Huge win for American workers and the USA! https://t.co/OwXVUyLOb1” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 06:28pm […]
1/17/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we witnessed an incredible moment in history – the presentation of Congress’ highest civilian honor to our friend, and true AMERICAN HERO, Bob Dole. #CongressionalGoldMedal https://t.co/qNQqDLRmCk” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 06:19pm […]
1/17/2018
BUDGET/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS: “House Republicans are short of the votes they need to avoid a government shutdown, but Speaker Paul Ryan and GOP leaders remain confident they will pass a stopgap funding measure when it comes to the floor on Thursday [1-18-18]. President Donald Trump is personally leaning on GOP lawmakers to fall into line, […]
1/17/2018
GOP/NOMINATIONS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A GOP senator with concerns about President Donald Trump’s trade policy said Wednesday [1-17-18] he would block two of the president’s nominees, saying the Trump administration hasn’t been responsive to his concerns on the issue. Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday that […]
1/17/2018
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Like most men of his age, President Donald Trump has a common form of heart disease, relatively easy to address if he increases the dose of his cholesterol-lowering medication and makes necessary lifestyle changes. Without those changes, the President has a moderate risk of having a heart attack in the next three […]
1/17/2018
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT: “Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt plans to use his second year on the job to accelerate efforts to remake the agency, saying he wants to speed its permitting processes and transform a culture he says is bureaucratic. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Pruitt outlined the changes he […]
1/17/2018
BUDGET/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday [1-17-18] he won’t vote for a short-term spending bill — also known as a continuing resolution or CR — that Republicans are attempting to pass by Friday night to avoid a government shutdown. The South Carolina Republican continued to push for the bipartisan proposal that he and five […]
1/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/STEVE BANNON: “Federal agents have issued a subpoena to former presidential adviser Steve Bannon, who plans to fully cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a person close to Mr. Bannon said. FBI agents arrived last week at Mr. Bannon’s home in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill […]
1/17/2018
ABORTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will speak at Friday’s [1-19-18] March for Life, becoming the first sitting president to address the annual anti-abortion gathering by satellite in its 45-year history. The announcement, made on Wednesday by the White House, caps a stunning evolution for Trump, who once declared himself ‘pro-choice in every respect.’ A […]
1/17/2018
AMBASSADOR/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former American ambassadors to 48 African nations have urged President Donald Trump to reassess his views on Africa and its citizens after he was reported to have referred to nations there as ‘shithole countries.’ In a letter to Mr. Trump on Tuesday, 78 former envoys said the U.S. is ‘safer, healthier, more […]
1/17/2018
HEALTHCARE: “Long-term-care insurance was supposed to help pay for nursing homes, assisted living and personal aides for tens of millions of Americans when they became unable to take care of themselves. Now, though, the industry is in financial turmoil, causing misery for many of the 7.3 million people who own a long-term-care policy, equal to […]
1/17/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE: “The House Intelligence Committee will vote Thursday [1-18-18] on whether to release the transcript of the panel’s interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The committee has a business meeting scheduled for Thursday posted on its website, in which it plans to vote on […]
1/17/2018
DEMS/GOP/POLITICS: “Democrats on Tuesday [1-16-18] won a special election for a Wisconsin state senate seat in a district that President Donald Trump carried by 17 percentage points in the 2016 election, a victory that GOP leaders cautioned is another warning about potential losses in this year’s congressional midterms. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican seeking […]
1/17/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is issuing new guidelines to the nation’s overwhelmed immigration courts in hopes that new case priorities and goals will ease a massive backlog. A seven-page memo to immigration judges from James McHenry, the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, says the court should first tackle cases of […]
1/17/2018
TRUMP FAMILY/ERIC TRUMP: “Eric Trump on @foxandfriends now!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2018 08:04am […]
1/17/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/GOP: “A deal on immigration as part of a new stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown appeared less likely on Wednesday [1-17-18] after a Democratic senator said the White House is making unacceptable demands on immigration measures. The White House dispatched chief of staff John Kelly to meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus […]
1/17/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/PALESTINE/UN: “The United Nations Wednesday [1-17-18] called on countries to bolster funding to Palestinian refugees, warning of a collapse in health-care and education services, after the White House withheld about half its pledged financial aid to a key institution that supports the displaced people. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or Unrwa, in a […]
1/17/2018
INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE: “Three-quarters of the seats on the U.S. National Park Service advisory board are vacant following a mass resignation Monday [1-15-18] night, citing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s unwillingness to meet with them. Nine of the panel’s 12 members, led by former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, handed in their resignations. The bipartisan panel was appointed […]
1/17/2018
BORDER/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has already started framing a potential government shutdown as the singular fault of Democrats demanding liberal immigration policies at the expense of border security. But Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, as well as veterans of past budget battles and campaigns, say that argument isn’t likely to fly — […]
1/17/2018
POLITICS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Robert Mueller’s Russia probe isn’t ending any time soon, and that’s bad news for President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans already bracing for a possible 2018 Democratic midterm wave. While many Republicans insist the Trump-Russia saga is overblown, they worry headlines about federal indictments, high profile trials—and a potential blockbuster meeting between Mueller […]
1/16/2018
BUDGET/HOUSE OF REPS/POLITICS: “House Republicans on Tuesday [1-16-18] night appeared to coalesce around a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown Friday — even as conservatives threatened to oppose it and a bitter fight continued over the fate of more than 700,000 Dreamers. Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled a plan at a House GOP Conference […]
1/16/2018
IMMIGRATION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Tuesday [1-16-18] released a report attempting to link immigrants to terrorism, presenting statistics showing that the vast majority of people convicted of international terrorism charges in the United States over the past 15 years were born in foreign countries. The report came amid a politically charged push by […]
1/16/2018
MENTAL HEALTH/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s White House physician said Tuesday [1-16-18] that the president received a perfect score on a cognitive test designed to screen for neurological impairment, which the military doctor said was evidence that Mr. Trump does not suffer from mental issues that prevent him from functioning in office… Mr. Trump’s first […]
1/16/2018
CYBERWAR/FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR: “A newly drafted United States nuclear strategy that has been sent to President Trump for approval would permit the use of nuclear weapons to respond to a wide range of devastating but non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure, including what current and former government officials described as the most crippling kind of cyberattacks. […]
1/16/2018
LEGAL/NAVY: “The commanders of the two U.S. guided-missile destroyers involved in collisions that killed 17 sailors in Asia last year will be court-martialed on charges including negligent homicide, the Navy said Tuesday [1-16-18]. In total, the Navy is filing criminal charges against six sailors, officials said. Another eight will face nonjudicial punishment, a Navy official […]
1/16/2018
JAPAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “Japan’s public broadcaster on Tuesday [1-16-18] accidentally sent news alerts that North Korea had launched a missile and that citizens should take shelter — just days after the government of Hawaii had sent a similar warning to its citizens. The broadcaster, NHK, corrected itself five minutes later and apologized for the error […]
1/16/2018
BANKING/DEMS/DODD-FRANK/GOP/TAXES: “The most significant attempt to loosen rules imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is underway in Congress as the Senate looks to pass legislation within the next month that would roll back restrictions on swaths of the finance industry. Buoyed by their success in rewriting the tax code, the Trump administration […]
1/16/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/STEVE BANNON: “Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, was subpoenaed last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to testify before a grand jury as part of the investigation into possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The move […]
1/16/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senators worked Tuesday [1-16-18] to salvage a bipartisan plan to protect ‘Dreamers’—young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents—as the divide grew over an immigration deal seen as key to avoiding a government shutdown this weekend. The White House complicated the negotiations by insisting that Congress allocate billions more for […]
1/16/2018
CHINA/CIA/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY: “A former Central Intelligence Agency officer was arrested Monday [1-15-18] on charges of unlawfully retaining classified information, and U.S. officials familiar with the matter said he was suspected of providing information that helped the Chinese government identify U.S. informants in that country. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53 years old, who worked for the […]
1/16/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TERRORISM: “New report from DOJ & DHS shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign-born. We have submitted to Congress a list of resources and reforms… we need to keep America safe, including moving away from a random chain migration and lottery system, to one that is merit-based. https://t.co/7PtoSFK1n2” […]
1/16/2018
FCC/LEGAL/NET NEUTRALITY: “State attorneys general and internet activists filed legal challenges to the Federal Communications Commission’s recent rollback of Obama -era internet regulations, launching a legal battle that could go on for years. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and more than 20 other officials filed their combined petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
1/16/2018
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is in excellent health and scored a perfect result on a cognitive assessment, the White House physician said Tuesday [1-16-18] in revealing results from a recent examination. Based on the results, the 71-year-old president is ‘very healthy and will remain so for the duration of his presidency,’ said Ronny […]
1/16/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Cory Booker slammed the homeland security secretary in a speech Tuesday [1-16-18] morning for claiming ignorance to the President’s slander of African countries. The impassioned remarks came toward the end of an often testy oversight hearing in which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied hearing President Donald Trump […]
1/16/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my honor to welcome President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan to the @WhiteHouse! https://t.co/TerYFZViax” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 16, 2018 03:17pm […]
1/16/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Republican former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who had been considered a potential high-profile candidate in a key race, says he will not run for the Senate this year in Minnesota. Speaking on Fox Business News, Pawlenty said: ‘I am very interested in public service and service for the common good, there are a lot […]
1/16/2018
HOLIDAY/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 16, 2018, as Religious Freedom Day’ https://t.co/bD3R2dJfyp” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 16, 2018 02:43pm […]
1/16/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “The Justice Department on Tuesday [1-16-18] announced plans to seek direct Supreme Court review of a judge’s ruling that blocked President Donald Trump from shuttering a program that gave work permits and other protections to some people who entered the U.S. illegally as children. The administration is also appealing the ruling to […]
1/16/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said Tuesday [1-16-18] that the current immigration system poses security risks to the U.S., as lawmakers returned to Washington to restart negotiations on immigration and government spending following the holiday weekend… Congressional aides say they are expecting another short-term deal, which would fund the government for a few weeks […]
1/16/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “More than a dozen top White House officials will attend a series of events on Tuesday that the Trump administration is billing as a ‘conversation with Women of America.’ The event comes amid the nationwide focus on sexual harassment and assault against women dubbed the #MeToo movement spurred by extensive alleged abuse […]
1/16/2018
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who last week declared President Donald Trump in ‘excellent health,’ will provide more details of the President’s medical exam during a briefing on Tuesday [1-16-18]. The White House said last week that Jackson would join White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to describe some results […]
1/16/2018
FCC/LEGAL/NET NEUTRALITY: “A group of 21 U.S. state attorneys general filed suit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to do away with net neutrality on Tuesday [1-16-18] while Democrats said they needed just one more vote in the Senate to repeal the FCC ruling. The state attorneys, including those of California, New York and […]
1/16/2018
BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TAXES: “The tax overhaul that President Donald Trump signed into law last month capped a year in which his initiatives on taxes, regulation—and many of his public pronouncements on the economy—have been broadly welcomed by business… In pure policy terms, however, business groups and executives say the $1.5 trillion of corporate-focused tax changes […]
1/16/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Unemployment for Black Americans is the lowest ever recorded. Trump approval ratings with Black Americans has doubled. Thank you, and it will get even (much) better! @FoxNews” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 16, 2018 09:30am […]
1/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘90% of Trump 2017 news coverage was negative’ -and much of it contrived!@foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 16, 2018 09:24am […]
1/16/2018
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Do you notice the Fake News Mainstream Media never likes covering the great and record setting economic news, but rather talks about anything negative or that can be turned into the negative. The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead, except as it pertains to the Dems. Public gets it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/16/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats want to shut down the Government over Amnesty for all and Border Security. The biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding Military, at a time we need it more than ever. We need a merit based system of immigration, and we need it now! No more dangerous Lottery.” -Donald Trump, […]
1/16/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We must have Security at our VERY DANGEROUS SOUTHERN BORDER, and we must have a great WALL to help protect us, and to help stop the massive inflow of drugs pouring into our country!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 16, 2018 08:54am […]
1/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “A federal judge on Tuesday [1-16-18] delayed setting a trial date for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who faces charges stemming from the special counsel’s probe of allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Defense lawyers said the government has still not yet produced all of the evidence […]
1/16/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “Joe Arpaio, a polarizing national figure for his hard line on immigration, was voted out of office after nearly 24 years as Maricopa County Sheriff. He was convicted of disobeying a court order to stop the immigration raids that helped make him famous. Now, at 85, Mr. Arpaio is back—and aiming for higher […]
1/16/2018
DHS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION: “Deporting immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children will not be a top federal law enforcement priority even if lawmakers do not pass a program to protect them, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chief said in an interview aired on Tuesday [1-16-18]. Kirstjen Nielsen, speaking ahead of a congressional hearing, […]
1/16/2018
PROTESTS/WOMEN: “The day after President Donald Trump’s Inauguration, a sea of people clad in pink hats walked toward the Capitol in Washington DC, setting the stage for a nationwide Women’s March movement. One year later, Women’s March organizers are heading West — to Las Vegas, to be exact — in hopes of turning the movement’s […]
1/16/2018
IRS/STATE/TAXES: “A law that would deny or revoke passports for U.S. citizens with seriously delinquent tax debt is set to take effect later this month. Under the law, the Internal Revenue Service is required to notify the State Department after it has certified that an individual has unpaid federal taxes, including penalties and interest, of […]
1/16/2018
MIKE PENCE/PROTESTS/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A pastor in Maryland who had Vice President Mike Pence as a captive audience on Sunday [1-14-18] took the opportunity to attack the politician’s boss, calling President Donald Trump’s comments on Haiti and Africa ‘hurtful,’ ‘dehumanizing’ and ‘vulgar.’ Dr. Maurice Watson, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Largo, Maryland, ripped […]
1/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/AMBASSADOR/RUSSIA: “A U.S. report detailing new sanctions against Russia will be published on Jan. 29, the TASS news agency cited U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman as saying on Tuesday [1-16-18]. Washington is expected to impose fresh penalties against Russia for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential vote, an allegation Russia has […]
1/16/2018
CONFLICT OF INTEREST/ETHICS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A new report documents 64 politicians, interest groups, corporations and entities affiliated with foreign governments that used Trump-branded properties in the past year. The report released Tuesday [1-16-18] by Public Citizen, a liberal-funded watchdog group based in Washington, comes about a year after President Donald Trump stepped away from day-to-day management […]
1/15/2018
BUSINESS/OIL: “Surging shale production is poised to push U.S. oil output to more than 10 million barrels per day – toppling a record set in 1970 and crossing a threshold few could have imagined even a decade ago… The U.S. government forecasts that the nation’s production will climb to 11 million barrels a day by […]
1/15/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “South Africa and Nigeria have joined a chorus of nations condemning President Trump’s inflammatory remarks on immigration, as Africa experts warned that the controversy threatened to set back American interests across the world’s fastest-growing continent. Since Thursday [1-11-18], when several participants in a meeting with Mr. Trump said he had asked […]
1/15/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “In October, when the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could reshape American politics, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. registered an objection. There was math in the case, he said, and it was complicated… The statistics in the recent gerrymandering cases were more complicated, but not by much. Just as […]
1/15/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey lashed out on Monday [1-16-18] against a proposed American-trained force that would potentially position thousands of Kurdish militia fighters along Turkey’s southern border. The allied military headquarters in Baghdad that is leading the fight against the Islamic State in Syria said Sunday that it had […]
1/15/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is taking its campaign against illegal immigration to the workplace. The raids by federal agents on dozens of 7-Eleven convenience stores last week were the administration’s first big show of force meant to convey the consequences of employing undocumented people… When agents raid workplaces, they often demand to see […]
1/15/2018
CHINA/DEFENSE/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA: “The Pentagon is planning to develop two new sea-based nuclear weapons to respond to Russia and China’s growing military capabilities, according to a sweeping Defense Department review of nuclear strategy. The planned move has ignited a broad debate over future U.S. nuclear strategy at a time when the nation also faces the […]
1/15/2018
CHINA/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSNER: “U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the Chinese government, according to people familiar […]
1/15/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can’t get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 15, 2018 03:28pm […]
1/15/2018
MILITARY/SYRIA: “Troops allied with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are determined to ‘end the presence of the US’ in the country, Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, said Monday [1-15-18], citing an official at the regime’s Foreign Ministry. The official told SANA that the Assad-aligned Syrian Arab Army would thwart the ‘conspiracy, end the presence of the […]
1/15/2018
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump appears poised to ignore his own calls for Americans to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with ‘acts of civic work and community service.’ Trump is not scheduled to partake in any service projects on the federal holiday he and every other US president have designated as a ‘day […]
1/15/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [1-15-18] blamed Senator Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker misrepresented his comments about Haiti and African countries… Durbin has said Trump used the term ‘shithole’ when speaking about […]
1/15/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mitt Romney took a swipe at President Donald Trump on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, condemning his ‘shithole countries’ remark. The comment signals that the potential Utah Senate candidate continues to have no problem speaking out against the Trump administration. ‘The poverty of an aspiring immigrant’s nation of origin is as […]
1/15/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “US President Donald Trump may occasionally say ‘silly’ things but he’s ‘definitely not racist,’ his first wife Ivana Trump said Monday [1-15-18]. Asked on the UK’s Good Morning Britain TV show about the President’s vulgar remarks about African nations last week Ivana Trump said she did not believe they showed he […]
1/15/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A growing number of nations are summoning US diplomats in the wake of President Donald Trump’s ‘shithole’ remark. Top US diplomats in South Africa and Ghana were called on to meet with those governments, Undersecretary of State Steven Goldstein told CNN. Haiti, Botswana and Senegal have also summoned diplomats over the […]
1/15/2018
AMBASSADOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Haiti’s ambassador to the US said Monday [1-15-18] that President Donald Trump’s recent comments about Haiti ‘hurt the country,’ adding that he hopes the President will visit the nation… Referring to immigrants from African countries during an Oval Office meeting last week, Trump asked lawmakers, ‘Why do we want all these people […]
1/15/2018
DEMS/DONALDISM/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Statement by me last night in Florida: ‘Honestly, I don’t think the Democrats want to make a deal. They talk about DACA, but they don’t want to help..We are ready, willing and able to make a deal but they don’t want to. They don’t want security at the border, they don’t want… […]
1/15/2018
DONALDISM/ETHICS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Every awards show has its critics, but President Donald Trump’s much ballyhooed ‘Fake News Awards’ has drawn attention from a group beyond the usual peanut gallery: ethics experts who say the event could run afoul of White House rules and, depending on what exactly the president says during the proceedings, the First […]
1/15/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN: “For weeks, House Speaker Paul Ryan has said any deal to shield 700,000 young undocumented people from deportation must be bipartisan. His GOP conference, however, has another idea entirely. House Republicans are pressing Ryan for a vote on a partisan immigration bill that has little chance of passing the Senate. They […]
1/14/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three days of denunciations from around the world, President Trump declared that he is ‘not a racist’ on Sunday [1-14-18], even as the uproar over his vulgar remarks on immigration overshadowed critical issues facing the capital, including efforts to protect young undocumented immigrants and avert a government shutdown. Mr. […]
1/14/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said on Sunday [1-14-18] that Israel had killed the Oslo Accords and angrily assailed the Trump administration over its handling of the conflict. He vowed to reject American leadership of any peace talks and urged Palestinians to reconsider their signed agreements with Israel… Mr. […]
1/14/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two Republican senators called into question whether President Donald Trump used the term ‘shithole countries’ in a meeting with lawmakers on immigration last week, as critics of the president didn’t back down and continued to suggest his words were racist… The comments showed no signs of quelling a political storm over Mr. […]
1/14/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY: “Federal and local officials are reviewing the U.S. wireless emergency alert system after a false warning over an incoming ballistic missile rattled Hawaii on Saturday [1-13-18], exposing what officials say are troubling shortcomings in the network. Critics say the national alert system—which is used by local officials to issue real-time notifications in case […]
1/14/2018
CRIME/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Chelsea Manning on Sunday [1-14-18] confirmed via Twitter that she is a candidate for U.S. Senate. Three days after making her intention known to federal election officials, Ms. Manning tweeted ‘yup, we’re running for senate’ with an attached campaign video indicating her intention to run in the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary. She sent […]
1/14/2018
DHS/NATIONAL SECURITY: “U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen cautioned Sunday [1-14-18] that Americans shouldn’t react to Saturday’s false alarm in Hawaii, warning of a nonexistent ballistic missile attack, by disregarding emergency warnings in the future… Federal, state and local officials continued their efforts Sunday to determine how to prevent a recurrence of the panic that […]
1/14/2018
DONALD ON DONALD/DOW/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘President Trump is not getting the credit he deserves for the economy. Tax Cut bonuses to more than 2,000,000 workers. Most explosive Stock Market rally that we’ve seen in modern times. 18,000 to 26,000 from Election, and grounded in profitability and growth. All Trump, not 0… big unnecessary regulation […]
1/14/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I, as President, want people coming into our Country who are going to help us become strong and great again, people coming in through a system based on MERIT. No more Lotteries! #AMERICA FIRST” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 14, 2018 08:19am […]
1/14/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/MILITARY: “DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 14, 2018 08:09am […]
1/14/2018
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Wall Street Journal stated falsely that I said to them ‘I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un’ (of N. Korea). Obviously I didn’t say that. I said ‘I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,’ a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters… and […]
1/14/2018
DHS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Saturday [1-13-18] that it would resume accepting renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, bowing for now to a federal court ruling that blocked an effort to end the Obama-era policy. President Donald Trump said in September that he was ending DACA, which gives safe […]
1/13/2018
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 13, 2018 […]
1/13/2018
DEMS/DOW/DREAMERS/JOBS/TAXES: “I don’t believe the Democrats really want to see a deal on DACA. They are all talk and no action. This is the time but, day by day, they are blowing the one great opportunity they have. Too bad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 13, 2018 09:20am […]
1/13/2018
DEMS/DOW/JOBS/TAXES: “Yesterday was another big day for jobs and the Stock Market. Chrysler coming back to U.S. (Michigan) from Mexico and many more companies paying out Tax Cut money to employees. If Dems won in November, Market would have TANKED! It was headed for disaster.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 13, 2018 09:20am […]