Paul Ryan associate courting donors as he prepares to enter House race
A man who used to work as Paul Ryan’s personal driver is gearing up to run for the outgoing House speaker’s seat in Wisconsin’s 1st District, CNBC has learned. The potential Republican candidate,...
View ArticleTrump orders military action in Syria
President Donald Trump announced Friday night that he ordered the U.S. military to conduct precision missile strikes against the Syrian government, in retaliation for a chemical attack executed...
View ArticleComey reportedly wishes he’d found ‘better way’ to describe Clinton’s email use
Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly says in his upcoming book that, given another chance, he would try to avoid calling Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information as secretary of...
View ArticleDemocrats have big enthusiasm edge over GOP for midterms: NBC/WSJ poll
“2018 is shaping up as a referendum on President Donald Trump,” Democratic pollster Peter Hart of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public...
View ArticleMore California cities may join fight against state’s pro-illegal immigrant...
More local governments in California appear to be resisting the state’s efforts to prevent the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, reports said Monday. At least a dozen local governments...
View ArticleSyria airstrikes cost to US taxpayers
The Tomahawk is half the length of a standard telephone pole, travels at the cruising speed of a commercial airliner, and can carry a 1,000-pound warhead the distance from New York City to Kansas...
View ArticleRepublicans who won’t be coming back to Congress after 2018 midterm elections
After announcing last year that he would not seek re-election, Rep. Charlie Dent has decided to leave Congress before his term is finished. “After discussions with my family and careful reflection, I...
View ArticleRepublicans get bad 2018 midterm election news in Pennsylvania poll
Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A man walks past a ‘Stand Up For Steel, Stand Up For America’ sign while arriving at the United States Steel Corp. Clairton Plant coke manufacturing facility...
View ArticleMissing ambassador, US Embassy in Germany pays for prof who compared Trump to...
Richard Grenell was nominated by President Trump to be ambassador to Germany. But his Senate confirmation – along with several others — has been held up by Democrats. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in...
View ArticleFox News gives Sean Hannity ‘full support’ as critics slam him for hiding...
Not even Fox News knew that conservative commentator Sean Hannity was a client of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen until it was revealed in court Monday — and media ethics...
View ArticleComey memos: House Republican committee chairmen say documents prove Comey...
The Republican chairmen of three powerful House committees suggested Thursday that the numerous memos written by former FBI Director James Comey detailing his conversations with President Donald Trump...
View ArticleJudge postpones decision to delay Stormy Daniels lawsuit
A federal judge in California on Friday postponed ruling on a request by President Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen to put on hold a lawsuit filed again them by porn star Stormy Daniels....
View ArticleTrump fires back on Twitter over Democrats’ lawsuit
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club, April 18, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Associated Press) President...
View ArticleTrump campaign rips Democrats Russian collusion claim
The campaign called the suit a “frivolous,” “partisan” and meritless action that represents a “last-ditch effort” by a “nearly-bankrupt Democratic Party” still trying to counter the will of the...
View ArticleTrump slams NBC’s ‘sleepy eyes’ Chuck Todd for ‘fake news’ comments about...
President Trump on Sunday dismissed comments by NBC News’ Chuck Todd suggesting that the United States is getting steamrolled in negotiations with North Korea over the rogue nation halting its nuclear...
View ArticleNorth Korea is now connected to South Korea with a direct hotline
KCNA | Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Command of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in an unknown location in North Korea in this undated photo released by North...
View ArticleWho is Jack Johnson and why would Trump pardon him?
Who is boxing legend Jack Johnson? President Trump Saturday said that he is considering a “full pardon” for boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, after being urged to do so by...
View ArticleTipirneni tries to upset Lesko
Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb’s triumph in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, which President Donald Trump won by about 20 percentage points in 2016, gave Democrats fresh hopes about their ability to compete...
View ArticleRepublican Debbie Lesko wins Arizona House special election
Republican candidate Debbie Lesko won a special election for a U.S. House seat in Arizona Tuesday night, to replace former Rep. Trent Franks, who resigned in December over sexual misconduct...
View ArticleFirst drone warship joins US Navy, nearly every element classified
The concept for the unmanned vessel was born in 2010 out of the Pentagon’s so-called “mad science wing,” the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The Pentagon’s request from DARPA was...
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