Montana governor sues IRS, Treasury over rule change on tax-exempt groups
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is believed to be considering a run for president in 2020. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP) Montana’s Democratic governor and the state’s Revenue Department filed a...
View ArticleDonald Trump-Michael Cohen tape about Karen McDougal made public
An audio recording was made public Tuesday night appearing to feature Donald Trump, while running for president in 2016, talking with his then-attorney Michael Cohen about paying for the rights to a...
View ArticleHouse Republicans introduce articles of impeachment against Rosenstein
A group of 11 House Republicans introduced five articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Wednesday evening. The impeachment articles accuse Rosenstein of intentionally...
View ArticleInside black voter group’s effort to help Democrats flip House, Senate
While the PAC has not settled on specific candidates to back in November, it is looking for candidates who will support affordable health-care initiatives, increased funding for public education,...
View ArticleImpeaching Rosenstein, suing Trump’s hotel: More pointless Beltway theater
Kurtz: The empty gestures of Washington warfare ‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz weighs in on the seemingly pointless Beltway theater behind the resolution to impeach Rod Rosenstein, and a lawsuit...
View ArticleTrump suggests economy could grow at 8 or 9 percent if he cuts the trade deficit
“I look forward to seeing next quarter … I think the 4.1 is just a stepping stone,” Trump said. Trump’s claim about reaching GDP growth of 8 or 9 percent is far higher than economists predict. The...
View ArticleLawmakers struggle to decode Trump’s ‘secret plan’ to deal with Russia, North...
There’s a famous episode of the TV show The West Wing where Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman pinch-hits at the podium for ailing Press Secretary C.J. Cregg. Lyman fumbles the briefing. At...
View ArticleTrump fires back at ‘insane’ media after NY Times publisher calls rhetoric...
President Trump ripped what he called “haters in the dying newspaper industry” Sunday after the publisher of The New York Times criticized Trump’s rhetoric as “not just divisive but increasingly...
View ArticleICE agents accuse Oregon mayor of abetting ‘Abolish ICE’ protesters
Portland, Ore. Mayor Ted Wheeler was blasted by ICE agents. (Facebook/AP) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday accused an Oregon mayor of violating the Constitution after...
View ArticleDemocrat who resigned after masturbation allegation may be planning political...
Matt Dababneh, 37, who resigned after being accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, has transferred more than $1 million to his lieutenant governor campaign account, according to a campaign...
View ArticleTrump considers raising proposed China tariffs as trade war escalates
President Donald Trump has told his top trade official to consider raising proposed tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods to 25 percent from the 10 percent rate his administration is currently...
View ArticleManafort case judge warns Mueller team they ‘can’t prove conspiracy’ without...
The federal judge in the trial of ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team on Thursday they cannot prove a key part of their case unless prosecutors call...
View ArticleLeonard Leo tells Koch donors to expect more conservative judges
One of President Donald Trump’s most important outside advisors assured a group of top Koch network donors over the weekend that the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is just the...
View ArticleDACA program should be fully restarted, federal judge rules
A federal judge on Friday ordered a total restart of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, dealing a blow to the Trump administration. The administration announced last year its...
View ArticleYoung Democratic voters are not fiscal socialists
Howard Dean told CNBC on Friday that the Democratic Party is undergoing a shift because of younger voters who are socially liberal and fiscally conservative, views he’s championed as a presidential...
View ArticleTrump, Feinstein spar over reports of Chinese spy on her staff
At his rally in central Ohio on Saturday night, President Trump took aim at U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, criticizing the longtime member of the Senate Intelligence Committee for reportedly having a...
View ArticleThere is ‘zero’ engagement between US and China as trade tensions escalate,...
Earlier in the day, Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told reporters that there had been communications between the two countries at the “highest levels,” but that talks had...
View ArticlePompeo says sanctions a pillar of US policy toward Iran
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, center, talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, unseen, during their meeting at Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. (AP) Secretary of...
View ArticleCrowded Democratic field looks to unseat GOP incumbent
Six Democrats in Kansas are vying this week to challenge a Republican incumbent in an unusually crowded primary for a typically safe GOP seat, in the latest test of whether Democrats in red states...
View ArticleGOP congressional candidate says Facebook ‘rejected’ ad depicting parents’...
A Republican congressional candidate has accused Facebook of not allowing her to promote her campaign video because it includes scenes from the Cambodian genocide – which her parents survived....
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