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New York Dems Cuomo, de Blasio still seem at odds

Despite both being Democrats, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio often fail to see eye to eye.  (Associated Press) It’s difficult to say what’s colder in New York...

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Mitt Romney likely to run for Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat, source says

Hatch, 83, announced his retirement Tuesday. It came just over a week after Trump signed the GOP tax plan that Hatch helped to craft into law. In a statement Tuesday, Romney thanked Hatch for his...

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Trump slams Bannon after criticism, says ex-chief strategist ‘lost his mind’

Could Steve Bannon derail President Trump’s agenda? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasts the former White House chief strategist’s plan to unseat GOP incumbents running for re-election to...

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What you need to know about Wednesday’s Trump news

Also, not to be overlooked amid the turmoil, Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sued special counsel Robert Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Department of Justice in...

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Former NJ Gov. Brendan Byrne, ‘the man the mob couldn’t buy,’ dead at 93

Former New Jersey Gov. Brendan Byrne is seen in this 2007 photo.  (AP Photo/MJ Schear, File) Former two-term Gov. Brendan Byrne, who mobsters said was too ethical to be bribed and who authorized the...

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People say Trump is ‘like a child,’ Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff says

Brendan McDermid | Reuters Author Michael Wolff is seen on the set of NBC’s ‘Today’ show prior to an interview about his book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” in New York City, January 5,...

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Trump retweets ‘Fire and Fury’ parody cover, slams Wolff, Bannon

The Republican Party on Friday tweeted a parody cover of Michael Wolff’s newly released book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday evening to...

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Jeff Session’s war on pot may become a war on small business

Mike Sampson, a partner at global law firm Reed Smith LLP in Pittsburgh, notes that while businesses in the marijuana field should certainly be aware of the change in policy, Sessions did not order...

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Maryland Democrat confessed to taking cash, prosecutors say

A Maryland state senator has confessed to taking cash payments in exchange for conducting official business, federal prosecutors said last week. State Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks, a Democrat, is scheduled...

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Stephen Miller backs Trump as ‘genius,’ and gets kicked off CNN

Top Trump aide Stephen Miller was booted off CNN on Sunday, after engaging in testy exchanges with network anchor Jake Tapper over the book “Fire and Fury.” During his appearance, Miller attempted to...

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WikiLeaks tweets then deletes link to text of new Trump book

The website WikiLeaks on Sunday tweeted a link to the text of the new book critical of President Trump that has angered the president, his staff and his allies. An electronic image of the text of...

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Regulators reject Rick Perry’s plan to prop up coal and nuclear plants

Federal regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and nuclear power plants in some parts of the United States. However, the Federal...

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House committee gets access to long-sought Trump dossier records

House Intelligence Committee investigators got access to the remaining documents they had long sought as part of their Russia inquiry during a classified session at the Justice Department on Friday, a...

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Trump calls courts ‘broken and unfair’ after judge blocks DACA move

Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, Jan. 09, 2018. President Donald Trump railed on the...

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High-level Obama appointee billed public for at least $4,000 in cab rides:...

In an undated photo, Vikrum Aiyer, then chief of staff of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, poses with President Barack Obama.  (Facebook) A high-ranking Obama administration official unlawfully...

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Trump claims Mexico will pay for his border wall through NAFTA

Hector Vivas | LatinContent | Getty Images Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto meets with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump after a meeting at Los Pinos on August 31, 2016, in Mexico City....

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Trump remark draws sharp reactions from UN, Haiti, Africa

President Donald Trump’s “s—hole countries” remark Thursday drew sharp reactions from the U.N. human rights office — as well as the nations to which the president referred in his comment. It also...

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McSally now in for Trump in Arizona, as GOP tries to keep Senate seat

Republican Rep. Martha McSally is backing President Trump and his agenda in her bid to keep an Arizona Senate seat for Republicans — shifting  course from 2016 when she refused to endorse Trump’s...

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Paul Ryan doesn’t think House will do entitlement reform this year

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday that he does not think the chamber will pass Social Security or Medicare reform this year. “I don’t see us tackling it this year,” he said at an event in Wisconsin....

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Chelsea Manning confirms Senate bid, says ‘Yup, we’re running’

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, confirmed Sunday that she’s running in Maryland for a Senate seat. “Yup, we’re running for...

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