Trump Proposes Freezing Federal Worker Salaries
President Trump wants to cancel an automatic pay raise set to take effect next year for federal civilian workers. Federal workers were to get a 2.1 percent across-the-board raise in January, with more...
View ArticleFormer Sen. Jon Kyl To Replace The Late John McCain In Senate
Updated at 2:35 p.m. ET Former Republican Sen. Jon Kyl has been tapped to replace the late Sen. John McCain in the Senate. Kyl, 76, served three terms in the Senate, rising to become the No. 2...
View ArticleKavanaugh Hearings, Day 1: Protesters Focus On Roe; Attempted Handshake Goes...
The first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings was long on quarreling, protesting and speechifying . While good theater, there was little actually learned about the man...
View ArticleKavanaugh Hearings, Day 2: More Protests As Senators Press On Precedent
Wednesday was Day 2 of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh and it gave members of the Senate Judiciary Committee a chance to question the Trump nominee publicly and...
View ArticleKavanaugh Hearings, Day 3: Booker Has His 'Spartacus Moment'; A Mulligan On...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjGnDCqqPUQ Day 3 of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh featured a morning quarrel over documents as members concluded two days of public...
View ArticleKavanaugh Looks On Path To Supreme Court Confirmation, After 4 Days Of Hearings
Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up four days of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The committee is likely to vote on Kavanaugh in about two weeks. And...
View ArticleAt Sept. 11 Commemoration, Trump Praises 'Heroes Of Flight 93'
There were somber ceremonies in New York City, in Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon on Tuesday as President Trump, along with survivors and families of those killed on this date, remembered Sept....
View ArticleTrump Denies Almost 3,000 Died In Puerto Rico, Falsely Claims Democrats...
Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET President Trump denied the death toll of nearly 3,000 from hurricanes Maria and Irma, which swept across Puerto Rico a year ago, in a series of tweets Thursday morning. "3000...
View ArticleHurricane Florence To Test FEMA, Trump Administration
As Hurricane Florence makes landfall in the Carolinas, in Washington the focus is how the Trump administration will respond to the storm's aftermath, and the inevitable property damage, power outages...
View ArticleSharks In The Water? FEMA Tries To Fight 'Fake News' As Florence Hits
FEMA is rolling out a new tool as it begins to deal with now-tropical storm Florence. It's a rumor-control webpage . Unfounded rumors — what might be called "fake news" — have been a problem in coping...
View ArticleTrump Says Brett Kavanaugh 'Does Not Deserve This'
Updated at 6:05 p.m. ET President Trump issued his most forceful defense yet of his embattled Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters during a press conference...
View ArticleTrump Says He Wants To Hear From Kavanaugh's Accuser
Updated at 6:08 p.m. ET President Trump says he hopes the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her will appear at a hearing next week before the...
View ArticleKavanaugh Accuser Rejects 'Arbitrary' Ultimatum Regarding Testimony, Gets...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjEksiJA4 Updated at 11:53 p.m. ET Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school,...
View ArticleKavanaugh Says 'I'm Not Going Anywhere' Following 2nd Accusation
Updated at 8:32 p.m. ET Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh says he isn't considering withdrawing following more allegations of sexual misconduct from decades ago, and he proclaimed his...
View ArticleTrump On 2nd Kavanaugh Accuser: 'Totally Inebriated And All Messed Up'
Updated at 7:47 p.m. ET President Trump attacked Brett Kavanaugh's second accuser Tuesday, saying she "has nothing" on the Supreme Court nominee and was "totally inebriated and all messed up" during a...
View ArticleKavanaugh And Ford Are Testifying. Here's What You Need To Know
Updated at 7:50 a.m. ET Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with the American public, are hearing, for the first time, on Thursday directly from Christine Blasey Ford, the university...
View ArticleBrett Kavanaugh Offers Fiery Defense In Hearing That Was A National Cultural...
Across the country, Americans were transfixed Thursday by television coverage of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh as they testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ford spoke of her...
View Article'The Fifth Risk' Paints A Portrait Of A Government Led By The Uninterested
The thought that Donald Trump may have been totally unprepared to become president in November 2016 is one that's not new to those who have been following the day-to-day crises and dramas of the Trump...
View ArticleThis Is Only A Test: Why Your Cellphone Buzzed Wednesday Afternoon
Updated on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. ET Wednesday afternoon, at exactly 2:18 p.m. ET, million of Americans received a text headlined "Presidential Alert" on their cellphones. But it wasn't exactly from...
View ArticleBrett Kavanaugh Sworn In As Newest Supreme Court Justice
Updated at 11:31 p.m. ET A sharply divided Senate — reflecting a deeply divided nation — voted almost entirely along party lines Saturday afternoon to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme...
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