House Speaker says he has understanding with Trump to fund government
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday he has a good understanding with President Donald Trump to fund the government by a Sept. 30 deadline, despite Trump’s comments a day earlier that he would be willing to shut down government if Congress doe…
Trump plan to detain immigrant children indefinitely ‘inhumane’: Pelosi
President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw from a court agreement that puts strict limits on the U.S. government’s detention of migrant children and to hold the minors through their immigration proceeding is “inhumane,” said the top Democrat in the U.S…
Speaker Ryan, on planned immigration policy, says don’t separate families at border
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan on Thursday said he did not know the details of President Donald Trump’s plans to stop following strict limits on detaining migrant children, but said he believes the administration agrees that fam…
Fierce document dispute grips Trump Supreme Court pick’s hearing
A dispute over documents relating to abortion, race and other issues dating to the prior White House service of Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, spilled over into the nominee’s contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Thu…
Delaware senator next to face challenge from progressive rival
The potential for another takedown of a longtime Democratic incumbent by a progressive challenger looms in Delaware, where voters on Thursday were choosing between a three-term U.S. Senator and a community activist who has never held office.
Four senior Trump advisers disavow NYTimes ‘resistance’ article
Four top White House officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, said on Thursday they did not write an anonymous column in the New York Times that described “a quiet resistance” to President Donald Trump within his own administration.
U.S. secretary of defense did not write anonymous NY Times op-ed: spokeswoman
The U.S. defense secretary on Thursday became the latest high-profile administration official to deny penning an anonymous column published in the New York Times in which the author claimed to be part a group working within the Trump administration to …
Trump administration seeks to end agreement on child migrant detention
The Trump administration said on Thursday it plans to withdraw from a federal court agreement that strictly limits the conditions under which authorities can detain migrant children, and proposed new rules it said would enable it to detain minors durin…
Emails indicate Trump nominee Kavanaugh questioned abortion ruling: NY Times
Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, raised questions as a White House aide more than a decade ago about whether the 1973 high court ruling legalizing abortion was settled law, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing…
Pence, Pompeo say they did not author ‘resistance’ NY Times Op-Ed
U.S. President Donald Trump’s vice president and secretary of state on Thursday both said they did not write an anonymous column in the New York Times that asserted that many senior officials are part of “a quiet resistance” within the administration.
