Trump walked out of shutdown meeting with Democratic lawmakers: Schumer
U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of a meeting with Democratic lawmakers after they told him they would not fund his proposed wall along the U.S. southern border, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday.
Trump advisers would recommend he veto four spending bills over border security: statement
U.S. President Donald Trump’s advisers would recommend he use a veto if he is presented with four spending bills while there is no agreement on border security, the White House Office of Management and Budget said on Wednesday.
Former Insys CEO pleads guilty to opioid kickback scheme
The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication and has agreed to become a government witness.
Trump claims right to declare border emergency, Democrats to test Republican resolve
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has a right to declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border if no deal with Congress can be reached on funding the project, but Democrats plan to test Republicans’ resolve on the i…
‘El Chapo’ jurors see intimate texts caught by drug lord’s spyware
Prosecutors in the U.S. trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Wednesday shared with jurors text messages they said the accused Mexican drug lord sent to his wife and apparent mistress in which he discussed narrowly escaping from a raid and joked about …
Trump says Republicans ‘totally unified’ after talks on border security
U.S. President Donald Trump said after talks with congressional Republicans on Wednesday that the party was unified in its demands for border security.
Trump says he has right to declare border emergency, Democrats to test Republican resolve
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has a right to declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border if no deal with Congress can be reached on funding the project, but Democrats plan to test Republicans’ resolve on the i…
Trump claims ‘unwavering’ Republican support for his border stance
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that support among Republican lawmakers was “unwavering” for the tough stance he has taken to try to secure funds for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
‘My mortgage is due’ Some U.S. federal workers seek shutdown cash
About 1,000 furloughed federal workers have turned to online fundraising to help cover their expenses as a partial shutdown of the U.S. government drags on for nearly three weeks, a spokeswoman for GoFundMe.com said on Wednesday.
Error in U.S. prisons law means well-behaved inmates wait longer for release
U.S. prisoners who were expecting earlier release for good behavior, thanks to a new criminal justice law enacted last month, must keep waiting due to an error in the bill, said activists working with the White House to fix the mistake.
