Senate Democratic leader Schumer: House funding bill will not pass Senate
U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday a government funding bill being considered by the House of Representatives that includes $5 billion sought by President Donald Trump for a border wall will not get the 60 votes needed to pass…
U.S. appeals court grants Trump request for halt to emoluments case
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday halted a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution, saying it would review crucial preliminary rulings that allowed the case to proceed.
Republican McCarthy believes House, Senate can resolve funding impasse
U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, a member of the House of Representatives Republican leadership, said on Thursday he believes the House and Senate can resolve an impasse over funding the U.S. government, which would partially shut down on Saturday w…
House moves to debate of funding bill with border wall money
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday cleared the way for debate and possible passage of legislation to fund several federal agencies running out of funds and provide $5 billion for building President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Acting U.S. attorney general won’t recuse himself from Russia probe
Ignoring advice from Justice Department ethics lawyers, acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will not recuse himself from overseeing the probe into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election, a source said on Thursday.
North Carolina NAACP sues to stop Republican-backed voter ID law
North Carolina’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against a voter identification law enacted a day earlier by the state’s lame-duck Republican-dominated legislature.
U.S. to send migrants back to Mexico to wait out asylum requests
The United States will soon send non-Mexican migrants who cross the U.S. southern border back to wait in Mexico while their U.S. asylum requests are processed, a major change in immigration policy, the Trump administration announced on Thursday.
Trump demands wall funding, increasing threat of U.S. government shutdown
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said border security must be part of legislation to fund the U.S. government, a position that raises the threat of a partial federal shutdown on Saturday.
U.S. judge rejects claim lawyer arranged contact between ‘El Chapo,’ wife
The judge presiding over the U.S. trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Thursday rejected an accusation by prosecutors that one of Guzman’s lawyers had facilitated unauthorized contact between the accused Mexican drug lord and his wife, Emma Coronel.
Republicans in House to try adding border wall to short-term funding bill
A top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steve Scalise, said on Thursday that lawmakers in his chamber would move to add $5 billion for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall to a short-term funding bill, as they race to avert a pa…
