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WASHINGTON — If a White House official wanted to talk to President Trump, it helped to have a good relationship with Madeleine Westerhout, his 28-year-old assistant. She was known for brusquely deflecting officials senior to her both in title and age who wanted a few minutes of face time with the president with one withering question: “Why are you here?” But it was not what some administration officials saw as Westerhout’s overprotectiveness of the president that led to her abrupt and unceremonious departure from the White House on Thursday.

MORE said Sunday that he is still talking to Congress about measures to stem gun violence but that Saturday’s shooting in West Texas that left seven people dead “hasn’t changed anything.” Trump also asserted that stricter background checks wouldn’t have stopped mass shootings over the past several years. “We're looking at the same things,” Trump told reporters at the White House after returning from a weekend at Camp David.

A deadly mass shooting in Texas on Saturday and a strengthening Hurricane Dorian dominated the Sunday political talk shows.  Guests discussed the prospects for gun reform in the wake of the shooting, which killed seven people.  Trump administration officials also dismissed talk that a shift of funds from the Federal Emergency Management agency wou

A mass shooting in West Texas on Saturday reenergized a push by Democrats for tighter restrictions on guns on Sunday even as MORE said the deadly rampage, which killed at least seven in the cities of Odessa and Midland, “hasn’t really changed anything.” Former Rep.

Deutsche Bank's revelation that it has some tax returns related to MORE has thrown a curve ball into the battle over the president’s financial documents. The bank has long been seen as a possible avenue to learn more about Trump's finances since it provided loans to his businesses for many years, even when other banks would not. Deutsche Bank’s disclosure that it has tax returns confirms that Democrats have an additional route — one some experts think is the most promising — to get tax documents that lawmakers in the party have long sought. “It shouldn’t take three ye

MORE’s recent push to win over Jewish voters faces an uphill battle, but his hard-line support for Israel may be aimed at a different audience altogether: evangelical Christians. Trump last month embraced the moniker "King of Israel" after a conservative conspiracy theorist argued that he is "the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world." But instead of galvanizing the support of American Jewish voters, Trump's self-designation as a champion of Jewish causes — including charges that those who don't support him are being "disloyal" to Isra

During an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Gamm explained how the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program provides a tax incentive, and thus a subsidy paid for by U.S.

Swalwell mocked armed good guys via Twitter, writing: Swalwell made sure to point out that Texas is an open carry handgun state, but he did not point out that it was the 45th state in the Union to adopt such a policy. On August 22, 2014, the Wall Street Journal posted a map showing open carry was allowable in 44 states.

Working on the initial classification review with Page and Strzok was another member of Comey’s inner circle, James A.

On June 28, 1894, Congress passed the first federal law concerning the celebration of Labor Day.text begins: We might note that the selection of this date, in and of itself, was political.    At the time, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law without comment.  And then the 45th president cited some of his administration’s economic accomplishments, including unemployment resting at a half-century low.Gad Levanon, chief economist for the Conference Board, wrote of the positive turnaround: Indeed, the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statist