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LONDON (AP) — Did President Donald Trump fistbump Queen Elizabeth II when they shook hands at Buckingham Palace? News photographs made it look as if he did, prompting some to claim on Twitter that the president was not showing the proper respect for Britain’s monarch, but really it was just a slightly awkward handshake. Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, says that what looked like a fistbump was really just an unusually firm handshake. Little said Monday that it was simply an odd camera angle and that it was just a robust handshake.

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman MORE in contempt over the committee's investigation into the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. In letters to both Cabinet members, Cummings wrote that his panel was moving forward with contempt votes after the two administration officials failed to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents relating to the citizenship question. “Unfortunately, your actions are part of a pattern.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to fast track a decision on whether it will hear a case over the president's rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The justices, in an unsigned order, denied the request, which was filed on behalf of the administration last month to expedite a decision on whether to review the case. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who represents the administration in cases before the Supreme Court, had urged the justices to

The House on Monday passed a $19.1 billion disaster relief package, finally sending legislation to the White House that had been repeatedly blocked by conservatives over the Memorial Day recess. The legislation was approved in a 354-58 vote. The House sought to move the bill three times by unanimous consent over the last week, but the vote was blocked by a different conservative Republican each time. GOP Reps. MORE (Tenn.) each blocked the unanimous consent vote, arguing there should be a full debate on the measure. Roy, a former staffer to Sen.

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill desperately want to convince MORE to back off his plan to impose tariffs on Mexican imports but disagree over the best strategy moving forward. Some, such as Sen.

The House will vote next week to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for declining to comply with a subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report and related evidence. The resolution will also target former White House counsel Don McGahn, who has defied a Democratic subpoena to appear before Congress. The vote, scheduled for June 11, marks a major escalation of tensions between the Trump administration and House Democrats, who have launched a series o

Ocasio-Cortez made the comparison and minimized the significance of her living arrangements during the event, mentioning a public housing unit she recently visited in Queens. “I move into this building, and it’s marketed as a ‘luxury’ building in D.C.,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It’s an efficient building, it’s clean, it has public space, it has a rooftop garden—y’all watching my Instagram—it has clean air, it has clean water. And I think about this and I’m like, ‘Hm, this is what a luxury building is like.'” Ocasio-Cortez’s luxury apartment is located in DC’s Navy Yard neighborhood.

The New York Times‘ Matt Flegenheimer, in a Monday report, resurfaced the 1987 lie by Biden before an audience in New Hampshire, where he was campaigning for the Democrat nomination for president for the first time in his long political career. “When I marched in the civil rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program,” Biden said in New Hampshire in February 1987, according to the Times. “I marched with tens of thousands of others to change attitudes.

The Democrat-led investigation arises after the Donald Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an antitrust investigation into Google, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has moved into its final steps towards a potential probe into Google. Although Congress does not have the regulatory power of the DOJ or the FTC, it can outline possible legislation and subpoena tech executives and documents relating to big tech’s practices on privacy, tech censorship, and competition. Sean Moran is a congressiona