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Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced.  Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker.  President Trump lashed out at his intelligence chiefs Wednesday after they told Congress that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and the Iran deal is working.

Intelligence officials on Tuesday offered stark warnings of the threats posed by the terrorist organization ISIS, a message in contrast with MORE's declarations that the group has been defeated.  While Director of National Intelligence MORE and CIA Director Gina Haspel said the U.S.

MORE's probe amid a wild scene outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., where dozens of onlookers showed up to either cheer Stone on or ridicule him. The self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” appeared wearing a conservative suit and left the courthouse without speaking to reporters — days after he made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to fight back on his indictment. Stone's attorney, Robert Buschel, pleaded not guilty on Stone’s behalf to seven charges: obstruction of a congressional inquiry, witness tampering and five counts of making false statements to C

Stacey Abrams, who ran for governor last year in Georgia, will give the Democratic response to MORE (D-N.Y.) announced. "Three weeks ago, I called Stacey Abrams and asked her to deliver the response, I was very delighted when she agreed," Schumer told reporters on Tuesday. Abrams has previously served as the Democratic leader of the Georgia General Assembly.

MORE’s strategy in Syria and Afghanistan took a one-two punch on Tuesday, first from his own intelligence officials and then from the Senate’s top Republican. The top intelligence officials offered a contradictory assessment of Trump’s statement that ISIS has been defeated, warning that thousands of the terrorist organization’s fighters remain in Iraq and Syria and that the group is “intent on resurging.” The warning was delivered by Director of National Intelligence MORE and CIA Director Gina Haspel in a hearing before the Senate Intelligenc

Speaker MORE. As the minority leader over the past two years, Pelosi faced a small but intensifying push from rank-and-file Democrats to oust the president — a movement that won two floor votes in the last Congress and the support of 66 House Democrats in early 2018. Yet in the weeks since taking the Speaker’s gavel, Pelosi has tamped down the impeachment talk in her ranks, according to multiple lawmakers, arguing it is important to allow special counsel MORE to wrap up his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to

Axios reported: For more than a decade, Congress has grappled with the vast wishlist presented by investors, high-tech employers, the chambers of commerce, universities, seasonal employers, farmers, real-estate developers, immigration lawyers, and many other groups. But that wishlist is almost entirely the opposite of preferences held by the blue-collar voters who elected President Donald Trump in 2016 and by the white-collar votes who may defeat him in 2020. For de

Axios reported: For more than a decade, Congress has grappled with the vast wishlist presented by investors, high-tech employers, the chambers of commerce, universities, seasonal employers, farmers, real-estate developers, immigration lawyers, and many other groups. But that wishlist is almost entirely the opposite of preferences held by the blue-collar voters who elected President Donald Trump in 2016 and by the white-collar votes who may defeat him in 2020. For de

According to the AP, FBI special agent in charge Aaron Rouse said, “It wasn’t about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue. It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy.” But no specific, underlying motive for wanting those things was given, nor why Stephen Paddock pursued them from a Las Vegas hotel room. There were scattered pieces of information discovered by the investigators.

Tlaib, a Palestinian-American born in Detroit, and Omar, a Somali immigrant, are the first Muslim women elected to Congress.