Renegade Republicans challenge Paul Ryan, file discharge petition to force immigration votes A small group of Republicans has launched an effort to sidestep House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and put immigration legislation on the House floor this year in a bid to secure protections for young undocumented immigrants. Rep. Carlos […]
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GOP eager for Trump intervention in contested Senate primaries Republican leaders are encouraging President Trump to intervene in competitive primaries, concluding that he is a powerful force to energize GOP voters and help the party hold its Senate majority in the midterm elections. The decision is a notable reversal for […]
Mormon Church Ends Century-Old Partnership With Boy Scouts of America The Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts of America formed a partnership 105 years ago based on shared beliefs in God, country and the necessity of teaching morals and responsibility to boys. The groups became so intertwined that one of […]
A Black Student at Yale Was Napping in a Common Area, and Someone Called the Police A black graduate student at Yale who fell asleep in her dorm’s common room said she had a disturbing awakening this week when a white student flipped on the lights, told her she had […]
How Michael Cohen cashed in Michael Cohen made more than $2 million working as a Trump whisperer. But he’s far from the only one. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer is the latest member of the president’s inner circle to cash in on connections by selling insight into how […]
What Gina Haspel didn’t tell us at her high-stakes CIA hearing Don’t ask Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the agency, because she doesn’t have a clear answer — or, at least, not one she was willing to offer publicly and under oath on Wednesday. Called upon repeatedly […]
USS Fitzgerald Officer of the Deck Pleads Guilty Lieutenant junior grade Sarah Coppock, the officer of the deck at the time of the USS Fitzgerald’s collision with the ACX Crystal last June, has pled guilty to charges of dereliction of duty. In a court-martial hearing at the Washington Navy Yard, […]
Reputed gang member charged in Friday shooting of ATF agent; brother also arrested on drug charges Reputed gang member Ernesto Godinez slipped out of his Back of the Yards home in the predawn darkness Friday and cut through a gangway about a block away from where undercover federal agents were […]
Republican senator apologizes for comments about John McCain Sen. Orrin Hatch apologized Tuesday for his comments criticizing Sen. John McCain’s reported request that President Donald Trump not attend his eventual funeral. “I felt badly. I had spoken out of turn,” the Utah Republican told reporters in the Capitol. “I felt […]
Gowdy threatens to subpoena DOJ official for census testimony Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Tuesday floated a subpoena for a Justice Department official who did not show up for a hearing on the 2020 census. Lawmakers had hoped to grill […]
