EXCLUSIVE from @jonathanvswan: Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America’s abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules. https://t.co/meEU83JtF1
New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday said her self-identification as a democratic socialist is “part of what I am, it’s not all of what I am.”
Former President Bill Clinton was in Seattle to promote his new novel, “The President is Missing,” which he wrote with author James Patterson. He told an audience at McCaw Hall, “This is a time for citizen activism.”
Very disturbing that he would continue working this weird gig. Strikes me almost like he's become a different person from when he was mayor. He was pro-Israel, sure, but working with this group is way wack. Remember after 9/11 when he was so anti-Saudi, wouldn't take a donation from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal?
WASHINGTON — At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats, child pornography and transnational crime.
"The question to-day is ... of protecting the American rate of wages, the American standard of living, and the quality of American citizenship from degradation through the tumultuous access of vast throngs of ignorant and brutalized peasantry from the countries of eastern and southern Europe."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday faced a fierce grilling from House Republicans amid the escalating feud between the Justice Department and allies of President Trump on Capitol Hill.
A reporter for the The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, said the company will publish a newspaper as usual on Friday despite a shooting Thursday in the newsroom that left at least five people dead.
Chase Cook, a reporter covering the Maryland General Assembly for the newspaper, tweeted Thursday afternoon that he "can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow." [....]
The defining divide in American politics is probably between Republicans and Democrats. It encapsulates all our other divides — by race, education, religion and more — and it’s growing.
President Trump sought Tuesday to keep a spotlight on Rep. Maxine Waters, a veteran Democratic lawmaker whose call for aggressive protests of administration officials prompted rebukes from members of both parties.
WASHINGTON — Seventeen states sued President Trump on Tuesday for his administration’s practice of separating immigrant parents from their children, saying that the tactic is causing “devastating harm,” even as a top official said the government was struggling to reunite families fractured by the policy [....]
One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.
