Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday that President Donald Trump’s attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election meddling undermine the rule of law, and he denounced Republicans for not doing more to “stand up and speak the truth.” Speaking after a second round of questioning by lawmakers, Comey again took aim at the […]
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Former FBI chief James Comey said Thursday he will resist a subpoena to appear before a congressional committee Dec. 3 unless that happens publicly because House Republicans will distort anything he says behind closed doors. “I’m still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions,” he tweeted. The House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. […]
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President Donald Trump on Friday called the vote-counting process in Florida a “disgrace” and suggested federal authorities could get involved as the possibility of a recount looms in the Senate race. “Well, it could be,” Trump said when asked if the federal government could get involved, “because if you look at Broward, and Palm Beach to a […]
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Democrats took control of the House on Tuesday while Republicans retained the Senate, splitting Congress in a midterm election that was widely seen as a referendum on Republican President Donald Trump. With control of statehouses across the nation at stake, many of the nation’s top elections were too close to call. President Donald Trump Republicans […]
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After largely standing by President Donald Trump as he has led his party for the past two-plus years, some Republicans now worry that his campaign rhetoric has gone too far and will cost some GOP candidates their races and jobs in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Trump has spent the final stretch of this election season in some of the most […]
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday released a racially divisive political ad that blames Democrats for allowing an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of killing police officers to stay in the U.S. The 53-second video, which was pinned to the top of Trump’s Twitter feed on Thursday, refers to Luis Bracamontes, who was convicted of, and given […]
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President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before the midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens. But such an order may violate the Constitution. Most scholars think he can’t implement such […]
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People who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election believe men are discriminated against more than LGBTQ people, women and most ethnic minorities, according to a new poll conducted by YouGov and The Economist. The survey asked 1,500 adults across the U.S. a series of questions on topics ranging from politics to baseball from Oct. […]
