Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday as part of the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, despite lawmakers threatening to impeach them. “You’ll say it’s not our decision to make. But we made it. Now you have to make yours,” the Clintons wrote in an apparent challenge to Republican Speaker … Read more
The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as Donald Trump’s White House steps up its campaign against central bank independence. In a video posted on Sunday, a usually reticent Powell took the extraordinary step of calling off the probe as punishment for failing to set interest … Read more
The White House is talking loudly about Greenland. But volume should not be confused with madness. This is not a sudden fall into imperial fantasy – it is power politics, simple and unsentimental, dressed in modern language but driven by ancient truths. Geography still rules destiny. Distance can still protect or endanger nations. The ice … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Republicans have “so many good nuggets” to campaign on this year as he tries to maintain his slim edge in the House. But the president’s nearly 90-minute address to House Republicans had little in the way of a new policy agenda or a new cohesive message … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more space at the White House for entertaining, the executive residence’s longest-serving top adviser says, lending support to Trump’s rationale for his ballroom construction project. Gary Walters spent more than two decades as the White House Chief of Staff to Presidents Ronald … Read more
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is making an emergency request to demolish more than a dozen historic buildings in Washington, DC, citing a “risk to life and property” that she says puts federal agents at risk. The proposal, first reported by The Washington Postwould destroy 17 buildings from St. Elizabeths West Campus, drawing outrage and … Read more
By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) – When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tenn., decided a few years ago that she wanted to buy a home, she started poring over her Experian credit report. She was shocked by what she found. Her student debt had been counted twice, making it … Read more
Newly declassified documents have revealed White House concern over a possible photo of Bill Clinton shaking hands with Gerry Adams during his landmark 1995 visit to Belfast. The papers, published annually by the National Archives in Dublin, detail extensive diplomatic efforts between Irish and American officials to meticulously plan Clinton’s trip to the island of … Read more
Joe Rogan criticized the president Donald trump cardhis recent behavior amid growing concerns about the politician’s health. The popular podcaster described Trump’s actions as “insane” and suggested the president may need a trusted right-hand man to help control some of his more extreme tendencies. The White House recently released a statement saying the president is … Read more
President Donald Trump’s first year back in office has shattered any remaining illusions among European leaders that he can be managed or controlled. His open hostility to the European Union has strained a transatlantic alliance that has endured since World War II and deepened rifts among Europe’s national leaders and within the bloc, jeopardizing its … Read more