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Maxim Shemetov | AFP | Getty Images Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro shake hands during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, on July 2, 2013. A top White House advisor on Friday issued a veiled warning to Russia about its military presence in Venezuela, …
Read More »Trump to fund Special Olympics, overrides Betsy DeVos’ planned cuts
Jim Young | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, December 7, 2018. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had “overridden” proposed cuts to the U.S. government’s funding of the Special Olympics, telling reporters at the White …
Read More »Cory Booker lines up support in the financial industry to help him raise cash for 2020
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is dipping into his pool of financial industry donors as he looks for a fundraising edge in the early goings of the 2020 presidential race. Investment executive Marc Spilker and businessman George Tsunis are among the growing number of financiers looking to help Booker at the …
Read More »Jared Kushner met with Senate Intelligence Committee
Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images White House advisor Jared Kushner listens as US President Donald Trump hosts a roundtable with Hispanic pastors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washingto, DC, January 25, 2019. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly met in private with the …
Read More »Admitted Russian agent Butina to be sentenced April 26
Alexandria Sheriff’s Office | Reuters Maria Butina appears in a police booking photograph released by the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. August 18, 2018. Maria Butina, who has admitted to working as a Russian agent to infiltrate an influential gun rights group and make inroads with U.S. conservative …
Read More »Trump’s Fed pick Stephen Moore owes $75,000 in taxes, government says
Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Stephen Moore, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. President Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for the Federal Reserve, Stephen Moore, owes more than $75,000 in unpaid federal income taxes and related penalties, court records reveal. Maryland court records show that on Jan. …
Read More »Joe Biden to discuss how he would roll out a 2020 run, which he could announce as late as Easter week
Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the First State Democratic Dinner in Dover, Delaware, on March 16, 2019. Joe Biden wants to declare whether he will run for president as late as Easter week, according to people familiar with the matter, …
Read More »Senate Democrats propose sweeping election reform bill amid likely opposition
Allison Shelley | Getty Images Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks as Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), left, and Tom Udall (D-NM), right, listen during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol building on June 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping bill to protect and expand …
Read More »House can’t override Trump veto on border wall emergency declaration
Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, speaks to members of the media while departing a House Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Last month, Trump declared a national emergency to divert …
Read More »Kavanaugh, Gorsuch suggest letting states figure out gerrymandering as SCOTUS hears case
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s two appointees to the Supreme Court suggested on Tuesday that partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts is already being solved by state action, a possible sign that the nation’s top court, dominated by a 5-4 conservative majority, will not step into the matter. The Supreme Court …
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