2006—Senator Kerry’s Davos-led fili-bluster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito fails. The Senate respects its longstanding tradition of providing an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor…
President Trump said Friday he is nominating Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve, calling him reliable and straight out of "central casting."
President Trump sued the IRS on Thursday, saying his own tax agency should pay him $10 billion for having allowed his private tax information to be leaked during his first term in office.
President Trump has threatened to deploy more federal troops to Minnesota using a seldom-used law passed by Congress over 200 years ago. The Insurrection Act of 1807, in conjunction with several other laws, permits the president to deploy members of the military or federalize members of the state National Guard to contain an insurrection in...
After days of sometimes violent protests in Minneapolis, including a shooting Wednesday involving Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), President Trump on Thursday morning threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. That would allow him to send the military to quell unrest. "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and...
President Trump early Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act following another shooting involving a federal agent overnight in Minnesota. "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the...
Protests in Minneapolis escalated Wednesday night after a federal officer shot and injured a Venezuelan migrant after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle — a week after a resident was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in the same city. The latest shooting, which was not fatal, further inflamed tensions...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that a federal officer shot a man during a scuffle in Minneapolis that involved multiple people -- an incident that comes a week after the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in the same city. Federal officers on Wednesday evening were...
President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is slowing down a peace deal for the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters. "I think he's ready to make a deal," Trump said during a Reuters interview, talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal." When Reuters pressed the...
President Trump said on Wednesday that he does not currently have any plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. "I don't have any plan to do that," Trump said in an interview with Reuters when asked if he would move to oust Powell from his position. The comments come after Trump’s Department of Justice opened an...
