Her hearing was pushed back nearly a week because of Democrats‘ concerns over her “extensive financial entanglements and potential conflicts of interest,” as Senator Patty Murray of Washington put it.
The local mayor and member of the exclusive Maryland country club whose members are preemptively trying to keep President Obama out over his stance on Israel announced that he was dropping out over the controversy. Jeffrey Slavin, the mayor of the …
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans appear to have accomplished a feat that President Obama, with all the power at his disposal, could not in the past seven years: They have galvanized outspoken support for the …
This past weekend, the Cubs were the hosts of an exultant fan convention in downtown Chicago before flying East to meet the president, with a visit to the Walter Reed military hospital scheduled for later on Monday. That would add a somber note to the …
Obama pointed to the recent example of the Senate refusing to hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, leaving the Supreme Court to hear cases with only 8 justices after Antonin Scalia’s death in 2016 as an example of partisanship. … “The fact that Mitch…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department signed a new agreement on law enforcement cooperation with Cuba on Monday, seeking to further deepen ties with the communist island just four days before the end of the Obama administration. The agreement …
For all President Obama’s claims to want a smooth transition to the new administration, his people have been laying plenty of landmines for Team Trump.
They looked at presidents from William McKinley in 1897 to Bill Clinton in 1993, and found that the average number of laws passed during a president’s first 100 days period before the 81st Congress (1947-1949) was 46 compared to 16 in later Congresses.
Obama got wise to Russia only when Putin imperiled not just U.S. strategic interests and government records but also supposedly went so far as to tamper with sacrosanct Democratic-party secrets, thereby endangering the legacy of Barack Obama. Putin was …
WASHINGTON – The 2016 Cubs aren’t likely to be remembered as agents of social change, but President Barack Obama on Monday used their championship season as an example of how a diverse group of individuals can work together for the common …
01/17/2017 04:13 am ET. Lee Moran Trends Editor, The Huffington Post. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP. Redditors have imagined the things that President Barack Obama would have said, had he used Twitter in the same way that PEOTUS Donald Trump does.
Newt Gingrich, who was then the deputy Minority Leader of the House, warned President Clinton that he was endangering his entire agenda in the pursuit of health-care reform—in particular, Gingrich insisted that Clinton was risking a global trade …
DAVOS, Switzerland – Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a defense of globalization at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, delivering a strong critique of the protectionist movement endorsed by Western leaders such as President-elect Donald Trump.
“I do accept the election results and support the peaceful transfer of power, but it is abundantly clear to me that with Donald Trump as our President, the United States is entering a dark and very dangerous political chapter,” he said. “I will do …
As backers of Edward Snowden and three other accused or convicted leakers press for clemency from President Barack Obama, there is a common refrain: the hundred-year old Espionage Act is a draconian and ill-fitting tool to pursue national security …
Mr. Sessions – a staunch conservative who has been a key roadblock in the Senate to legislation easing what many see as unduly long prison sentences – vowed at his hearing that cracking down on drugs, violence, gun crimes and illegal immigrants would …
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