Month: March 2017

– White House policy adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday insisted that the Trump administration has provided ample evidence of widespread voter fraud, an unsubstantiated claim which President Trump has said cost him the popular vote. https://goo.gl/UiO6J8

– Congressman: Rarely used law could make Trump tax returns public https://goo.gl/W71yq2

– A hastily called news conference caps a surreal day for Trump in South Florida https://goo.gl/DlOfB4

– North Korea conducts ballistic missile test https://goo.gl/qPBh8c

– Germany Picks Anti-Trump President as Trans-Atlantic Bonds Fray https://goo.gl/ahyrJL

– Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting? https://goo.gl/p0dKYL

– SNL trolls Trump hard by having more women play his male advisers — and him https://goo.gl/kMNlB3

– Netanyahu may seek to reset U.S.-Israel relations in meeting with Trump https://goo.gl/isCSDk

– Hamburg airport evacuated and 50 treated over ‘substance in air’ https://goo.gl/j2xrLw

– 8 Fact-Checks On The Trump Administration This Week https://goo.gl/1U4qDA

– US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier https://goo.gl/4hGPcD

– Spicer: White House ‘disgusted by CNN’s fake news’ https://goo.gl/Tifwyr

– White House goes authoritarian on CNN scoop about Russia dossier https://goo.gl/T5LLWk

– Trump’s FCC head is doing exactly what we expected – A summary of Ajit Pai’s first two weeks as head of the FCC. https://goo.gl/u7Qolq

– Federal immigration authorities have launched raids across the country in pursuit of people with felony convictions who are in the country illegally. Advocates say others are being caught up as well. https://goo.gl/miZlRG

– U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally. https://goo.gl/duqoLq

– Trump team plans a new executive order
President says action to implement ‘extreme vetting’ could come within days https://goo.gl/o8g3j1

– For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN. https://goo.gl/CHb30O

– Just how much trouble is Michael Flynn in? https://goo.gl/KULbM8

– Top Federal Reserve official resigns as bank deregulation looms https://goo.gl/nFHFb4

– President Donald Trump said Friday his White House will unveil new security measures to keep America safe next week https://goo.gl/iuFNWD

– Republican town halls are getting very, very nasty — Do Your Job!’: Rep. Jason Chaffetz Faces Angry Town Hall Crowd in Utah https://goo.gl/AFv5qH

– Pence was told Flynn didn’t discuss sanctions, aides say https://goo.gl/doQHlU

– Trump says U.S. committed to Japan security, in change from campaign rhetoric https://goo.gl/m1JblB

– Discrepancy in NYT editions prompts Trump rebuke https://goo.gl/TwUIFZ

– Japan’s PM Abe ‘seeks trust with Trump’ on US visit https://goo.gl/Polm6A

– Syrian President: Trump suggestion of ‘safe zones’ not realistic https://goo.gl/75XtLv

– National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say https://goo.gl/JQ7ixR

– Price confirmed as head of HHS; to be point person in dismantling of Obamacare https://goo.gl/9uW9PO

– Travel ban ruling: In court as on Twitter, Trump confronts evidence gap https://goo.gl/nlEmdq

– US-Mexico border wall price tag nearly triples from Trump estimate, DHS report says https://goo.gl/6nAnWh

– Trump commits to ‘One China’ policy in phone call with Xi https://goo.gl/YUGq3Q

– TIME: No President Has Spread Fear Like Donald Trump https://goo.gl/MQ1wQN

– The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington – Whatever happened to the Trump-Russia story? https://goo.gl/6BQIYw

– Ethics experts knock Trump for knocking Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka https://goo.gl/yHPyMX

– President Trump is not-so-subtly threatening the entire American court system https://goo.gl/ltTjBO

– Senate Republicans voted to silence Elizabeth Warren after she read from a letter by the widow of Martin Luther King that criticized the civil rights record of Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions. https://goo.gl/wNC2kN https://goo.gl/FxCcQphttps://goo.gl/7qDHqi

– Read Coretta Scott King’s Letter That Got Sen. Elizabeth Warren Silenced https://goo.gl/lLj8NO

– WH official: We’ll say ‘fake news’ until media realizes attitude of attacking the President is wrong https://goo.gl/g7uWdQ

– Court dubious of government arguments on Trump’s travel ban –
A federal appeals court panel is expected to rule soon on the executive order barring refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries. https://goo.gl/wvP9uJ

– ‘My daughter’s death will not be used’: Parents furious over Trump’s false terrorism claims https://goo.gl/aNideV https://goo.gl/gKh6hM

– On Tuesday morning, at about the time that Donald Trump was casually threatening to destroy the career of a Texas state senator who had objected to laws regarding the forfeiture of property from drug suspects, House Speaker Paul Ryan and his colleagues in the House Republican leadership held their weekly press conference on Capitol Hill. https://goo.gl/ybryZm

– Yemen seeks ‘reassessment’ of deadly raid but denies U.S. ground operations suspended https://goo.gl/KAnjEp

– Russian Court Finds Putin Critic & Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny Guilty In Retrial,https://goo.gl/qN7C8C https://goo.gl/XmkkX7

– Putin approves legal change that decriminalises domestic violence
Critics say amendment sends wrong message in country where it is estimated domestic abuse kills a woman every 40 minutes https://goo.gl/bNhCfX

– Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Expected To Get Go-Ahead https://goo.gl/Hr5l0j

– Sanders, Cruz debate Obamacare: CNN’s Reality Check Team vets the claims https://goo.gl/w0YP4I

– Trump invites sheriff to ‘destroy’ Texas state lawmaker who opposes asset forfeiture https://goo.gl/t0Rss2

– As Trump Fears Fraud, GOP Votes to Kill Election Commission https://goo.gl/zlEioF https://goo.gl/qhSYzh

– White House ramping up search for communications director after Spicer’s rocky start https://goo.gl/gdMY34

– Wheeler: GOP, Trump Plan to ‘Modernize’ the FCC is a ‘Fraud’ https://goo.gl/2NkMNQ

– Senate confirms DeVos as secretary of education
The 51-50 vote to confirm DeVos comes after the billionaire philanthropist unexpectedly emerged as the most contentious of any of Trump’s nominees. https://goo.gl/6q7vpr

– Starting next month, the FBI will no longer accept Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by email. In lieu of its popular email service, the FBI suggests sending a fax or snail mail, a procedural change that has more to do with obstructing the law than a dearth of resources. https://goo.gl/wLQLk8

– “As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in Syria, Amnesty International says.” – https://goo.gl/k8da2H

– Here are the attacks President Trump himself has under-reported https://goo.gl/CzN0rz

– White House says 78 terror attacks under-reported, media shows they were covered https://goo.gl/OYVNDc

– Trump: ‘Haters are going crazy’ over Russia double standard https://goo.gl/psfGsV

– Trump’s loose talk about Muslims gets weaponized in court against travel ban https://goo.gl/0dVHTs

– Unqualified and Dangerous – Betsy DeVos is uniquely unprepared to run the U.S. Education Department. https://goo.gl/64VtfS

– Senate to vote today on confirmation of Betsy DeVos https://goo.gl/9V9xQW

– Trump says terror attacks ‘under-reported’: Is that true? https://goo.gl/0rdyjx

– TIME: Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump https://goo.gl/5511zz

– Assad Says EU Has No Role in Syria https://goo.gl/cMGgbM

– What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read – President Trump’s strategic adviser is elevating a once-obscure network of political thinkers. https://goo.gl/bxnpKD

– Trump-Policy Concerns Send Gold Shooting to a Two-Month High https://goo.gl/RNyQGJ

– Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Bowling Green massacre’ wasn’t a slip of the tongue. She has said twice before. https://goo.gl/LA7UDD

– Iran launches missiles in exercise after US puts rogue nation ‘on notice’ https://goo.gl/iyYWUD

– President Trump is now speculating that the media is intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks. https://goo.gl/F98Ca5

– BREAKING: Democrats in the Senate plan to hold the floor for 24 straight hours in a last-ditch effort to convince just one Republican to join them in bringing down Betsy DeVos. https://goo.gl/RLQUPT

– Fox News Report: Trump not fully briefed on exec order that gave Bannon seat at NSC meetings https://goo.gl/9IQO06

– 97 companies, from Apple Inc. to Zynga Inc., filed an impassioned legal brief condemning President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry’s growing opposition to the policy. https://goo.gl/ZzcfA3

– Pence to head commission investigating baseless voter fraud claim, Trump says https://goo.gl/fGHg1r

– Donald Trump Says ‘Negative Polls Are Fake News’ – “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.” https://goo.gl/9mTHwG

– Former top diplomats, tech giants blast immigration order as court showdown looms https://goo.gl/PEueya

– Trump Likes Putin. Investors, Not So Much. https://goo.gl/KsDP3e

– Florida congressman pitches bill that would abolish the Environmental Protection Agency https://goo.gl/Qlvnzb

– Pence: Judge ‘certainly’ has right to halt travel ban – https://goo.gl/ydHJOq

– Republicans denounce Trump’s defense of ‘killer’ Putin –
The president’s remark downplaying the Russian president’s violent history reopens a foreign policy rift with conservatives. https://goo.gl/AD227G

– McConnell breaks with Trump on Putin https://goo.gl/DAcuxR

– Trump defends Putin over Russia killings allegations https://goo.gl/goRclJ

– 9th Circuit Court declines to quickly reinstate travel ban https://goo.gl/N4EhQh

– Trump tweetstorm disparages judge for ‘ridiculous’ opinion, warns it could lead to ‘death and destruction’ https://goo.gl/HSlLEp

– Mar-a-Lago protesters: ‘When will we get tired of marching? Never.’ https://goo.gl/YbyTTS

– Romania to scrap corruption decree that sparked mass protests https://goo.gl/aaPDSR

– Trump tweeted this morning about ‘Islamic terror’ attack that killed 0. Still nothing about white supremecist Trump supporter who shot 6 in a mosque in Canada – Which is more terrifying? https://goo.gl/oetv0a https://goo.gl/CPmpOE

– Hundreds Expected To Moon Trump Tower In Chicago: The mission statement for Chicago’s, uh, cheekiest anti-Trump protest is pretty straightforward: “Kiss Our Asses, Release Your Taxes!” https://goo.gl/HNHN0P

– State Dept. claims ~<60k visas revoked contradicting US Attorney’s figures – – The real damage: More than 100K visas revoked following Trump’s immigration ban https://goo.gl/ZTB7CE https://goo.gl/NVMBrmhttps://goo.gl/KAZ9CD

– Norway institutions ‘targeted by Russia-linked hackers’ https://goo.gl/oZ86qi

– Trump slaps new sanctions on Iran after missile test
All together, the sanctions target 25 individuals or entities. https://goo.gl/nuw0Is

– Bogus ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Claim Snarls Trump Adviser Conway https://goo.gl/nPXAeh

– From Obama to Trump: Lessons and challenges
Ahmet Davutoğlu, former Turkish PM, writes on the legacy of Obama’s foreign policy and the challenges ahead for Trump. https://goo.gl/u8OSFz

– A man with a large knife was shot by a French soldier on Friday after he lunged at four soldiers, shouting “God is great” in Arabic near the Louvre Museum in Paris https://goo.gl/s4yZAX

– Trump to order regulatory rollback Friday for finance industry starting with Dodd-Frank and a ‘Fiduciary’ regulation designed to force retirement advisers to work in the best interest of their clients.https://goo.gl/VuiJG3

– Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened to defend travel ban https://goo.gl/XYlDY4

– Why Sanders will win his CNN ObamaCare debate vs. Cruz https://goo.gl/vHMmBY

– EU leaders, led by French president Francois Hollande, have denounced recent attacks on Europe by Donald Trump as they met for a summit to debate the future of the union. https://goo.gl/H0MCqx

– Trump blames dust-up over Australia P.M. call on ‘fake news media’ – still takes agreed to Refugees https://goo.gl/n2UKA8

– Senate advances DeVos’s nomination, setting her up for final vote https://goo.gl/Iiwfbx

– Vanity Fair pulls out of White House correspondents’ dinner after-party https://goo.gl/OtJ2ax

– Pelosi calls Trump’s chief strategist a ‘white supremacist’ https://goo.gl/UM6U43