Posts by De maron
GOP’s $70 billion immigration package remove Democrats’ leverage to reform enforcement
Democrats are set to lose their leverage for reining in President Trump’s deportation force as Republicans prepare to send him a bill this week funding immigration enforcement agencies through the remainder of his term. The House will vote on the Senate-passed $70 billion package as early as Tuesday. Republicans are united in supporting multiyear funding…
Read MoreRussian envoy teases deal with U.S. for Russia-Alaska underwater tunnel
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy said the country and the U.S. will sign an agreement to design an underwater tunnel connecting Russia’s Chukotka region to Alaska across the Bering Strait. Source link
Read MoreWATCH: Trump says he'd 'be honored' to meet with Iran's supreme leader to make a deal
President Trump said he’d “be honored” to meet with Iran’s supreme leader to make a deal to end the conflict. Source link
Read MoreTrump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general
President Trump said Wednesday that he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal lawyer who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role. Source link
Read MoreParalympian Josh Turek wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Iowa
Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and will next try to flip the seat currently held by GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, who is retiring. Source link
Read MoreSen. Bernie Sanders stands by Graham Platner after controversy over sexually explicit texts
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he is standing by Graham Platner in the wake of media reports that the Maine Senate candidate previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women while he was married. Source link
Read MoreJill Biden: Joe Biden ‘was slowing down’ during presidency
Former first lady Jill Biden said former President Joseph R. Biden was showing signs of “getting older” before dropping his bid for a second presidential term. But Mrs. Biden, who has given several interviews to promote her new memoir, “View from the East Wing,” also insisted that she did not see any indications her husband…
Read MoreN.Y. reparations commission holds final public hearing as residents call for cash payments
New York’s state reparations commission convened its final public hearing Saturday in Harlem, where residents called on officials to make direct cash payments to Black Americans as the only path to what one attendee described as “true justice.” According to a commission announcement, the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies held the hearing…
Read MoreTikToker loses job after praying for Pam Bondi’s cancer to worsen
A Massachusetts woman has been fired from her job at a credit union after posting a TikTok video that appeared to pray for former Attorney General Pam Bondi to suffer a severe case of throat cancer, setting off a wave of condemnation online. The video, posted under the account @glitterandcrossbones and since set to private,…
Read More‘Go back’: DHS secretary tells hunger-strike migrants to deport back home for better food
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told hunger-striking migrants to allow themselves to be deported back home if they don’t like the food they’re being served at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. The hunger strike at Delaney Hall has become the latest flash point in the immigration debate, with protesters clashing with U.S. Immigration…
Read MoreAl Green loses to fellow Rep. Christian Menefee in Texas congressional runoff
The curtain is closing on Rep. Al Green’s time in Congress. Mr. Green, one of President Trump’s most vocal critics, lost in a landslide to Rep. Christian Menefee in a rare incumbent showdown resulting from the state’s redrawn congressional districts. Voters in the Houston-based 18th Congressional District chose generational change over experience, with Mr. Menefee,…
Read MoreDemocrats feud over stock trading as they sharpen anti-corruption case against Trump
DALLAS — After three terms in the U.S. House and two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate, Colin Allred said he’s heard plenty about voters’ suspicions that politicians are just trying to make a buck in Washington. “’What about the stock trading in Congress? What about people getting rich in Congress?’” Allred said they ask…
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