Mick Mulvaney, the White House’s budget director and acting chief of staff, danced around a question Sunday on whether government-contracted employees would be reimbursed for wages they missed during the partial government shutdown. Margaret Brennan, host of CBS’ “Face The Nation,” asked Mulvaney if and when both federal employees and government-contracted workers should expect to […]
Donald Trump boasted over the weekend about his unparalleled accomplishments as president. So, on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel added him to Mount Rushmore as part of his “celebration” show marking Trump’s two years in office ― but he did it for some questionable reasons. Check out Anthony Atamanuik as Trump explaining why he’s been added to […]
In the fallout of a disputed BuzzFeed story alleging President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to deceive Congress on his Moscow real estate project, CNN’s Michael Smerconish said he smelled something fishy from the start. BuzzFeed’s report Thursday, which cited two unnamed federal law enforcement sources as having indicated that the former fixer lied at […]
A federal grand jury has pinned 19 additional charges on the man accused of murdering 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in October. Robert Bowers, 46, now faces a total of 63 criminal counts for allegedly perpetuating the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history. The new charges, outlined in a superseding indictment filed […]
WASHINGTON ― Employees at the FBI, an institution still reeling from the attacks it has endured since the 2016 election, are dealing with another blow to morale as the government shutdown enters its second month. FBI special agents and employees, who will soon miss their second paychecks since the government shutdown began on Dec. 22, are […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday will start forcing some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, launching what could become one of the more significant changes to the immigration system in years. The changes will be introduced at San Diego’s San Ysidro […]
Piers Morgan has a problem with Meghan Markle’s recent visit to Bristol on Friday. On a “Good Morning Britain” roundtable, the TV show pundit accused the Duchess of Sussex of leaving “patronizing” messages on bananas as she made lunch baskets for sex workers during her and Prince Harry’s visit to the charity One25 last week. The organization […]
A man in Florida was arrested after receiving a beating from a former NFL player who allegedly caught him masturbating outside his daughter’s window. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office charged Geoffrey Cassidy, 48, with lewd and lascivious exhibition on Monday. Cassidy, who police say has an Ohio driver’s license, described himself as a transient. […]
Nearly half of all Canadians believe the United States has a Nazi problem, according to a survey on Holocaust remembrance released Thursday. It’s no mystery where they got that perception. Last year, a group of neo-Nazis received the red-carpet treatment from U.S. law enforcement as they traveled to Washington for a rally. A respected Holocaust scholar seriously […]
Construction equipment has moved into place to erect a looming border barrier in southern Texas in the middle of a butterfly refuge, whose operators are furious that their land has been seized and environmental regulations ignored. The barrier is being erected along a levee of the Rio Grande in the border town of Mission. The […]