President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed as βfake newsβ a New York Times report that he ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but backed down after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign.
President Donald Trump is proposing a plan that provides a path to citizenship for 1.8 million of the so-called βDreamerβ immigrants, tighter restrictions on legal immigration and $25 billion in border security, the White House said, putting forward an outline likely to find resistance from some of Trumpβs conservative allies and deep opposition from immigration activists.
President Donald Trump says heβs open to an immigration plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the country as children and are now here illegally.
President Donald Trump declared heβs βlooking forwardβ to being questioned β under oath β in the special counselβs probe of Russian election interference and Trumpβs possible obstruction in the firing of the FBI director.
President Trump is taking part in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for hours in the special counselβs Russia investigation, the Justice Department said, as prosecutors moved closer to a possible interview with President Donald Trump about whether he took steps to obstruct an FBI probe into contacts between Russia and his 2016 campaign.
President Donald Trump signed a bill reopening the government late Monday, ending a 69-hour display of partisan dysfunction after Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations. They relented in return for Republican assurances that the Senate will soon take up the plight of young immigrant βdreamersβ and other contentious issues.
City Council voted Monday to broadcast future meetings on Facebook Live.
President Donald Trump signed a bill reopening the government late Monday, ending a 69-hour display of partisan dysfunction after Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations.
Symbols of American promise became emblems of American dysfunction on Saturday when a dispute in Congress over spending and immigration forced scores of federal government agencies and outposts to close their doors.
People participating in marches in the United States and around the world walked in support of female empowerment and denounced President Donald Trumpβs views on immigration, abortion, LGBT rights and womenβs rights on the anniversary of his inauguration.
The government careened toward shutdown Friday night in a chaotic close to Donald Trumpβs first year as president, as Democrats and Republicans preemptively traded blame while still struggling to find some accord before a deadline at the stroke of midnight.
A bitterly-divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the stateβs congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday refused to answer a broad array of queries from the House Intelligence Committee about his time working for President Donald Trump, provoking a subpoena from the panelβs Republican chairman.
President Donald Trumpβs overall health βis excellentβ and he did βexceedingly wellβ on cognitive screening designed to detect early signs of memory loss and other neurologic functions, the Navy doctor who performed Trumpβs medical checkup said Tuesday.
Steve Bannon, the onetime close confidant to President Donald Trump, arrived early Tuesday for his interview before the House Intelligence Committee.
Gov't Shutdown Looms Amid DACA Controversy
President Donald Trump told reporters he is not a racist, denying reports that he called African nations "shithole countries" during a White House meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform.
President Donald Trumpβs White House physician declared him in βexcellent healthβ after the president received his first medical checkup at Walter Reed military hospital on Friday, undergoing a physical examination amid suggestions in a recent book and by his detractors that heβs mentally unfit.
