President Trump on Tuesday said protesters who stormed a church in Minnesota should be jailed. “Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post. “They are highly trained to scream, rant,…
Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other…
Where things stand Shutdown impacts: Millions more Americans could be affected by the government shutdown as the calendar turns to November and federal aid programs run dry. Food stamp recipients face delays this month even after two judges ruled that the Trump administration must tap into emergency funds for the benefits. • Congress still at…
CHICAGO — A federal judge on Tuesday admonished the agent leading the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, saying she wants to receive daily reports from him after federal authorities failed to follow her previous order to curtail the use of riot-control weapons on peaceful protesters, journalists and bystanders. “Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to…
Donald Trump Jr. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesNew York — Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm about lucrative contracts and loans the Pentagon provided to companies linked to Donald Trump Jr. In a letter sent Thursday to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the lawmakers – Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Andy Kim and Richard Blumenthal – requested information on…
The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that it “dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.” The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, it added. “This protective intelligence…
Weeks after Donald Trump’s first shock election win, bosses from across corporate America were scrambling to enter the president’s orbit. Business leaders ranging from the General Motors boss, Mary Barra, to Disney’s chief, Bob Iger, quickly signed up to a new advisory council in 2016 to help shape the aggressively pro-growth policies of this new…
Americans go to the polls, with elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California We are restarting our live coverage of US politics. Americans are heading to the polls on Tuesday in a number of elections that will show where support for Donald Trump’s Republicans stands and whether Democrats have cause for hope….
Springfield, IL ( CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS) -Illinois House Democrats kicked off their spring session this week in a mostly symbolic fashion, denouncing President Donald Trump’s policies in a series of resolutions criticizing immigration raids and cuts to health care and child care programs. “The session was an opportunity for us to emphasize how these policies…
WASHINGTON — “A group of Chinese nationals with ties to foreign criminal organizations crossed the southern border and infiltrated rural Oklahoma. They were joined by workers lured by false promises of good jobs in the United States. Upon arrival in Oklahoma, the Chinese nationals made the local residents an offer they couldn’t refuse: they promised…