Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, speaks to media after a meeting in his office at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. With McConnell are from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
According to a new United Nations report, global famine has reached a 10-year high.
Around 400 delegates from Asia and Africa gathered to discuss the findings during a high-level conference in Bangkok Wednesday.FILE – In this Oct. 1, 2018, photo, a malnourished boy sits on a hospital bed at the
The National Governors Association (NGA) has come out in support of the Trump-backed prison reform bill called the ‘First Step Act.’FILE photo – Prisoners line up at the D.C. Jail in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
In a statement Tuesday, the NGA praised the legislation for including many of the key principles the organization has long advocated for.
President Trump’s pick to sit on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is moving forward in the confirmation process.
The Senate panel tasked with overseeing the nomination of Bernard McNamee decided largely along party lines Tuesday to send his bid to the floor for a full Senate vote.
People comfort each other as they stand near the scene Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. where a gunman opened fire Wednesday inside a country dance bar crowded with hundreds of people on “college night,” wounding 11 people including a deputy who rushed to the scene. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
For the last two years the headlines on websites and newspapers alike have been relentlessly attacking President Trump. More often than not, the attacks are baseless, exaggerations and in in many cases simply made up. When Trump calls attention to what he calls, “Fake News”, the media then accuses him of being combative and even going as far as saying that he’s against a free press. Most of America has gotten use to the cycle of
The Trump administration has reimposed all sanctions previously put on hold under the Obama-era Iran Nuclear Deal.
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced penalties on Iran’s energy banking and shipping sectors.
“Since the Trump administration came into office we’ve done 19 round of sanctions, targeting 168 Iranian entities,” stated Pompeo. “Today’s (Monday) sanctions will accelerate the rapid decline of international economic activity in
In Washington State the big midterm races are for the Senate along with the the Eighth and Ninth out of 10 Congressional Districts in what is a historically deep blue state.
Former state Republican Party chair Susan Hutchison is up against third-term incumbent Democrat Maria Cantwell for the Senate.
During an early October debate, Hutchison emphasized her support for economic growth created by President Trump and his administration when she was asked about tax cuts.
President Trump is still threatening to cut off foreign aid to the Central American nations, whose citizens have become involved in caravans headed to the U.S. border.
During a rally Sunday, the president claimed the leaders of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala may have stolen millions of dollars worth of U.S. aid.
According to reports, the U.S. donated more than $100 million to El Salvador and Honduras in 2017 as well as about $250 million to Guatemala.
This comes just weeks after the president blasted those nations for not stopping their people from migrating north.
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Macon, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn. for rallies. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Trump says the Republican party is expected to “do well” in the upcoming midterms.
The president said the main focus of his campaigning is on the Senate, while talking to reporters on the White House lawn Sunday.