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President Trump’s recent announcement to pull out U.S. troops forces out of Syria has caused military minds and politicians to question the move, motive. Trump’s announcement prompted Secretary of Defense James Mathis’ to submit his resignation, but only after trying one last time to convince the president to leave troops in Syria. “Our boys, our […]
CNBC is reporting that 85-year-old  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and underwent a “lung procedure” to remove two nodules in her left lung.
Days after postponing the sentencing of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan of the DC District Court, challenged the Trump Administration’s immigration policy by ordering its recent asylum eligibility policy to be halted.
"The Force" could be strong in the current sitting President of the United States, as Donald Trump is expected to take the firsts steps in creating his "space force."
After failing dozens of times to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in federal judge in Texas has ruled that the controversial healthcare law unconstitutional.
With Americans being less than a month removed from the 2018 mid-term elections, who will challenge President Trump in 2020 is the talk around the country.
With President Trump's personal Attorney Michael Cohen being sentence to prison for tax evasion and lying to congress, Democrats are salivating over the possibility that Cohen's follies will lead to criminal charges filed against the president.
Congressional Democrats have been waging war against Republicans and President Trump over the funding of the border wall, citing the president’s 2016 campaign promise that he would have Mexico pay for the wall.
As Florida Senator Marco Rubio prepares to welcome Governor Rick Scott to the U.S. Senate, the soon-to-be senior senator from the sunshine state first had to bid farewell to Bill Nelson, who lost his bid for re-election to Scott in the 2018 mid-term elections. Rubio was always contended that while he and Nelson differed on […]
“He was a rock star yesterday, he’s a rock star today, and he will be a rock star in the future,” said Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, about former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. Perez was introducing Gillum at a DNC finance meeting in Washington when he made the “rock star” remark, […]
The U.S. Senate has just passed the 2018 Farm Bill by a vote count of 87-13, but the bill’s passage did not come with the support of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who stated that he couldn’t bring himself to vote for a bill that included “worst elements” of both the Senate and House versions.
He lost his senate race in Texas to Republican Senator Ted Cruz, but that hasn’t driven Democrat Beto O’Rourke of the campaign trail.
With the 2018 mid-term elections having brought in 35 new women legislators to the U.S. Congress - adding to the existing 70 or so women- the nation’s governing body has become the most diverse by gender and race in history. Of the 102 female members of congress, 89 are Democrats, while just 13 are Republican. […]
The U.S. Senate class of 2019 will be sworn in on January 3, but one senator-elect will not be around for swearing in festivities.
With Democrats in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, issues that Republicans may have side-stepped while in control, like climate change, will most-likely be brought to light under Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
With Republicans having the majority in the U.S. Senate, it appears that Democrats will have a very hard time stopping any future federal judicial appointments.
Clashes between U.S. Border Patrol and the migrant caravan were expected to happen once the 5,000 or so arrived at the U.S. southern border. And so it happened, Upon arriving at the border, Hundreds of central American and Mexican immigrants rushed the U.S. port of entry in San Ysidro, CA.
After clearing out potential challengers to her second stint at Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader had a little fun this past week when she made appeared on the TV game show "Jeopardy." One of the topics in the game was Govt. Abbreviation. When the last entry in this topic was picked, Pelosi popped […]
