Dec 02 We took your questions about the Senate tax bill. Here are the answers By Lisa Desjardins and Corinne Segal What about the deficit? What happens to the Affordable Care Act? You had questions and NewsHour's Political Director Lisa Desjardins answered them. Continue reading
Dec 02 Trump alters story on why he fired Flynn By Calvin Woodward and Ken Thomas, Associated Press President Donald Trump changed his story Saturday on why he fired Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. Continue reading
Dec 02 Sweeping aside Russia probe, Trump says 'we're unbeatable' By Ken Thomas, Associated Press Brushing aside an ongoing Russia probe, President Donald Trump reveled Saturday in the Senate’s passage of a sweeping tax bill, predicting with swagger that he and his fellow Republicans were “unbeatable.”… Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch 3:48 What were the last-minute changes to the Senate tax bill? By PBS News Hour The Senate passed a $1.5 trillion tax package early Saturday, pushing closer to one of the largest overhauls of the U.S. tax code in decades. But the vote came just hours after the final text of the nearly 500-page bill… Continue watching
Dec 02 Amid accusations, Roy Moore fighting for campaign cash By Steve Peoples, Associated Press The Senate candidate and his allies are almost completely cut off from the GOP's traditional donor network and struggling to raise money for the final-weeks sprint to Election Day. Continue reading
Dec 02 AP report: In Flynn, Mueller unearths more lies -- and a key witness By Eric Tucker and Chad Day, Associated Press Mueller has left no doubt that his investigators have amassed a wealth of knowledge about the contacts between Trump associates and the Russians, and they’re looking to gather more facts from Flynn, a new key cooperator. Continue reading
Dec 02 San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts By Paul Elias and Janie Har, Associated Press The attacks on San Francisco and other cities with similar immigration policies began moments after a jury acquitted a Mexican man of killing a woman on a popular pier. Continue reading
Dec 02 Army issuing more waivers for recruits who used marijuana By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press As more states lessen or eliminate marijuana penalties, the Army is granting hundreds of waivers to enlist people who used the drug in their youth — as long as they realize they can’t do so again in the military. Continue reading
Dec 02 McConnell turns to antagonist to help pass tax package By Stephen Ohlemacher and Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Dealt a setback on taxes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to turn to one of his harshest Republican antagonists to pass the most sweeping tax package in more than three decades. Continue reading
Dec 02 Senate passes Republican tax bill By Alan Fram, Marcy Gordon and Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Republicans pushed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate early Saturday after a burst of eleventh-hour horse trading, as a party starved all year for a major legislative triumph took a giant step toward giving President Donald Trump… Continue reading