• Senate poised to ease Dodd-Frank rules for most banks

    Senate poised to ease Dodd-Frank rules for most banks

    Mar 05, 2018 09:20 PM EST

    ... have to undergo the yearly test. The bill also exempts banks with less than $10 billion in assets from what is referred to as the Volcker Rule, which limits banks from using their own capitol to trade the markets. READ MORE: Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection is narrow, Supreme Court rules

  • Mueller probe indicts 13 Russian nationals for meddling in 2016 elections

    Mueller probe indicts 13 Russian nationals for meddling in 2016 elections

    Feb 16, 2018 06:18 PM EST

    ... represent the first criminal case against Russians. Before Friday, four people, including Trump's former national security adviser and former campaign chairman, had been charged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEElrAhB3Uc Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks about special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian nationals. According ...

  • Trump says he won't declassify Democratic memo on Russia probe without revisions

    Trump says he won't declassify Democratic memo on Russia probe without revisions

    Feb 10, 2018 01:10 AM EST

    ... is asking the Democrats to revise the memo with the help of the Justice Department. READ: Don McGahn's letter to the House Intelligence Committee https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4375779-Letters-from-White-House-counsel-and-DOJ-about.html McGahn says Trump is still "inclined" to release the memo ...

  • Trump lashes out at Schiff over Russia memo

    Trump lashes out at Schiff over Russia memo

    Feb 05, 2018 03:23 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump traded insults with the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Monday, a day after Democrats and Republicans said Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia investigation. Trump's attack on California Rep ...

  • White House declassifies GOP memo on Russia probe

    White House declassifies GOP memo on Russia probe

    Feb 02, 2018 04:59 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday released a bitterly disputed, formerly highly classified memo that they say shows surveillance abuses in the early stages of the FBI's investigation into the Trump election campaign and Russia. President Donald Trump, who championed release of the document over the fierce objections of his ...

  • Schiff says Russia memo doesn't vindicate Trump

    Schiff says Russia memo doesn't vindicate Trump

    Jan 31, 2018 04:02 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Schiff, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, says there is nothing in a classified Republican memo on the Russia investigation that vindicates President Donald Trump. He says Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the committee chairman, is pushing a "misleading narrative" to undermine the FBI ...

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who skipped Trump's speech, bemoans partisan atmosphere in Washington

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who skipped Trump's speech, bemoans partisan atmosphere in Washington

    Jan 31, 2018 03:07 PM EST

    ... administration. She pointed out that the actress who portrays her, Kate McKinnon, has the same name as lawyer Catherine MacKinnon, who pioneered sexual harassment law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1VfDGlfcSk Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman ever appointed to the high court, says she once ...

  • Trump tells GOP lawmaker at State of the Union that he's '100 percent' for releasing classified memo on Russia probe

    Trump tells GOP lawmaker at State of the Union that he's '100 percent' for releasing classified memo on Russia probe

    Jan 31, 2018 05:22 AM EST

    ... Russia investigation. Democrats have called it a selectively edited group of GOP talking points that attempt to distract from the committee's own investigation into Russian meddling. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he supports the memo's release but doesn't want Republicans to use it to attack ...

  • Joe Arpaio says he will run for U.S. Senate seat in Arizona

    Joe Arpaio says he will run for U.S. Senate seat in Arizona

    Jan 09, 2018 05:21 PM EST

    ... He flirted with the idea running for Arizona governor five times but decided against doing so each time. Arpaio says in a fundraising email that he filed paperwork Tuesday for the Senate run. Flake has been critical of Trump and announced last year that he would not seek another term.

  • Listen to Rupi Kaur, one of the most popular poets in the world, read her work

    Listen to Rupi Kaur, one of the most popular poets in the world, read her work

    Jan 02, 2018 10:49 PM EST

    ... of those poems aloud. She read to us from the stage of Brampton's Rose Theatre, where she graduated high school. From "The Sun and Her Flowers": https://youtu.be/UoGn__R4rck From "The Sun and Her Flowers": https://youtu.be/MT82A2BrXG4 From "Milk and Honey": https://youtu.be/PkLa64MtOyI