Mar 10 Trump revives his border wall fight with new budget request By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Budget documents like the one Trump is releasing Monday are often seen as just a starting point of negotiation. Fresh off the longest government shutdown in history, Trump's 2020 proposal shows he is eager to confront Congress again to boost… Continue reading
Mar 10 AP fact check: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen, Associated Press Donald Trump heard words from a judge that the judge didn’t speak, as the president reached to denounce the Russia investigation as a hoax and celebrate an exoneration he wasn’t given. Democrats persisted in assailing the Trump administration for putting… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch 22:24 March 9, 2019 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS NewsHour On this edition for Saturday, March 9, following the money involved in illegal crossings and migrant smuggling on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, digging into the ocean’s past to make the future healthier, and Great Lakes’ cities are facing… Continue watching
Mar 09 As budget deficit balloons, few in Washington seem to care By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Donald Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem to care. Continue reading
Mar 09 Trump offers budget with funds for border wall, Space Force By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press President Donald Trump will be making a significant request for border wall funds and seeking money to stand up Space Force as a new branch of the military in the White House budget being released next week, an administration official… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 6:28 What Manafort’s light sentence says about criminal justice disparities A federal judge in Virginia sentenced Paul Manafort to less than four years in prison for tax and bank fraud--far less than the roughly 20 years called for under federal guidelines. The sentence prompted outcry, with critics arguing Manafort’s punishment… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch 5:01 After failed summit, what’s next for U.S. policy on North Korea A little over a week after the second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early and without a deal, North Korea watchers have published satellite imagery indicating that a dismantled rocket launch facility is now being reassembled. Continue watching
Mar 08 How Trump changed the Obama-era rule on reporting civilian airstrike deaths By Courtney Vinopal The decision has renewed the stark debate over who dies, and how, in U.S. military action abroad. Continue reading
Mar 08 Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson resigns By Robert Burns, Associated Press Secretary Wilson said Friday she is resigning to become president of the University of Texas at El Paso. Continue reading
Mar 08 WATCH: Trump says Democrats have become an ‘anti-Jewish party’ By Associated Press Before leaving to survey tornado damage in Alabama, Trump told reporters the Democrats have become an "anti-Israel" and "anti-Jewish" party. Continue reading