Dec 04 U.S. pulls out of a global pact on the treatment of migrants. Here’s why By Larisa Epatko The State Department says a U.N. agreement aimed at addressing the needs of migrants could “undermine the sovereign right of the United States to enforce our immigration laws and secure our borders.”… Continue reading
Dec 04 WATCH: Trump scales back Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments By Ryan Connelly Holmes President Donald Trump is expected to speak around 2:40 p.m. ET. Watch live here. Continue reading
Dec 04 Former Florida Rep. Brown gets 5-year prison sentence in fraud case By Associated Press A federal judge on Monday sentenced former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in prison on fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund. Continue reading
Dec 03 Utah’s tenacious efforts to take back federal land stand out By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press Utah has gone well beyond any other state in the region in trying to pry the federal government’s hands off land it sees as belonging to its residents. Continue reading
Dec 03 Some see echoes of 1968 court case in wedding cake dispute By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The upcoming Supreme Court argument about a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple makes some civil rights lawyers think of South Carolina’s Piggie Park barbecue. Continue reading
Dec 03 Why Republicans who once fought budget debt now embrace it By Josh Boak, Associated Press Over the next decade, the Republican tax plan would add at least $1 trillion to the national debt on top of an additional $10 trillion in deficits over the same period. This borrowing spree would mark a sharp reversal for… Continue reading
Dec 03 Trump lashes out at own FBI in a series of tweets By Ken Thomas, Associated Press President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Sunday on the credibility of his own FBI. Continue reading
Dec 03 Trump suggests he may be flexible on corporate tax rates By Ken Thomas, Associated Press President Donald Trump has suggested that he may be willing to negotiate changes to a significant portion of the tax overhaul, the corporate tax rate, injecting an element of uncertainty into the tax plan only hours after it cleared the… Continue reading
Dec 03 Senate Democrats stand united against GOP tax bill By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Rarely unified, Senate Democrats stood together in opposing the GOP revamp of the tax code. Continue reading
Dec 03 Trump says he never asked Comey to stop Flynn probe By Calvin Woodward and Ken Thomas, Associated Press Trump shifted his story Saturday on why he fired Flynn, lumping in the retired Army lieutenant general’s lies to the FBI along with his untruthfulness with Vice President Mike Pence. Continue reading