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Cohen Makes Surprise Court Appearance to Plead Guilty

President's former attorney admits lying to Congress about Trump real estate deal

(Newser) - Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Thursday morning to lying to Congress about work he did on a Trump real estate deal in Russia. President Trump's former personal attorney made a surprise appearance in a New York courtroom to enter the plea, per the AP . He admitted to making false statements...

Trump's Private Jet Hit in Airport Parking Accident

Nobody was injured in LaGuardia accident

(Newser) - President Trump has often criticized New York City's LaGuardia Airport, and he might like it even less after a minor accident involving his iconic private jet Wednesday. In what the AP describes as a "fender bender," a corporate jet trying to park at the airport after arriving...

Manafort Pardon 'Not Off the Table,' Trump Says

The presidential pardon is not a "personal tool," Democrat Senator says

(Newser) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he's never discussed pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, but it's "not off the table," the AP reports. In an interview with the New York Post, Trump asked rhetorically: "Why would I take it off the table?" The...

Trump Issues New Threat in Wake of GM Closures

Says 25% tariff on imported cars 'is being studied now'

(Newser) - In the wake of General Motors' restructuring and layoffs, President Trump has followed up his threat to slash GM subsidies with a suggestion of new auto tariffs. If the 25% US tariff on small truck imports was also applied to imported cars, "many more cars would be built here...

Ivanka Trump: 'No Equivalency' Between Her Emails, Clinton's

First daughter also speaks on Mueller probe, migrant caravan

(Newser) - "There's no equivalency." That's Ivanka Trump's official take on her email hubbub versus that of Hillary Clinton , per an interview Tuesday with ABC News . "All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions. There is no attempt to hide," and...

Trump 'Totally Willing' to Shut Gov't Over Border Wall Funding

President and the Dems aren't even close on the $5B figure he's throwing out there

(Newser) - President Trump said last Thursday he'd be OK with a government shutdown if he doesn't get the funding he wants on the US-Mexico border wall, and several days later, he hasn't changed his mind. With just over a week before Congress' Dec. 7 deadline to finish up...

Obama Crows Over Own Lack of Indictments in Interview

'Nobody in my administration got indicted,' he tells gala crowd

(Newser) - Former President Obama got in a dig at the Trump administration at a Rice University gala on Tuesday without even mentioning the president's name. Obama's 50-minute interview with former Secretary of State James A. Baker III—the namesake of the nonpartisan Baker Institute for Public Policy, which was...

Trump Talks Putin, Khashoggi, His Gut
Trump: 'My Gut Tells
Me More' Than
Others' Brains
INTERVIEW
Nov 28, 2018 6:55 AM CST

Trump: 'My Gut Tells Me More' Than Others' Brains

President also talks Putin, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, climate change in wide-ranging chat

(Newser) - President Trump took the Washington Post on a wild ride through his thoughts on climate change, Russia, the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and more in a 20-minute interview Tuesday. One main topic was the Federal Reserve, which he strongly criticized for raising interest rates. "I'm doing deals, and...

Trump Issues a Threat to GM
Trump Issues a Threat to GM
Nov 27, 2018 2:17 PM CST

Trump Issues a Threat to GM

Warns subsidies will be reviewed

(Newser) - President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to express his displeasure with GM's planned 14,000 layoffs and five plant shutterings; National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow did the same thing from the White House. In afternoon tweets, Trump issued a sort of threat, writing , "Very disappointed with...

Trump Has Harsh Words for GM Over Layoffs

He says US has done a lot for the company

(Newser) - President Trump says his administration and lawmakers are exerting "a lot of pressure" on General Motors in response to its decision to cut up to 14,000 workers in North America and possibly shutter up to five plants. Trump says he's being very tough on GM chief executive...

Trump Doesn't 'Believe' Dire Climate Change Report

'I’ve seen it, I’ve read some of it, and it’s fine'

(Newser) - President Trump is rejecting a central conclusion of a dire report on the economic costs of climate change released Friday by his own administration, the AP reports. The National Climate Assessment, quietly unveiled Friday, warns that natural disasters are worsening in the United States because of global warming. It says...

Trump: I'll Shut Border 'Permanently' If I Have To

President tells Mexico it should send all 'flag-waving migrants' back to their home countries

(Newser) - On Sunday, there was "mayhem" at the US-Mexico border as pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro port of entry, one of the country's busiest, were suspended by Customs and Border Protection, and US agents shot tear gas at migrants near the border after a few tried to breach...

Trump Congratulates Himself on Falling Gas Prices

''Thank you President T'

(Newser) - President Trump congratulated himself for falling oil prices. He chided the Federal Reserve over interest rates. He claimed Central American countries are trying to dump "certain people" into the United States. Trump's Florida holiday stay came to an end Sunday with a visit to his golf club for...

New Trump Tell-All Blasts His 'Embedded Enemies'

Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have a sequel book out

(Newser) - Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie are out with the sequel to their first book, Let Trump Be Trump , and in it they allege that the 45th president of the United States is under constant siege from within by "embedded enemies" in various parts of government who "attack the...

Al Gore Has Big Issue With Trump Administration's Timing

He's bothered a major climate change report was issued on Black Friday

(Newser) - Al Gore has an issue with the Trump administration's timing. In a statement released Friday, he swung at the White House for releasing a major government report on climate change when it did. "Unbelievably deadly and tragic wildfires rage in the west, hurricanes batter our coasts—and the...

Judge: Trump Not Immune to Prosecution in Charity Case

Rules the suit doesn't involve action taken by Trump as president

(Newser) - A New York judge has rejected a bid by Donald Trump's lawyers to throw out a state lawsuit that alleges the president disregarded the law in running his charitable foundation and used it as a wing of his presidential campaign. But, in the ruling posted Friday, State Supreme Court...

Trump on Border Wall: GOP, Dems 'Must Come Together'

'Fix the Border, for once and for all, NOW!' he tweeted, demanding funding

(Newser) - The AP reports that President Trump hit the links on his Florida golf course the day after Thanksgiving, but before he did, he rehashed a topic that's long been on his mind, with seeming impatience. "Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package,...

US Climate Report Contradicts Trump&#39;s View
US Climate Report Is Out,
and It's Dire
the rundown
Nov 23, 2018 2:45 PM CST

US Climate Report Is Out, and It's Dire

Federal agencies warn that the financial consequences of climate change will be huge

(Newser) - President Trump continues to downplay the idea of global warming, but a new report from his own federal agencies has a starkly different message. The Fourth National Climate Assessment says that human-caused global warming is not only real, it is already taking a huge financial toll on the nation, one...

Trump Complains, Boasts to US Troops

President discusses border issues, trade on Thanksgiving Day call

(Newser) - President Trump used a Thanksgiving Day call to troops deployed overseas to pat himself on the back and air grievances about the courts, trade, and migrants heading to the US-Mexico border, reports the AP . Trump's call, made Thursday from his Mar-a-Lago club, struck an unusually political tone as he...

Trump on Khashoggi's Death: Maybe Blame the World

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman 'hates it more than I do,' he says

(Newser) - In a session with reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Thanksgiving, President Trump was pressed about Jamal Khashoggi's death and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's role in it, and the president didn't budge. The Washington Post reports he held his position of refusing to blame MBS....

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