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Judge Tosses Out Trump 'Emoluments' Lawsuit

He decides plaintiffs have no standing to sue

(Newser) - Restaurant workers, a hotel event booker, and a watchdog group who say President Trump has business conflicts that violate the Constitution cannot sue him, a New York judge ruled Thursday. US District Judge George Daniels said it was too soon for the lawsuit to be considered by the courts, particularly...

UN Votes Resoundingly Against Trump&#39;s Jerusalem Decision
Just How Big an Insult Was
the UN's Jerusalem Vote?
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Dec 21, 2017 1:35 PM CST

Just How Big an Insult Was the UN's Jerusalem Vote?

The vote was 128-9 in favor of a resolution that demands decision be rescinded

(Newser) - "The US will be taking names," Nikki Haley warned Wednesday ahead of the UN General Assembly's Thursday vote on whether to reject President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It has a lot of names to take: The vote was 128-9 in...

Republicans Probing Alleged DOJ, FBI Corruption: Report

Group has met secretly for weeks to build case: Politico

(Newser) - President Trump has called the investigations into his campaign's ties to Russia a "witch hunt." This week, Donald Trump Jr. suggested they were part of a "rigged system" of "people at the highest levels of government" working to hurt the president. Some House Republicans apparently...

Trump Commutes a Sentence for the First Time

Rubashkin fraud was uncovered after immigration raid

(Newser) - Former meatpacking company exec Sholom Rubashkin will be going home to his 10 children after being the first person to have a sentence commuted by President Trump. The 57-year-old was eight years into a 27-year sentence for financial crimes uncovered after a massive immigration raid on an Iowa plant that...

Trump Slammed for Threat Before UN Jerusalem Vote

He suggests opponents will lose US aid

(Newser) - President Trump's threat to cut off US funding to countries that oppose his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital has raised the stakes in Thursday's UN vote and sparked criticism of his tactics, which one Muslim group called bullying or blackmail. Trump went a step further...

Massive Overhaul of Tax Code Clears Congress

Trump will sign it into law

(Newser) - Congressional Republicans delivered an epic overhaul of US tax laws to President Trump on Wednesday, bringing generous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans while providing smaller cuts for middle- and low-income families. In a re-vote due to a last-minute hiccup, the House passed the massive $1.5 trillion...

Fox News Guest Floats Theory on Trump, Hosts Push Back

Kevin Jackson drew immediate pushback for suggesting FBI may be scheming to kill president

(Newser) - On Tuesday's airing of Fox News' Outnumbered, one guest was literally outnumbered by the hosts as they pushed back against an eyebrow-raising theory he offered up during the program, per Mediaite . Kevin Jackson, a radio pundit and Fox contributor who's been deemed a "serial liar and conspiracy...

China on Trump's Strategy: Drop the 'Cold War Mentality'

'Otherwise it will injure others and damage itself'

(Newser) - In unveiling a new US national security strategy Monday, President Trump called out China and Russia as "attempting to erode American security and prosperity," and he outlined myriad ways—weapons development, intellectual property theft, dumping money into the developing world—in which he sees them doing that, per...

White House, Silent on the People's Petitions, Makes Move

It is taking tool down, says new site will launch in January

(Newser) - The White House is temporarily removing a petition tool from its website after 11 months of silence, promising to respond to public concerns next year. The Trump administration said the platform, used extensively by critics and less frequently by allies, will be removed at midnight Tuesday and return in late...

Report: Trump Spoke of Dumping an Ungrateful Gorsuch

Was reportedly 'very upset' after hearing Supreme Court nominee had disparaged him

(Newser) - Was the bloom at one point off the Neil Gorsuch rose? When President Trump first tapped the Supreme Court justice for the job earlier this year, he praised Gorsuch as being the "best" candidate for the job, and by many accounts, Gorsuch has since made good at carrying out...

Disney Unveils New Animatronic Trump

He's the latest addition to the Hall of Presidents

(Newser) - Disney World's revamped Hall of Presidents is set to reopen Tuesday, with Barack Obama shifted to the side and a new robot with an extra-long tie center stage. The animatronic President Trump figure, which stands between Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant, moves its hands as it recites dialogue Trump...

Far-Right Group Retweeted by Trump Is Booted by Twitter

Britain First is gone amid crackdown on 'abusive' posts

(Newser) - Twitter suspended three accounts belonging to a far-right group in Britain on Monday, a development that might not have made headlines if not for the group's connection to President Trump. Last month, the president set off a controversy when he retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by Jayda Fransen of...

Nikki Haley Casts Veto, Decries UN's 'Insult' to US

Security Council called for Trump's Jerusalem move to be rescinded

(Newser) - "What we witnessed here in the Security Council is an insult. It won't be forgotten." Such was US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley's assessment after the US on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding the US reverse its Dec. 6 decision on Jerusalem...

&#39;Coup in America&#39;: Rhetoric Heats Up Against Mueller
'Coup in America': Rhetoric
Heats Up Against Mueller
the rundown
Dec 18, 2017 8:49 AM CST

'Coup in America': Rhetoric Heats Up Against Mueller

Trump says he has no plans to fire, but a 'drumbeat' is growing on the right

(Newser) - Tensions between the White House and Robert Mueller's investigative team appear to be on the rise, so much so that reporters asked President Trump on Sunday night whether he's considering firing the special counsel. "No, I'm not," he said, per CNN . But Trump added that...

LeBron Makes a Statement With Mismatched Shoes

Wore one black, one white during Sunday night's game

(Newser) - LeBron James made a statement during an NBA game with his shoes—one black, one white, with the word "equality" in capital gold letters on the back of each. Then, after the game, James made a statement about President Trump, reports the AP , saying: "This is a beautiful...

Trump: No, Climate Change Is Not a Security Threat

Speech on Monday will reverse course from Obama administration

(Newser) - President Trump on Monday unveils his first blueprint for national security as president, and the Federalist reports that it will break from his predecessor's vision in at least one key way: Trump will drop climate change from the list of national security threats facing the nation. As the site...

McCain Likely to Miss Crucial Vote on Tax Bill

Senator has returned to Arizona for treatment

(Newser) - Sen. John McCain has gone home to Arizona to recover from the side effects of chemotherapy, meaning he's likely to miss a vote on the Republican tax reform plan expected this week. After days of speculation about the 81-year-old senator's health, daughter Meghan McCain tweeted Sunday that he'...

Mueller Has Thousands of Trump's Transition Emails

GSA turned over records, prompting transition team to complain they were obtained illegally

(Newser) - Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian contacts with President Trump's campaign has accessed thousands of his transition team's emails, according to several sources. But the investigators did not directly request the records from Trump's still-existing transition group, Trump for America, and instead obtained them from the General...

Kellyanne Conway Has Year&#39;s Most Notable Quote
Kellyanne Conway Has
Year's Most Notable Quote
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Dec 16, 2017 2:03 PM CST

Kellyanne Conway Has Year's Most Notable Quote

From Yale list of the top 10 for 2017

(Newser) - The use of the term "alternative facts" by Kellyanne Conway , an adviser to President Trump, tops a Yale Law School librarian's list of the most notable quotes of 2017. The statement Conway made when asked why Trump's then-press secretary Sean Spicer mischaracterized the size of inauguration crowds...

Trump Blasts FBI Before Praising New Graduates

He also says he doesn't want to discuss a pardon of Michael Flynn, 'yet'

(Newser) - President Trump laced into FBI leadership Friday, while proclaiming his loyalty and support for law enforcement in an address at the agency's training academy. "It's a shame what's happened" with the FBI, the president said as he left the White House for a speech at the...

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