Новости за 13.03.2019

The top Democrat and Republican on the House Judiciary Committee are offering diverging interpretations of former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's closed-door testimony regarding the Michael Cohen case...

Lawmakers are warning of a major "land grab" affecting property owners in the Lone Star State if Trump's border wall is realized

House Democrats from Texas are pressing their Republican colleagues in the Senate to reject President Trump's emergency declaration at the southern border, warning of a major "land grab" affecting property owners in the Lone Star State if...

GOP Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) says he will vote for a resolution disapproving of President Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border, becoming the fifth Senate Republican to announce his support for the measure.Republicans control 53...

GOP Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) says he will vote for a resolution disapproving of President Trump's national emergency declaration on the southern border, becoming the fifth Senate Republican to announce his support for the mea...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is under fire from conservative activists for supporting a Democratic effort to block President Trump’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.The activists have also raised Tillis’s legislation to shield special...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is under fire from conservative activists for supporting a Democratic effort to block President Trump's emergency declaration to fund his border wall.The activists have also raised Tillis'...

This week the Trump administration released its budget request for the 2020 fiscal year, which includes a total of $750 billion for national defense, nearly 5 percent higher than the current level of funding. But that total is $174 billion higher...

Former NBC "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno said of political jokes that he "always liked to humiliate and degrade both sides equally" on Wednesday, suggesting current talk show hosts instead all do versions of the same joke....

A new rocket design under production by NASA won't be ready for a scheduled June 2020 launch, the agency's administrator told Congress on Wednesday.Jim Bridenstine told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that a mission to send...

Conservatives on Wednesday accused Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) of hypocrisy after she told MSNBC that she had "zero" sympathy for parents who have been accused of bribing their children's way into top universities.GOP Chairwoman Ronna...

The National Weather Service (NWS) on Wednesday warned that a "historic" high powered storm is battering the central portion of the United States as hundreds of flights have been canceled due to the "bomb cyclone."...

Vice President Pence's wife, Karen Pence, arrived Wednesday at the Special Olympics World Games in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Pence led a U.S. delegation that included Small Business Administration head Linda McMahon,...

President Trump said Wednesday he feels "very badly" for Paul Manafort after his former campaign chairman's prison sentence was ...

President Trump said Wednesday he feels “very badly” for Paul Manafort after his former campaign chairman’s prison sentence was increased to 7 ½ years, but he would not say if he would offer Manafort a pardon.“It’s a very sad situation,” Trump told...

Senate Republicans say talks to find a way to stop a House-passed resolution disapproving of President Trump's emergency border declaration are collapsing amid Republican divisions over what some see as a breach of separa...

SPOTTED: Patrick Dempsey — sans his "Grey's Anatomy" scrubs — hustling through the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday alongside Sen. Angus King (I-Maine). No word on why the TV star and racing driver was in Washington, but he was also eyed...

Paul Manafort's attorney was shouted down by hecklers Wednesday outside a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., after the former Trump campaign chairman was sentenced to an additional 43 months in prison.Defense attorney Kevin Downing,...

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Wednesday warned President Trump against pardoning Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman, after Manafort was sentenced to over three years in prison on foreign lobbying and other charges.Mr. Manafort is going to...

A spokeswoman for Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign apologized Tuesday after making "insensitive" remarks on Facebook questioning whether American Jews have "dual allegiance" to Israel."In a...

A lawyer who was in touch with Michael Cohen in spring 2018 told CNN on Monday that Cohen asked him to raise the prospect of a presidential pardon with Rudy Giuliani.Michael Costello told the news outlet that he was considering representing Cohen at...

President Trump on Wednesday announced the U.S. will ground Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft, bowing to heavy pressure after two of the planes were involved in deadly crashes overseas.“All of those planes are grounded, effective immediately,”...

President Trump on Wednesday announced the U.S. is grounding Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 planes after two fatal crashes involving the aircraft."Planes that are in the air will be grounded if they are the 737 Max. Will b...

A Confederate monument in Tennessee was doused with pink paint on Tuesday night, the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal reported.The statue, outside the Historic Rutherford County Courthouse, was spray-painted pink around 10:23 p.m., according to ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending the death penalty in the state, calling it "ineffective, irreversible, and immoral.""The death penalty has been an abject failure,"...