1Trump’s ultimatum on border wall boxes in fellow RepublicansThursday, December 13, 2018

President Trump’s increasingly urgent push to construct a massive wall on the border with Mexico has created a nightmare scenario for congressional Republicans as they race to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government at the end of next week. A day after Trump declared he would be proud to let funding lapse... Read More

2Fox News’ Judge Napolitano: We Now Know Trump ‘Committed a Felony’Thursday, December 13, 2018

If you were watching Fox News when the Michael Cohen sentence came down, you would be pretty sure this was bad news for Donald Trump’s former fixer. Less clear was what it meant for the president himself. For clarity on that, you would have had to wait a couple of hours until anchor Shepard Smith invited the reliably... Read More

3Cohen gets 3 years, says Trump's 'dirty deeds' led him to 'choose darkness'Thursday, December 13, 2018

An emotional Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years behind bars for what a Manhattan federal court judge called a “veritable smorgasbord" of criminal conduct, including making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, lying to Congress... Read More

4Migrant group demands Trump either let them in or pay them each $50G to turn around: reportWednesday, December 12, 2018

Two groups of Central American migrants marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a list of demands, with one group delivering an ultimatum to the Trump administration: either let them in the U.S. or pay them $50,000 each to go home, a report said. Among other demands were that deportations be halted and that... Read More

5Reporter says Trump 'stormed out' of Oval Office after Dem meetingWednesday, December 12, 2018

Los Angeles Times White House reporter Eli Stokols said Tuesday that President Trump "stormed out" of the Oval Office after a meeting Tuesday with key Democrats and threw a folder full of papers out of frustration. "He stormed out of the Oval, walked into an anteroom just off the Oval Office and had in his hand a folder... Read More

6‘It’s now or never’: Trump faces a moment of truth on his border wallWednesday, December 12, 2018

Since the day he announced his White House candidacy, President Trump has wielded calls for a border wall as a political cudgel, a bargaining chip and a rallying cry — a tangible symbol, if completed, of his nationalist aim to “Make America Great Again.” Now, with time running out to build it, the wall is threatening... Read More

7Suffering pickaxes and dog poop, Trump’s Hollywood star has become a symbolic spectacleMonday, December 10, 2018

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame one summer night, a man with a neck tattoo knelt over Donald Trump’s star, armed with a black Sharpie. The piece of plywood concealing the newly repaired star was already a sorry sight, defiled by spat-out gum, littered potato chips and scrawled words: “MAGA,” “SAD,” “Q-Anon.”... Read More

8Tear Gas Still Lingering, France’s President to Address the NationMonday, December 10, 2018

With the smell of tear gas and smoke still lingering in Paris and other cities after a fourth weekend of protests, France’s president planned a nationwide address on Monday to respond to the anger among many middle-class and working-poor citizens frustrated over their declining economic means. The televised speech by President... Read More

9Shutdown Looms and Priorities Stack Up as Congress Races Toward Session’s EndMonday, December 10, 2018

President Trump and congressional leaders are racing against a deadline next week to avert a partial government shutdown, pushing disputes over the president’s border wall and an array of legislation that touches on everything from Saudi Arabia to farm policy into the waning hours of Republican domination of Congress. The... Read More

10Conspiracy theorist sues Mueller alleging illegal leaks and surveillanceMonday, December 10, 2018

An author and conspiracy theorist who says he’s being threatened with indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the Trump-Russia probe filed a federal lawsuit Sunday night accusing Mueller of constitutional violations and leaking grand jury secrets. Jerome Corsi’s new suit against Mueller also accuses... Read More