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Posted on:Wednesday, February 5, 2020
President Trump went on the offensive against socialism and left-wing policies during a defiant third State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night — drawing groans from Democrats in attendance and prompting a furious House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to rip up her copy of Trump’s speech as soon as it concluded in a remarkable scene.
Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
The U.S. military has deployed a new addition to its nuclear arsenal — a long-range missile armed with a nuclear warhead of reduced destructive power. The so-called low-yield missile joins other, more powerful weapons aboard stealthy submarines prowling the oceans.
Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
President Donald Trump vowed last week to grant ‘extensions’ to stay in the United States to some Iraqi Christians that his administration had earlier sought to deport despite concerns they could face persecution upon return to the Middle East.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
President Donald Trump’s public approval rating has reached a new high, according to a Gallup poll, an American polling company.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening is to make his annual State of the Union speech, accepting an invitation from the House of Representatives that recently impeached him.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
The Iowa Democratic Party is scrambling after encountering problems with its new counting system.

Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
The Senate holds its closing arguments today in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
Posted on:Tuesday, February 4, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the second case of human transmission of the coronavirus within the United States.

Posted on:Sunday, February 2, 2020
Senators defeated a last-ditch effort by Democrats to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump Friday evening, then approved a final schedule that will force a vote Wednesday on Mr. Trump’s fate.
Posted on:Sunday, February 2, 2020
Government officials from the United States and several countries will convene in Washington, D.C., next week on the eve of the National Prayer Breakfast for the inaugural meeting of the new International Religious Freedom Alliance.

Posted on:Sunday, February 2, 2020
President Trump on Friday signed the authorization for an expanded travel ban against six countries who have failed to comply with a minimum standard of travel security protocols since 2017.
Posted on:Sunday, February 2, 2020
The is U.S. Navy desperately trying to get away from shooting down anti-ship missiles with other missiles, and the carrier Gerald R. Ford could prove useful in the pursuit of alternatives.

Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
It looks like Senate Republicans are getting ready to pull the ripcord in President Trump’s impeachment trial.

Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
The latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report projects that the federal debt will grow to 98 percent of GDP by 2030, with the economy expanding at an average annual rate of 1.7 percent from 2021 to 2030.
Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
A bipartisan cadre of lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would reform the 9/11-era authorities used by the intelligence community to access Americans’ phone records and other domestic communications.
Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has issued a sharp critique of the growing practice of federal judges ruling beyond the scope of a particular case, in some court orders known as nationwide injunctions.
Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a $760 billion five-year plan aimed at rebuilding U.S. infrastructure.
Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
The White House has told former national security adviser John Bolton not to publish his upcoming tell-all about his time in the Trump administration until classified material is removed from the manuscript.

Posted on:Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate-setting body decided Wednesday to keep the benchmark Federal Funds target rate unchanged within the 1.5 to 1.75 percent range.
Posted on:Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The House overwhelming passed a bipartisan bill on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to increase support and spending on education to raise awareness of the Holocaust and to curb anti-Semitism.
