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Video Roger Stone’s arrest sparks new questions on direction of Mueller probe In his first question-and-answer session with reporters since becoming Acting Attorney General last November, Matthew Whitaker on Monday announced that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is “close to being completed.” Whitaker’s remarks came just days after Mueller ordered the dramatic predawn arrest of former Trump adviser Roger Stone on charges he allegedly lied to Congress and directed another witness to do the…

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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s announcement that he was ” seriously considering” running for president has set off a storm of speculation over how his entrance could affect the 2020 race. But ultimately, the speculation all boils down to three basic scenarios. Scenario 1: He hurts Democrats and helps President Trump get re-elected In this scenario, Schultz splits the anti-Trump vote and helps him squeak into re-election. Should Democrats choose…

The Congressional Budget Office projected Monday that the federal deficit will rise to $897 billion in fiscal year 2019 and then will swell to over $1 trillion per year starting in three years. Those projections represent an improvement over recent ones from the budget office, which is Congress’ official nonpartisan agency for budget and economic figures. The picture improved primarily because of a drop in emergency relief spending, which was…

SÃO PAULO—Vale SA’s shares tumbled at the start of trading Monday as the iron mining company potentially faces spiraling losses after a dam burst at one of its mines in southeast Brazil, leaving at least 60 people dead and hundreds missing. Vale’s ordinary shares fell 19% to 45.00 reais ($12) shortly after they began trading. The company…

WALTHAM — After Mark Paul Fitzgerald allegedly sped down the Mass. Pike Friday afternoon with a man clinging to his hood, stopping after a couple miles when a Good Samaritan ordered him out of his Infiniti at gunpoint, the first thing he needed was a smoke. “Fitzgerald seemed very upset and was smoking from a vape machine,” said a State Police report filed in connection with the bizarre case. The…

SEATTLE (AP) — For a businessman who grew a small coffee roaster into an inescapable global chain, who ensured that even his part-time workers had benefits and who has given about $150,000 to Democratic campaigns, former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is generating tepid — or even hostile — responses within the party as he weighs a presidential bid in 2020. That’s partly because — as Schultz told “60 Minutes” on…

Lawmakers in both parties are skeptical about President TrumpDonald John TrumpPatricia Arquette thanks Mueller at SAG Awards Worker fired from Trump golf course says Trump knew undocumented people were employed Trump rips into Fox News over shutdown, border wall coverage MORE’s chances of securing funding for his wall on the Mexican border after a 35-day partial government shutdown that bruised the White House’s political standing.  The deal reached last week…

A major winter storm is hitting the Chicago area Monday and has made a mess of the morning commute. The storm is expected to dump between 3-6 inches of snow across the Chicago area. Upwards of 9 inches of snow is expected to accumulate near the Wisconsin border. Areas south of Interstate 80 are expected to get 1-3 inches of snow School Closings: Chicago Area Complete List A Winter Storm…

KABUL (Reuters) – A senior U.S. government official, speaking after six days of U.S. peace talks with Afghan Taliban militants, said on Monday that Washington was committed to withdrawing foreign forces from Afghanistan to end more than 17 years of war. The official, who declined to be identified, described “significant progress” in talks last week with the Taliban in Qatar about a foreign troop pullout, but more negotiations were needed…

ROCKMART, Ga. — Federal authorities have arrested a man wanted in the slayings of four people and injuring of a man in a pair of shootings in Georgia. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 27-year-old Daylon Delon Gamble was arrested Sunday in Indiana by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Gamble, who was wanted on four charges of murder in the shootings Thursday night in Rockmart, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta,…

In a rare moment of unity in today’s polarized politics, media outlets set aside their usual differences on Saturday and uniformly agreed: President Trump “caved” on the shutdown. Looking more closely at media coverage of the shutdown over the past week, we can see that the postponement of his State of the Union address seems to have foreshadowed Trump’s Friday capitulation to reopen the government without funding for a border…

California Sen. Kamala Harris formally kicked off her presidential campaign Sunday at a rally in her hometown of Oakland, with a promise to confront toxic politics and unite a country she claims has been divided by President Donald Trump. Less than a mile away from where she began her career as a prosecutor, Harris characterized her track record as a district attorney, attorney general and U.S. Senator as “fighting for…

SEATTLE (AP) — For a businessman who grew a small coffee roaster into an inescapable global chain, who ensured that even his part-time workers had benefits and who has given about $150,000 to Democratic campaigns, former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is generating tepid — or even hostile — responses within the party as he weighs a presidential bid in 2020. That’s partly because — as Schultz told “60 Minutes” on…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The US has accused Oleg Deripaska of operating for the Russian government The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three firms linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, an ally of President Vladimir Putin. Curbs on aluminium giant US Rusal, En+ Group and JSC EuroSibEnergo were lifted after Mr Deripaska ceded control. The oligarch has been linked to the probe into alleged Russian interference in…

On Saturday, Dakota Theriot, 21, shot and killed three people — the woman believed to be his girlfriend, her brother and father — in Louisiana’s Livingston Parish before taking the father’s truck, driving to neighboring Ascension Parish and shooting his parents, authorities said.

The Democratic odd couple in the U.S. House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D’Alesandro PelosiHow the government will reopen Midterms show Ohio remains firmly in play for 2020 ‘Fox & Friends’ host to Trump aide: Who are these ‘unicorn’ Dems who will suddenly work on a wall? MORE (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezMost favor policies to improve environment, but are divided over paying for it Ocasio-Cortez on shutdown:…

Sen. Kamala Harris kicked off her 2020 presidential campaign on Sunday at a large rally in her hometown of Oakland, California, where she positioned herself as the “moral leadership” America needs to challenge President Donald Trump. Thousands crowded the streets in the hours leading up to and during the event, which law enforcement officials estimated was attended by over 10,000 people, with another 12,000 packing the streets surrounding the venue….

“The president has already gone to the Democrats and said, look, it’s not a 2,000-mile sea-to-shining-sea wall.”