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Video Stone on his indictment: This is about silencing me, criminalizing political expression Former Trump adviser Roger Stone said in a Fox News interview Friday that the indictment brought against him as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is “thin” and was really “about silencing” him. But, Stone said, he was prepared for the fight of his life. “The indictment is thin indeed,” Stone said. “So what is…

CLOSE President Trump thanked furloughed federal workers for their devotion during the shutdown and credited them with helping to make America great again. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Getting the government back to full speed following a 35-​​​​​​day shutdown is a bit like trying to turn around an aircraft carrier: It doesn’t happen very quickly. Now that President Donald Trump and congressional leaders have reached a deal to reopen the government for three weeks,…

According to several reports, Uvalde Police in Texas have charged a 12-year-old elementary school student with capital murder in connection with the shooting death of 24-year-old pro boxer John VanMeter. The incident occurred Wednesday, at the home of VanMeter and his girlfriend. There were two children in the home the time of the incident. Vanmeter (2-4, 1 KO) had been boxing since 10-years-old and turned pro in 2016. He recently…

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[President Trump’s emergency powers, explained.] The cease-fire could pave the way for Mr. Trump to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress after all, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly clarified that it would not be held next Tuesday as originally scheduled. She had rescinded her invitation earlier this week to come to the House chamber until the government was reopened, and on Friday, the speaker said she would…

Fast Facts: The Roger Stone indictment Roger Stone, a longtime political operative who was an official on the Trump campaign, is charged with 7 counts. After a court appearance Friday, he posted a $250,000 bond for his release. The charges relate to the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee by Russian government actors.  The hacked emails were released by “Organization 1,” described in the indictment as having a leader…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rejected Nicolas Maduro’s demand that he withdraw U.S. diplomats by Saturday afternoon. I suspect he’s done so in order to encourage a systemic breach between Maduro and the Venezuelan military that keeps him in power. Pompeo knows that the Venezuelan military’s support for Maduro is not, ultimately, ideological in nature. Rather, it reflects Maduro’s mass-bribery of the military’s top ranks — the abundant patronage…

But the special counsel’s investigators spent months encircling Mr. Stone, renewing scrutiny about his role during the 2016 presidential race. Investigators interviewed former Trump campaign advisers and several of his associates about Mr. Stone’s fund-raising during the campaign and his contacts with WikiLeaks. Three senior Trump campaign officials have told Mr. Mueller’s team that Mr. Stone created the impression that he was a conduit for inside information from WikiLeaks, according…

He again mentioned “other alternatives” that he could turn to if he did not secure wall funding from Congress, presumably an emergency declaration that could allow him to shift funds from the military or Army Corps of Engineers. But Democrats were unlikely to agree to that. “Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats have made clear to Leader McConnell and Republicans that they will not support funding for the wall, prorated or…

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CLOSE Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross he doesn’t ‘quite understand’ why furloughed federal workers are having to go to food banks and struggling to pay bills when they could just take out a loan instead. USA TODAY Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday that he doesn’t see why furloughed federal workers are having to go to food banks and are having trouble taking care of their families when they could just take…

International support for a return to democracy in Venezuela has been growing since Juan Guaidó took the oath of interim president on Wednesday. The crucial but underreported question now is whether dictator Nicolás Maduro’s protectors in Cuba and Russia will intervene to stop this democratic uprising. The Venezuelan military holds the key to whether Mr. Maduro will step down peacefully. Common sense and reporting in the country suggest that a…

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President Trump’s strategy of forcing a government shutdown to get funding for a border wall took another blow on Thursday when a Democratic bill to reopen the government received more votes in the Republican-controlled Senate than his own compromise bill that included wall funding. There is, right now, more evidence that Trump’s support is fracturing than there is of disunion among Democrats, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is showing…

(Michael Dwyer/AP) Jared Bernstein Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has just introduced a tax idea this country desperately needs: a tax on high-end wealth. It’s an idea that’s well-crafted for our time, one that promises to add fairness to an unfair tax code, raise significant, much-needed revenue and push back on the historically high level of wealth concentration in the United States. Here’s the plan, which, for the record, is extremely…

President Trump’s strategy of forcing a government shutdown to get funding for a border wall took another blow on Thursday when a Democratic bill to reopen the government received more votes in the Republican-controlled Senate than his own compromise bill that included wall funding. There is, right now, more evidence that Trump’s support is fracturing than there is of disunion among Democrats, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is showing…

(Michael Dwyer/AP) Jared Bernstein Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has just introduced a tax idea this country desperately needs: a tax on high-end wealth. It’s an idea that’s well-crafted for our time, one that promises to add fairness to an unfair tax code, raise significant, much-needed revenue and push back on the historically high level of wealth concentration in the United States. Here’s the plan, which, for the record, is extremely…

President Trump’s strategy of forcing a government shutdown to get funding for a border wall took another blow on Thursday when a Democratic bill to reopen the government received more votes in the Republican-controlled Senate than his own compromise bill that included wall funding. There is, right now, more evidence that Trump’s support is fracturing than there is of disunion among Democrats, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is showing…

(Michael Dwyer/AP) Jared Bernstein Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has just introduced a tax idea this country desperately needs: a tax on high-end wealth. It’s an idea that’s well-crafted for our time, one that promises to add fairness to an unfair tax code, raise significant, much-needed revenue and push back on the historically high level of wealth concentration in the United States. Here’s the plan, which, for the record, is extremely…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The counter-puncher caved. President Donald Trump’s decision to postpone his State of the Union address under pressure from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised allies, contradicted top aides who had been working on an alternative speech plan and left all of Washington trying to determine whether it signaled new willingness by Trump to make a deal to reopen the government. “Well, it’s really her choice,” Trump said Thursday,…