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Pence Likens Trump and His Offer to End Shutdown to Martin Luther King – Slate
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Members of group giving food, water to migrants convicted of misdemeanors – NBC News
Four humanitarian aid volunteers were convicted of misdemeanor charges on Friday after leaving food and water for migrants crossing a remote wildlife refuge on the United States-Mexico border in 2017. Four other volunteers with the group No More Deaths are set to go on trial next month and in March over similar charges, the organization said. Scott Daniel WarrenArizona State University A ninth volunteer, Scott Warren, also faces felony harboring…
Trump two years in: The dealmaker who can’t seem to make a deal – The Washington Post
Philip Rucker Josh Dawsey January 20 at 6:24 PM Donald Trump was elected president partly by assuring the American people that “I alone can fix it.” But precisely two years into his presidency, the government is not simply broken — it is in crisis, and Trump is grappling with the reality that he cannot fix it alone. Trump’s management of the partial government shutdown — his first foray in divided…
Rams vs. Saints final score, takeaways: L.A. wins in OT to reach Super Bowl LIII, NFL admits blown call late – CBS Sports
The Rams are going to the Super Bowl. This is the same outfit that finished 4-12 in 2016, Jeff Fisher’s last season with the team, and has gone 24-8 under Sean McVay. (If you haven’t heard, he’s 32 years old and already has a coaching tree that has his assistants landing head-coaching gigs.) Los Angeles outlasted New Orleans, 26-23 in overtime and now they’re headed to Atlanta for Super Bowl…
Andrew McCarthy: Debunking BuzzFeed and the wages of investigative secrecy – Fox News
Video Mueller’s office disputes accuracy of Buzzfeed report Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer reacts. BuzzFeed published an explosive allegation that the president of the United States ordered his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Specifically, in a news story sourced to two anonymous law-enforcement officials said to be “involved in an investigation of the matter,” the site reported that Special…
Democrats reiterate demand: Reopen the government before negotiations on border security – CNN
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BuzzFeed reporter, after rebuke by Mueller, unable to explain discrepancies – Fox News
Video Buzzfeed’s Trump story discredited Mueller challenges allegation that the president urged perjury after media touted claim that he told Cohen to lie. BuzzFeed News investigative reporter Anthony Cormier on Sunday declined to explain why his colleague Jason Leopold claimed to have seen documents proving that President Trump had ordered his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress — contradicting Cormier’s insistence that he had not personally seen the documents. “We…
Reports: Ice storm creates treacherous travel in New England as temperatures plummet across snow-covered Northeast – AccuWeather.com
Senate GOP scrambles to prepare bill to end shutdown, as Trump hits back at ‘amnesty’ suggestions – Fox News
Video President Donald Trump offers a compromise to Democrats to secure the border Angel mom Mary Ann Mendoza says Democrats should take the offer. Senate Republicans scrambled on Saturday evening to put together legislation tracking President Trump’s compromise proposal to end the ongoing partial federal government shutdown, and the text of a bill should be ready on Monday, Fox News has learned. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., indicated to…
Winter Storm Grounds Flights, Delays Trains And Knocks Out Power – NPR
Nicholas Nicolet and his son Rocco cross-country ski on Sunday in Montpelier, Vt. A major winter storm hit the Midwest and New England this weekend. Lisa Rathke/AP hide caption toggle caption Lisa Rathke/AP Nicholas Nicolet and his son Rocco cross-country ski on Sunday in Montpelier, Vt. A major winter storm hit the Midwest and New England this weekend. Lisa Rathke/AP A major winter storm is disrupting transportation routes in parts…
Trump Offers Temporary Protections for ‘Dreamers’ in Exchange for Wall Funding – The New York Times
The president’s proposal “strikes a fair compromise by incorporating priorities from both sides of the aisle,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement after Mr. Trump’s speech. If Mr. McConnell does indeed put a bill on the floor, as the president said he would, Senate Democrats will have to decide whether to block it or let it come up for a vote. Despite Democrats’ vow to reject the measure, it could…
Viral video of teens taunting Native Americans draws widespread condemnation – ABC News
Outrage was growing across the political spectrum over the weekend after dozens of teens from an all-male Catholic school in Kentucky -– some wearing bright red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps — appeared to mock and chant over the voices of a small group of Native Americans who were singing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the conclusion of a march in Washington, D.C. Friday’s inaugural Indigenous…
Ex-officer who killed black teen gets 81 months in prison – ABC News
Jason Van Dyke was responding to a call of someone breaking into cars when he fatally shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times as he appeared to walk away in 2014. WATCH THE FULL EPISODE OF ‘WORLD NEWS TONIGHT’:https://bit.ly/2T1B1Nd WATCH OTHER FULL EPISODES OF WORLD NEWS TONIGHT:http://abc.go.com/shows/world-news-to…
Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie – Fox News
Video Trump team slams Buzzfeed report that he instructed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained…
Winter storm disrupts travel across U.S. – CBS News
Officials warn of flight disruptions Officials have warned of flight disruptions at airports, as well as possible changes in train schedules. By Saturday morning, 1,135 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled for Saturday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport reported that airlines there canceled nearly 470 flights “due to overnight snow and strong winds expected throughout the day.” It advised travelers to get…
Trump Offers Deportation Protections in Exchange for Wall Funding – The New York Times
It was the second time during the shutdown that the president addressed the nation about what he has called an immigration crisis. This time, Mr. Trump made the speech standing behind a lectern, under an oil portrait of George Washington, a setting aides said he preferred to the seated, direct-to-camera Oval Office address he delivered earlier this month when he highlighted what he described as a growing “security crisis” at…
BuzzFeed says it still remains confident in its story, one day after Mueller disputed it – CNN
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Trump offers immigration compromise to end partial shutdown; Dems cool to offer – Fox News
Video President Trump outlines new border security proposal to end partial government shutdown President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration in an effort to end the nearly monthlong partial government shutdown — although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a “non-starter” before Trump even spoke. Trump announced that he was prepared to back a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 immigrants who…
President Trump said he ‘appreciates’ Mueller’s response to BuzzFeed report – NBC News
President Donald Trump thanked special counsel Robert Mueller’s office for disputing a BuzzFeed News report alleging that the president directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. “It was a total phony story, and I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night,” the president told reporters on the South Lawn on Saturday. “I think it was very appropriate that they did so. I very…