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In one of his signature on-air rants Monday, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson railed against special counsel Robert Mueller as a danger to democracy, claiming last week’s arrest of Roger Stone was an over-the-top show of force. “Nobody controls Robert Mueller,” Carlson said. “Mueller can send armed men to your home to roust you from bed at gunpoint just because he feels like it, and there’s nothing you or anyone else…

Stacey Abrams will deliver the response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week, giving the state’s highest-profile Democrat one of the nation’s most prominent pulpits as she considers whether to run for U.S. Senate in 2020. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters he asked Abrams to deliver the address, which will air shortly after Trump finishes his address to a joint session of…

The US on Monday charged the Chinese phone giant Huawei, Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, and a couple of affiliates with bank and wire fraud and theft of trade secrets. The two indictments are the latest development in a saga that exploded when the Canadian government arrested Meng in December at the request of US authorities. Read more: US calls Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou national-security threats, indicts company and…

Video Roger Stone’s arrest sparks new questions on direction of Mueller probe Former Trump adviser Roger Stone says his indictment has nothing to do with Russian collusion; analysis from Robert Ray, former Whitewater independent counsel. 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…

Video Trump compromises over shutdown but Democrats still refuse to negotiate on border wall President Trump on Saturday promised supporters that the wall on the southern border will be built, a day after he agreed to temporarily reopen the government for three weeks without funding for a wall — but warned that “both parties [are] very dug in.” “21 days goes very quickly. Negotiations with Democrats will start immediately. Will not…

With airports jammed with angry passengers, Republican senators blaming each other behind closed doors for the government shutdown, and President Trump’s poll numbers tanking, the writing was on the wall. Feeling pressure from his fellow Republicans to reopen the government, Trump announced Friday afternoon that a deal was reached for federal employees to come back to work as negotiations on border security are given a little more time. A week…

Video Jarrett: Roger Stone indictment doesn’t show Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ Roger Stone arrested by FBI in early morning raid; where were the raids for Hillary Clinton and others? Panel reaction on ‘Hannity.’ The indictment of President Trump’s former political adviser Roger Stone – who was arrested Friday on charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering – demonstrates yet again that there is no known evidence…

In any event, the court rejected Pollock only a few years later, by upholding an estate tax and a gift tax — that is, a tax on net worth. After the 16th Amendment, which declared an income tax constitutional, was ratified in 1913 as a response to Pollock, discussions of the constitutionality of taxes other than the head tax dropped off the Supreme Court docket.

With airports jammed with angry passengers, Republican senators blaming each other behind closed doors for the government shutdown, and President Trump’s poll numbers tanking, the writing was on the wall. Feeling pressure from his fellow Republicans to reopen the government, Trump announced Friday afternoon that a deal was reached for federal employees to come back to work as negotiations on border security are given a little more time. A week…

Video Jarrett: Roger Stone indictment doesn’t show Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ Roger Stone arrested by FBI in early morning raid; where were the raids for Hillary Clinton and others? Panel reaction on ‘Hannity.’ The indictment of President Trump’s former political adviser Roger Stone – who was arrested Friday on charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering – demonstrates yet again that there is no known evidence…

In any event, the court rejected Pollock only a few years later, by upholding an estate tax and a gift tax — that is, a tax on net worth. After the 16th Amendment, which declared an income tax constitutional, was ratified in 1913 as a response to Pollock, discussions of the constitutionality of taxes other than the head tax dropped off the Supreme Court docket.

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…

President Trump’s decision Thursday morning to surrender to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demand that he wait until after the government shutdown is resolved to deliver his State of the Union speech in the House chamber is going to make it a lot less likely that Pelosi, D-Calif., gives in on the funding for a border wall. Sure, in the larger scheme of things, this childish skirmish doesn’t matter much. No…

The Los Angeles Unified School District and the teachers union came to a tentative agreement Tuesday morning. Here are some of the elements included in the three-year contract, which union members were to vote on Tuesday afternoon:

Republicans are wisely considering a Senate rules change to speed confirmation of presidential nomination. But that move should be just the beginning of efforts to overcome unprecedented Democratic obstructionism. On almost every judicial nominee presented by President Trump, and also on many of his executive branch nominations, Democrats are demanding the clocking of the full 30 hours of allowable (post- cloture) debate even if they have no actual objection to…

In response to President Trump’s good-faith offer of a compromise to fully reopen the government, Democrats should stop playing puerile politics and instead play ball. The president’s position was a major compromise even before Saturday’s speech to the nation, while the Democrats’ position before the speech contradicted many of their own earlier positions. Trump long has said he wants to put a wall across the whole border with Mexico, a…

The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday in a 5-4 decision that they would allow the transgender military ban to go into effect while the lower courts continued to hammer out the issue. To be clear, they did not rule on the merits of the case (whether the president can and should transgender people from serving in the military) they just said that the ban could continue for now. In July…

After Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier dropped a questionably sourced article charging President Trump with directing his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project, the news cycle centered on examining the credibility of the piece. If special counsel Robert Mueller’s response is indeed accurate, then the BuzzFeed piece was yet another sham, and at least one anonymous source burned Cormier and Leopold, who…