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Trump Awards Highest Honor to 'True Legend' Tiger Woods

He's the youngest golfer to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

(Newser) - President Trump awarded golfer Tiger Woods the nation's highest civilian honor on Monday, describing the 43-year-old as a "true legend" who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport's summit. Trump awarded Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He's...

Only Trump's Office Prevented Charges: Former Prosecutors

Hundreds sign letter disagreeing with Barr

(Newser) - Attorney General William Barr said there isn't the evidence to charge President Trump with a crime. Hundreds of former federal prosecutors disagree. They've signed a letter saying that the findings of Robert Mueller's investigation would have resulted in charges against anybody who wasn't president, the Washington ...

Trump Retweets Call to Extend His Term

He says 2 years of term were 'stollen'

(Newser) - Article Two of the United States Constitution states that the president "shall hold his office during the term of four years"—but President Trump is apparently interested in making an exception. On Sunday, the president retweeted Jerry Falwell Jr.'s call for "reparations" for the Russia...

Trump Threatens China
Trump Threatens China
May 5, 2019 5:30 PM CDT

Trump Threatens China

China talks are slated to resume in Washington this week

(Newser) - President Trump turned up the pressure on China on Sunday, threatening to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, the AP reports. Trump's comments, delivered on Twitter, came as a Chinese delegation was scheduled to resume talks in Washington on Wednesday aimed at resolving a trade war...

Trump Changes His Mind on Mueller

The president says he shouldn't be allowed to testify

(Newser) - President Donald Trump said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify before Congress, abandoning his previous declaration that he would leave that decision to his attorney general, the AP reports. Escalating tensions with House Democrats as they seek to bring Mueller before the House Judiciary Committee, Trump tweeted...

Trump Annoys Immigrant-Labor Critics With Latest Move

The White House supports move to loosen H-2B visa restrictions

(Newser) - In one border battle, the restriction side has lost. President Trump is moving ahead with a plan to let 30,000 extra seasonal workers come back to America this summer, the Wall Street Journal reports. The US usually allows 66,000 H-2B visa workers to enter annually (33,000 in...

Biden to Trump: Here's Your Nickname

The presidential candidate is willing to get 'muddy'

(Newser) - Looks like Joe Biden can sling a little mud of his own. Speaking at private South Carolina fundraiser Saturday, the presidential candidate was asked if he planned to retaliate against President Trump's insults. "There's so many nicknames I’m inclined to give this guy," said Biden...

Pelosi Reveals Her 2020 Fear
Pelosi Reveals Her 2020 Fear
May 5, 2019 12:35 PM CDT

Pelosi Reveals Her 2020 Fear

The House speaker talks Trump, impeachment, and elections

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi doesn't just want President Trump to lose in 2020—she wants him to lose big enough that he can't challenge the outcome. "We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that," she tells the New York Times . Similar thinking consumed...

Trump Taps 'True Believer' to Head ICE

Trump says Mark Morgan 'will do a great job!'

(Newser) - President Donald Trump is tapping a former border patrol chief who served in the Obama administration to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the AP reports. Trump tweets that Mark Morgan "will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE."...

Trump Calls Derby Decision 'Political Correctness'

Best horse didn't win, president's tweet says

(Newser) - "The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby," President Trump tweeted Sunday in criticizing the decision to disqualify the apparent winner, the Washington Post reports. Country House was declared the official winner after Maximum Security was disqualified for impeding other horses. "It was a rough and...

For Trump, It's Obviously #1. Others Predict Disaster

The economy looks great, but some see a recession coming

(Newser) - Record job growth. Historic low unemployment. Rising wages. Even the Washington Post —hardly President Trump's biggest backer—is breathless over the US economy, but some experts are wondering whether the party can last. First, the good news: Employers tacked on 263,000 new jobs in April and US...

Talk of 'Jail on Capitol Hill' as Democrats Fight Trump

Dems mull their options as Trumps blocks investigations

(Newser) - They're talking about jailing people at the Capitol. Imposing steep fines. All sorts of extraordinary, if long-shot measures to force the White House to comply with Democratic lawmakers' request for information about President Trump stemming from the special counsel's Russia investigation, the AP reports. This is the remarkable...

Big Part of Trump's Friday: A Phone Call With Putin

They talk about the Mueller report, Venezuela, and trade

(Newser) - President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spent more than an hour on the phone Friday conferring about various international issues—and also, Robert Mueller's investigation. "We discussed Trade, Venezuela, Ukraine, North Korea, Nuclear Arms Control and even the 'Russian Hoax,'" Trump tweeted . "Very...

Trump: NYT Report Shows This Is 'Bigger Than Watergate'

'But in reverse,' he adds, referring to report of undercover FBI investigator

(Newser) - President Trump doesn't often have good things to say about the New York Times, but on Friday he liked what he read in the newspaper. In a tweet , Trump called attention to a report saying that the FBI had sent an undercover agent to meet with a Trump campaign...

Hillary Clinton Flips a Famous Trump Suggestion Around

'China, if you're listening, why don't you get Trump's tax returns?'

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton uttered a few lines Wednesday night that will sound familiar to anyone who followed the 2016 race. "China, if you're listening, why don't you get Trump's tax returns?" Clinton said on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show. "I'm sure our media would richly...

'I Didn't Exonerate': Barr Goes Before the Senate

Attorney general appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee

(Newser) - Into the lion's den. Attorney General William Barr is now appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in what is the first time he is facing lawmakers' questions since he released the Mueller report. A couple hours in, the AP reports that "private tensions between Justice Department leaders and...

Watchdog: Americans 'Don't Know What's Going On' in Afghanistan

US military no longer releasing district control data

(Newser) - Amid a battlefield stalemate in Afghanistan, the US military has stopped releasing information often cited to measure progress in America's longest war, calling it of little value in fighting the Taliban insurgency, reports the AP . A government watchdog agency that monitors the US war effort, now in its 18th...

Trump's Predawn Tweetstorm Spurred by Biden Endorsement

'I've done more for Firefighters than this dues sucking union will ever do'

(Newser) - At least one poll has Joe Biden as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, and he's starting to acquire some endorsements. One in particular appears to have riled President Trump, who fired off a predawn tweetstorm Monday addressing it. The International Association of Fire Fighters gave Biden its nod...

Trump, Schumer, Pelosi Agree on a Number: $2T

That's how much they want to spend on infrastructure

(Newser) - We have a figure: After a 90-minute meeting with President Trump on Tuesday, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi said they collectively agreed to spend $2 trillion repairing America's crumbling infrastructure. That may have been the easy part. What they did not agree on is where the money would come...

Trump Sues Banks to Keep Records Private

President, family say House Democrats are abusing their power

(Newser) - President Trump's fight to keep his business records private is increasingly moving to the courts. On Monday, the president and his three oldest children sued two banks—Deutsche Bank and Capital One—to prevent them from turning over details of the Trump Organization to House Democrats, reports USA Today ...

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