Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates has quietly added a prominent white-collar attorney, Tom Green, to his defense team, signaling that Gates’ approach to his not-guilty plea could be changing behind the scenes. Green, a well-known Washington defense lawyer, was seen at special counsel Robert Mueller’s office twice last week. CNN is told by a…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not be in attendance at President Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday. Ginsburg is scheduled to be at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island for her speaking tour on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. While Ginsburg has been critical of Trump in the past,…
President Trump will give his next State of the Union speech on Jan. 30 and this year’s theme is “building a safe, strong, and proud America,” according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters about the speech. It will focus on 5 topics: Jobs/the economy, infrastructure, trade, immigration and national security. The administration official…
A 4% decrease in international travelers to the U.S. has resulted in a 3.3% drop in travel spending since President Trump took office, reported NBC News. Be smart: Travel to the U.S. actually started to decrease in 2016, before Trump’s presidency. The gradual decline could be travel rates adjusting after the unprecedented rate of travel…
The Koch network will spend 60% more on the 2018 cycle than it did on the 2016 presidential election, the largest midterm investment it’s ever had, Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity told reporters Saturday. This includes up to $20 million on “communicating the benefits of tax reform,” along with other policy and politics efforts.…
A decade after the world descended into a devastating economic crisis, a key marker of revival has finally been achieved. Every major economy on earth is expanding at once, a synchronous wave of growth that is creating jobs, lifting fortunes and tempering fears of popular discontent. No tidy, all-encompassing narrative explains how the world has…
On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Trump made clear his desire: Release the memo. Trump’s directive was at odds with his own Justice Department, which had warned that releasing the classified memo written by congressional Republicans would be “extraordinarily…
The University of Michigan will continue to consider a request from representatives of white supremacist Richard Spencer to rent space to speak on the Ann Arbor campus, but no potential dates are being considered before the end of the academic year. The traditional academic year concludes with spring commencement April 28. University officials said the…
The Trump administration’s stated economic-policy objective is to increase growth in the United States from the post-financial-crisis rate of around 2% to at least 3%. In historical terms, achieving such growth is not out of the question. Real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth exceeded 3% in 2005-2006 and 4% in the period from 1997 to 2000; and…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is turning the Senate toward a fight over abortion next week. McConnell moved to bring up a 20-week abortion ban, paving the way for a procedural vote expected on Monday. “Now Congress has an opportunity to take a step forward. … I’m pleased to have filed cloture on this…