WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed executive privilege Wednesday to refuse to hand over documents to opposition Democratic lawmakers investigating a question about citizenship on next year’s once-a-decade U.S. census. Trump’s action came just ahead of a scheduled vote by the House of Representatives Oversight Committee on whether to hold Attorney General William […]
WHITE HOUSE — White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, who has been one of President Donald Trump’s closest confidantes since before his election, is quitting. “Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years,” Trump said in a statement issued late Wednesday afternoon. “She is as smart and thoughtful as they […]
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office in connection with its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a Justice Department spokesman said Tuesday. The New York Times reports Sessions was interviewed for several hours as part of Mueller’s broader Russia probe and whether President Donald Trump […]
U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview Monday, asked why the Civil War, one of the country’s seminal events, occurred in the 19th century. The history of the bloodiest war on U.S. soil is taught to school children across the country, but Trump remarked, “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think […]