President Trump has signed a waiver to keep the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv, the White House announced Thursday, backing off from a campaign pledge to move it to Jerusalem. White House officials have described the decision as a delay in Mr. Trump’s plans to move the embassy, which likely would provoke Palestinian […]
CHICAGO — J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire businessman with political ambitions, told Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich he was “really not that interested” in the U.S. Senate seat the governor was dealing in late 2008. Instead, Pritzker offered his own idea: Would Blagojevich make him Illinois treasurer? Phone calls secretly recorded by federal agents — never before
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USAWASHINGTON — The special counsel investigating possible links between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign has cleared former FBI Director James Comey to testify before a congressional committees about his contacts with President Donald Trump, according to an associate close to Comey. Comey met with Robert S. Mueller III, whom the Justice Department appointed on
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden is launching a new political action committee, a platform that will allow him to provide help to favored candidates and, inevitably, boost speculation about a possible run for the Democratic nomination in 2020. The organization, which Biden is calling American Possibilities, will be staffed by a former top
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USABALTIMORE—Ben Jealous announced his campaign for Maryland governor in Baltimore Wednesday, touting his ties to the city and his experience as a community organizer. Jealous, a Democrat and former head of the NAACP, pitched himself as a progressive devoted to aggressively implementing a broad agenda of civil rights, social justice and economic reform. “It is
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USAWASHINGTON—The majority of calls into Rep. Lou Correa’s Orange County, Calif., congressional office are about immigration worries and what the Trump administration’s enforcement policies mean for Correa’s many Latino constituents. “There’s a lot of fear in my district.” he said. So the freshman Democrat has held seven town halls, all focused on immigration and explaining
WASHINGTON — The beleaguered head of the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday appeared to have launched an investigation of his own, this one into allegations that senior Obama administration officials improperly “unmasked” the identities of Trump associates captured communicating with foreign officials. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the committee, created a stir in March
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International, USARANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that she has no plans to run for office again, but she plans to remain involved in civic life, particularly helping the Democrats’ efforts to regain control of the House in 2018. “I’m not going anywhere,” Clinton said at the annual Code Conference in the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky American media and officials are at full steam about secret or back channel talks between Trump personnel and Russian officials, both during the campaign and after the inauguration. One major appointee, Michael Flynn, who served briefly as the President’s national security adviser, has already paid with his appointment and may pay more
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Middle East, USABerlin (dpa) – US Senator Bernie Sanders has slammed President Donald Trump for his disparaging remarks about Germany, saying that publicly attacking Chancellor Angela Merkel was “unacceptable.” “To insult Germany, a long-standing ally, is something that many of us feel very uncomfortable with,” Sanders said in a dpa interview conducted ahead of his German book
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International, USAFormer high school teacher and accused kidnapper Tad Cummins pleaded not guilty to federal charges Friday. Cummins had previously been indicted on charges of transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in criminal sexual conduct and obstruction of justice in the kidnapping case of Elizabeth Thomas. Cummins was scheduled to be
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USAA high-ranking State Department official appeared to become flustered Tuesday after he was questioned about the U.S.’ support for Saudi Arabia, despite the oil-rich kingdom’s rejection of democratic ideals. Stuart Jones, who was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq by former President Barack Obama in 2014 before assuming the title of assistant secretary of state
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Middle East, USAAfter just three months on the job and following rumors of a major White House shake-up Trump’s communications director, Mike Dubke, has quit. Dubke gave his resignation on May 18, according to a senior Trump administration official who spoke with Axios’s Mike Allen. It came ahead of Trump’s first foreign trip last week, but Dubke
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USAAfter facing intense backlash over the gory picture showing her holding a decapitated photo of President Donald Trump in her hand, Kathy Griffin has issued a video apology Tuesday to those whose sentiments have been hurt by her action. She has also deleted the controversial picture. However, Griffin seems to have posted the apology following
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