The White House ballroom’s donor list contains heavyweights in the tech, financial and defense sectors, including Google, Comcast and Lockheed Martin.
President Donald Trump discussed immigration raids, Venezuela and the government shutdown in a wide-ranging interview on the CBS show.
As Trump pushes for a more Republican-friendly House map, more than half a dozen states are potential targets for mid-decade tweaks to congressional boundaries.
GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli hopes for improved Black and Latino support against Democratic rival Mikie Sherrill.
The American people also don’t seem to know quite what to make of the criminal cases against two of Trump’s perceived opponents.
The rivals see political benefit to the attacks, which could also define New York for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term in office.
In addition to his accumulation of political power, Trump has embraced visual cues designed to project personal command and grandeur.
Trump flipped Passaic County in New Jersey last year. Now Democrats hope to capitalize on backlash to his administration in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election.
After the president called for resuming nuclear testing “immediately,” the official said the administration is planning only system tests.
Nonprofit groups plan to work extra hours to get food out to vulnerable residents, and local community members are also stepping up.
The justices will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of most of the president’s tariffs — the first in a series of tests of sweeping claims of authority.
But the tactic seems less effective this time around: “They’re falling into the fundamental mistake of trying to refight the last war,” a Democratic strategist asserts.
The renewed focus on 2020 comes as Trump has begun to see results from his demands to prosecute his critics, including former FBI director James B. Comey.
In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.
When British forces under Benedict Arnold sailed up the James River to invade Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, then Governor, hesitated and then fled. Years later he returned to power and became president.
Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the British.
Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, notwithstanding his own record of enslavement. They are now seen as a testament to humanity that have changed America and the world.
In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a document that instead helped set America on the path to independence.
Jefferson saw independence as a fight for liberty — and for access to the western lands that promised power and profit.