Tag: Donald Trump

China’s Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in grand show of solidarity

By Laurie ChenBEIJING (Reuters) -President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security…

Flag burning incident near White House leads to arrest hours after Trump’s executive order

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities Monday arrested a man across the street from the White House after he set…

And now for something different, civility unfolds in a Missouri GOP congressman’s town hall

BOLIVAR, Missouri (AP) — One of the few Republican U.S. House members making in-person appearances embarked on a…

Maddow Blog | ‘Five alarm fire’: Trump attempts to fire Fed board member, inviting economic calamity

Donald Trump is attempting to violate the independence of the Federal Reserve Board by claiming the power to…

‘You are neither wanted here nor needed here’

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday railed against President Donald Trump for suggesting he would deploy federal forces…

Democracy expert reacts to Trump’s weaponization of DOJ

Former top official at the DOJ Andrew Weissmann, founder of Democracy Docket Marc Elias, and Senior Opinion Writer…

Judge halts Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Ábrego García for now

Kilmar Ábrego GarcĂ­a – who has been thrust into the middle of an acrimonious deportation saga by the…

National Guard troops begin carrying firearms in Washington

National Guard troops deployed to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., have begun carrying firearms in an escalation…

The doomsday political scenarios after Texas and California launch their warheads over redistricting

Shall we play a game?With California threatening to meet Texas in a nationwide redistricting fight, the possibility of…

Trump wants to prosecute flag burners. The Supreme Court has already said that’s illegal.

The late conservative icon Antonin Scalia said that if it were up to him, he would “put in…

Trump signs executive order establishing ‘specialized’ National Guard units to address crime in cities

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday tasking his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with establishing “specialized…

Maddow Blog | Trump on militarized cities: ‘A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we’d like a dictator’

A few days after Donald Trump began militarizing the nation’s capital, the president complained about his critics. “Already…