There are growing calls for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel a number of planned in-person holiday events amid record-breaking daily Covid-19 case counts across the United States. Public health experts have begged individuals to stay at home to stop the surge of the deadly disease, but as CNN and other outlets reported this…… MORE
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While Trump rants about votes, none of his election security officials support him
President Donald Trump is increasingly isolated in his claims of election fraud as a growing number of senior administration officials are either directly contradicting his baseless allegations or refusing to echo them. As the President continues to deny the reality that he lost, his head of intelligence now says that Trump’s claims of voter fraud,…… MORE
Trump administration must accept new DACA applications, judge orders
The Trump administration must post a public notice that it will accept new applications for the Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, a federal judge ordered Friday. Judge Nicholas Garaufis’ latest order builds on his November ruling where he found that Chad Wolf was not legally serving…… MORE
Trump orders a near total withdrawal of US troops from Somalia
President Donald Trump has ordered the majority of US troops to leave Somalia “by early 2021,” in just the latest major military policy decision being taken in the final days of the Trump administration. “The President of the United States has ordered the Department of Defense and the United States Africa Command to reposition the…… MORE
Presidential pardon investigation involves Kushner lawyer and GOP lobbyist, sources say
The Justice Department bribery-for-a-presidential-pardon investigation, which became public this week, involves the past efforts of well-connected Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and Republican lobbyist and fundraiser Elliott Broidy in the early days of the Trump White House, sources tell CNN. The effort in 2017 — which appears to have begun before Lowell become lawyer to Jared…… MORE
White House exodus begins even as Trump continues to baselessly claim victory
White House staffers at all levels are plotting their departures as a growing number of aides to President Donald Trump are abandoning his quest to overturn the 2020 election results — some in frustration with the building they are leaving behind. Multiple sources inside and outside the White House cited a variety of reasons for…… MORE
Pelosi defiant over handling of stimulus: Rejecting previous Republican proposals was ‘not a mistake’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday stood by the way she has handled the stimulus negotiations, telling reporters during her weekly news conference that both she and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agree Covid-19 relief should be tied to the government funding bill facing a December 11 deadline. When asked by CNN’s Manu Raju if…… MORE
How Trump raised massive amounts of money after the election and other takeaways from campaign filings
President Donald Trump raised staggering amounts after losing the White House. Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson kept donating in the election’s waning days, and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham set a new fundraising high water mark for Senate incumbents. Here are five takeaways from this week’s campaign finance filings: Team Trump lost the White House but…… MORE
Trump’s criticism of GOP Senate candidates has Republicans worried ahead of rally
President Donald Trump heads to Georgia on Saturday to campaign for two Republican senators one month ahead of a critical runoff that will determine which party controls the Senate. But Trump’s visit comes as he has spent the last several weeks consumed by his own election loss while attacking party officials in the state, casting…… MORE
Supreme Court agrees to consider Medicaid work requirements
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether the Trump administration can allow states to impose work requirements in their Medicaid programs. The administration had asked the justices in July to reinstate its historic approvals of state work requirements waivers, which it argues may assist certain beneficiaries in transitioning to private policies and may lead…… MORE
