FactChecking Trump’s Medicare Op-Ed
By Robert Farley, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org In an op-ed for USA Today, President Donald Trump made a series of false and misleading statements about Medicare and health…
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UN ambassador Nikki Haley to resign
In an unexpected development, President Donald Trump’s U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, plans to resign, NBC News has confirmed. Haley informed her staff that she plans…
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, said she’d vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, all but assuring he’ll be approved.
Ms. Collins’ announcement, in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor that dwelled more on Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial record than on the sexual misconduct charges…
BREAKING: Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination advances to final vote – but key Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski votes ‘no’
The Senate narrowly voted to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday, 51 to 49. The success of this procedural motion, which…
The U.S. economy added 134,000 jobs in September, extending a record run of hiring to eight full years. The unemployment rate fell to 3.7%.
September was a milestone in the remarkable rebound that followed the fall of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago: eight straight years of monthly job growth….
BREAKING: After being briefed on FBI Kavanaugh report, Grassley says no new information, no corroboration for allegations
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the first senator to be briefed on the new FBI report into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court…
Think journalism’s a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age
Think journalism’s a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age An 1899 photograph of the pressroom of the Planet, a newspaper…
The White House told the F.B.I. to interview anyone it wants in the Kavanaugh inquiry after criticism of its scope. Agents must finish by Friday.
The new directive came in the past 24 hours after a backlash from Democrats, who criticized the White House for limiting the scope of the…
White House limits scope of the FBI’s investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh
The White House is limiting the scope of the FBI’s investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, multiple people briefed…
GOP asks White House to order FBI investigation of Kavanaugh
Senate Republicans announced Friday that they will ask the White House to order the FBI to investigate allegations made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh…