Politics

U.S. president reverses course on many campaign promises

The president said his experience as a community organizer in Chicago gave him the foundation for his subsequent political career.

While Hitler is believed not to have used chemical weapons on the battlefield, the Nazis used cyanide-based Zyklon B and other types of poison to kill Jews in gas chambers at concentration camps.

Trump is said to have implored his staff to resolve their differences.

Eric Trump added during his own interview that he, too, felt the Syrian attack was "horrible."

Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on the battlefield, but used them as a tool of mass murder against his own civilian population, killing millions of Jews, gypsies, gay people, communists and other political prisoners using zyklon B and other poisonous gases.

Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate, 54-45, on Friday after a contentious few days, during which Democrats blocked consideration of his nomination by using the minority party's power to filibuster. Republicans got around the roadblock by changing the Senate's rules to eliminate the 60-vote threshold needed to bring high court nominations to the floor.

On Thursday night, Trump laid out conventional U.S. rationales for unilateral military action in a way that suggests he does not see a need for formal authority from Congress.

The 54-45 vote confirming Gorsuch to the high court ends the more than year-long vacancy on the Supreme Court since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death.

Republicans just changed Senate rules using the so-called "nuclear option" to push an up-or-down vote on Neil Gorsuch, after Democrats pulled off the first-ever partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee

Dunford, are again considered “regular attendees” of the principals committee

Senate Democrats secured the votes Monday to block President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, a short-lived victory as Republicans vowed to change the rules to put Neil Gorsuch on the high court and score a much-needed win for their party. (April 3) AP

If the 60 votes aren't there

THE White House released financial disclosures for many of its senior officials Friday — a group of some of the wealthiest people ever to join a presidential administration.

Russia tried to hijack the US democratic process, says a senator investigating alleged interference in the US election.

A late-night deal has been reached in North Carolina to repeal a controversial law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order intended to shift the direction of U.S. environmental policy and begin the process of undoing some of the most significant Obama-era environmental regulations