Category Archives: Political News
Pelosi claims Afghanistan trip cancelled over security risks
18 JAN 19 10:18 ET By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office says she was forced to nix her Afghanistan trip after after President Donald Trump barred her from using a...
Jan 18, 2019
Giuliani changes his defense of Trump (again)
[van id=”politics/2019/01/17/russia-collusion-trump-administration-shift-tapper-lead-sot-vpx.cnn”] CNN’s Jake Tapper breaks down the Trump administration’s shifting responses t...
Jan 17, 2019
90 (and counting) very real direct effects of the partial government shutdown
16 JAN 19 10:40 ET By Z. Byron Wolf, Veronica Stracqualursi and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Here is a list from CNN reporting and other news outlets of the ways, large and small, that the partial go...
Jan 16, 2019
Pelosi asks Trump to move State of the Union address
16 JAN 19 10:26 ET By Lauren Fox, Alex Rogers and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking to move the day of the State o...
Jan 16, 2019
Theresa May’s Historic Brexit Defeat
[van id=”world/2019/01/15/theresa-may-brexit-defeat.cnn”] UK Prime Minister Theresa May postponed the Brexit vote once before, but after 8 days of fractious debate, there was no avoiding i...
Jan 15, 2019
DC Focuses On Rep. King’s Racist Comments During Shutdown
[van id=”van/ns-acc/2019/01/15/PO-129TU_CNNA-ST1-1000000004f946d2″] Lawmakers focus on Rep. King as crippling shutdown drags on.
Jan 15, 2019
L.A. Teachers Strike For First Time in 30 Years
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The teachers of the Los Angeles Unified SchoolDistrict pledged to go ahead with the first teachers strike in Los Angeles in30 years today, while administrators vowed to keep ...
Jan 14, 2019
Trump: I never worked for Russia
President Trump said definitively he never worked for Russia after offering a non-denial when questioned about an FBI investigation into whether he was working with Moscow. [van id=”politics/201...
Jan 14, 2019
Michael Bloomberg: Government shutdown a failure of ‘presidential leadership’
11 JAN 19 15:19 ET By Sophie Tatum, CNN (CNN) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is weighing a 2020 presidential bid, blamed President Donald Trump on Friday for the government ...
Jan 11, 2019
Kamala Harris says she’ll decide on 2020 soon, chides Trump on shutdown
11 JAN 19 09:01 ET By Maeve Reston, CNN (CNN) — California Sen. Kamala Harris called the shutdown of the federal government a “crisis of the President’s own making” in an inter...
Jan 11, 2019