Several high-level Amazon executives including CEO Jeff Bezos pumped cash into Republican Sen. Cory Gardner’s campaign committee, a new third-quarter Federal Election Commission filing revealed. But the money isn’t to help the senator from Colorado in the Nov. 6 midterms. Gardner isn’t up for re-election until 2020. Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, each wrote checks Read More…
Don’t look now, but America’s first Trump-era midterm election could substantially expand Obamacare. That’s right, expand Obamacare – implausible as it sounds after the all-GOP government’s near miss on repealing the program and attempts to undermine it. Polls show Democratic calls for improved health insurance continue to resonate with big chunks of the electorate, and Read More…
Democrats have easily raised more cash than Republicans in dozens of key races as they try to take a House majority. If the party fails to flip enough seats to win control of the chamber on Nov. 6, Democrats are unlikely to point to a lack of money as the cause. Democrats have pulled in Read More…
President Donald Trump‘s national security advisor, John Bolton, told reporters Tuesday in Moscow that the Russian effort to interfere in America’s elections is “objectionable” and made it “impossible for two years” for the United States and Russia to make progress diplomatically. “That’s a loss, particularly for Russia,” said Bolton, after a 90-minute meeting with Russian Read More…
The U.S. on Tuesday joined foreign ministers of the G-7 economic powerhouse nations to condemn “in the strongest possible terms” the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. “Those responsible for the killing must be held to account,” the G-7 ministers said in a joint statement. “Saudi Arabia must put in Read More…
President Donald Trump would look forward to meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris on Nov. 11, National Security Advisor John Bolton said Tuesday. Both Trump and Putin already are planning to be in the French capital that day to mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. Bolton, speaking Read More…
World Wrestling Entertainment continues to say it is “monitoring” the growing scandal surrounding murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but has announced no plans to cancel or change its upcoming “Crown Jewel” pay-per-view event in Saudi Arabia. “We are currently monitoring the situation,” the WWE said at the time. That Oct. 11 statement came less than a Read More…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday repeated his unsubstantiated claim that Republicans plan to unveil a middle-class tax cut before the midterm elections a little over two weeks away. “We’re putting in a resolution some time in the next week and a half to two weeks [and] we’re giving a middle-income tax reduction of Read More…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Monday with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, despite the ongoing outrage over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. State television in Saudi Arabia said Mnuchin and bin Salman met at 2 p.m. in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh. Saudi’s foreign ministry, in Read More…
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Monday that Defense Secretary James Mattis is “completely aligned” with President Donald Trump’s seemingly abrupt announcement to pull the U.S. out of an arms control treaty with Russia. “The secretary of Defense has consistently said that Russia has not been in compliance with the treaty,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning Read More…
Jamal Khashoggi’s killing has unleashed waves of criticism against Saudi Arabia’s ruling family and has drawn fresh attention to the kingdom’s vice grip on the press. But even as Turkish officials, who blew the whistle on the journalist’s death, pass gruesome allegations on to independent news outlets, experts say the government of President Recep Tayyip Read More…
An alleged Saudi plot to cover up the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi went awry after a suspected Khashoggi “body double” wore the wrong shoes, a diplomat familiar with the matter told The Washington Post, according to an article published Monday. The report came shortly after CNN published footage that appeared to show a Read More…
Chinese government leaders have a message for American investors: They’re not afraid of a trade war with the United States. On Monday in Beijing, Zhang Qingli, a leading member of a Chinese committee tasked with forging alliances with other nations, told a small group of U.S. business leaders, lobbyists and public relations executives that China Read More…
Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner on Monday sought to play down growing tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that the Trump administration is still “more of a fact finding phase” than a response phase. “With regards to the situation in Saudi Arabia, I would say Read More…
Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke just raised more money in three months than any Senate candidate ever has. But even his unprecedented cash haul may not get him past Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in red Texas. The GOP incumbent has a comfortable — but smaller than expected — lead in recent polls as President Donald Trump Read More…
With just two weeks until Election Day, California Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is sharply ahead in the polls to become the governor of the nation’s most populous state. He also has almost 10 times more cash on hand than John Cox, a Republican challenger who is struggling to get his message across to voters. Read More…
President Donald Trump called Saudi Arabia’s announcement of arrests in the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi a “good first step.” Yet, he added that considers what happened to the writer to be “unacceptable.” The president also said he would work with Congress on the matter, but that he would prefer not to hurt Read More…
Missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead, Saudi Arabia’s general prosecutor said early Saturday morning local time. The government said that Khashoggi got into a fight with the people he met at the consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2. The kingdom alleged that Khashoggi died in that clash. @alekhbariyatv: عاجل | النائب العام: المناقشات التي Read More…
President Donald Trump tried to stoke fears of socialism Friday as he bashed Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat pushing to upset Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in red Texas. Ahead of his Monday visit to Houston, Trump called the 46-year-old representative a “total lightweight compared to Ted Cruz” who “comes nowhere near representing the values and Read More…
A Russian woman has been charged with trying to interfere and “sow discord” in the American political system, including in the 2018 midterm elections as part of a conspiracy that exploited thousands of social media accounts and emails that claimed to be owned by U.S. residents, authorities said. Elena Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg, Russia, is Read More…