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Some Democrats to boycott Trump State of the Union for rally

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A group of liberal U.S. lawmakers will abandon President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday for an outdoor rally to protest his policies, marking a rare coordinated boycott as partisan tensions around the annual ...
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Fed minutes downplay impact of Trump mortgage buying on housing affordability 

By Michael S. Derby Feb 18 (Reuters) - An effort launched by the Trump administration to improve home borrowing costs is not coming to much so far, meeting minutes from the Federal Reserve's January 27-28 meeting, released on Wednesday, said. The minutes, describing a briefing by ...
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Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential run inspired generations to carry his message

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals. "If I can become president," said Jackson, who grew up poor and Black in segregated South ...
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More renderings of Trump’s planned White House East Wing ballroom submitted to fine arts panel ahead of meeting

(WASHINGTON) -- More renderings of President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom were made available in a 31-page report submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts, which is set to meet on Thursday.The report showed the proposed 90,000-square-foot addition in the location of the ...
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Americans believe Epstein files show the powerful get a pass, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Americans believe that wealthy and powerful people are rarely held accountable, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found after the release of millions of records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's connections in elite U.S. business and ...
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Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom become adversaries over push to tax California billionaires

LOS ANGELES (AP) - As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall's midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party's leading figures into adversaries just when Democrats can least afford ...
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A ‘clown’ who wouldn’t go away: Inside Obama’s team’s blind spot on Trump

For eight years, President Barack Obama's aides marveled that no amount of mockery, dismissal or scandal could make Donald Trump go away. Their bewilderment is threaded through hundreds of interviews with administration officials released Tuesday in a far-reaching oral history of the Obama presidency. ...
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US lawmaker Fine criticized by rights advocates, Democrats after anti-Muslim remarks

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Rights advocates and multiple Democrats on Tuesday condemned anti-Muslim comments by Republican U.S. Representative Randy Fine who said on Sunday that "the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one." Fine, whose comments against Muslims have ...
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Police arrest man who ran toward the US Capitol building holding a shotgun

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., arrested an 18-year-old man Tuesday after he ran from his vehicle toward the west side of the Capitol Building armed with a shotgun. Capital Police Chief Michael Sullivan said the man, identified as Carter Camacho ...
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New subpoenas issued in inquiry on response to 2016 Russian election interference

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has issued new subpoenas in a Florida-based investigation into the U.S. government's response to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. An initial wave of subpoenas in November asked recipients ...
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Minnesota’s Legislature braces for a federal immigration fight as the enforcement surge winds down

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Democrats hope to rein in the power of federal immigration officers in Minnesota as the state's legislative session gets underway Tuesday, while Republicans will focus on combatting fraud in taxpayer-funded programs that President Donald Trump cited to justify the ...
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Trump announces energy, critical mineral projects in Texas, Ohio, Georgia

Feb 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced three projects to be built in the states of Texas, Ohio, and Georgia. The projects include a gas power plant in Ohio, an oil and gas project in Texas, and a critical minerals facility ...
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