WASHINGTON (Reuters) – He didn’t count on the women in white. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday was billed as his attempt to unify the country. But Democratic women lawmakers from the House of Representatives, many of them dressed elegantly in white to celebrate 100 years of women having the right […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stacey Abrams, who nearly became both the first African-American and first woman governor of Georgia, landed a few jabs against President Donald Trump after his State of the Union address while calling for an economic boost for working and middle-class Americans. Delivering the Democratic Party’s response to his State of the Union […]
Democratic women of the U.S. House of Representatives donned white at U.S. President Donald Trump‘s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. The white ensembles were a powerful tribute to the women’s suffrage movement, when activists wore the colour during demonstrations. It was a plan orchestrated by House Democratic Women’s Working Group chair Rep. Lois Frankel, […]
WASHINGTON — For public consumption, President Trump planned to use his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to appeal for bipartisan unity. But at a private lunch for television anchors earlier in the day he offered searing assessments of a host of Democrats. Mr. Trump dismissed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. […]
Watch Live Video and Analysis: The State of Union Our correspondents will provide real-time commentary and fact checks of the speech. Trump warns House Democrats: Don’t investigate me or my administration. After spending the first portion of his speech patting himself on the back for what he views as his administration’s accomplishments, including low unemployment, […]
Beto O’Rourke, the Texas Democrat whose near miss Senate bid last year catapulted him to national fame, said on Tuesday that he would decide by the end of February whether to run for president in 2020. In an interview in Times Square with Oprah Winfrey, who prodded him to join the race throughout their chat, […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly approved a Middle East policy bill on Tuesday that included both a rebuke to President Trump over his withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan and a contested measure to allow state and municipal governments to punish companies that boycott, divest from or place sanctions on Israel. The measure, which […]
A boy who was bullied for sharing a surname with Donald Trump has been invited to tonight’s State of the Union speech. Joshua Trump, an 11 year old from Wilmington Delaware was invited as the guest of First Lady Melania Trump . Critics noted that President Trump has frequently used bullying language and name-calling to […]
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat running for president, received a $300,000 book advance for her latest book, “This Fight is Our Fight,” according to financial disclosure forms filed with federal elections officials on Tuesday. Other than the book advance, the forms paint a similar picture of Ms. Warren’s finances as her previous publicly available […]
After losing out to New Brunswick in the race to hold the 2021 Francophonie Games and then seeing the winner withdraw last week, Sherbrooke, Que. is contemplating a pinch-hitting role. Sherbrooke Mayor Steve Lussier, who had initially ruled out filling in as host over concerns about the cost, announced at a meeting Monday night that […]