WASHINGTON — The U.S. is issuing an emergency order Wednesday grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft "effective immediately," in the wake of the crash of an Ethiopian Airliner that killed 157 people, President Donald Trump said. Many nations had already barred the Boeing 737 Max 8...
Impeach Trump? It’s ‘Just Not Worth It,’ Says Pelosi.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting a high bar for impeachment of President Donald Trump, saying he is "just not worth it" even as some on her left flank clamor to start proceedings. Pelosi said in an interview with The Washington Post that "I'm not for impeachment" of...
New York Attorney Probing Trump Business Deals
NEW YORK — New York's attorney general has opened a civil investigation into President Donald Trump's business dealings, taking action after his former lawyer told Congress he exaggerated his wealth to obtain loans. A person familiar with the inquiry said Attorney General Letitia James issued subpoenas Monday to Deutsche Bank...
These Are America’s Friends? CNN’s Zakaria Digs into Saudi Arabia.
"Saudi Arabia's story is intertwined with ours: The closest ally of this strange desert kingdom has been America, the world's most open democracy," says Fareed Zakaria, the CNN global affairs host and Washington Post columnist. "Why?" Zakaria explores the many answers to that question in the one-hour special "Saudi Arabia: Kingdom...
Capitalism Versus the Democratic Party
John Hickenlooper ought to be a poster child for American capitalism. After being laid off from his job as a geologist during the oil bust of the 1980s, he and his business partners turned an empty warehouse into a thriving brewery. It launched his political career, first as a problem-solving...
Trump’s Record $4.7 Trillion Budget Relies on Strong Growth
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed a record $4.7 trillion federal budget for 2020 on Monday, relying on optimistic 3.1 percent economic growth projections alongside accounting shuffles and steep domestic cuts to bring future spending into promised balance in 15 years. The deficit is projected to hit $1.1 trillion in...
Powell Says Trump’s Attacks Played No Role in Rate Pause
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says political attacks by President Donald Trump played no role in the Fed's decision in January to signal that it planned to take a pause in hiking interest rates. He also said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he can't be fired by...
Ex-Trump Campaign Boss Manafort Sentenced to 47 Months
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, a significant break from sentencing guidelines that called for a 20-year prison term. Manafort, sitting in a wheelchair as he...
Cutting Through the Fake News About ‘Ballot Harvesting’
As the chair of the California Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, I am both disheartened and angry at President Trump’s ongoing lies about the nonexistent, massive voter fraud he claims to have occurred in California. I am equally frustrated to hear pundits and partisans depicting efforts to eliminate...
In a Blow to Trump, America’s Trade Deficit Hit Record $891 Billion
By Jim Tankersley and Ana Swanson WASHINGTON — America’s trade deficit with the rest of the world rose to its highest level in history last year as the United States imported more goods than ever, including a record amount from China, ballooning the deficit to $891.3 billion and delivering a setback...