President Donald Trump voiced optimism that his Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska would be productive, but threatened economic consequences should the talks not go as planned. “It will be very severe,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “I’m not doing this for my health. OK? I don’t need it. I’d […]

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for stripping power from the District of Columbia’s police department.  The Justice Department on Thursday appointed an “emergency police commissioner” to oversee the Metropolitan Police Department amid President Donald Trump’s temporary federal takeover of the nation’s capital to reduce crime, […]

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) could lose his House seat to a GOP challenger due to bucking President Donald Trump’s agenda, according to internal Republican polling.  Massie, a fiscal conservative viewed as a GOP maverick, drew Trump’s ire earlier this year when he refused to back the president’s marquee “big, beautiful bill,” which was signed into […]

The former chief Democratic rival of President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, said she would nominate the president for the Nobel Peace Prize if he were able to end the Ukraine war. Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday. Expectations vary for the summit, but Trump is expected […]