Vice President Mike Pence
made history
Tuesday
by breaking a tie in the Senate to confirm Betsy DeVos as U.S.
education secretary. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE Earlier:
The nail-biter is the unexpected first test of Democrats’ ability to
thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda, gathering momentum after two
Senate Republicans said they wouldn’t support DeVos, a longtime GOP
donor. The prospect of a 50-50 tie could make Pence the first vice
president
in U.S. history to cast a tie-breaking vote on a Cabinet post. ...
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A
new report claims a paper
that argued in favor of global warming was deliberately published close
to the UN's climate conference in Paris and contained unverified and
flawed
data. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
published the influential paper in question ahead of the 2015 Paris
meeting. A
high-level whistleblower told ... Read More |
If
you
want to see the difference between a federal judge who follows the rule
of law and a federal judge who ignores laws he doesn’t like in order to
reach a preferred public policy outcome, just compare the two district
court decisions issued in Washington state and Massachusetts over
President
Donald Trump’s immigration executive order. Contrary to the “travel
ban” label, the executive order temporarily suspended ... Read More |
The Trump administration followed through
on Friday
with a new round of sanctions on Iran, two days after National Security
Advisor Michael Flynn announced that it was “officially
putting Iran on notice” for a missile test and its hostile regional
policies. The sanctions were targeted at 13 individuals and 12 entities
for
their support for Iran’s ballistic missile program or for the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, which has been designated under an
executive order for providing material support to ...
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