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Bush quietly boosting Republicans in places where Trump isn't strong
Former President George W. Bush is quietly helping boost Republican candidates in places where President Donald Trump has struggled. In so doing, the former two-term president is raising his profile, ever so slightly, in the national politics he eschewed for years. On Wednesday, Bush held ...
Dispute over releasing documents dominates Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation tumbled into highly charged arguing Thursday over whether key documents were being withheld, and one Democrat risked Senate discipline by releasing confidential material. A newly disclosed email revealed that President Donald Trump's pick once suggested Roe v. Wade ...
Democrats blast Trump move to withhold 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh's records
Senate Democrats criticized the withholding of documents ahead of Tuesday's start of confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, even as a top Republican predicted he would be approved by a healthy margin. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York ...
Two presidents honor McCain at funeral as Trump heads to golf club
Two former U.S. presidents from opposing parties united Saturday to honor the late Sen. John McCain, in a momentous funeral that championed his aspirations of political comity but also rebuked the tribalism and division trafficked by Donald Trump. As millions tuned in to the nationally ...
For McCain, a cross-country farewell from public, presidents
Two former presidents are expected to speak at Sen. John McCain's service and he will lie in state in both the nation's capital and Arizona as part of a cross-country funeral procession ending with his burial at the U.S. Naval Academy, according to plans ...
McCain funeral speakers expected to include Bush and Obama; tributes continue to pour in
Presidents past and present joined members of Congress from both parties and world leaders in mourning Sen. John McCain and praising him for a lifetime of service and accomplishments. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who blocked the Arizona Republican's own White House ...
Democrats vow to sue if they don't get documents on Trump top court pick Brett Kavanaugh
Senate Democrats said Thursday they will file a federal lawsuit next month if government agencies deny their requests for documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's days as an aide to President George W. Bush. The threat represents Democrats' latest attempt to focus the public ...
In failing health, former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush, 92, declines further treatment
Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment, a Bush family spokesman said. "Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Bush, now aged 92, has decided not to seek additional medical ...
Pentagon issues denial after U.N. rights investigator says torture persists at Guantanamo Bay
An independent U.N. human rights investigator said on Wednesday that he had information about an inmate being tortured at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention facility, despite Washington banning "enhanced interrogation techniques" almost 10 years ago. The U.S. Department of Defense denied the allegation, saying there ...
Neither George Bush voted for Trump, book author tells New York Times
George Bush and his son George W. Bush did not vote for fellow Republican Donald Trump last year, says the author of a new book on the 41st and 43rd U.S. presidents in which they open up about their disapproval of the man now ...
Despite claims to the contrary, Trump has not called all bereaved military families
President Donald Trump has pulled bereaved military families into a painful political fight of his own making, going so far Tuesday as to cite the death of his chief of staff's son in Afghanistan to question whether Barack Obama and other presidents did enough ...
