Author: Jill Colvin
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Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to help protect border
WASHINGTON • A week out from the midterm elections, the Pentagon said Monday that it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the southwest border this week in an extraordinary military operation to stop Central American migrants traveling north in two caravans that were still hundreds of miles from the U.S. The number of troops…
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Trump plans to send troops to border
WASHINGTON • The Trump administraton is planning to dispatch 800 or more active duty troops to the southern border at the direction of a president who has sought to transform fears about immigration into electoral gains in the midterms as a caravan of thousands of migrants makes its way through Mexico. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis…
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‘Mr. Kurd,’ #MeToo: Highlights from Trump news conference
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — He rarely holds formal news conferences. But when he does, President Donald Trump lets ‘er rip. For more than an hour and 20 minutes Wednesday, Trump held court with reporters in a sweltering hotel ballroom in New York City, where he’s been attending…
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Trump signs $716B defense bill; 2.6 percent pay raise for servicemen
FORT DRUM, N.Y. • President Donald Trump on Monday signed a $716 billion defense policy bill named for John McCain but included no mention in his remarks of the Republican senator, who is battling brain cancer at home in Arizona. Trump and McCain are engaged in a long-running feud that dates to Trump’s 2016 presidential…
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Trump signs bill named for Sen. McCain, doesn’t mention him
FORT DRUM, N.Y. — President Donald Trump has signed a $716 billion defense policy bill named for John McCain after delivering remarks that failed to mention the ailing senator. The measure Trump signed Monday at New York’s Fort Drum will boost military pay by 2.6 percent, the largest hike in nine years. The bill weakens…
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White House bars CNN correspondent from open press event
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — A CNN correspondent said she was barred from attending an open press event at the White House on Wednesday because of questions she asked President Donald Trump earlier in the day. Kaitlan Collins and her employer, CNN, say the White House denied Collins…
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Trump responds to attack on Maryland newspaper
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the press as “the enemy of the American people,” said Friday journalists “should be free from the fear of being violently attacked,” as he addressed the deadly shooting at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. Trump said…
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Family separation policy starts dividing Republicans
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans and their allies as Democrats turn up the pressure. Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy “cruel”…
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‘It’s about time’: Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction. “I am taking this very righteous step, I believe, to correct a wrong that occurred in our history and to honor…
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Trump to deny funds to clinics that refer for abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, or sharing space with abortion providers. The Department of Health and Human Services will announce its proposal Friday, a senior White House official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because…