Politics

Former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin Weighs In On McCabe's Claims

6:16pm February 18, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin about Andrew McCabe's comments that President Trump chooses to believe U.S. adversaries over his intelligence agencies.

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Trump Delivers Speech In Miami, Continuing Support For Venezuelan Opposition Leader

6:16pm February 18, 2019

by Greg Allen

President Trump will make the U.S. case for new leadership in Venezuela in a speech in Miami on Monday. The situation in Venezuela is an issue of growing political importance in Florida.

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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces changes to the state Medicaid program called Arkansas Works, including the addition of a work requirement for certain beneficiaries, on March 6, 2017.

In Arkansas, Thousands Of People Have Lost Medicaid Coverage Over New Work Rule

6:16pm February 18, 2019

by Jacqueline Froelich

The state now requires many of its Medicaid beneficiaries to work, go to school or volunteer in order to keep their health insurance. But more than 18,000 have come off the rolls.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Senate committees in April. But he hasn't appeared before British Parliament, despite its requests for him to do so.

Facebook Has Behaved Like 'Digital Gangsters,' U.K. Parliament Report Says

4:42pm February 18, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

"The age of inadequate self-regulation must come to an end," says Damian Collins, chair of the committee behind the report, which is often scathing on Facebook's practices and corporate conduct.

Politics & Government

Officials Describe 'Coordinated, Unlawful' Scheme In Disputed N.C. Election

4:32pm February 18, 2019

by Miles Parks

A key witness described how a political operative hired by the Republican candidate flouted the state's election laws as part of an absentee ballot operation.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has vowed to launch an investigation into whether officials at the Justice Department and the FBI were plotting a "bureaucratic coup" to oust President Trump.

Graham Vows To Investigate 'Administrative Coup' In FBI, Justice Department

4:24pm February 18, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CBS and NPR that officials had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, a procedure which takes power away from the president.

British politician Luciana Berger speaks Monday at a news conference to announce the formation of the Independent Group, as seven British members of Parliament quit the Labour Party because of its approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism.

7 Lawmakers Quit U.K. Labour Party Over Alleged Anti-Semitism And Brexit Approach

1:44pm February 18, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The seven politicians said that persisting anti-Semitism and leader Jeremy Corbyn's "complicit" role in Brexit led to their resignations. They say the party "has changed beyond recognition."

President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House on Friday to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border.

Trump Will 'Protect' Emergency Declaration If Congress Disapproves, Miller Says

11:33am February 18, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The president is prepared to veto any congressional resolutions of disapproval on his declaration of a national emergency over border security, White House adviser Stephen Miller says.

In this 2017 photo, former lawmaker Anthony Weiner leaves federal court following his sentencing in New York. The New York Democrat has been released from federal prison in Massachusetts.

Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner Finishes Prison Term

10:54am February 18, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The New York congressman was sentenced to 21 months after he sent an explicit photo of himself to a 15-year-old girl.

Politics & Government

Rep. Joe Courtney On Trump's Emergency Declaration

7:41am February 18, 2019

NPR's David Greene speaks with Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., about the legal options for Congress and states to counter President Trump's national emergency declaration.

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