Politics

The State Department says Heather Nauert, picked by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations but never officially nominated, has withdrawn. Nauert, State Department spokeswoman, said that "the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration." She … [Read more...] about State Department: Nauert Out as Pick for UN Ambassador

An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 headcount could be reconstructed from encrypted data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday. The age, gender, location, race and ethnicity for 138 million people were potentially vulnerable. So far, however, … [Read more...] about Potential Privacy Lapse Found in Americans’ 2010 Census Data

German Chancellor Angela Merkel robustly defended European nations' decision to stand by the Iran nuclear deal in a spirited backing Saturday of her multilateral approach to global affairs, but U.S. Vice President Mike Pence promptly accused Europe of once again undermining the United States. Merkel's comments at the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top global … [Read more...] about Merkel Defends Iran Deal, Multilateralism But Pence Resists

Let the lawsuits begin. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency along the southern border and predicted his administration would end up defending it all the way to the Supreme Court. That might have been the only thing Trump said Friday that produced near-universal agreement. The American Civil Liberties Union announced its intention to sue less than an hour after … [Read more...] about Trump Emergency Declaration Faces Fights in Courts

The chairman of the House oversight committee says ethics officials believe President Donald Trump's lawyers provided false information about buying the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels. Rep. Elijah Cummings says in a letter Friday that the false information was provided to the Office of Government Ethics by Trump's personal attorney Sheri Dillon and former White House … [Read more...] about Rep. Cummings: Trump Lawyers Gave False Info on Hush Money