Nancy Pelosi

The White House on Monday continued to deflect questions about reports U.S. intelligence determined Russia offered bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying “the veracity” of such allegations is still being determined and insisting that President Donald Trump had yet to be briefed on the potentially…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears on ABC's "This Week."June 28, 2020, 4:46 PM6 min read House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on ABC's "This Week" it was "totally outrageous" that President Donald Trump did not respond to reports that Russian intelligence officers offered to pay Taliban-linked militants to target American troops,…

(Adds comments from U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) By Jonathan Stempel June 26 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday said U.S. President Donald Trump was wrong to divert $2.5 billion meant for the Pentagon to build part of his long-sought wall along the U.S.-Mexico…

Image copyright EPA Image caption US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (centre) welcomed the bill The US House of Representatives has passed a sweeping police reform bill that currently has little prospect of becoming law amid partisan gridlock.The Democratic-controlled chamber voted 236-181 for the measure mainly along party lines…

Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy are gone from the U.S. CapitolBy MATTHEW DALY Associated PressJune 18, 2020, 10:35 PM4 min readWASHINGTON -- Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy were removed Thursday after Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that the men…

In President Donald Trump's first reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling on DACA Thursday, he tweeted an attack on the court's "horrible & politically charged decisions" calling them "shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives." The Supreme Court's decision Thursday handed…

WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ordered the immediate removal of portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous House Speakers who served in the Confederacy. “There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody…

When asked during a TIME 100 Talks discussion on Thursday whether she thinks police unions need to be “reined in,” Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said no, adding that she believes the unions “know that there’s some things that have to change and want to…

Does anyone think Trump would ever leave the White House of his own accord, no matter what the results of the election? Vox interviewed Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas, who wrote a book called Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. I’m not trying to…

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