9/23/2017 The day after Stephan Curry told reporters that he would rather not accept an invitation to visit the White House because of his objections to the current administration’s policies and rhetoric, Trump tweeted that he was revoking any invitation because of Curry’s remarks. Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team.Stephen Curry is ...

9/22/2017 The Department of Homeland Security notified nearly half of the U.S. states that their election systems were targeted by Russian  hackers in an attempt to influence the 2016 election. In most of the states, the hackers were engaged in activities like scanning. In other states, hackers attempted to infiltrate systems and failed, but in a small selection of states, ...

9/21/2017 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called US President Donald Trump “mentally deranged” and said he would “pay dearly” for the recent threats against his country.  In a rare statement directly attributed to the North Korean leader, Kim said on Friday that Trump is “unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country”, describing the president as “a rogue ...

9/21/2017 Despite President Trump’s claim that Russians influencing the election is “fake news”, today Facebook announced that it is a fact. Facebook will turn over to Congress over 3,000 political ads taken out by Russins in an attempt to influence the 2016 election. The company has been struggling for months to address the steadily mounting evidence that Russians manipulated the ...

9/5/2017 President Trump has finally made his choice for NASA’s next chief, but the nominee has been met with opposition from scientists as well as politicians on both sides of the aisle. The man nominated is Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine, who would become the 13th administrator of the national space agency upon Senate approval.  However, Republican senator Marco Rubio and Democrat ...

9/5/2017 The Trump White House announced the end of DACA on Tuesday.  The Obama program had protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. The Department of Homeland Security will stop processing any new applications for the program as of Tuesday and rescinded the Obama administration policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “I am here ...

9/3/2017 During the presidential election, the Trump organization sought, and negotiated to build a Trump Tower in Russia new documents show.  The negotiations went so far that Trump actually signed a letter of intent to move forward with the massive project.  The evidence contradicts the president’s claim that he has no ties to Russia, and that he “stayed away” from ...

9/3/2017 The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday evening that it has no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s assertion in March that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower before last year’s election.  “Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets,” the department’s motion ...

8/24/2017 Former Missouri GOP senator John Danforth called President Trump “the most divisive president in our history” and warned Republicans not to let him tarnish the GOP’s image. “Trump is always eager to tell people that they don’t belong here, whether it’s Mexicans, Muslims, transgender people or another group. His message is, “You are not one of us’,” wrote Danforth in ...

8/25/2017 President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge’s order not to detain suspected undocumented immigrants. A judge ruled on July 31 that Arpaio committed a crime by disobeying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.  In 2013, a judge found Arpaio and his deputies had ...