President Donald Trump embraced federal criminal sentencing reform Wednesday as he announced his support for bipartisan legislation to help released inmates re-enter society, but with a new twist.
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
President Donald Trump has announced his first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and they include the wife of a major Republican Party donor, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.
President Donald Trump and CNN reporter Jim Acosta were made for each other. Both are masters at kicking up outrage.
The morning after Democrats took back the House after eight years of Republican control, President Donald Trump sparred with the White House press corps and blamed “hostile media coverage” for the setback.
Tuesday, Election Day, could bring an end to Trump’s triumphs at the ballot box. Traditionally, a president’s party loses seats during midterm elections.
President Donald Trump has reason to believe that the caravan of migrants heading toward the Southwest border might bring out his base of what he calls “forgotten” Americans.
President Donald Trump sent a message Thursday to Central Americans heading toward the Southwest border.
President Donald Trump unleashed a series of tweets defending his support for an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of unauthorized immigrants — and he singled out former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid.
President Donald Trump and the first lady will go to Pittsburgh on Tuesday to grieve with those suffering following Saturday’s shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 dead.
Even before authorities apprehended Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Florida man suspected of sending crude pipe bombs to the homes of two former presidents and other top Democrats, Washington insiders assumed the devices were intended not to kill or maim, but to advance a political party or ideology.
Critics often accuse President Donald Trump of using dog-whistles to gin up his conservative base. But really, Trump’s most effective trick is to get TV journalists to attack on demand — as you can see in cable news coverage on the caravan of Central Americans headed toward the U.S. border.
The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday it had intercepted suspicious packages believed to be bombs addressed to the New York residence of former first lady Hillary Clinton and the Washington home of former President Barack Obama.
As the midterm elections loom, President Donald Trump can’t stop talking about the wall he wants to build at the border with Mexico – and a caravan of migrants, largely Central Americans, headed toward that border.
As he stumped in Elko for Republican candidates this weekend, President Donald Trump said he is “very inclined to be against” Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste facility – a statement that conflicts with his administration’s first two budget proposals.
The arrest of a progressive activist this week in Las Vegas, an earlier arrest at another campaign event, and other recent incidents involving the left made it appear this was open season on Republicans.