After a storm of criticism over his administration’s handling of last year’s Puerto Rico disaster relief, President Donald Trump is working hard to avoid political disaster by touting his administration’s preparedness as Hurricane Florence is poised to make landfall.
Debra J. Saunders
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.
Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with solemn ceremonies, volunteer service and a presidential tribute to “the moment when America fought back” on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
National security adviser John Bolton announced Monday that the Trump administration is shuttering the Palestine Liberation Organization’s diplomatic mission in Washington because “the Palestinians refuse to take steps to startdirect and meaningful negotiations with Israel.”
An anonymous Trump administration official confessed in an opinion piece published Wednesday that many senior officials “are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
White House press briefings are becoming rarer and shorter, as President Donald Trump has assumed a de facto role as spokesman-in-chief.
One month to the day after he passed away at age 96, former Sen. Paul Laxalt was remembered Thursday as Nevada’s champion in the Senate and the West’s anchor in President Ronald Reagan’s White House.
President Donald Trump’s war of words with his Attorney General Jeff Sessions bled into day one of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Vice Presisdent Mike Pence will travel to Las Vegas on Friday to campaign for Attorney General Adam Laxalt, the GOP nominee in the governor’s race.
President Donald Trump is not likely to spend his years after the Oval Office sawing lumber for modest homes in third world countries. But he has overseen a vibrant economy and brought about a strut in the step of blue-collar Trump voters. And that’s what matters most to voters.
Through much of the last two decades, Sen. John McCain, who died a week ago, was the darling of Democrats and a beloved figure to political reporters, whom he jokingly referred to as his “base.” When he had a bite at the Oval Office, however, those groups abandoned him, and treated him as they’ve treated so many other conservatives.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced $91 million in grants to 731 local programs to combat drug abuse, including $125,000 to the Prevention, Advocacy, Choices and Teamwork (PACT) Coalition in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Senate race pitting incumbent Republican Dean Heller against Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen, a first-term congresswoman, is so tight that two major political handicappers have called it a tossup.
President Donald Trump’s apparent struggle over how to react publicly to the death of Sen. John McCain – a fierce critic who let it be known he did not want Trump at his funeral – played out on the very roof of the White House Monday.
Lanny Davis became a TV news staple during President Bill Clinton’s second term as the White House lawyer who battled a Senate investigation into Clinton fund-raising practices – with a focus on suspected Chinese attempts to influence the 1996 election.
“Double standard?” President Donald Trump guffawed after Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt asked if federal law enforcement has a double standard for how it handles allegations of wrongdoing by Republicans and Democrats.