The US Treasury reported on Friday that the federal deficit has increased 26% from 2018, to $984 billion. The revenue and spending gap is the highest it has been in seven years. Corporate tax revenues MORE
Lawyers for John Bolton, the former national security advisor, have been in contact with officials working on House committees for the impeachment inquiry about Bolton possibly testifying, according to a person close to Bolton. According MORE
A shooting spree at a Siberian military base has left eight Russian soldiers dead. According to a Russian investigative committee, a suspect allegedly opened fire killing two officers and six enlisted men at a military MORE
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who is resigning from his position later this year, is among the key figures in the middle of the impeachment inquiry. Perry led the US delegation to Ukraine at the inauguration MORE
First term Representative Greg Pence from Indiana is sitting behind closed doors in the impeachment depositions as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, one of the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry. He MORE
At least a dozen House Republicans attempted to enter the closed impeachment hearings this morning, where Laura Cooper, deputy assistant of secretary of defense, was scheduled to testify. Her testimony was delayed as police were MORE
Although Trump had quoted McConnell on October 3 as saying, “That was the most innocent phone call I’ve read,” the Senate Majority Leader says he has not had a discussion with Trump on this matter. MORE
A Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has applied for a trademark for the term “fake news.” Emily Bloch of Teen Vogue says the SPJ’s application is unlikely to be approved, but they MORE
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis fired back at his former boss at the Alfred E. Smith dinner on Thursday night. “I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the world’s greatest overrated general,” joked Mattis, who MORE
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledges that military aid was withheld from Ukraine over Trump’s desire to investigate allegations of assistance to Democrats in the 2016 election by foreign countries. “Did he also MORE
EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he opposed Trump’s request to run Ukraine policy through his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. He testified that he contacted Giuliani at Trump’s direction after a May 23 meeting. “Mr. Giuliani MORE
GM’s Mary Barra met Tuesday morning with UAW President and lead negotiators on day 30 of the union’s strike against General Motors continues. The meeting could signal a tentative agreement is near. A meeting was MORE
Need To Impeach, the top pro-impeachment group in the country, has a new $3.1 Million ad that paints Mitch McConnell as a patsy for Trump. Starting Tuesday the ad will blanket the airwaves, primarily on MORE
Is Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Breathalyzer) the biggest schmuck currently gracing the halls of Congress? Opinions vary. But not by much. On Monday morning, Fiona Hill, the administration*’s former Russia expert, came to Capitol Hill to testify MORE
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered the deployment of additional troops, two fighter squadrons, one air expeditionary wing, two Patriot Missile batteries and one THAAD missile defense system to Saudi Arabia. US troops will total approximately MORE
From August: There is a man in California named Bob Petrella who can remember and recall everything from any day in his life. It’s what is called highly superior autobiographical memory, and there are about MORE
The day before the arrest of two Ukrainian men, a reporter attempted to schedule an interview with America’s Mayor. A lunchtime date the next day was suggested by Giuliani, noting that he was flying to MORE
While Donald Trump laments a $50,000 monthly earning from VP Biden’s son, Hunter, the lines his own children cross while heading the Trump Organization are fudged with ethical questions about their business dealings across the MORE
Raine Riggs, 46, daughter-in-law of Bernie Sanders died Saturday, two days after a diagnosis of neuroendocrine cancer. She was married to Levi Sanders and was a neuropsychologist. According to her obituary, she had fallen ill MORE
Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack says the company has destroyed $5 million worth of guns in their inventory instead of selling them to the public. Since discovering that the weapon used in the Marjory MORE
A US Magistrate in San Francisco had words for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday, finding that the department had violated her orders to stop collecting debts from 80,000 students of Corinthian Colleges Inc., including MORE
Jessica Bernice Kropp, 38, was arrested after she was pulled over in the town of Flippin, Arkansas, wearing a bag of meth as a hair-bow. The arresting officer spotted her Dodge Neon with an expired MORE
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has previously acknowledged that the Senate would have no choice but to “take up” an impeachment trial if sent to his desk by Pelosi and the House of Representatives. “I would MORE