Is U.S.-U.K. Relationship Still ‘Special’ After Trump Spats, Shock Vote

LONDON — The so-called "special relationship" between the United States and Britain was forged on the beaches of Normandy 73 years ago. This alliance, nurtured by presidents and prime ministers for decades, has taken a battering since President Donald Trump took office. Trump criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan after the most recent terror attack in the city and he has previously suggested British intelligence agencies spied on him during his campaign.

Former Vice President Joe Biden reportedly told a group of donors on Friday evening that he knew Hillary Clinton was doomed to lose the election one month before it took place.

News Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogleFacebook MessengerWhatsAppEmailCopy Trump’s hard-line approach clashes with Tillerson on Qatar

President Trump on Friday demanded that Qatar stop funding terrorism, striking a hard line against the tiny emirate just hours after his State Department had urged other Gulf nations to end their blockade of the besieged country. “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. The time has come to call on Qatar to end its funding,” Trump said at the White House. “Hopefully it will be the beginning of the end of funding terrorism. It will, therefore, be the beginning of the end to terrorism. No more funding.”

Finnish PM Says Government Could Break up Due to New Finns Party Leader: Report

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila said that there is a risk his three-party government could break up following Saturday's leadership change in co-ruling nationalist Finns party. "Of course (there's is a risk). This is a tough spot for the government", Sipila told Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

Germany Calls for 10 Billion Euro Permanent U.N. Crisis Fund

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Development Minister Gerd Mueller, citing hunger crises in eastern Africa, said the United Nations should create a permanent 10 billion euro ($11.19 billion) crisis fund, with contributions to be based on a country's financial strength. "The catastrophe is already upon us," Mueller said in an interview with the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse, published on Saturday. He pointed to dire conditions in countries such as Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Mueller said the United Nations estimated the financial needs in eastern Africa alone amounted to $4 billion to $5 billion. Creating a fund that would be continually restocked would make it easier to respond to recurring humanitarian crises, he said. "We need to accomplish this as a world community," he said.

London Mayor Wants Trump State Visit Canceled The U.S. president criticized the mayor on Twitter following the London Bridge terror attack.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has again signaled he thinks government officials should rescind U.S. President Donald Trump's invitation for a state visit to Britain later this year. "I don't think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the U.S.A. in the circumstances where his policies go against everything we stand for," Khan told Britain's Channel 4 News on Monday. Khan and Trump have been at odds in the wake of Saturday's London Bridge truck-and-knife terror attack that left seven people dead and dozens injured. [RELATED: Police Identify All 3 London Attackers] Trump on Sunday took to Twitter to criticize Khan's response to the attack, in which the London mayor said citizens shouldn't be alarmed by seeing more law enforcement on the streets. "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'" Trump tweeted.ADVERTISING Khan's office initially said the mayor was ignoring Trump's comments, calling the tweet "ill-informed" and accusing Trump of purposefully taking the mayor's remarks out of context. And Trump again lashed out.

Trump: Fake Media Want Me to Stop Tweeting

President Donald Trump is defiantly defending his use of social media amid reports his own staff and lawyers have urged him to lay off Twitter and legal experts say his tweeting may be directly undermining his agenda. "The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media," he said on Twitter Tuesday. "They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out. ... Sorry folks, but if I would have relied on the Fake News of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost or nytimes, I would have had ZERO chance winning WH."

Senate GOP Doubt Health of Obamacare Replacement They can afford to lose no more than two from their ranks, and at least one is ‘irretrievably gone.’

Republican senators returning from a week at home in their states are signaling that they may not be able to pass health care overhaul legislation. On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters he believes the Senate's efforts to craft a bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, were failing.

Clapper: Trump ‘Inexplicable’ Pro-Russia Stance Bigger than Watergate The former director of national intelligence said Trump’s intelligence sharing with Russia is either ‘ignorance or disrespect.’

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said President Donald Trump's warmth toward Russia is potentially leading the nation toward a scandal of historic proportions – even bigger than Watergate.

Education Budget Hearing Exposes Chasm Between GOP and Trump

When Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee Tuesday regarding the president’s budget proposal, her remarks that private schools must follow federal law if they receive federal funding received the lion’s share of attention. But the hearing, during which nearly every GOP members criticized aspects of the spending plan, also exposed just how far apart the Trump administration’s education agenda is with that of Republicans in Congress, perhaps foreshadowing how likely – or not – the White House is to achieve any of its policy priorities.

Americans' Net Worth Hits All-Time High as Debt Rises Household net worth hit nearly $95 trillion in the first quarter, but debt levels are also on the rise.

The Federal Reserve on Thursday afternoon reported Americans' net worth climbed to $94.8 trillion in January, February and March – a 2.5 percent jump from the fourth quarter of 2016

Trump Vows Infrastructure Reform as Democrats See 'Disappointment'

President Donald Trump offered few new details of his infrastructure plan during a speech Wednesday afternoon in Cincinnati, though he did promise that "everything about it is going to be right." That may include how support for the proposal lines up on Capitol Hill. After Trump's remarks, lawmakers on the left immediately panned his plans to potentially put the future of the country's public roads into private hands. "Once again, we have another disappointment in the Trump administration. Not only are they not putting serious dollars into infrastructure, they're actually going to do it by selling off to private individuals and private companies on Wall Street the ability to supposedly create this infrastructure investment and these jobs," Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said on a conference call hosted by the progressive Millions of Jobs Coalition. "The problem is, in places like Wisconsin, for the vast majority of our state, we're not going to see a dime, because it's not a profitable enterprise."

U.K. Election: Theresa May Tries to Hold On

As the United Kingdom takes part in its third nationwide vote in two years on Thursday, Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, a political renegade, is trying to do what was once thought impossible: become prime minister. "We're going to win tomorrow!" Corbyn said late Wednesday in his final speech of the campaign, given in his London-area Parliamentary district. "Tomorrow you have the power to say our country can be better than this. It can be run in the interests of the majority; not the political and corporate elites."

Comey: Trump Administration 'Chose to Defame Me'

Fired FBI Director James Comey said Thursday the Trump administration lied and "chose to defame" him in explaining his ouster last month. "Although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader," Comey said in opening remarks to members of the Senate intelligence committee. "Those were lies, plain and simple."

Ryan Defends Trump: He’s ‘Just New to This’

House Speaker Paul Ryan excused President Donald Trump's request that then-FBI Director James Comey let up on the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn's connections to Russia, saying the president was inexperienced, not trying to impede an investigation. RELATED CONTENT Comey: White House 'Chose to Defame Me' [RELATED: Comey: White House 'Chose to Defame Me'] "As far as the conversations and all that, I'm not going to speculate on any of this, I would just add that of course there needs to be a degree of independence between the DOJ, FBI and the White House and lines of communications established," Ryan told reporters on Thursday, as Comey's testimony continued across on the other side of Capitol Hill.

Sanders Blasts Trump Nominee Over Religious Post

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont this week lambasted one of President Donald Trump's budget nominees over a post he wrote last year that discussed Christianity and Islam. As Russell Vought, Trump's pick for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, appeared before the Senate Budget Committee for a confirmation hearing Wednesday, Sanders doggedly questioned him about a January 2016 post he had published by conservative outlet The Resurgent.

Rallies. Canvassing. Demanding answers at congressional town halls. Voter registration, organizer training and candidate recruitment. It sounds like it could be some sort of political rehab plan for Democrats, who found themselves losing what most agree was a very winnable presidential race last year, despite having a more experienced, conventional and more traditionally organized nominee. Democrats are calling it Resistance Summer, a season they hope will mark the transition from the shock-and-awe reaction to Donald Trump's inauguration as president to a more focused strategy that will result in more than just abandoned protest signs and deflated balloons.

The official Resistance is being run by the Democratic National Committee, which is working with state parties to take the energy now being directed at GOP lawmakers at town halls and turn it into something more tangible. The party is giving matching grants to state affiliates under the program, which the DNC expects to top seven figures by the time it's done. Already, the party has subsidized on-the ground efforts, including activating black, Latino and Asian-Americans who did not vote in the congressional primary in Georgia's sixth district special election, and who could make a difference in the general election contest Tuesday.

Trump Accuses Comey of Lying to Congress

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning that James Comey's testimony gave him "total and complete vindication," and he accused the former FBI director of lying under oath. "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication," he tweeted. "..and WOW, Comey is a leaker!"

But Kasowitz simultaneously cheered Comey's confirmation that he had told Trump that Trump was not personally under investigation by the FBI and said his testimony "makes clear that the president never sought to impede the investigation into attempted Russian interference in the 2016 election."

Financial Choice Act Looms Over Fiduciary Rule's Future

A long-delayed Obama-era mandate requiring financial advisers to act in the best interests of their clients went into partial effect Friday, but its future remains uncertain with the previous day's passage of a regulatory-repeal bill in the House of Representatives. The so-called fiduciary rule and its "best interest" requirement that is now in effect was borne out of concern during the Obama administration that conflicts of interest in the retirement planning industry were swindling Americans out of as much as $17 billion each year.