Brief News Brief

A federal judge ordered Paul Manafort to jail today over charges he tampered with witnesses while out on bail.

The New York State attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation

The North Korea summit was last night!

According to an NRA source several prominent Russians have been identified as having contact with the NRA during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

The G7 summit in Canada happened over the weekend

Yesterday marked the official end of net neutrality.

Paul Manofort is accused of tampering with witnesses.

On Tuesday President Trump through a party for America

Kids are in cages at our borders 

David Koch is retiring!

Ban on Women driving lifted in Saudi Arabia.

New York’s ‘Taxi King’ has agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. Trump has a coin pressed for his world peace making summit, but it seems the summit is at risk.

The Senate’s traditional August recess is likely to be trimmed or scrapped entirely. The House on Tuesday passed a plan to roll back banking regulations passed in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Hammerhead flatworms, which grow to a foot or more in length, are showing up in European vegetable gardens.

Covering the headline news with a comedic twist.

GREAT BALLS OF HAWIAN FIRE

IRAN DEAL BROKEN

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano continues its dramatic eruption

FIRST LADY FABULOUS

Melania Trump on Monday called a news conference at the White House in the Rose Garden announcing her campaign “Be Best.”

NRA HEY DAY

Oliver North was announced this week as the new president of the NRA.

HALT THEE IMIGRATION STAMPEED

Justice Department will begin prosecuting every person who illegally crosses into the United States along the Southwest border.

Goldman Sachs is reportedly moving ahead with plans to set up what appears to be the first Bitcoin trading operation at a Wall Street bank.

This week Dr. Harold Bornstein admitted that he did not write that 2015 report of Trump’s health

The standoff between President Trump and Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has entered a new phase: a tense fight over how, when or whether the two men may meet for an interview.

This week a few major lawsuits have emerged in the culture wars.

TRUMP TRADE WAR ON HOLD

• Last night, the strike of midnight was the deadline for Trump to make a big big decision about the future of trade in the United States. Will he exempt key allies from steel and aluminum tariffs??

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

• Yesterday dozens of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States reached the California Mexico border. U.S. officials stopped them and said they did not have enough space to accommodate the group.

LITTLE MARCO TAKES ON THE BIG TAX CUTS

• In a recent interview Marco Rubio said that there's no evidence whatsoever that the corporate tax cut Republicans passed last year is overwhelmingly benefiting workers.

JOHN KELLY DID NOT CALL TRUMP AN IDIOT

• White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Monday denied that he said President Trump is an “idiot,” calling an NBC News story that said he had done so “total BS.”

IMPEACH ROSENSTEIN?

• Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

 

Pompeo Confirmation Controversy

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has set a vote for Monday on Mike Pompeo’s nomination as President Trump’s Secretary of State.

 

Move Over Amelia Earhart!

On Tuesday a Southwest airliner was safely flying 32,000 feet over suburban Philadelphia when a rare engine explosion caused a passenger’s window to burst

 

Will Trump Get Rid of Rosenstein?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not support a measure that would make it harder for President Trump to fire special counsel Robert Mueller

 

BABIES ON THE SENATE FLOOR 

This month senator Tammy Duckworth made history by being the first sitting US senator to give birth.

 

CASTRO'S LAST STAND

Today Cuba’s National Assembly officially confirmed 57-year-old Miguel Díaz-Canel as Cuba’s new head of state, ending Castro rule after nearly 60 years.

• SEAN HANNITY BOMBSHELL
• WHITEHOUSE WIPLASH
• SPACEX MOVES TO LOS ANGELES
• JAMES COMEY SPEAKS OUT
• TAX DAY DRAMA