By Glynn Wilson – In typical Washington fashion, word leaked out on Friday afternoon that Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller delivered his final report to Attorney General William P. Barr on the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The House Judiciary Committee was notified to expect the report’s delivery Friday…
By Glynn Wilson – Mr. Donald J. Trump’s lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen may have laid down a corner stone of the legal fix that could bring down a president. Testifying in Washington before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, Cohen established through documents and testimony a legal pattern of criminal conduct on the part of…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is signaling that he will join other Democrats and a few Republicans to vote against President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to reroute Department of Defense money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. By a vote of 245-182, the House…
By Glynn Wilson – The level of trust Americans have of the federal government’s ability to handle problems has sunk to the lowest point in more than two decades, according to a new survey from the Gallup Poll. Only 35 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust and confidence…
By Glynn Wilson – The top cabinet leaders in charge of every United States intelligence agency, all appointed by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the Senate, directly contradicted the president’s claims about the existence of a national security threat on the country’s Southern border Tuesday in testimony before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.…
By Glynn Wilson – Congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement to temporarily reopen the federal government on Friday, and President Donald J. Trump caved into Congressional demands and agreed, averting a growing disaster at the nation’s airports and national security threats. The deal would lift the federal shutdown for three weeks and does not include…
By Glynn Wilson – The United States Senate took up two bills on Thursday to try to bring an end to the federal government shutdown orchestrated by President Donald J. Trump nearly six weeks ago on Dec. 22. On day 34 of the shutdown, the Democrats needed 12 Republicans to join them to get the…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 27 of Trump’s government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama held a conference call with reporters on Thursday and compared the failing negotiations to a “hostage crisis.” He said his colleagues in the Senate are more than willing to debate and fund border security measures, but only “if…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — The impacts of the ongoing threat to national security from the federal government shutdown orchestrated by President Donald J. Trump continued to widen and grow even more critical this week as the implications began to trickle out in news coverage, even threatening to lead to an economic recession,…
Experts say the nation’s cybersecurity could be deeply impacted with federal government workers on furlough and private contractors going without pay. SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson — Celebrity President Donald J. Trump the propaganda master and magician is using his slight of hand again to command all the attention of the national news media…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 20 of the Trump federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, held a media conference call with reporters on Thursday to provide an update on what’s going on in Congress and Washington to end the shutdown and other national legislative issues, including the latest on…
By Julie Slama and Glynn Wilson – The race for president in 2020 has already begun, and a number of Democrats are already testing the waters to take on President Donald J. Trump, 72, assuming he will still be the Republican nominee and is not impeached, indicted or forced to resign due to all the…
PUBLIC OPINION ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – There are three new polls out worth mentioning as we look at where the American electorate stands in 2019 after two years with President Donald J. Trump in the White House. We know that polls are unpopular now since people think the polls got the election of…
Facebook Manipulation Had No Discernible Impact – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Birmingham Democrat Doug Jones had Alabama Republican Roy Moore beat in the U.S. Senate election last year before the Washington Post broke the sex scandal story on November 9, 2017. Our definitive reporting on the campaign clearly shows that, and the…
Staff report… Washington, D.C. – United States Senators are calling on President Donald Trump to make good on his promise to make assistance payments to farmers harmed by his Trade War with China and retaliatory tariffs on soybeans and other crops. In a letter written to the president just obtained by the New American Journal, U.S.…
Final Farm Bill includes support for farmers, ranchers and communities on rural health, wastewater infrastructure and high-speed internet – By Glynn Wilson – It appears the lame duck Congress will pass a farm bill to place on the president’s desk by the end of the week, according to breaking news on Tuesday out of Washington,…
By Glynn Wilson – Due to an ongoing crisis with the Trump administration failing to pay VA benefits to student veterans and students who are the children of veterans, and the lack of an adequate response from the Department of Veterans Affairs, bipartisan legislation was introduced in the United States Senate on Tuesday to begin…
Staff Report – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Calls for Investigation Into VA Failure to Pay Veterans – In response to a news report indicating that the Trump administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs claims to be so short staffed it can’t do the math to pay student veterans benefits it owes, U.S. Senator Doug Jones…
Doug Jones joins bipartisan group of Senators standing up to Trump tariffs on aluminum and steel – Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – Trump’s Twitter Trade policies are already costing jobs and plant closures in the…
By Glynn Wilson – Everyone knows America suffers from a sharp partisan divide. All you have to do is turn on the news on TV or glance at the news feed on Facebook to know that. But the latest analysis of the data by the Pew Research Center from the midterm elections shows how the…
