Tag: Joel Gehrke

A federal judge shut that down by issuing a consent decree that bans eight companies that based in four countries from using the U.S. postal system to advertise for psychics, clairvoyants or astrologers. (AP Photo)

Justice Department: Americans fall for $180M ‘psychic’ scam

Joel Gehrke · May 9, 2016 5:33 pm

"We have learned that not only is this investigation warranted, but further examination of accounting records is needed to get the complete facts about what was actually going on," Blackburn said Thursday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Planned Parenthood video maker awaits smoking gun in financial records

Joel Gehrke · May 6, 2016 9:28 pm

"He has not displayed a respect for the Constitution. And, he is not a consistent conservative. These are all reasons why I cannot support his candidacy," Jeb Bush said about Donald Trump. (AP Photo)

Jeb Bush won’t vote for Trump against Clinton

Joel Gehrke · May 6, 2016 8:30 pm

A Green Beret who was nearly drummed out of the military for beating a child rapist in Afghanistan plans to name his son after Rep. Duncan Hunter, who helped save his career. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

National Security

Green Beret who beat Afghan rapist to name son after congressman

Joel Gehrke · May 6, 2016 7:02 pm

"Ben Rhodes started out as a fiction writer and it's clear he never stopped," Cotton told the Washington Examiner. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Cotton mocks ‘fiction writer’ running Obama’s foreign policy

Joel Gehrke · May 6, 2016 12:30 am

Wagner said that Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, "has not earned" her backing. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall, File)

GOP Rep: ‘Trump has not earned my vote’

Joel Gehrke · May 5, 2016 9:58 pm

"I mean, I'd prefer a sober, reasoned public debate, after which members of Congress reflect and take a vote," Ben Rhodes, the president's deputy national security adviser, told the New York Times. "But that's impossible." (Drew Angerer/Bloomberg)

National Security

White House: Congress incapable of ‘reasoned public debate’

Joel Gehrke · May 5, 2016 6:24 pm

"I respectfully request that the committee issue a subpoena for EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to appear at the field hearing." (AP File Photo/Susan Walsh)

McCain fears ‘race of his life’ with Trump at the top of the ticket

Joel Gehrke · May 5, 2016 3:28 pm

"The president and White House spokesman Josh Earnest need to level with the American people and tell the truth about what our brave troops are doing in the Middle East ," Sullivan said. (AP File Photo/Rashah McChesney)

National Security

Senator: White House ‘diminishing the service’ of fallen Navy SEAL

Joel Gehrke · May 5, 2016 1:04 am

Trump defends tying Ted Cruz’s father to JFK killer

Joel Gehrke · May 4, 2016 5:50 pm

Three Illinois Republicans are urging Boeing not to sell airplanes to Iran. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

National Security

GOP lawmakers warn Boeing: Don’t sell planes to Iran

Joel Gehrke · May 3, 2016 9:43 pm

House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte wrote in a Tuesday letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson that the whistleblower's statements "demonstrate that your written enforcement priorities are misleading to the American public, since the so-called enforcement priorities are really not priorities at all." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Goodlatte demands DHS clarify ‘deceptive’ immigration policy

Joel Gehrke · May 3, 2016 9:19 pm