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The White House on Tuesday said the Justice Department should consider a criminal prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, claiming he had leaked privileged information to the press and offered false testimony to Congress. "It's something they should certainly look at," press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters when asked whether the administration should prosecute Comey. She acknowledged that it was "not the President's role" to determine which criminal investigations are taken up by the Justice Department. The question arose as Sanders defended Trump's decision to fire Comey earlier this year, a choice Trump's former chief strategist called a mistake this week. Speaking to "60 Minutes" on CBS, Steve Bannon called the Comey decision the worst mistake in "modern political history." Sanders countered that Trump has been "very happy with the decision" to fire Comey and felt "fully v...

SEATTLE, WA - APRIL 22: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray speaks at a rally during the March for Science begins with a rally featuring speakers and events at Cal Anderson Park on April 22, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. Participants were advocating for science that upholds the common good and for political leaders and policy makers to enact evidence based policies in the public interest. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images) Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday, hours after new sexual abuse allegations surfaced against the embattled politician. The mayor's announcement comes after his cousin gave an interview with the Seattle Times alleging abuse, the latest in a series of allegations against the mayor. The cousin is the fifth person to accuse Murray of child sexual abuse. Murray denied the allegations, as he has in the past. He said he was resigning effective 5 p.m. Wednesday so the scandal would no longer overshadow his office. In light of t...

Arielle Cohen, co-chair of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, leads a chant Sept. 6 with other protesters in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., in response to President Donald Trump's announced plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. | Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP One year after Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race, the Democratic Socialists of America finds itself with unprecedented political potential. But the organization is also struggling with an identity crisis as members scrap over whether to focus on national or local issues. As Sanders enjoyed a meteoric — if unexpected — rise as a self-described democratic socialist, the organization grew fivefold over the past two years. And it’s now feeling an even greater sense of purpose since the election of President Donald Trump. Last month it wrapped up its best-attended convention, in Chicago, by app...

These relationships are doomed. It s mid-September, which means that it s practically Halloween, which means Christmas is nearly here, which means it s time to talk about The Holiday. In case you are somehow unaware, The Holiday is a delightful-yet-fairly-typical Nancy Meyers movie: Two very pretty white women (played by Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet) from opposite sides of the world decide to swap their charming, picturesque houses over the Christmas holiday (hence the title). During their respective vacations, each women befriends and ultimately falls for a charming guy: Cameron Diaz falls for Jude Law while in England, and Kate Winslet falls for Jack Black while in Los Angeles. (Yes, I m aware all of their characters have names, but let s face it: I m just going to be referring to them by their actor names.) And despite all of their different ba...

The House, as early as Tuesday evening, is expected to approve a resolution condemning the violence at the white nationalist rally in Virginia last month and urging President Trump to speak out against racist hate groups. The joint resolution passed the Senate by unanimous consent Monday and will go to the White House for Trump’s signature should it pass the House. Two House aides not authorized to speak publicly about legislative scheduling confirmed plans for a voice vote Tuesday. The text of the resolution was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the members of Virginia’s congressional delegation, and versions were introduced in both the House and Senate last week. It denounces “White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups,” but does not single out left-wing counterprotesting groups such as Antifa for equivalent opprobrium the way Trump did in the days after the Aug. 12 Charlottesville violence. The authors of the le...

Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Pass & Pasta Passport to Italy (PRNewsfoto/Olive Garden) Olive Garden is bringing back its unlimited "Pasta Pass" promotion, which allows passholders eight weeks of unlimited pasta bowls. The restaurant plans to sell 22,000 passes at $100 each. The passes will go on sale Thursday, Sept. 14 at 2 p.m. ET and will be on sale for 30 minutes. They can be bought at PastaPass.com. Last year, the 21,000 passes that were up for grabs sold out in seconds. New this year is the "Pasta Passport to Italy," which includes an all-expenses paid trip for two to Italy. The 50 available "passports" will go on sale at the same time as the traditional passes. They will be $200 each, and include unlimited pasta and the vacation. According to the fine print, the eight-day, seven-night Italy vacation will take place on April 7, 2018. Roundtrip airfare, hotel, optional excursion...

" src="http://static.politico.com/42/be/bbcf9e774d34b1c3b6fd9e6bc8fc/170912-equifax-gty-1160.jpg"> Anger but no action has been the typical response to past digital intrusions, like the recent one at Equifax. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images The mammoth Equifax data breach has generated widespread outrage at the company’s lax security and slow, confusing public response to a break-in that exposed 143 million Americans to the risk of identity theft — but it still may not be enough to jolt Congress into action. Despite a spate of lawsuits, law enforcement investigations and upcoming congressional hearings on the breach, industry groups and consumer advocates expressed only limited hope about ending the Capitol’s decade-long logjam on legislation to protect Americans whose private information is falling into criminals’ hands at record rates. Anger but no action has been the typical response to past d...

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island (right), a climate hawk known for delivering more than 100 floor speeches on the issue, said he doesn’t view the immediate aftermath of Harvey and Irma as heightening the sense of urgency to talk about global warming. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have handed Democrats their most potent opportunity in half a decade to hammer Republicans on climate change — with the massive storms giving tens of millions of Americans an up-front glimpse of the types of devastation the world faces if the warming planet spawns a surge in extreme weather. But instead, they’re mostly keeping quiet. Aside from a handful of outliers like Hawaiian Sen. Brian Schatz, leading Democratic politicians have been slow to use the double whammy from the tropics to denounce President Donald Trump, who has dismissed climate change as a “hoax.” That’s a contrast from past storms like 2012’s...

Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in April. WASHINGTON — In between sharing updates about Hurricane Irma and admonishing journalists, President Trump tweeted a rare bit of personal news on Tuesday: The first grandchild born during his presidency, a boy, was delivered that morning. "> "> The child, a 7-pound, 6-ounce boy named Eric Luke Trump, was born to Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, in New York City, the younger Mr. Trump, 33, wrote in an email. The baby, who will be called Luke, is the couple’s first and Mr. Trump’s ninth grandchild. Eric Trump oversees the daily operations of the Trump Organization with his brother, Donald Jr. Lara, 34, is a former television producer who debuted a “Real News” program on the president’s Facebook page in August. Her most recent broadcast was Sept. 8. “Mom is doing amazing,” Eric Trump wrote of his wife, whom he married at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s Florida estate, in 2014....

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, during a briefing on Tuesday. WASHINGTON — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said on Tuesday that the Justice Department should “certainly look at” charging James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director whom President Trump fired, for what she described as leaks of classified information. Ms. Sanders made the remarks after being asked at the White House press briefing whether the president was aware that his former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, had said in an interview on “60 Minutes” that firing Mr. Comey was the biggest mistake “in modern political history.” Ms. Sanders did not answer the question directly, but she said that Mr. Trump had been proven right in firing Mr. Comey in May. Asked whether Mr. Comey should be prosecuted, Ms. Sanders replied, “That’s not the president’s role.” She added, “That’s the job of the Department of Justice, and something they should certainly look at.” S...

Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) doubled down on his criticisms of White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Tuesday, saying that President Trump’s top aide is “mean” for standing by while the administration prepares to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants known as “dreamers.” Appearing Tuesday at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute event, Gutiérrez was asked by a Washington Post reporter moderating the event to clarify why he recently called Kelly a “hypocrite” and “a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear” because he supported Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Obama-era executive action that protects roughly 690,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Gutiérrez faced backlash from some members of his own party, Republican lawmakers and conservative news outlets for his comments, but the congressman refused to back down. Kelly has since pushed back against Gutiérrez...

Sen. Rand Paul gained an important ally Tuesday in his quest to have the Senate vote to force a debate on authorizing the military’s combat operations against extremist groups, as Sen. Tim Kaine signaled he was ready to come on board. Kaine (D-Va.), who has been one of the Senate’s most consistent voices urging Congress to weigh in on the military’s engagement against extremist forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, said Tuesday that he would support Paul’s (R-Ky.) amendment if it comes up for a vote. “I view his amendment as an attempt to force Congress to do what it should do,” Kaine said. “I think it is way past time, way past time, for Congress to take this up and for everybody to be on the record.” It’s a change of heart for Kaine, who was quick to criticize last week when Paul launched his effort to add to the defense bill a six-month deadline to pass an authorization for military force. He said Paul’s campaign would “unnecessarily” hold up progress on t...

President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Luther Strange (pictured) last month, but has been conspicuously silent about the race since Roy Moore finished ahead of Strange in the first round of voting. | Mario Tama/Getty Images An outside group linked to Steve Bannon is venturing into the closely watched Alabama special election with a hard-hitting commercial that goes after Republican incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, as well as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Bannon’s nemesis. The spot , from the pro-Trump organization Great America Alliance, describes Strange as a “big time lobbyist” who was “appointed by the swamp” and is “in the pocket of Mitch McConnell.” “It’s time to drain the swamp,” the ad says. “Take your voice to Washington, and vote for someone to represent you. On Sept. 26, don’t let the swamp take over Alabama.” The ad also features a clip of former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley saying that he consulted with McConnell be...