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Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. Rudy Giuliani, a current member of the president's legal team, said on Thursday that President Trump repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen $130,000 in the Stormy Daniels case.
Legislation is being introduced that would elevate the home of the world's largest gypsum dune field in southern New Mexico from a national monument to a national park. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich made the announcement Friday while visiting New Mexico, saying the change would boost recognition and visitation.
When "Ocean's 8" began filming in October 2016 - with eight actresses reviving the martini and testosterone-zested heist franchise that last winked at audiences in 2007 - Hillary Clinton was ahead in the polls, Harvey Weinstein was synonymous with Hollywood power, and few in the industry, let alone the public, had ever heard of the term " inclusion rider ." The movie will be released on June 8 in a dramatically different world.
Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the House of Representatives, delivers an interfaith message on the steps of the Capitol in Washington for the victims of the mass shooting ... WASHINGTON - The embattled chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives has won his job back just hours after sending a scalding letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that accused a top Ryan staff aide of telling him "something like 'maybe it's time that we had a Chaplain that wasn't a Catholic.' " Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, forced Reverend Pat Conroy to tender his resignation last month, sparking a firestorm.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California wants to ban assault weapons, instate a federal gun buy-back program for those who own them and criminally prosecute those who refuse to hand them over. The representative wrote an op-ed in USA Today Thursday rolling out what he feels is the gun control policy America should adopt, one that would take "military-style semiautomatic assault weapons" away from law-abiding citizens and threaten them with jail time if they refuse.
A Los Angeles congressman acknowledged Thursday he is the unnamed target of a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of a teenage girl more than a decade ago and his lawyer said the allegations were "absolutely false." Rep. Tony Cardenas is "sickened and distraught by these horrific allegations, which are 100 percent, categorically untrue," attorney Patricia Glaser said in a statement.
The embattled chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives is seeking to withdraw his resignation in a caustic letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that accuses a top Ryan staff aide of telling him "something like 'maybe it's time that we had a Chaplain that wasn't a Catholic.' " Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and a Catholic himself, forced Conroy to tender his resignation last month, sparking a firestorm.
A busy district on the border of Pawtucket and Central Falls is set to undergo a major facelift, and local leaders hope the project will breathe new life into the area. "This is really a great project that's going to benefit the city of Pawtucket and the city of Central Falls," Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien said.
A key lawmaker in the House on Thursday introduced a measure to expand veterans access to private health care on the government's dime while also instituting a process by which the Veterans Affairs Department would begin closing underutilized facilities. The Veterans Affairs Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act would provide veterans access to private sector care when the services they are seeking are not offered at VA, there is no full-service medical facility in their state, they previously were eligible for outside care under the Veterans Choice Program or VA cannot meet its own standards of care in providing care to an individual veteran.
Then-President-elect Donald Trump calls out to media as he and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, New Jersey, in 2016. Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link on Thursday between the $130,000 payment to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged affair and the potential fallout if her story had gone public shortly before the 2016 election.
The reinstated mineral leases will provide an economic stimulus to the region as early as this summer, said Frank Ongaro, executive director of Mining Minnesota, left. U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, right, went to bat for Northeastern Minnesota, authoring the Miner Act to demonstrate Congress would not put up with the Obama administration's interference with mineral exploration leases.
Former "Law and Order" actress Diane Neal is seeking a new role as representative of a sprawling congressional district in upstate New York, saying her long recuperation from a devastating car accident made her rethink her direction in life. The 42-year-old Neal, who portrayed Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak on "Law and Order: SVU," said Wednesday she's launching her active campaign for the 19th Congressional District.
Scott Pruitt's top spokesperson is leaving the Environmental Protection Agency, the latest high-profile departure from the embattled agency. Liz Bowman, EPA's associate administrator for public affairs, has confirmed that she is stepping down.
Registered Republicans will choose from a crowded field of five candidates in the May primary for the Fourth Congressional District. Democrats will choose between longtime incumbent Peter DeFazio of Springfield and political newcomer Daniel Arcangel of Monmouth.
FDA officials say the goal is to spur innovation of products that may be less harmful for adults, but health advocates are skeptical. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is giving wide leeway to electronic cigarettes as it attempts to push people away from traditional tobacco products.
Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, joined Stephen Colbert on the Late Show Wednesday night to discuss his client's current lawsuit against President Donald Trump. Daniels is currently suing Trump for defamation in federal court in New York.
Perched 1,200 feet over Profile Lake, the Old Man of the Mountain was formed thousands of years ago by the retreat of glaciers through Franconia Notch. The distinct granite formation served as the literal and symbolic face of the Granite State until May 3, 2003, when it crumbled in the middle of the night.
The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client, according to a newly released EPA memo. J. Steven Hart's seeking those appointments from his wife's former tenant, Pruitt, shows "the extent to which the special interests providing him with gifts have sought specific favors from EPA in return," said Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
With irrefutable proof in hand that hackers have penetrated the U.S. electricity supply system, and the tragic situation in Puerto Rico reminding us that life without electricity is harsh - not only no lights, but no banks, ATMs, internet or communications, limited food and water supplies, hospitals unable to provide services - it is welcome news that the Department of Energy has established a new office dedicated to cyber and energy security, and emergency response.