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U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez has invited the wife of detained immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Ragbir was in federal custody Saturday, several weeks after he was handcuffed and arrested during a routine check-in with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Wednesday, while the media continued to focus on the fallout over the impotency of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in leading the Democrat's unnecessary government shutdown, Republican leaders in the Senate concentrated on the courts. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, moved forward with hearings on President Trump's judicial nominees - including consideration of the president's nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Michael B. Brennan.
By TOM LoBIANCO Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pushed back Friday against reports that he ordered White House lawyer Don McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last June.
Casino mogul Steve Wynn gestures during a a news conference regarding his proposed $1.7 billion casino complex, tentatively named "Wynn Boston Harbor", in Medford, Mass., Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Casino mogul Steve Wynn gestures during a a news conference regarding his proposed $1.7 billion casino complex, tentatively named "Wynn Boston Harbor", in Medford, Mass., Tuesday, March 15, 2016.
Morrisey, of Harpers Ferry, joins four other Republicans who have so far filed for the Senate, Don Blankenship of Sprigg, Bo Copley of Delbarton, U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins of Huntington and Tom Willis of Martinsburg. Only one Democrat, incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin, has filed for the nomination.
A Franklin County based dairy farm worker picked up by Border Patrol while on his way to work earlier this month has been released on bail from an immigration detention facility in New Hampshire. Francisco Rosendo Casarrubias received the support of Vermont's congressional delegation and the activist group Migrant Justice.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday called on the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to complete final acquisitions for two 60-acre and 77-acre parcels in Pembroke and then swiftly act to begin construction of the New Western New York National Veterans Cemetery. Currently, the VA parcel is 132 acres devoted to a veterans' cemetery.
Earlier tonight, Huffington Post commentator and co-founder of "Bros4Hillary" Alex Mohajer apparently ran in to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and tweeted a short video of her. In the video, Clinton thanked her supporters for "your feminism, your activism" and expressed her hope that they "keep up the really important good work."
The Trump administration on Friday curtailed a detailed review of how cordoning off more than 234,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Minnesota from mining development would affect a neighboring wilderness area. The decision to convert the study launched in the final days of the Obama administration into a less-stringent environmental assessment could have major policy implications.
A judge's decision to acquit U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his co-defendant on seven of the 18 charges they faced was a major setback for the government's corruption case, but not a fatal blow , according to several legal experts. "It sends a clear signal that there were problems with the government's case and there continue to be problems with the government's case," said Adam Lurie, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the government investigations practice at the Linklaters law firm in Washington, D.C. "That said, the case survived."
The Latest on the U.S. Forest Service downgrading an environmental review of a proposal to withdraw some national forest land in Minnesota from minerals exploration : The mining industry is cheering a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to downgrade an environmental review of a proposal to withdraw certain national forest land in Minnesota from minerals exploration for up to 20 years. Twin Metals wants to lease some of the land to mine for copper and nickel.
The federal agency that regulates firearms received more than 35,000 comments on the legality of "bump stocks," the rapid-fire device used by the Las Vegas shooter that allows a semi-automatic gun to fire at nearly automatic rates. The online comments included dozens from Texans during the one-month commenting period - part of the Bureau Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' process to review whether bump stocks fall into the definition of a "machine gun."
In a jungle of snowboards, boots, fur hats and backpacks Friday, Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner shook hands with vendors and military guests at the Outdoor Retailer show in Denver. In a jungle of snowboards, boots, fur hats and backpacks Friday, Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner shook hands with vendors and military guests at the Outdoor Retailer show in Denver.
What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.. were babbling and belittling thousand-dollar bonuses and increased take-home pay for American workers.
Hillary Clinton refused to fire top 2008 campaign aide accused of rubbing and kissing female colleague and then reassigned his alleged victim instead - then invited 'abuser' to her 2017 birthday party Hillary Clinton protected a campaign adviser's job during the 2008 presidential race after he was accused of sexually harassing a 30-year-old female subordinate. Burns Strider, then 42 and married, was Clinton's 'Director of Faith-Based Outreach' and frequently appeared on religious-themed broadcasts to promote her candidacy.
Concerned about Bank of America's phase-out of a program that provided free checking, two Democratic members of Congress on Friday sought information about the banking giant's action. File photo taken in 2014 shows the corporate sign in front of a Bank of America branch office in Oakland, California.
With his five years on the Ohio Supreme Court at an end, Bill O'Neill says the time has come to talk of many things. Of long-illegal school funding, solar panels and his tenure as the only Democrat amid six Republicans on the Ohio Supreme Court.