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When Republicans in Congress passed a tax scheme to funnel huge amounts of money to America's most wealthy families and to powerful multinational corporations, they said that it was no big deal that this scheme would add $1.5 trillion to America's debt. Republicans said that the massive deficit spending they had created would be worthwhile, because financial elites would get a big payoff.
Registration will allow you to post comments on timesunion.com and create a timesunion.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives to vote at her polling place in Chappaqua, N.Y. Vanity Fair is trying to defuse criticism of a video mocking Clinton and her presidential aspirations.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed a factually inaccurate attack on the FBI on Thursday that characterized the agency as politically biased. Clinton and several of her prominent supporters shared a tweet from Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who is known for spreading anti-Trump conspiracy theories.
In this Dec. 17, 2015, file courtroom sketch, from left, defense attorney Baruch White, pharmaceutical entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, defense attorney Jonathan Sack and co-defendant Evan Greebel appear in court in New York. Greebel, a lawyer accused of helping Shkreli cover up a financial fraud, was convicted of conspiracy charges on Wednesday by a federal jury in Brooklyn.
On Wednesday, Daily Caller Associate Editor Peter Hasson reported that CNN avoided asking any probing questions to New York Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks regarding his recently exposed settlement in a case where he was accused of trying to cover up a sexual assault. "CNN anchor Pamela Brown interviewed New York Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks for five straight minutes on Wednesday [during The Lead ] without once asking him about the taxpayer-funded settlement paid out to a former staffer after he allegedly fired her in retaliation for reporting a donor-related sexual assault," Hasson reported.
Howard Dean says older members of the Democratic Party need "to get the hell out of the way and have somebody who is 50 running the country." Bernard Sanders Schumer: Franken should resign Franken resignation could upend Minnesota races Avalanche of Democratic senators say Franken should resign MORE ] is going to be the next nominee.
Roy Moore files lawsuit to block Alabama Senate result - MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Republican Roy Moore filed a lawsuit to try to stop Alabama from certifying Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the U.S. Senate race.
Marchers from Westchester County, N.Y. are pictured attending the Women's March in Washington D.C. earlier this year. While it's hard to point to a single word as defining an entire year, several words help define news events and movements in 2017.
In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives to vote at her polling place in Chappaqua, N.Y. Vanity Fair is trying to defuse criticism of a video mocking Clinton and her presidential aspirations. In a statement Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, the magazine said the online video was an attempt at humor that regrettably "missed the mark."
The Army's top political appointee has directed the service to launch a rare additional review in a case for the nation's highest award for combat valor, the Medal of Honor, after the Defense Department inspector general's office found errors in how the case was handled the first time. Army Secretary Mark T. Esper directed a panel known as the Senior Army Decorations Board to again review the case of a Cpl.
If there's going to be a Democratic wave in the 2018 midterm elections, look for it to wash ashore in New York and New Jersey. House Democrats have targeted all but one Republican - Rep. Chris Smith in New Jersey's reliably conservative fourth district - in the two states, where former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton beat President Trump in 2016.
According to a survey put out by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, half of Americans believe in aliens, but only 20 percent of them believe in alien abduction stories. Filmmaker and crypto-zoologist Bill Brock at "America's Stonehenge" in New Hampshire, a 4,000 year old rock formation of unknown origin that looks like an astrological map when viewed from the air.
With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republicans had high hopes of pushing an ambitious agenda forward and making good on last year's campaign promises. But their long-held promise of repealing and replacing the 2010 health care law stalled in the Senate in one of the most dramatic moments of the year.
One congressman is a low-key member of a political dynasty who is strategically inserting himself into policy debates and laying out what he thinks Democrats still need to learn. The other is a retired Marine and combat veteran who has tangled with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and has already logged a high-profile trip to Iowa more than three years ahead of the next presidential caucus.
On December 16, UFO researchers and enthusiasts, along with the general public, were treated to an unexpected gift from the New York Times . In a front-page investigation, the country's most august news organization grappled with a topic that's usually relegated to the fringes, detailing a $22 million Pentagon effort to study unexplained aerial phenomena that ran from 2007 to 2012.
Bitter cold weather has taken hold of much of the northern United States and is expected to stay put for days to come as two Minnesota cities already have set record low temperatures and a city in Pennsylvania continues to dig out from a record snowfall. The National Weather Service reported International Falls, Minnesota, the self-proclaimed Icebox of the Nation, plunged to 37 degrees below zero, breaking the old record of 32 below set in 1924.
Trump trailed former President Barack Obama as the most admired man for 2017, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, marking one of the very few times in recent history that an incumbent president hasn't taken the top spot. Gallup has asked the most admired man question 71 times since 1946 and the sitting president has won 58 of those times, according to Gallup.
National Guard officials say about 250 members of the 38th Sustainment Brigade will be recognized during a departure ceremony on Tuesday at the Kokomo Event Center. The soldiers will be performing operations in countries such as Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq and Syria.
Strong irony is in the air as California heads into the hot political year of 2018, with an initiative to end the state's "top two" primary election system in play just as top two, also known as the "jungle primary," may be about to accomplish its central purpose. That aim was to allow voters in the minority party to influence elections and elect more moderate members of the larger party when their own party either has no candidate in a race or fields a sure loser.