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One of the Democratic Party's most prominent financial backers is demanding that lawmakers and candidates on the left support removing President Trump from office, putting pressure on Democrats to make Trump's ouster a defining issue in the 2018 midterm elections. Tom Steyer, a billionaire California investor who spent more than $91 million supporting Democrats in the 2016 elections, issued the demand to his party in a letter on Wednesday.
Police officers advise people to take cover near the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas. The federal government has awarded Nevada a $1 million grant to assist with the costs of responding to the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
A House Democrat offered a resolution Wednesday to impeach President Trump but let it die before action was taken, saying he would force a vote later. The move by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, edged his party toward a confrontation craved by some of its most liberal supporters but opposed by many others - including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi - who consider it ill-advised and premature.
The government rested its bribery case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend on Wednesday, leaving it up to a judge to decide whether a 2016 Supreme Court ruling that already has helped reverse several politicians' corruption convictions is enough to dismiss the charges here. The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting free flights on a private jet and other gifts from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, a longtime friend, in exchange for pressuring government officials to take actions favorable to Melgen's business interests.
Massive wildfires continue to sweep through Northern California's wine region, forcing emergency evacuations and destroying more than 2,000 buildings. The fires began Sunday evening, though the initial cause is under investigation.
When senior California Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she would run for yet another term in the upper chamber there were at least some in her party who were surprised. One issue, while not disqualifying, was her age.
Harvey Weinstein's wife has said the widespread allegations of sexual harassment against the Hollywood mogul are "unforgivable" and she is leaving him. British fashion designer Georgina Chapman told People magazine: "My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions.
That gnashing sound you hear are the political gears shifting in response to Dianne Feinstein's announcement - after months of delay - that she'll seek another U.S. Senate term next year. "I am running for reelection to the Senate," Feinstein declared on Twitter Monday morning.
Wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through the California wine count... . The sun shines through smoke and haze from wildfires over Santa Rosa, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.
Asian stocks advanced Wednesday after Wall Street's main index closed at a record high and Spain's ... . A man walks past an electronic board showing Hong Kong share index outside a local bank in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
A liberal, pro-gun control senator from California just offered much-needed perspective on the Las Vegas Strip shooting. Gun-rights supporters couldn't have said it better if they tried.
In this Aug. 2, 2017, file photo, Ivanka Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump successfully pushed to get a family-focused tax credit included in the Republican tax overhaul proposal.
Just days after U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter's surprise announcement that she won't run for re-election in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District, two Democrats who are seriously considering bids are taking concrete steps towards launching campaigns. State Rep. Mark MacKenzie, who served 25 years as president of the New Hampshire AFL-CIO, announced on Tuesday that he'll set up an exploratory committee by the end of the week.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is running for re-election. After weeks of speculation, the California Democrat decided to come out of the bunker and announce her plans to run for anther term yesterday.
An onslaught of wildfires across a wide swath of Northern California broke out almost simultaneously then grew... . The remains of an automobile sit in the Coffey Park area of Santa Rosa, Calif.
The NY Times continues to push their Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment story. Anyone worried that their blood pressure is dangerously low and their IQ dangerously high should read Lena Dunham's whinging about how Hollywood men need to take the lead on denouncing this because... well not Girl Power.
A new report by Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller reveals Imran Awan, a former DNC IT aide, feels very strongly,' that his 'attorney client privilege,' be respected in connection to a laptop with the username 'RepDWS.' Lawyers for Imran Awan, an ex-aide who ran information technology for Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, "feel very strongly" that a laptop with the username "RepDWS" should not be valid as evidence because he put a note that said "attorney client privilege" near it before leaving it in a phone booth on Capitol Hill, they said in federal court Friday.
The U.S. Navy plans to spend $4.3 million on a project at White Sands Missile Range to support future testing for naval operations. The funding was recently announced by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich's office.
'That should be illegal': Lawmakers are taking aim at pharma giant Allergan over an unusual deal with a Native American tribe In September, Allergan struck an unusual deal with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe to transfer patents of the eye drug Restasis, a move that gives the drug sovereign immunity from certain patent challenges. Lawmakers aren't too happy about the deal, and Senator Claire McCaskill has introduced a bill to close the sovereign immunity "loophole."