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The California congresswoman who met with the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her decades ago says the accuser "should not be underestimated." Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo told The Associated Press on Friday accuser Christine Blasey Ford "has an inner strength."
Rep. David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, a Nebraska Republican, sent a letter this week to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking for more details about how the service collects data. Their letter comes months after privacy advocates filed a complaint about YouTube with the Federal Trade Commission.
The White House has "authorised offensive cyber operations" against US adversaries, in line with a new policy that eases the rules on the use of digital weapons to protect the nation, National Security Adviser John Bolton said Thursday. "Our hands are not tied as they were in the Obama administration," Bolton said during a news briefing to unveil a new national cyber strategy.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., left, is applauded by demonstrators as the arrive to speak to reporters in support of professor Christine Blasey Ford, who is accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a decades-old sexual attack, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.
Democrat Beto O'Rourke is hoping to end a 24-year Republican streak in the state. He will meet Friday night for the first of three debates against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
In announcing that President Donald Trump had ordered the declassification of several documents related to the investigation of possible ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders made it sound like there was no politics involved. The disclosures were designed, Sanders said, "for reasons of transparency" and to accommodate requests from Congress.
Speaking at a press conference Tuesday evening, Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono urges men to 'do the right thing' amid allegations of misconduct against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
 U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, who told men to "just shut up and step up" in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, might have some explaining to do about her campaign cash. U.S. Sen. Tom Carper's First State PAC donated $1,000 to Hirono's political campaign in June, despite the Delaware lawmaker's confession of abuse.
She has the national profile. She has the money. What US Senator Elizabeth Warren may not have, should she decide to run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, is the endorsement of Massachusetts voters.
Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono, one of only four women on the 21-member Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh the same questions on sexual harrassment she has asked dozens of other nominees. Had Kavanaugh "made unwanted requests for sexual favors" or committed verbal or physical harrassment of a sexual nature since he became a legal adult? And had he ever faced discipline or settled with anyone over that kind of conduct? Kavanaugh said "no" to both questions at his confirmation hearing earlier this month.
While the Connecticut Department of Labor reported strong job growth Thursday, some economic observers worry that jobs could leave the state. Where those jobs would go is a point of disagreement.
The late Texas Gov. Ann Richards charmed the delegates at the 1988 Democratic National Convention with her famous quote about women's penchant for nimble cooperation. Actress Holland Taylor penned a one-woman show, Ann, that dramatizes the silver-haired politician's life in and out of office.
Sen. Chuck Grassley walks to the Senate floor for a vote after a meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office in the Capitol. A top Senate Judiciary Committee staffer gave critics of the panel's efforts to speedily confirm Brett Kavanaugh more ammo Thursday, after suggesting that the Supreme Court nominee's confirmation was already in the bag.
Intelligence officials are reviewing documents ordered declassified by President Donald Trump; no one knows how long the review will take. Donald Trump may have to wait to see public release of FBI documents on the Russia case Intelligence officials are reviewing documents ordered declassified by President Donald Trump; no one knows how long the review will take.
A Google spokesman says the company has notified an unspecified number of senators and aides that their personal email accounts continue to be targeted by state-backed foreign hackers. Spokesman Aaron Stein would not disclose further details such as who was behind the attempted break-ins, their timing or who was targeted.
This combination of October 2017 photos shows Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf, left, and Republican Scott Wagner. In several states, candidates are refusing to release their tax returns.
As the Senate Judiciary Committee moves to assess the allegations of sexual assault during Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's high school years, President Donald Trump dismissed a role for the FBI. When a reporter asked if he would ask the FBI to investigate the allegations, Trump said that "it would seem that the FBI really doesn't do that."
The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her decades ago : Groups fighting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court say a Judiciary Committee lawyer's tweet shows Republicans are biased against Christine Blasey Ford's allegation of sexual assault. Mike Davis, the chief counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, tweeted late Wednesday that he had personally interviewed Kavanaugh as part of the committee's review but was "still waiting" for Ford's lawyers to get back to him.
Samantha Bee is worried about the Democrats' strategy for the upcoming midterm elections. You probably will be too, if you watch the campaign ad in which Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia advocates for better health care by loading bullets into a shotgun and blasting a "lawsuit on coverage of pre-existing conditions" into papery bits.
As soon as Christine Blasey Ford came forward as the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when both were in high school, it felt like we were hurtling toward something women in this country have wanted for decades: a chance to fix what had gone so horribly wrong during the disastrous Anita Hill hearings of 1991. Statements from Senate Republicans-among them Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Lindsey Graham-forced Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to grant Ford a public hearing.