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NEWARK -- As U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez prepares to stand trial on federal corruption charges, lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat on Friday said they are ready to prove the government's allegations that he accepted gifts from a friend in return for favors are unfounded. In a statement, defense attorney Abbe David Lowell said Menendez, in his second term as senator after serving 13 years as a congressman from the 13th District, has devoted most of his life to serving the public and has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Twenty years ago July 31, former Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe died at age 72. A Portsmouth-area Democrat, he was speaker from 1975 through 1994, longer than anyone before him - spanning two governorships, and half of a third. And now, thanks to General Assembly term-limits, no one can beat that Ohio record, or even come close.
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal is being called to resign after her Facebook post asking for President Donald Trump's assassination, Aug. 18, 2017. In this photo, Chapelle-Nadal speaks to the press at a conference in Jefferson City, Missouri, March 4, 2013.
In this photo taken Aug. 15, 2017, President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. President Donald Trump's response to white supremacist violence in Virginia has left Democrats in a quandary.
Pressure mounts for state senator to resign after Trump assassination comment In a Facebook comment that has since been deleted, Chappelle-Nadal wrote, "I hope Trump is assassinated." Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2xcrWWx In this Sept.
Arizona politicians have invoked the "rule of law" for more than a decade to argue for harsher immigration enforcement. Does it apply to Arpaio? If Trump pardons Arpaio, GOP can't claim 'rule of law' on immigration Arizona politicians have invoked the "rule of law" for more than a decade to argue for harsher immigration enforcement.
After three people tackled the assignment with limited success, the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has for now fallen to Hope Hicks, a young former public relations aide and political neophyte who entered his orbit not knowing the ride would eventually take her into the cutthroat world of Washington politics. Word of Hicks' promotion - she already was director of "strategic" communications at the White House - landed this week just as she and other top Trump aides confronted one of the biggest communications challenges in recent memory.
The Washington Free Beacon reports on the war between Jeff Sessions and Rahm Emanuel : "So if voters in Chicago are concerned about losing federal grant money: call your mayor," he said. In Emanuel's interview with Axelrod, also conducted Wednesday and released Friday, the Chicago mayor responded.
Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen announced that he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as soon as he returns to Congress. "Part of his oath of office is to take care that the laws are executed appropriately, carried out, if he can't even identify domestic terrorists and equates them with American protesters of anti-American values, he is not capable of leading us," Cohen said.
At a recent town hall here in Virginia's second most populous city, Rep. Robert C. Scott patiently took questions from more than two dozen residents waiting in line. The queue stretched to the very back of a high school auditorium with some standing for the entire portion of the two-hour public meeting.
Staff travel makes up a significant chuck of the amounts spent on travel by the Appropriations and Budget committees. Members of the Budget and Appropriations committees have spent about $2 million on foreign travel since the start of 2016, including trips to Argentina, Tanzania, Italy and the United Kingdom, according to an analysis of congressional records.
Connecticut Sen. Christopher S. Murphy greets a crowd at the finish line in Danbury, Ct. Connecticut Sen. Christopher S. Murphy completed his 110-mile August recess walk across his home state Thursday. It's the same summer trek the Democratic lawmaker did last year though some of the topics he discussed this time around with constituents along the way were different.
Michigan Sen. Gary Peters toured the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital in Ontonagon, Mich., on his bike ride. The senator visited a rural airport to talk about President Donald Trump 's budget cuts to Essential Air Service , a government program enacted to guarantee that small communities maintain commercial airline service.
Concord grape growers in New York are getting a boost from the federal government, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture planning to buy juice for nutrition programs. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the USDA will use up to $18 million to purchase surplus grape juice, which will help stabilize prices farmers receive.
Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general's office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents . All of the state's 800 police departments supplied detailed data from 2016, including demographic information on the civilians and officers, the type of call that led to the violence and the officers' justification for using force.
The New Hampshire Republican Party says "malcontents" are responsible for spraying the word "Nazis" inside a hand-drawn heart on the rear of his headquarters building in Concord. The vandalism happened sometime after 6 p.m. Wednesday and was discovered early Thursday when staff came to open the office, party adviser Patrick Hynes said.
A Missouri lawmaker acknowledged Thursday that she posted and later deleted a comment on Facebook about hoping for President Donald Trump's assassination, saying she was frustrated with the president's response to the white supremacist rally and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she was wrong for writing the post and didn't mean what she said, but she refused calls to resign.
A Missouri state lawmaker is being urged to resign Thursday after posting on Facebook that she hoped President Trump "is assassinated," according to reports. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal acknowledged that she made the now-deleted comment in a thread on her private Facebook page in response to her and another commenter's frustration with Trump's response in the aftermath of the Charlottesville violence, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.