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Kenneth Starr said Monday that postponing the Senate confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would be a "profound injustice" to the confirmation process. "I think there is a profound injustice here, to the process quite apart to Judge Kavanaugh and his family," former Clinton Independent Counsel Starr said in an interview on The Laura Ingraham Show.
This week, the U.S. Senate is on track to approve a sweeping, bipartisan plan to tackle the opioid epidemic. The bill provides new funds for prevention and education efforts, plus cracking down on fentanyl and other illegal drug trafficking.
President Trump on Monday responded to allegations by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Kavanaugh "is somebody very special" who "never even had a little blemish on his record."
In this Oct. 19, 2016, file photo, former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., listens to Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. speak during a campaign stop in Detroit.
Less than two years ago, the conventional wisdom told us that President Donald Trump had transformed the political map: GOP strongholds in the South had joined with gains in the Rust Belt and upper Midwest , giving Republicans an electoral lock for years to come. Then came 20 months of the Trump presidency.
In this March 27, 2018, file photo, author-activist Sean Penn poses for a portrait in New York to promote his novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff." Penn says much of the spirit of what has been the MeToo movement is to "divide men and women."
More than half of all workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025, organizers of the Davos economic forum said in a report released Monday that highlights the speed with which the labor market will change in coming years. The World Economic Forum estimates that machines will be responsible for 52 percent of the division of labor as share of hours within seven years, up from just 29 percent today.
Now that Brett Kavanaugh's accuser has gone public with her story that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both were teenagers, the White House and Republicans have signaled that they plan to aggressively undercut her credibility. It's a strategy that some conservatives have already launched.
An attorney for the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually misconduct said her client is willing to testify before a Senate committee. Kavanaugh accuser Christine Ford willing to testify before Senate committee, lawyer says An attorney for the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually misconduct said her client is willing to testify before a Senate committee.
When Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with Robert S. Mueller III on Friday, plenty of people were surprised. Manafort, after all, had already been convicted in a previous trial, through which he had remained resolute.
Libertarians Gregg Luckner, left, and Robert Strawder talk during a Libertarian party event in downtown Las Vegas, on Aug. 30, 2018. A Republican and two Democrats who mingled among a recent gathering of Libertarians are some of the candidates that Nevada's littlest big party is finding common ground with.
Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Terrified of alienating the activist bases of their respective parties, Democrats and Republicans in Congress rarely even try to compromise anymore.
In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation's deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it. He's insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was "incredibly successful," even though blackouts there remain common and several forms of federal aid have been slow to arrive compared with past disasters.
The first peek at the politics of the next legislative session is gestating in San Antonio and points west, where an election on Tuesday will decide who'll be filling Democrat Carlos Uresti 's seat in the Texas Senate. It's one piece of the leadership puzzle that will fully take shape in January, when the Legislature convenes in Austin for its regular session.
The House intelligence committee chairman says he plans to release the transcripts of dozens of private interviews conducted during its investigation into Russian election-meddling and would push the director of national intelligence to declassify others. "I think full transparency is in order here, so I expect to make those available from our committee to the American public here in the next few weeks," said Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., months after the GOP colleague who led the investigation said such a release could have a "chilling impact" on testimony in future inquiries.
President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was thrust into turmoil Sunday after the woman accusing him of high school-era sexual misconduct told her story publicly for the first time. Democrats immediately called for a delay in a key committee vote set for this later week and a Republican on the closely divided panel said he's "not comfortable" voting on the nomination without first hearing from the accuser.
CNN's Ana Cabrera reads a redacted version of the letter Christine Blasey Ford wrote to Sen. Dianne Feinstein detailing an event in which she accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Kavanaugh denies these allegations.
Greenwich Selectman Sandy Litvack and State Rep. candidate Laura Kostin applaud speakers at the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee Cookout and Campaign Rally at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn. Sunday, Sept.
Before the final primary results were in on Thursday, U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney's opponent in the 18th Congressional District, offered his reaction. "We already knew that whatever tonight's results brought in, Sean Maloney made clear that the people of the 18th Congressional District were his last priority."
California professor Christine Blasey says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.