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Photo Provided Rachel, McKenzie and Madeline Lore of Parkersburg pose with the Easter bunny during the White House's Easter Egg Roll on Monday in Washington, D.C. Photo Provided Madeline and McKenzie Lore of Parkersburg pose with the storybook character The Very Hungry Caterpillar during the White House's Easter Egg Roll on Monday in Washington, D.C. Photo Provided Rachel, Andrew, Madeline and McKenzie Lore of Parkersburg traveled to Washington, D.C., over the weekend to participate in the White House's Easter Egg Roll on Monday. WASHINGTON - A couple of girls from Parkersburg had the opportunity to participate in the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll this week.
Following their humiliating defeat in the 2016 election, the Democratic Party found themselves in a terrible place where they were down over 1000 seats through all levels of government since 2008. And according to one high-ranking Party official, one person held the blame.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) poses with Congressman Ruben Kihuen (D-Nev) following a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
William S. Boyd, founder and executive chairman of Boyd Gaming Corporation, speaks during a ceremony honoring former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Justice Michael Cherry, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, greets former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev), center, during a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, left, presents a certificate of recogmition to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) during a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Audience members applaud during a ceremony honoring former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Former Sen. Richard Bryan laughs during a ceremony honoring former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, center, chats with Leif Reid, left and Rory Reid, sons of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid before a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017.
Washington lawmakers reached agreement Thursday on a two-tiered licensing system that seeks to bring Washington state into compliance with federal identification requirements. With final passage of the measure, lawmakers end a multiyear struggle over how to best comply with the REAL ID Act, a 2005 federal law that requires state driver's licenses and ID cards to have security enhancements and be issued to people who can prove they are legally in the United States.
A group of Democratic senators, including Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren, want to know whether Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief strategist and former Breitbart News chairman, violated government ethics rules when he communicated with Breitbart about the site's coverage of the White House. In a Thursday letter to Bannon , the senators pointed to news reports, including one published by Business Insider , that said Bannon instructed Breitbart editors to stop publishing stories critical of chief of staff Reince Priebus.
I've done my best in this space to avoid writing about Hillary Clinton. But like my lesser counterpart Andrew Sullivan, now trapped at New York magazine like General Zod in the Forbidden Zone, I've been forced to pen a campaign postmortem at least 17 times.
Hawaii's Democratic lawmakers on Thursday criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions after he expressed amazement on a radio show that a "judge sitting on an island in the Pacific" could stop the president's travel ban. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono responded by trying to give Sessions a civics lesson on Twitter, saying Hawaii has been a U.S. state for 58 years.
That was one of many questions surrounding an event held Thursday just one block from the U.S. Senate. Local marijuana advocacy organization DCMJ was marking the unofficial cannabis holiday on April 20 - better known as 4/20 - by handing out free joints to members of Congress and their staffs.
Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis is running as a Democrat for U.S. Congress in New Mexico's central district. Davis formally announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination on Thursday at a brief news conference.
The entrance to the Georgetown branch of the District of Columbia's Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency is ditching "District of Columbia" from driver's licenses after confusion that led to residents struggling to order beers and board planes.
Dubbed the Aquos R, it features some top-tier specs with a lot of hype around the display technology and included artificial intelligence. The latter is supposedly going to learn all of your usage habits, like we're all used to, but when when paired with rotating the Robocle charging dock, it can cross the line into creepy.
A Georgia congressman who joined Martin Luther King Jr. in the historic Selma march will speak at Berea College's commencement ceremony next month. Rep. John Lewis helped organize the march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 that demanded an end to voter registration discrimination.
Harvard University is honoring one of its most famous graduates - John F. Kennedy - with a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the slain president's birth. Harvard hosts the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium on Thursday.