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At congressional town hall meetings, on the patchy grass of the National Mall, and in the flood of comments posted on Senator Elizabeth Warren's Facebook page, it seems painfully obvious: Liberals are getting energized and exercised. They have found a rallying cry in opposing President Trump's policies on immigration, health care, and just about everything else that comes across his Twitter feed.
I trust Congressman and former mayor of Providence David Cicilline will be written about in history as one of Rhode Island's paramount electoral blunders of all time. Cicilline would face criminal charges for his malfeasance in any other state, but this is Rhode Island; a state that appears to elect the crooked, and the neurotic Cicilline falls in both camps.
On Friday, the governor turned to his potential nemesis for help - specifically, asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to declare a major disaster after the state was hammered by storms , floods and mudslides. The request could be an early test of relations between the Democrats who run the nation's largest state and the new Republican administration.
In theory , that is. As long as the GOP remains in control of the House, it will remain a theory: A New Jersey congressman says a rarely invoked 1924 law could be used to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations.
Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo was sworn in as CIA director on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, just an hour after the Senate confirmed him. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office.
This is so stunningly stupid , I just don't know what to say. Citizen journalist Austen Fletcher decided to go to the Tom Bradley International Airport and interview protesters, asking them why they were objecting to President Trump's refugee ban.
Clockwise from left; Hear Our Voice Connecticut members Kelley Hangos-Cerrano, of Monroe, Myrna Mills Albino, of Monroe, Nancy Gardiner, of Trumbull, Lori Charlton, of Monroe, Harriette Trevino, of Monroe, Jessie Ward, of Monroe, Sue Smelzer, of Monroe, and Cathy Lindstrom, of Monroe, meet at Albino's home in Monroe, Conn. on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.
The federal judge who will decide whether oil flows through the disputed Dakota Access pipeline has shown sympathy for the historical plight of American Indians, but has also made clear that he doesn't think that should play a role in judicial decisions. U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg is overseeing a lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux that could be their last hope of stopping the $3.8 billion pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois.
President Donald Trump has revived groundless claims of voter fraud, arguing in a lunch meeting with senators that he and former Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte would have won in New Hampshire if not for voters bused in from out of state. A GOP official with knowledge of Thursday's lunch conversation described the president's comments.
President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering signing a "brand-new order" after his refugee and immigration travel ban was halted in court. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, leave Air Force One with their children as they arrive Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The 24-year-old beauty on Friday was snapped walking the red carpet at the 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles, California, where rock n' roll icon Tom Petty was honored in front of a room full of luminaries to kick off Grammys weekend. The Other Woman actress was a vision of glamour and beauty at the swanky party, as she wore an elegant golden gown with a creme top that wrapped around her neck, revealed her shapely shoulders.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing the Trump administration on how they plan to pay for a wall on the U.S. and Mexico border. The Massachusetts Democrat and five other Democratic senators have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly raising concerns about what they said was the potential diversion of funds from key agency priorities.
This July 16, 1945 file photo shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, N.M. A report is scheduled to be released Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, on the health effects of the people who lived near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium will release the health assessment report, on residents of a historic Hispanic village of Tularosa near the Trinity Test in the New Mexico desert.
Recently-retired Congressman Charles Rangel led the honorees Friday at a Black History Month event where the Harlem politician urged America to remember its immigrant past. "The one problem we do have ... is how quickly people forget where they used to be," Rangel told the crowd - including ex-Mayor Dinkins - at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson smiles at a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Seattle. The ruling dealt another legal setback to the new administration's immigration policy.
'THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!' Furious Donald Trump tweets that he'll appeal San Francisco court's ruling as judges unanimously REFUSE to reinstate his travel ban Ohio State University student, 21, is shot dead and left near a public park just a day after she failed to return home from work and her car was reported missing Trump reaffirms 'one China' policy in call with President Xi in apparent move to soothe tensions over post-election phone call with Taiwan leader Hillary Clinton was 'replaced on Vogue cover by Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner after election loss' as fashion bible reveals it will cover Melania Trump moving forward 'I never thought I would use this phrase - FAKE NEWS:' Mexican foreign minister forced to deny that he rewrote Donald Trump's border wall speech with Jared Kushner Shocking moment 18-year-old serial offender is shot dead a fraction of a second after ... (more)
Supporters hold up a sign during a press conference to welcome home Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera on the day he returned to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Rivera unexpectedly returned to the island on Thursday to serve the remainder of a sentence commuted by outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama, according to the San Juan mayor's office.
President Trump's comments about the federal judge who blocked his immigration executive order have raised concerns among members of Congress and could complicate the pending confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. In a tweet over the weekend, Trump referred to Judge James L. Robart of the Western District of Washington as a "so-called judge" after Robart issued a nationwide temporary restraining order on Friday stopping the implementation of the executive order, which barred immigrant and nonimmigrant visa holders from seven countries from entering the U.S., indefinitely suspended the Syrian refugee program and temporarily stopped all refugee admissions to the United States.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, right, meets with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. Gorsuch has performed a valuable public service by criticizing President Donald Trump's acerbic attacks on the judiciary.
FILE - This Nov. 25, 2016, file satellite image taken by DigitalGlobe shows the construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D. Opponents of the pipeline called for protests around the world Wednesday... Developments on the Dakota Access pipeline have unfolded swiftly in recent weeks, with many of them propelled by the transition from President Barack Obama's administration to Donald Trump's. Here's a look at what happened involving the $3.8 billion pipeline - and what's yet to come: A company called Energy Transfer Partners has been working for months on the 1,200-mile project as a way to get oil from North Dakota's rich Bakken fields across four states to a shipping point in Illinois.