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Colorado Photographer Comes Out With New Book Tracing Obama’s Journey
Colorado Photographer Comes Out With New Book Tracing Obama's Journey With just three weeks left before President Barack Obama leaves office, a Colorado photographer is coming out with her third book tracing the historic journey of the country's 44th president. Bloodhounds Search For Missing Aurora Boy, Amber Alert Issued Police in charge of the search for a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy have asked citizens to temporarily stop walking around the area in their efforts to help out with the search.
How Democrats plan to torpedo nine of Trump’s cabinet nominations
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , who is taking over his position from former Sen. Harry Reid , has warned Republican that they cannot expect an easy time for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet choices. Republicans can count on delaying tactics while Democrats "aggressively target" eight nominees.
Democrats, stop blaming Putin and look in the mirror
Will Bunch has worked at the Daily News for 20-plus years and is now senior writer. Since 2005, he's written the uber-opinionated, fair-but-dangerously unbalanced opinion blog "Attytood," covering a range of topics ; it's been named best blog in the state by the Associated Press Managing Editors and best blog in the city by Philadelphia Magazine.
Blumenthal: US must toughen cybersecurity efforts
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for an aggressive response to Russia's alleged hacking of Democrats during the presidential election. The Connecticut Democrat pointed to recently discovered malware at a Vermont utility as further evidence the nation needs to toughen its cybersecurity.
The Latest: Trump jabs critics, says he knew he’d win
President-elect Donald Trump is showing little sign of forgiving his critics as he prepares to move into the Oval Office. The incoming president tweeted Monday that, "Various media outlets and pundits say that I thought I was going to lose the election.
Donald Trump takes dig at Rahm Emanuel over Chicago homicides
NEW YORK – President-elect Donald Trump says Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's mayor and President Barack Obama's former chief of staff, should ask for federal assistance if he can't bring down the city's rising homicide tally. The nation's third-largest city had 762 homicides in 2016 - the most in two decades and more than the largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, combined.
not So Fast. Here’s Why the Gop Should Encourage Obama To Make…
For a political movement that prides themselves in being reality based, there is probably no group more susceptible to wish-casting and the use of Martian logic than the left. Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump has created an industry about the ridiculous idea that Russian hancking or fake news was the reason for her loss.
Under 3 weeks left: Obama in closing stretch of presidency
His last presidential vacation behind him, Barack Obama is entering the closing stretch of his term, an eleventh-hour push to tie up loose ends and put finishing touches on his legacy before handing the reins to President-elect Donald Trump. Obama returns to Washington at midday Monday from Hawaii with less than three weeks remaining in his presidency.
Ige promises action on Hawaii Island vacancies
Applications for candidates to fill one of the two Hawaii County seats on the University of Hawaii Board of Regents were due Sept. 30. The seat was vacated by the early September resignation of Barry Mizuno, who died Nov. 26. But a lack of a quorum on the Regents Candidate Advisory Council has left the applications still to be evaluated.
Dems Miss an ObamaCare Opportunity
As Republicans prepare to make good on their promises to dismantle and bury ObamaCare, Democrats have settled on a strategy for a final defense of the controversial law: a conference call with reporters. In communicating indignation to their grassroots voters and donors, however, Democrats are passing on a means of effectively defending ObamaCare from the coming GOP onslaught.
Walters: Punditry 101: Predicting this yeara s political news
Here is one set of predictions of Capitol politics in 2017. Remember, please, that pundits - just like polls - can be wrong.
US Sen. Warren seeks to pull pot shops out of banking limbo
20, 2016, file photo, Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warren is leading a new eff... .
GOP sets ambitious agenda for Congress
For six years, since they took back the House, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House.
Two council newcomers sworn in Englewood Cliffs
Two council newcomers sworn in Englewood Cliffs ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS--Ellen Park and William Woo were sworn to council terms on Sunday Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2hIg2i7 Ellen Park is sworn in by Congressman Bill Pascrell to the Englewood Cliffs Council at their Sine Die and Reorganization Meeting on Jan. 1, 2017. Holding the bible is Park's husband, Richard.
Claiming mandate, GOP Congress lays plans to propel sweeping conservative agenda
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Dec. 8, 2016 ceremony where the official portrait of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unveiled in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks at a Dec. 8, 2016 ceremony where the official portrait of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was unveiled in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House. In their thwarted agenda, financial regulations were to be unspooled.
1 of Chicago’s bloodiest years ends with 762 homicides
One of the most violent years in Chicago history ended Sunday with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined. The nation's third largest city also saw 1,100 more shooting incidents than it did in 2015, according to statistics released by the Chicago Police Department that underlined a story of bloodshed that has put Chicago at the center of a national dialogue about gun violence.
Reopened Capitol, Big To-Do List Await Minnesota Legislature
Minnesota lawmakers are ready to return to the freshly renovated state Capitol. They just won't have much time to soak it all in.
Plane with expelled diplomats leaves US: Russian media
A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats, expelled from the United States over Moscow's alleged interference in the presidential election, took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. President Putin's refusal to expel US diplomats came after Russia's foreign ministry asked him to send home 35 in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the expulsion of the same number of its staff by President Barack Obama "The plane has taken off, everyone is on board," said the Russian embassy in Washington, quoted by the state-owned Ria Novosti agency.
Van Jones on Democratic Party’s Future: ‘The Clinton Days …
During a panel discussion about the future of the Democratic Party on CNN's State of the Union this morning, political commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones made the case that the party should be pressing in a more progressive direction rather than move towards the middle. After former Democratic Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer blamed Democrat support for trade deals and Obamacare eroding support in the heartland and ex-Clinton aide Karen Finney said there was a need to build grassroots organizing in red states, Jones explained that there were some budding stars in the party.