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Rep. Alan Grayson on The House steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, February 4, 2016. Grayson's highly unusual dual role - a sitting House lawmaker running a hedge fund, which until recently had operations in the Cayman Islands - has led to an investigation by the House Committee on Ethics.
Donald Trump and his running mate will present themselves to America as the Republican team that will take on Hillary Clinton and her Democratic sidekick for the US presidency in November. Billionaire businessman Mr Trump announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate on Friday, adding an experienced politician with deep Washington connections to the party presidential ticket.
And this Election Day, extraordinary though the campaign season is, likely will be no different. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that Americans ages 18 to 34 will make up only 17 percent of the country's likely voters in November.
Gov. Mike Pence showed in his first national interview after being tapped as Donald Trump's running mate that he understands his job. Pence ready to make the case for Trump Gov. Mike Pence showed in his first national interview after being tapped as Donald Trump's running mate that he understands his job.
I will get to this point in a bit, but I need to set the stage for what I want to bring out. No, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but strange things happen all the time.
Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, adding political experience and conservative bona fides to his Republican presidential ticket.
WHAT A VIEW: As the sun sets behind the Rocky Mountains, a golden light illuminates the clouds late Wednesday, July 13, in Denver. People wait in line outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre in hopes of buying tickets to the Tony Award-winning musical, "Hamilton," Friday, July 8, 2016, in New York.
Trump had originally planned to announce his running mate on Friday. But he delayed the announcement because of the attacks in Nice, France, late Thursday.
Allegedly, Donald Trump is supposed to be about unifying the GOP before the general election gets underway. I say "allegedly" because there is nothing in his words or actions that indicate he is saying anything but "my way or the highway."
A Senate bill aimed at helping to restore and revitalize endangered waterfronts across the county is moving through to the House. Senator Tammy Baldwin has been working on getting the Waterfront Community Revitalization and Resiliency Act passed for the past year, and says she's happy to finally see it get a vote.
Hillary Clinton enters the summer damaged by perceptions that she violated the law by using a private email system while serving as secretary of state, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. More than half of Americans think the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee broke the law by using a private email account and server at the State Department and nearly 4 in 10 think she did so intentionally, according to the poll.
Mourners gather Friday to pay their last respects to a 37-year-old black man shot and killed in an encounter with two white police officers in Louisiana, a killing that helped fuel protests nationwide over the treatment of African-Americans by police. Alton Sterling was shot July 5 outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in an encounter with police that was caught on video.
Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment b... Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment building fatally shot a man who fired at them with an "AR-15-style" gun, authorities said early Friday. Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment building fatally shot a man who fired at them with an "AR-15-style" gun, authorities said early Friday.
When the California Republican delegation lands in Cleveland this week ahead of the party's nominating convention, they'll head more than an hour west to the Kalahari Water Park Resort in Sandusky, where they were assigned lodging by the Republican National Committee. After that, most delegates will get on a bus and take another hour-long ride back into Cleveland to do party work on the convention floor.
The Northeast might not be the most fertile ground for Republican candidates for national office, but New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will be front-and-center at next week's Republican National Convention. Delegates from those states will have prime seats to watch billionaire businessman Donald Trump accept the GOP's nomination for president.
Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time. Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama on Thursday that would require most food packages to carry a text label, a symbol or an electronic code readable by smartphone that indicates whether the food contains genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs.
Much like their House counterparts, Connecticut's Democratic senators pushed for immediate funding aimed at opioid addiction. But in the end, they settled for the Republican majority's measure that puts the money on hold until later this year.
Georgia plans to execute a man convicted of killing a friend after a night of partying more than three decades ago. Georgia on Friday executed its sixth inmate this year, the most in any calendar year in the state since the death penalty was reinstated four decades ago.
In this Nov. 25, 1963 file photo, three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr., salutes his father's casket in Washington, three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the late president's brothers Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
When sexually explicit images surface on the Internet without at least one party's consent, they often bounce around from site to site, and there's often not much the victim can do about it. The victims - predominantly women - can't threaten legal action against websites that host the images.