When Scumbags Collide, pt 2: Scott and Dana Bash Each Other All Day Long

Some of my Democrat friends, paranoid or rather traumatized by past Republican conspiracies, suspected the Scott Baugh challenge to Dana Rohrabacher in the 48th Congressional District to be a planned shadowplay to get two Republicans through the June primary and then Scott hand it to Dana by bowing out or not trying hard in the summer and fall. I assured them, having watched these two closely for a while, that the bad blood is real.

Financial turmoil engulfs Italy amid political uncertainty

Farmers on the Hawaiian island o... Farmers say Hawaii should brace for a shortage of its traditional crop taro after record-breaking rains flooded their fields on the island of Kauai last month. Farmers say Hawaii should brace for a shortage of its traditional crop taro after record-breaking rains flooded their fields on the island of Kauai last month.

Braun, Donnelly gird for a sensational Senate race

More than a year ago, when U.S. Reps. Todd Rokita and Luke Messer began angling for the 2018 U.S. Senate nomination just as President Donald Trump commenced a fitful start, there was the big question: Are you sure you want to give up safe House seats to run in a first Trump mid-term? MSNBC's Steve Kornacke provided the grist: Since 1998, incumbent senators in "hostile states" were 21-3.

Leader of failed MH370 wreckage hunt hopes to search again

He retu... Nearly two years after a trip to meet the woman he loved turned into an imprisonment in a Venezuelan jail, an exhausted but grateful Utah man arrived home with his wife Monday. Nearly two years after a trip to meet the woman he loved turned into an imprisonment in a Venezuelan jail, an exhausted but grateful Utah man arrived home with his wife Monday.

Politics | EXCLUSIVE: Chafee Out of U.S. Senate Race

In late April, former United States Senator and Governor of Rhode Island Chafee told GoLocalProv that he would challenge Sheldon Whitehouse in the Democratic primary for United States Senate in September. On Sunday night, Chafee told GoLocal, "Two of my favorite sayings are, 'Fortune favors the bold' and 'Discretion is the better part of valor.'

Playbook: President Trump’s Memorial Day messagePOLITICO

HERE IS WHAT YOUR NEXT FEW WEEKS WILL SOUND LIKE a BURGESS EVERETT and ELANA SCHOR: "Senators to Trump: It's do-or-die time on DACA": "Cory Gardner, the leader of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, delivered an urgent message to President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation earlier this month: Congress and the White House need to act pronto on immigration reform. The closer we get to the election and certainly post-election, the more difficult it will be,' the Colorado Republican recounted telling the president.

Trump White House Drama Changes Drastically a ” But Is Still Just Like…

About six weeks before President Trump was inaugurated, a Trump transition staffer explained the power struggle between newly named White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus with a reference to a certain bloody HBO drama. "In this administration, titles will not matter," the staffer told New York .

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File). FILE – In this May 17, 2018 file…

Greitens, a sometimes brash outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhode... . Michael Hafner, a former campaign worker for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, is sworn in before testifying before a Missouri House special investigative committee probing Greitens, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in J... .

Top North Korean official heads to US for pre-summit talks

Poland's police say they have arrested a Nigerian man who is wanted in the United States for alleged cyberfraud and extortion done over the internet totaling an estimated $7 million. . Dania Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguard Michael Vasta paddles out, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, as his colleague Peter Fournier watches from a beach tower in Dania Beach, Fla.

American freed from Venezuelan jail returns home to Utah

Seam... A teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student at an Indiana school said Monday that his swift decisions "were the only acceptable actions" to save his seventh-grade classroom. . This May 29, 2016 photo provided by Christian Kahahawai shows Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama planting huli, or taro seedlings at her farm in Hanalei, Kauai island, Hawaii.

The Latest: Utah man freed from Venezuelan jail returns home

In this image provided by the Holt family, Joshua Holt, his wife Thamara and her daughter Marian Leal, board a plane at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 26, 2018. Jailed in Venezuela on weapons charges nearly two years ago, Holt was released Saturday after a U.S. senator pressed for his freedom in a surprise meeting with President Nicolas Maduro.

Outside Groups Shift Attention to Expensive Senate Battlegrounds

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp will hit the North Dakota airwaves Tuesday morning with a TV ad highlighting her independence from Washington and from her fellow Democrats. The spot continues her effort to build a robust reelection campaign in a race that epitomizes the Democrats' tough map.

Florida Cop In Trouble After Wishing Car Accident On Gun Violence ProtestHuffPost

A Florida police officer could face disciplinary action after he said on Facebook that he hoped "some old lady loses control of her car" at a protest against gun violence last Friday. The comment was posted beneath a photo of protest organizer and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg .

Leading Off: Rizzo catches Pirates’ ire, Stanton returns

Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Elias Diaz, right, throws to first after getting the force-out at home plate on Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo on a fielder's choice to shortstop by Cub's Chris Gimenez in the eighth inning of a b... . RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT NAME TO JASON SEAMAN - In this undated photo, provided by Southern Illinois University, Jason Seaman, a defensive end for the SIU football team, poses for a photo in Carbondale, Ill.

Hundreds attend Worcester County Memorial Day ceremony

Hundreds gathered at the Worcester County Veterans Memorial Monday morning to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice with an emotional ceremony. Mike Beatty, a speaker at the event said, "Today we are here at this beautiful Veterans Memorial to pay tribute to our fallen heroes and to recognize the men and women who gave all."