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As Sen. John McCain remains in his home state recovering from surgery for an intestinal infection and undergoing treatment for brain cancer, he has mostly been receiving a stream of well wishes and tributes for his long career in public service. One faction that has been a notable exception are some of President Trump's staunch defenders.
Florida school officials now say school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was referred during middle school to a mentoring program aimed at steering children away from the criminal justice system, a shifting explanation that critics are calling a reversal of earlier statements. Following the Valentine's Day shooting that killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie had said that Cruz hadn't been in the program.
About two dozen peopled gathered outside Gov. Mary Fallin's office to urge her to sign legislation that would allow adults to carry handguns without a permit. Oklahoma requires a license to carry a handgun openly or concealed.
One candidate is on supervised release from prison and has drawn explicit opposition from President Trump. Two came under fire over decades-old alcohol-related incidents.
When it comes to Gina Haspel, President Trump's controversial nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House is playing the woman card. But the way the president's team is invoking gender is exactly why so many conservatives hate identity politics.
Sen. John McCain , who is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, has reportedly told the White House he does not want President Donald Trump to go to his funeral. The Arizona Republican has instead requested that Vice President Mike Pence attend in his place, according to NBC News.
Mitt Romney, who last appeared on the debate stage as a presidential candidate in 2012, will take on GOP opponent Mike Kennedy in Utah's GOP Senate debate on May 29. The Utah Debate Commission announced the debate schedule on Monday, and said debate will take place at Brigham Young University. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and the GOP nominee for president six years ago, will take on Kennedy in the Utah GOP primary scheduled for June 26. Romney was unable to secure the nomination at the state GOP convention last month, leaving voters to decide.
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials - In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal. Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser Trump's GOP 'warriors' lead charge against Mueller - Trump has hailed a quartet of aggressive House Republicans whom Democrats say are trying to 'sabotage' the Russia probe.
A politician who can straddle the cultures of South Carolina and the Subcontinent knows a thing or two about winning popular support. She may have even more in India than the U.S. That Indian-American Nikki Haley is the most popular member of the Trump administration in her own country has now been demonstrated by reliable polling.
We are so distracted every day by the latest Trump scandal that it becomes hard to recognize the collective damage being done by his presidency. It's not just the breaking of the norms.
Control of the House and Senate won't be determined until November, but this week will point to where both parties go from here. In West Virginia, one Republican primary candidate has waged an all-out racist assault against the Senate leader of his own party.
President Donald Trump isn't on the state's June 5 primary ballot, but his presence will loom over the candidates who are. Thanks in part to Trump's unpopularity in the Garden State , Democrats have a shot at winning all five Republican-held House districts, while their one possibly endangered incumbent appears to be safe.
President Trump and Vice President Pence are moving their post-primary Indiana visit to a venue with more seats, all the bigger to begin their campaign attacks on Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. The rally is being moved from South Bend to Elkhart to "accommodate more Hoosiers," according to a news release from the Trump-Pence re-election campaign.
And there are the races for federal office. Three Republicans are running for their party's nomination to run for U.S. Senate in what the Associated Press called the nastiest race in the country.
Todd Cox, policy director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has this notable new commentary in The Hill headlined "Sentencing reform is moving in the wrong direction." Here are excerpts with a bit of additional commentary to follow: In 2015, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a long awaited bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill designed to address inequities in federal sentencing and promote rehabilitation and re-entry for persons who are incarcerated.
The ex-fiancee of Benjamin Sparks, the Nevada political consultant facing battery charges after he allegedly assaulted the woman and made her his sex slave, has hired attorney Gloria Allred a week before the case heads to a Las Vegas courtroom. The ex-fiancee of Benjamin Sparks, the Nevada political consultant facing battery charges after he allegedly assaulted the woman and made her his sex slave, has hired attorney Gloria Allred a week before the case heads to a Las Vegas courtroom.
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Fighting to put a candidate before voters in November, California Republicans strongly preferred businessman John Cox for governor at the party's convention in San Diego this weekend. During an endorsement vote Sunday morning, delegates favored Cox, 55 to 41 percent, over Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach.
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Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency - The president has raised the spectre of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control. - Rudy Giuliani's revelation Sunday that he expects President Donald Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is going to push Congress to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress.