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President Donald Trump's favorite TV network is increasingly serving as a West Wing casting call, as the president reshapes his administration with camera-ready personalities. Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, is a former U.N. ambassador, a White House veteran - and perhaps most importantly a Fox News channel talking head.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg should testify before Congress about privacy protections in the wake of revelations data from 50 million users was shared without their knowledge, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday. In an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," Warner said Zuckerberg has to go beyond the full-page ad he placed in British and U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum suggested teens protesting gun violence instead prepare to help the victims of mass shootings by learning CPR and practicing active shooter drills. "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."
A Missouri bill to strengthen employment contracts that require sexual harassment, discrimination and other work-related issues to be decided through arbitration has died an unusually early death that came as Congress considers moving in the opposite direction. At issue is legislation that would have ramped-up the enforceability of arbitration agreements, common contracts in which businesses require employees to settle misconduct lawsuits through private companies instead of in court.
Last week's spending bill includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years. The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a practice of raiding nonfire-related accounts to pay for wildfire costs, which approached $3 billion last year.
While some in Israel fete John Bolton's nomination, others see him in a different light, and he isn't the only one around selling war or hate John Bolton speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, on April 17, 2015. 1. The nomination of John Bolton as US national security adviser, continuing to reverberate through the Israeli media ecosystem, is being given new life by a revelation Sunday morning by former defense minister Shaul Mofaz that Bolton once tried to convince him to bomb Iran.
Like in Matthew when that pious dude has a come-to-Jesus moment and is shocked to learn he's not booked for salvation. "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison?" he asked, incredulous that his tickets to Heaven weren't waiting at Will Call.
Is the Austin serial bombing suspect 'troubled' or a terrorist? Reaction on 'The Greg Gutfeld Show.' The man linked to a series of deadly Austin package bombings called himself a "psychopath" in a recorded confession and said he had no remorse for the explosions that killed two people, a U.S. congressman said Saturday. Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, left a roughly 25-minute recording on his cell phone detailing the seven explosive devices he created and planted throughout Austin starting in early March.
By LISA MASCARO and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON - With passage of an enormous budget bill, the GOP-controlled Congress all but wrapped up its legislating for the year.
Villa Rica and Douglasville may be on the verge of a new era of development, thanks to two pieces of legislation that are now headed to the desk of Gov. Nathan Deal. Two separate bills authorizing referenda to create Tax Allocation Districts in both communities have now cleared both houses of the General Assembly.
Thousands of students, teachers and other concerned citizens descended on the capital Saturday carrying signs and wearing symbolic price tags to say "enough" to gun violence. Many of the speakers at the March for Our Lives rally were students propelled into the debate over gun laws when a 19-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle mowed down their classmates and teachers last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
With passage of an enormous budget bill, the GOP-controlled Congress all but wrapped up its legislating for the year. But will it be enough to convince voters to give Republicans another term at the helm? In two big ways, Republicans have done what they promised.
I praise the courage of Robert Rees and Clifton Jolley's March 18 commentary: " Evangelicals, Mormons and Trump's Perfect Storm ." They observe that Republicans are shutting down the House Intelligence Committee's investigation of President Donald Trump's alleged collusion with the Russian interference in the 2016 election.
A copy of the $1.3 trillion spending bill is stacked on a table last week in the Diplomatic Room of the White House. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated Press A copy of the $1.3 trillion spending bill is stacked on a table last week in the Diplomatic Room of the White House.
Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, New Mexico's Republican gubernatorial candidate, is an outspoken advocate for restricting access to abortion. Luis SA nchez Saturno/New Mexican file photo Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, New Mexico's Republican gubernatorial candidate, is an outspoken advocate for restricting access to abortion.
Flanked by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis , Vice President Mike Pence and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, President Trump discusses the $1.3 trillion spending bill he signed. Flanked by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis , Vice President Mike Pence and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, President Trump discusses the $1.3 trillion spending bill he signed.
President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure Friday, averting a midnight government shutdown just hours after declaring he was considering a veto. in the package, in part because it did not fully fund his plans for a border wall with Mexico and did not address some 700,000 The bill signing came a few hours after Trump created last-minute drama by saying in a tweet that he was With Congress already on recess, and a government shutdown looming, he said that young immigrants now protected in the U.S. under Barack Obama's Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals "have been totally abandoned by the Democrats and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded."
At the gun-control rally, two teen sisters who helped organize the protest said they felt hope for the first time after the Parkland, Florida shooting survivors advocated for change. "Finally, somebody was doing something about it, except it wasn't who you'd expect - it was us," Mariah Thomas, 17, said to cheers.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, center, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, far right, join demonstrators during a "March for Our Lives" protest for gun legislation and school safety Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Houston. Turner has told several thousand people demonstrating for stricter gun control that adults have a responsibility to stand up and protect all children.