Somerset County man joins growing list of candidates in the 9th Congressional District

A Northampton Township resident announced that he will join the ever-growing field of Republican candidates in the 9th Congressional District. Max Merrill, 40, a farmer and policy director for the National Farm to School Network based in Washington, D.C, said that President Donald Trump's victory was the catalyst for his campaign.

EPA ends clean air policy opposed by fossil fuel interests

The Trump administration announced Thursday it is doing away with a decades-old air emissions policy opposed by fossil fuel companies, a move that environmental groups say will result in more pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency said it was withdrawing the "once-in always-in" policy under the Clean Air Act, which dictated how major sources of hazardous air pollutants are regulated.

Roy Moore asks supporters to help fight lawsuit filed by accuser

Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who lost his Senate bid in December, is asking his supporters to help him pay the legal bills related to a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused Moore of pursuing sexual relations with her when she was 14. Moore's campaign sent a fundraising email to his backers Thursday, asking them to help him raise $250,000 for his legal defense fund. The conservative judge is currently being sued by Leigh Corfman, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore earlier this month.

Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez push Trump for tougher Venezuela sanctions

"It is clear that the United States can - and should - do more to increase international pressure against Maduro and his cronies," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., wrote in a letter to President Trump. President Trump needs to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime, according to a pair of senators worried about drug trafficking and terrorism in the troubled country.

Missing from Sessions interview: a criminal lawyer

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions was called in for an interview last week with the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, he turned to a friend and fellow Alabama lawyer to accompany him. The lawyer, Chuck Cooper, worked in the Reagan Justice Department and is well-known in conservative circles for his private-practice work on social causes, such as defending a California law that banned same-sex marriage.

Senator may release Russia interviews of Trump Jr., others

The Senate Judiciary Committee is finishing its investigation into the meeting between Russians and President Donald Trump's campaign in June 2016 - and the committee chairman wants to release transcripts from closed-door interviews with Trump's son and others. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says he wants to work out an agreement with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California to release transcripts from interviews with Donald Trump Jr. and others who attended the campaign meeting in Trump Tower.

Judiciary chairman plans to release Donald Trump Jr. transcript

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he wants to release the transcript of the committee's closed-door interview with Donald Trump Jr., joining Democrats on the committee who have pressed to make it public. Grassley said he will now move to release all of the panel's interviews involving the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Trump Jr., the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Henry Kissinger says John McCain once thanked him for refusing to give the POW special treatment

Henry Kissinger came to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to bestow his advice on a raft of global security threats, but he began his testimony with a story about the committee's absent chairman, Sen. John McCain, who was in Arizona battling brain cancer. The 94-year-old former secretary of state said he was in Vietnam in 1973 when McCain was released by the North after more than five years as a prisoner of war.

Undeterred by failed appeal, Brazil’s da Silva vows to run

Appellate court judges have voted to uphold a graft conviction against da Silva, rai... . A woman cries during a demonstration in support of Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018.

Grumpy Cat snatches lump of cash in California court

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, Bundesen won a lawsuit first filed three years a... Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon submits her resignation amid outcry over school's handling of allegations against Larry Nassar. Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon submits her resignation amid outcry over school's handling of allegations against Larry Nassar.