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With people across the country dying at the rate of 53 a day from overdoses of fentanyl and similar compounds - now the leading killers in the opioid epidemic - efforts to stop this scourge ought to come from every corner of the federal government. But even as President Trump has declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency , some agencies have failed to act as if it is one.
If Democrats win at least one branch of Congress, there will be an investigative feast - with rich targets - of the ethically challenged administration of President Donald Trump, plus a check on presidential actions. If Republicans retain full control, expect renewed attacks on Obamacare, efforts to cut Medicare and Social Security, and one or two more right-wing Supreme Court justices.
The 60-day legislative session begins Monday, with lawmakers hoping they'll finish their work - which includes finalizing the last piece of a court mandate on education funding - without having to go into overtime. After a win in a key Senate seat in November, Democrats are back in charge of both legislative chambers for the first time in five years, holding a razor thin 25-24 majority in the Senate and a slim 50-48 edge in the House.
Democrats are trying to flex their muscles noting that their votes are typically needed on issues such as spending and debt; Mike Emanuel explains on 'Special Report.' A meteorological "bomb cyclone" ravaged the East Coast last week. A political bomb cyclone could wreck Washington come January 19. That's the date Congress has to fund government operations and avoid a government shutdown.
"The Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence," he wrote on Twitter on Saturday. His tweet may have been in reaction to the new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , which claims that some of the president's advisers have privately belittled his sanity and intelligence.
A man had to be taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after setting a woman's house on fire in Rogers County. Deputies tell us the victim returned home to find the unidentified suspect violating a protective order by being at her place.
Millions of working Americans should start seeing fatter paychecks as early as next month, Republican leaders say, as a result of the recently passed tax law. But the precise timing hasn't been fixed yet.
Congress simply can't ignore the massive collision about to occur between federal and state laws regarding marijuana. The Obama administration essentially created new federal marijuana policy by refusing to enforce unambiguous federal law.
Trump told reporters after meeting GOP House and Senate leaders at Camp David on Saturday that he's planning a robust schedule of campaigning for the 2018 midterm elections and that includes involvement in the Republican primaries. He'll campaign for incumbents, he said, and "anybody else that has my kind of thinking."
The new year began with a bang as the long stalled congressional investigations of the top FBI and Department of Justice officials and Fusion GPS begin to see daylight and the Clinton Foundation slush fund investigation resumed, this time with greater probity than the former top officials at the FBI and DOJ permitted. Congressman Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and Judiciary chairman Senator Chuck Grassley fired the first salvos of the year.
Five years after the state voted to allow recreational use of the drug, more states have legalized marijuana. What does Colorado's experience teach us? We're far from CLEARING THE SMOKE over recreational marijuana use.
Lynn Tran and Richard Hazen built a beachfront treehouse that would be the envy of any child, but they've been in a legal fight for years to keep it _ and now they're at their last stop, the Supreme Court. Lynn Tran and Richard Hazen built a beachfront treehouse that would be the envy of any child, but they've been in a legal fight for years to keep it _ and now they're at their last stop, the Supreme Court.
THURMONT, Md. - Emerging from closed-door meetings with Republican leaders, President Donald Trump on Saturday held out the prospect of a deal with Democrats on the fate of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children but appeared to put a welfare system overhaul - once a top White House priority - on the back burner.
The FBI is also investigating the Clinton Foundation for possible pay-to-play or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Fired FBI Director James Comey's original Hillary Clinton statement was released to the public Thursday by Senator Ron Johnson .
With the announcement this week that U.S. longest-serving Senate Republican Orrin Hatch will retire soon, political pundits weigh in on a major shift in the country's political landscape. Utah, a large western state with a small population, is traditionally conservative with a history of producing famous national politicians including Hatch, who has been serving in the Senate for 41 years.
President Donald Trump lashed out at critics Saturday in defense of his mental fitness for office, calling himself a "very stable genius" in a tweetstorm of boasts. First on Twitter and then at a news conference with Republican leaders at Camp David, Trump defended himself against a new book that cites purported fears from former and current aides that he was unprepared for the presidency, incapable of processing information and uninterested in making difficult decisions.
President Donald Trump, fifth from right, accompanied by from left, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Vice President Mike Pence, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, speaks during a news conference after after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. THURMONT, Md.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press after holding meetings at Camp David Saturday. Trump met with staff, members of his Cabinet and Republican members of Congress to discuss the Republican legislative agenda for 2018.
To Friday's caller, who generalized about Boulder County and all liberalism. Liberals tend to be concerned about everyone, not just the wealthy; and most do not think conservatism necessarily implies greed, ignorance or narrow-mindedness.