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President Donald Trump participates in NORAD Santa Tracker phone calls at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2017. President Donald Trump participates in NORAD Santa Tracker phone calls at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2017.
The Iowa Republican inadvertently tweeted holiday greetings at an anti-Trump account Sunday afternoon, sparking seething speculation that the he might have started hitting the egg nog a bit early. "Merry Christmas MrPresident," Grassley tweeted at @teaIDonaIdTrump, a satire account that has a handle reminiscent of the President's @realDonaldTrump one.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., on Sunday called on FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe to "step aside" amid apparent conflicts of interest and "contradictions" over his alleged political bias. In remarks on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," King, a member of the House Intelligence and Homeland Security committees, said he's worked with McCabe over the years, but now, "there's been so many questions raised."
Delcy Rodriguez, president of the National Constituent Assembly, speaks during a meeting of the Truth Commission in Caracas, Venezuela, in this file photo taken Aug 16. CARACAS: Three dozen opponents of Venezuela's socialist government were released from prison and reunited with loved ones on Sunday as part of a wider Christmas release, a local rights group said. Lambasted by critics at home and abroad for holding around 270 activists in prison, President Nicolas Maduro's administration said on Saturday it was releasing 80 of them with alternative sentences like community service.
One of her counterparts in California dismisses estimates of tax savings for most U.S. households and says the legislation is "just putting money in the pocket of the wealthy."
Registration will allow you to post comments on newstimes.com and create a newstimes.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. A New York Times article uncovered multiple incidents of Weinstein's sexually harassment or abuse.
Republican Bob Corker's war of words with President Donald Trump and his surprise decision to retire from the Senate after two terms is the top Tennessee news story of 2017, according to an annual Associated Press survey of reporters, editors and broadcasters. Corker's retirement set off a scramble among potential candidates to succeed him.
In this Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, standing with Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterms plan to argue that the legislation favors the wealthy and breaks President Donald Trump and Republicans' promises to the middle class.
Almost one year into Donald Trump's US presidency, a network of grassroots opposition groups have been building up their firepower. But can the resistance make a real difference? Like little blue dots in a sea of red.
Remember that net neutrality legislation introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn ? TechCrunch is calling it "half-hearted" -- and suspect. It's not going to happen, it wouldn't help if it did and Blackburn isn't someone you want writing this kind of legislation.
One of her counterparts in California dismisses estimates of tax savings for most U.S. households and says the legislation is "just putting money in the pocket of the wealthy." And in Kansas, a Democratic candidate for governor says it's "a recipe for disaster" that previews inevitable cuts to popular programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Last week the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed a GOP tax bill that rewards profitable corporations and wealthy families while putting middle-class and low-income families across the country at risk. All but one of New Jersey's 14 members of Congress -- including four of the state's five Republican House members -- voted against the bill.
Authorities said Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, was shot and killed by police Friday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after he fired several times at law enforcement officers throughout the city. The string of shootings began just steps from the state's Capitol building when El-Mofty fired several times at a Capitol Police officer and then, shot and injured at a state trooper.
Once Arkansas allows medical marijuana sales, veterans in the care of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs physicians can discuss the drug with their doctors, but that's it. In the federal government's eyes, marijuana is an illegal, Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning the VA won't recommend, prescribe or pay for cannabis.
As we are inundated ad nauseam with countless images of the grinning "Three White Men," in their self-congratulatory post legislative win celebrations and photo ops, let us not forget who will benefit, and who will be left behind in the wake of the GOP's, "huge tax cut." The clear winners, of course, are the 1 percent, the huge corporations, healthy young employed Americans, and Wall Street.
In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times.
President Trump will never have a full complement of political appointees if the Senate doesn't start voting more quickly, according to a Republican who thinks he can convince Democrats to speed up the process. "We may disagree on the exact solution or the exact timing of the solution but, we understand there is a real problem," Sen. James Lankford told the Washington Examiner .
For the rest of December, Washington Examiner reporters will be exploring what 2018 has in store in a number of areas, from the White House and Congress to energy and defense. See all of our year ahead stories here .
With an annual defense budget of $700 billion, shouldn't America join in keeping America on the cutting edge of science? It is unfortunate that the Review-Journal's editorial policy has not changed with the newspaper having new ownership. The editorials at the state's largest newspaper continue to be denigrating and rarely positive.
Republicans who hope their Senate disaster in Alabama will scare voters away from other outsider, longshot conservatives should spend some time with Michele Evans. Three thousand miles from the scene of Republican Roy Moore's stunning defeat, the Nevada Republican doesn't see a connection between Moore and her preferred Senate candidate, Danny Tarkanian, who is trying to unseat incumbent Dean Heller after several failed election attempts.