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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen announced that their cat Pickle died this week, according to Karen Pence's Twitter account. The Pence family took two cats, Oreo and Pickle, a snake and a rabbit named Marlon Bundo to their new home at the Naval Observatory residence in Washington, D.C. Oreo died in June, according to the family.
President Donald Trump on Friday urged voters to elect a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who has been dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct, warning that America "cannot afford" to have a Democrat win the hard-fought campaign instead. Trump gave a boost to the campaign of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore during a raucous campaign rally in the Florida panhandle, near the state line with Alabama.
Greenfield will welcome three of the four Republicans running for Congress next week for a forum to introduce them to voters. Hancock County Young Republicans is hosting one of this election season's first gatherings, inviting the men seeking their party's nomination to run for the District 6 U.S. House of Representatives seat to meet with the folks they'd represent.
A top Democrat is hinting that the Justice Department's investigation into Planned Parenthood is politically motivated, but a pro-life advocate said those claims would not stop the feds from pursuing their investigation. The DOJ is asking for unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into accusations that Planned Parenthood violated federal laws regarding the sale of fetal tissue and body parts of aborted fetuses.
U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey is slamming the Republican tax plan as a measure that would disproportionately hurt Bay State residents and is sounding off on calls to go after entitlement programs next year. "This Republican tax plan is a direct assault on Massachusetts families and their way of life," Markey said.
President Donald Trump on Friday touted his efforts to secure the homeland, telling a raucous rally crowd in the Florida panhandle that his administration is "taking care of our citizens at home" by defeating the Islamic State abroad and expelling violent street gang members from the U.S. "Not only are we defeating these killers, these savage killers, horrible, horrible," Trump told hundreds of supports at a rally in Pensacola, Florida, a region a White House spokesman called "Trump country." Florida helped Trump win the White House.
Two looming questions threaten to snag the seemingly smooth trajectory of the Republicans ' massive tax legislation now in its final leg in Congress. How to satisfy demands of the rebellious GOP lawmakers from high-tax states who demand concessions over a cherished deduction? And how to pay for those concessions? Even President Donald Trump has dropped his stubborn resistance to a smaller cut in the corporate tax rate as Republican leaders consider it as a way to pay for the House GOP rebels' demands.
North Korea believes the outbreak of a war on the Korean Peninsula is inevitable because of continual provocations from the U.S., including ongoing military drills with South Korea and statements from high-ranking U.S. politicians and officials. In an article published by state-controlled news agency KCNA on Wednesday, a spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry called the start of war "an established fact."
President Donald Trump has an approval rating lower than any of his modern predecessors had at the same point in their presidencies, but the crowd at his campaign rally in northwest Florida offers adoring praise. Jason Kimball calls him "phenomenal."
The Trump administration plans to install a political appointee at the State Department to a key position managing policy on Iran and Iraq, a move that will replace a career diplomat with a loyal supporter of the president. Andrew L. Peek, a former captain in the U.S. Army Reserve and member of the president's State Department transition team, will become the new deputy assistant secretary of state covering Iran and Iraq, according to three State Department officials familiar with the matter.
WATCH: Republican Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona refused to comment to reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday night after announcing his resignation. This comes following news of an investigation into potential sexual misconduct.
The Trump administration will send to Venezuela as its top diplomatic envoy a former ambassador with a reputation for candidness and controversy at a time when relations between the countries are rapidly deteriorating. The decision to send Todd D. Robinson to Venezuela was confirmed by the office of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican.
A former aide to Republican Rep. Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child, at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate. The eight-term Arizona lawmaker abruptly resigned Friday, bowing to an ultimatum from Speaker Paul Ryan.
A former aide to Republican Rep. Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child, at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate mother. The eight-term lawmaker abruptly resigned Friday, bowing to an ultimatum from House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.
An organization that is fighting to stop wasting tax money on unnecessary painful animal testing has named the top 15 members of Congress that have been the best on the issue in 2017 - and eleven of them are Republicans. found that while the majority of Americans across party lines care about ending painful animal testing - right wing voters care 5% more.
In this June 9, 2017 photograph, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin, addresses the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C.. Photo by Chuck Raasch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.
From phone banks to rallies, immigration activists this week are intensifying demands that Congress pass Dream Act legislation before the end of the year in order to protect the country's 800,000 DACA recipients from deportation. Thousands of immigrants and advocates rallied at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday calling on GOP lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation that would provide protections for DACA recipients or “Dreamers” after President Donald Trump ended the program in September.