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It's time to shed the mythical claim that electoral features of the United States Constitution somehow infuse our national political system with a rural Republicanism, conservatism, or Trumpism. This charge appears prominently in Nancy MacLean's controversial book Democracy in Chains , which cites the U.S. Senate's equal representation clause as well as the Electoral College as evidence of the Constitution's anti-democratic features.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Charles Zachary Howard of Winter Park pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to threatening Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz last March. Howard, a registered Republican, called Chaffetz's Washington office and threatened to hunt him down, "wrap a rope around your neck and hang you from a lamppost."
From Democrats on Capitol Hill to good-government groups, critics of President Donald Trump and his administration have turned to the federal government's 70-plus inspectors general seeking answers. The requests for IG investigations vary as widely as the headlines: The government's handling of Trump's Washington hotel.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives could vote to pass a tax reform bill that also repeals the Obamacare health insurance mandate if the Senate includes the provision in its final version of the plan, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during a news conference after Republican weekly conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 14, 2017.
Gymnast Aly Raisman details how a breathless Dr. Larry Nassar would 'close his eyes' during painful 'ungloved' sex assault 'treatments' that took place alone in her hotel rooms from age 15 PICTURED: California gunman who was shot dead after ramming through school gates at end of drive-by rampage that saw him kill four and injure ten - including boy who was hit by bullet through classroom window Rose McGowan turns herself in to police over drug possession charge after 'cocaine was found in her dropped wallet' after a flight Parents are jailed for 130 years each after their nine-month-old twin daughters were left covered in sores and looking 'like skeletons' in the worst case of neglect police had ever seen Cards Against Humanity party game buys a vacant section of the US-Mexico border to prevent Trump from building his wall 'Obviously I've made a few people mad': Roy Moore jokes that he ... (more)
During a hearing on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned about the propriety of initiating a criminal investigation of President Donald Trump's chief political rival, Hillary Clinton. Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, left, and Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, center, talk with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, right, at the end of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Washington.
Alabama Democrat and Senate candidate Doug Jones speaks to the media, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. Jones is running against former judge Roy Moore.
Washington Republicans are tightening pressure on Alabama's GOP to keep a defiant Roy Moore from being elected to the Senate next month. Many are voicing hope that President Donald Trump could use his clout to resolve a problem that Republicans say leaves them with no easy options.
Scientists for the first time have tried gene editing inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person's DNA to try to cure a disease. The gunman behind a rampage that killed 4 and injured 10 in California was free on bail and had been the subject of a domestic violence call the day before.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is setting up what i... Scientists for the first time have tried gene editing inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person's DNA to try to cure a disease. Scientists for the first time have tried gene editing inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person's DNA to try to cure a disease.
Jones, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, could be freed ... . Wajeedah Jones, niece of Wilbert Jones, reaches to wipe away tears from Wilbert's sister-in-law, Wilda Jones, as family members and attorneys speak on the steps of state district court in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2... .
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak to reporters following a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.
The Obama health care law's requirement that Americans get insurance coverage is now pinned as a target of Republican lawmakers, as they look to end the individual mandate to help pay for deep cuts in their tax legislation. Senate Republicans showed Tuesday they're intent on scrapping the Affordable Care Act's insurance mandate, and the idea was endorsed by scores of GOP lawmakers in the House.
Taking the pulpit at a Baptist revival at a south Alabama church, Republican Roy Moore quoted lengthy Bible passages and made only passing reference to the allegations against him of sexual misconduct with teenagers. The former judge found a brief refuge from the political firestorm and the calls from national Republicans in elected office for him to drop out of the Alabama Senate race.
A painting thought by scholars to be one of only a few by Leonardo da Vinci to have survived the half-millennia since the artist's death is set to be auctioned Wednesday in New York. A painting thought by scholars to be one of only a few by Leonardo da Vinci to have survived the half-millennia since the artist's death is set to be auctioned Wednesday in New York.
A month ago, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell got together at the White House. According to reports, they discussed, among other things, Steve Bannon's threat to back insurgent candidates in an effort to defeat numerous GOP Senators in primaries.
First, there are those who don't believe the allegations against him: inappropriate relationships with teenage girls while in his 30s, including two who say he sexually assaulted them when they were 14 and 16 years old. These allegations were exhaustively reported by the Washington Post in a story that cited four accusers and more than 30 sources, and they were later supplemented by a fifth accuser who came forward Monday.
Pieces of pottery found in the nation of Georgia reveal the earliest known evidence for the origins of today's winemaking industry. Pieces of pottery found in the nation of Georgia reveal the earliest known evidence for the origins of today's winemaking industry.