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PanARMENIAN.Net - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck northern Chile near the Peruvian border, the US Geological Survey says, according to The Daily Mail. The quake, which was moderately deep at 51 miles , struck the Tarapaca region of Chile at 3.32am local time on Tuesday, October 10. The epicenter was 45 miles east of the port city of Arica, and 54 miles southeast of the larger Peruvian city of Tacna.
Control of Congress and the future of Donald Trump's presidency are on the line as the primary season closes this week, jump-starting a two-month sprint to Election Day that will test Democrats' ability to harness opposition to Trump and determine whether the Republican president can get his supporters to the polls. After crushing defeats in 2016, Democrats open the fall campaign brimming with confidence about their prospects for retaking the House, which would give them power to open a wide swath of investigations into Trump or even launch impeachment proceedings.
Share prices were mixed in early trading Tuesday in Asia, after the rally on Wall Street took a breather overnight. Investors are awaiting trade data from China this week and keeping an eye on geopolitical risks centered on North Korea.
Democrat Juanita Perez Williams, left, Republican Laura Lavine, independent candidate Ben Walsh, and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins, are the 2017 candidates for Syracuse mayor. and Walsh are firmly ahead of Republican Laura Lavine Working Families Party candidate Joe Nicoletti and the Green Party's Howie Hawkins , according to the poll of likely Syracuse voters.
Vice President Mike Pence traveled up California on Monday to raise money for endangered Republican congressional candidates and tout the Trump administration's proposal for cutting taxes. It was the first visit to the heavily Democratic state by a member of the Trump-Pence ticket since the November election, when Democrat Hillary Clinton won the state by more than 4 million votes.
HAZARD, Ky.- The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Should he seek re-election next year, Sen. Orrin Hatch could potentially face a far-right challenger financed by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who's hunting for Trump devotees to unseat several Senate Republicans. "There's a mini-drama that we're looking at right now," said Tim Chambless, a political science professor at the University of Utah.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are pushing to exempt Puerto Rico from a federal law that prohibits foreign-flagged ships from shuttling goods between U.S. ports. President Donald Trump temporarily waived the Jones Act last month amid criticism that the once-obscure law hindered relief efforts to in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
It's still going to take a lot more help from our state to get some Hurricane Harvey ravaged cities back to normal. That was the message heard by Governor Greg Abbott Monday from Coastal Bend leaders.
Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn is working to rally support from donors after Twitter blocked a campaign ad from appearing on the site over a statement about the "sale of baby body parts," and said the "liberal elite" are trying to censor her for "telling the truth." Blackburn sent a fundraising appeal to her supporters Monday after a digital ad was blocked by the social media company, which claimed it included an "inflammatory statement."
The outing comes as Trump courts Senate support for his tax and immigration plans. He's currently feuding with GOP Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, and with only 52 Republican-controlled Senate seats, Trump can ill afford to lose significant support among his party to pass his legislative agenda.
In this Aug. 2, 2017, file photo, Ivanka Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump successfully pushed to get a family-focused tax credit included in the Republican tax overhaul proposal.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told coal miners in Kentucky Monday he will move to repeal a rule limiting greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, assuring them, "The war against coal is over." Speaking at an event in Hazard, Kentucky, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Pruitt said his agency will publish the new proposed rule on Tuesday.
Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game after nearly two dozen players from the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the national anthem. Many have applauded Pence's decision to leave the game in counter-protest, including President Donald Trump .
"Sen. Corker is a valuable member of the Senate Republican caucus and he's also on the Budget committee and a particularly important player as we move to the floor on the budget next week and he's an important part of our team," McConnell said Monday in Kentucky, according to the Associated Press . Asked about whether he agreed with Corker's criticism of Trump, McConnell sidestepped, adding: "[Corker is] an important part of our team and he's a particularly important part of the budget debate which will be on the floor next week."
Rep. Sean Duffy rebuked critics of President Trump's strategy in North Korea on Monday, saying it was past failures that led the U.S. to this point. "What I think was setting up on the path to World War III is past presidents who've turned a blind eye to North Korea building a nuclear weapon and advancing their technology for an intercontinental ballistic missile," Mr. Duffy, Wisconsin Republican, said on CNN.
Senator Bob Corker is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. So when the man who, 18 months ago, praised then-candidate Trump's stated foreign policy plans as "very thoughtful" and lauded him for "challenging the foreign policy establishment" suggested that the nation's foreign policy is no longer in the hands of a grown-up, the president did what he usually does when criticized.
Rep. Sean Duffy appeared on New Day Monday morning and defended President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's apparently contradictory approaches to North Korea. The Wisconsin Republican first responded to Sen. Bob Corker's remarks that Trump's rhetoric could set the U.S. "on the path to World War III," arguing that the approach of past administrations to North Korea has failed.