Banks Award $20K Grant to Benefit Homeless Mothers and Children

The funds will be used to cover employee salaries for a therapist, resident supervisor and children's coordinator. The First, A National Banking Association, BancorpSouth Bank and FHLB Dallas awarded $20,000 in Partnership Grant Program funds to The Lighthouse Rescue Mission today in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Trump lacks a stabilitya and a competencea for job, GOP lawmaker Bob Corker says

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker on Thursday lambasted Donald Trump, saying the president is driving the United States toward "great peril" because he lacks the "stability" and "competence" for the country's highest office. In this July 27, 2017 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Democratic super PAC sets sights on potential Mike Pence presidential bid

A Democratic super PAC that sank nearly $20 million into the 2016 presidential race is already gearing up for a potential bid by Vice President Mike Pence. American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic opposition super PAC funded by liberal mega donors, is seizing on reports that Pence's team has set up a "shadow campaign" to begin compiling opposition research against the vice president.

Missouri lawmaker posts, deletes Trump assassination comment

A Missouri lawmaker acknowledged Thursday that she posted and later deleted a comment on Facebook about hoping for President Donald Trump's assassination, saying she was frustrated with the president's response to the white supremacist rally and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she was wrong for writing the post and didn't mean what she said, but she refused calls to resign.

Alabama GOP lawmakers call out neo-Nazis, less critical of Trump remarks

Members of Alabama's congressional delegation weren't bashful about criticizing white supremacist protesters this week - but Republican lawmakers have been much more reluctant to call out President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville. "I do defend the president in condemning racism and condemning the horrible acts in Charlottesville," U.S. Sen. Luther Strange told Fox Business News Thursday morning.

Golden glow gone amid scandal, USA Gymnastics faces change

The U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs and top diplomats are meeting in Washington to discuss North Korea amid mixed messages from the Trump administration on how to deal with the threat. The U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs and top diplomats are meeting in Washington to discuss North Korea amid mixed messages from the Trump administration on how to deal with the threat.

Americans want the Affordable Care Act improved, not undermined

Here is something you probably haven't heard much lately, if at all, given the shocking news from Charlottesville and the disturbing reaction by President Trump. Roughly 80 percent of Americans believe that Trump and his administration should do all they can to make the Affordable Care Act work while only 17 percent believe they should try to make the law fail so they can replace it.

Trump defends monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy

U.S. President Donald Trump dug in defiantly on Thursday in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy. In a series of Twitter posts, Trump also sharply criticized two fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, while denying he had spoken of "moral equivalency" between white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, and anti-racism activists.

Trump decries monument removals and – history being ripped apart’

US President Donald Trump has decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to leading Confederate figures, declaring that the nation is seeing "the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart". Mr Trump's remarks came as the White House tried to manage his increasing isolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on last weekend's racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

‘The president is becoming more isolated’: Trump’s Charlottesville…

President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville may be driving a wedge between him and Republican lawmakers, according to policy analysts, and his influence over their plans may be waning. Trump's muddled response to violence from neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville in the past few days took another turn on Tuesday when he blamed "both sides" for the violence and criticized people who did not think his initial response on Saturday was adequate.

Herrod says he still has a sliver of a chance to win – enough to wait for votes to be counted

The Salt Lake Tribune) Former state Rep. Chris Herrod said the race for the 3rd Congressional district is too close to call after learning that Provo Mayor John Curtis claims he's the election night winner Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Registered Republican voters in the 3rd Congressional District will decide whether Provo Mayor John Curtis, former state Rep. Chris Herrod or businessman Tanner Ainge moves forward to the general election.

California congressmen meets Wikileaks founder, who denies Russia was source of DNC leaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Costa Mesa congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Wednesday that Russia was not involved with leaking controversial emails from the Democratic National Committee during last year's presidential campaign. “He reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the DNC during the election,” Rohrabacher said by phone from London.

Ousted chief justice makes runoff in Alabama Senate race

Ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is trying to play usurper to deep-pocketed Republican forces after making a runoff with incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in the state's Senate primary. Getting to the runoff is a sweet win for Moore, who was twice stripped of his chief justice duties - for refusing to remove a biblical monument he installed in a state judiciary building and for resisting federal gay marriage rulings.

Trump’s Thursday Morning Tweetstorm: – Publicity Seeking Lindsey…

President Trump on Thursday took to Twitter to slam Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, as well as the "Fake News Media." "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms.

1 million South Sudan refugees now in Uganda, UN says

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 7, 2017 file photo, children look through a tear in the tarpaulin tents that serve as extra classrooms, for a mixed class of South Sudanese refugee children and Ugandan children, at the Ombech... . FILE - In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, women and children return home with plastic containers of water, in a section of the sprawling complex of mud-brick houses and tents that makes up the Bidi Bidi refugee settle... .

Brazil’s top court favors indigenous groups in land dispute

Brazil's indigenous communities are protesting as the Supreme Court deliberates on the legality of... . Police stand guard behind a banner that reads in Portuguese "Demarcation," as Guarani Indians protest outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.