Swedish election: Main blocs neck and neck as nationalists gain

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

Shireen Ghorbani cares about Utah problems; Chris Stewart is a corporate shill

Stewart invariably supports the greedy agenda of his campaign donors, the corporate and wealthy elite, at our expense. By contrast, Ghorbani supports the genuine needs of the majority of Utahns - families, working people, farmers, seniors and more.

Cruz: Democrats want Texas to be ‘like California,’ have ‘tofu’ and ‘dyed hair’

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told supporters at a rally on Saturday that Democrats wanted to make Texas like California and listed off a few things as stereotypical staples of the blue state. "We are seeing tens of millions of dollars flooding into the state of Texas from liberals all over the country who desperately want to turn the state of Texas blue," Cruz said.

Officials applaud land trust’s work

Washington's congressional delegates, land management agency officials and local political leaders celebrated the Columbia Land Trust's decade of work to conserve 20,000 acres of forestland near Mount St. Helens. Several speakers at Monday's event described the Mount St. Helens Forest Conservation project as an example of successful collaboration by different groups around a large and challenging goal.

Trump’s jabs at Sessions could eclipse AG’s accomplishments

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vigorously pushed President Donald Trump 's agenda at the Justice Department , and before that, spent 20 years championing conservative causes in the Senate . Yet as Sessions enters what may be the final stretch of his tenure, those efforts are at risk of being eclipsed by his boss' relentless verbal jabs that have made the attorney general seem like a perpetual presidential punching bag.

Kavanaugh confirmation fight rallies Democrats to resistance

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declined to express his opinion on gay marriage when questioned about it by Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey during Thursday's confirmation hearings. WASHINGTON - Democrats don't have the votes to block Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Pence says he’d take lie detector to clear self

Vice President Mike Pence said that he was never part of discussions to remove President Donald Trump from office and would take a lie detector test "in a heartbeat" to prove that he was not the author of last week's anonymous New York Times op-ed, who claimed to be part of a resistance movement within the Trump administration.

Pence disavows ouster attempt

Vice President Mike Pence might have the most to gain from a premature end to Donald Trump's presidency, but in an interview aired Sunday, he forcefully denied engaging in any discussion about invoking the 25th Amendment to eject Trump from office. The vice president, who made appearances on two major Sunday news-talk shows, also delivered a sweeping condemnation of Watergate journalist Bob Woodward's depiction of a capricious and incurious president, and again denied authorship of a stinging anonymous op-ed piece published last week in The New York Times that describes high-level officials discussing removing Trump.

DeSantis repeat speaker at alt-right conferences

Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that blacks owe their freedom to white people and that the country's "only serious race war" is against whites.

Question time in federal parliament

"Is this what the prime minister meant when he said his own government was a Muppet show?" Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek. @TimWattsMP Extraordinarily, Scott Morrison begins his first #qt as Prime Minister by confirming that the latest change in the leadership of the Liberal Party has nothing to do with the Australian public.

Republicans, Trump, press economic message for November Source: Cox Media Group

If there is one message that Republicans in Congress - and President Donald Trump - can agree on in the campaign for the 2018 mid-term elections, it is to remind voters at every opportunity about economic gains made under the Trump Administration, paired with talk about the big GOP tax cut approved at the end of 2017. "The hope and the optimism has returned," said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers , who faces a tougher than expected challenge in November, as she and other GOP leaders have spent much of the year touting economic gains for regular working Americans.

Pence: I’d take lie detector test over NYT essay

Vice President Mike Pence says he'd agree to take a lie detector test "in a heartbeat" to prove he isn't the author of an anti-Trump New York Times opinion piece. A top Pence aide has already said the vice president didn't write the anonymous piece criticizing President Donald Trump's leadership.

The Kavanaugh hustle

Senate Republicans and President Trump share the same inclinations when it comes to one of the worst habits in our politics: placing ideology and partisanship above the health of our institutions. While Trump is destroying the honor and reputation of the presidency, Senate Republicans are doing all they can to destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Loosen grip on dairy sector to help NAFTA talks, New York Republican says

The pressure on the Liberals to loosen protections around Canada's dairy sector took new focus on Sunday as the key stumbling block in North American Free Trade Agreement talks came under scrutiny and spin on political talk shows on both sides of the border. A member of an influential Congressional panel - and a Donald Trump supporter - said in a Canadian interview that providing American dairy farmers with more access to the Canadian market may appease the president.