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America's leading poets are averse to Donald Trump, and they're not about to go gentle into that good night. Funeral services are set for a New York City police officer known for publicly forgiving a teenage gunman who in 1986 left him paralyzed from the neck down.
A lawsuit says a company that handles parking enforcement for the city of Atlanta knowingly cited drivers for nonexistent violations. It seeks class action status and was filed by a man who says he was issued invalid citations and by two current or former employees who say they were forced to issue citations the company knew were likely to be invalid.
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, pledged on Wednesday to support Israel if his nomination is confirmed by the Senate. Testifying at the Senate hearing Wednesday, he said in answer to a question from Sen. John Barrasso : "Israel is, has always been, and remains our most important ally in the region.
Sen. Al Franken signaled Wednesday that he is likely to vote against Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, saying after the second day of hearings on Capitol Hill that Jeff Sessions had yet to allay his concerns. Franken, one of the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee that is overseeing Sessions' nomination, said he could not tell whether the panel would approve the controversial Alabama senator.
The Republican-led Senate is poised to take a step forward on dismantling President Obama's health care law despite anxiety among GOP lawmakers over the lack of an alternative. Senate approval - expected late Wednesday or early Thursday - and then House passage as early as Friday would trigger committee action to write repeal legislation that could come to a vote next month.
The US Senate is about to undertake a long evening session of votes in the first step towards a repeal of the Affordable Care Act , better known as Obamacare. The Senate will vote on well over 100 amendments to a budgetary resolution in what is called a "vote-a-rama."
Sen. Tom Cotton was accused of casual racism on Wednesday after he compared Sen. Corey Booker to a fictional character named "T-Bone." At a Senate confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions, Booker testified that the Alabama Republican's record on civil rights was disqualifying.
In this Jan. 10, 2017, photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. For decades, congressional Republicans have pushed to slash the budget and reduce the size of the federal government, especially during the eight years Democratic President Barack Obama was in office.
Any effort to revive the long-dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is doomed to fail because the project lacks support from elected officials in the state, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday. A 30-year fight over where to store the country's nuclear waste has convinced him that "a consent-based approach is the only way we're going to get across the finish line," Moniz said.
The head of one of the largest African-American civil rights organization told Congress on Wednesday that Sen. Jeff Sessions is "unfit to serve" as attorney general as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., surfaced strongly expressing opposition to the Alabama senator. Cornell Brooks, the head of the NAACP, said the organization "firmly believes" that Sessions is unfit to serve as attorney general in the incoming Trump administration.
No US president or president-elect has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since Donald Trump The existence of a compromising Russian dossier on President-elect Donald Trump has been confirmed by multiple sources, BBC Washington Correspondent Paul Wood revealed on Wednesday. On Tuesday, BuzzFeed published memos prepared by a former British intelligence officer which detail explosive information that Russians could use to compromise Trump.
Sen. Marco Rubio asked Rex Tillerson point-blank whether Vladimir Putin was a war criminal - and Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state blinked. "I would not use that term," said Tillerson, the longtime chief executive of Exxon Mobil who was awarded the Kremlin's Order of Friendship in 2013 .
The implantation was performed on Tuesday after Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, participated in questioning Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions in a hearing on his nomination to be attorney general. The statement from her office says she'll return to a full schedule soon.
Sen. Cory Booker will make history Wednesday when he becomes the first sitting senator to testify against another sitting senator for a Cabinet post as he fights Jeff Sessions' nomination to become President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general. The decision has thrust Booker, a New Jersey Democrat and fixture on lists of potential 2020 presidential candidates, into the limelight.
In Washington, the next attorney general insisted at his confirmation hearing that he is not a racist. And in Chicago, the nation's first black president offered a fiery farewell - and a warning.
Sen. Jeff Sessions begins his second day of questioning before Congress at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in his quest to be confirmed as U.S. attorney general. On Tuesday, the Alabama senator faced more than 10 hours of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the role of head of the Department of Justice, the top law enforcement post in the country.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at a Senate committee hearing on Feb. 13, 2018, on Capitol Hill. He was nominated as the new secretary of state, replacing Rex Tillerson, on March 13. CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at a Senate committee hearing on Feb. 13, 2018, on Capitol Hill.
President-elect Donald Trump says he will probably maintain some of the Obama administration's recent sanctions against Russia, although he adds that he might do away with them if Russia works with the U.S. on battling terrorists and achieving other goals. Trump tells The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday night that "if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions?" The Journal also asked Trump if he is committed to the "One China" policy, in which the U.S. doesn't officially recognize Taiwan's breakaway government.
At nearly 3 a.m. on Nov. 9, Donald J. Trump spoke to the world after TV networks declared him the victor in the presidential election. His remarks were short.