Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Despite her last name and her long ties to the state, White House hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton found few allies in Arkansas on Tuesday. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, won in eight of the state's 75 counties, capturing just 33.7 percent of the vote.
Advice from an ex-Capitol Hill staffer on how to get a Congress member's attention has gone viral in the aftermath of the close and divisive 2016 election. Emily Ellsworth, a writer and editor from Salt Lake City, worked for both Utah Reps.
Donald Trump's plan for sweeping tax cuts and deregulation will spur a US economic boom that could "last for generations" if the president-elect resists a lurch towards protectionism, according to an architect of "Reaganomics". Arthur Laffer, who advised Republican president Ronald Reagan in the 1980's and UK Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, said lower, broader-based taxes, together with "minimal regulation" and free trade would "recreate the pre-conditions" for "enormous economic growth" in the world's largest economy.
New Hampshire's new U.S. Senator, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., talks during an interview with the Associated Press in her office Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Concord, N.H. New Hampshire's new U.S. Senator, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., talks during an interview with the Associated Press in her office Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Concord, N.H. CONCORD, N.H. - Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan chose to run for U.S. Senate to help protect and advance New Hampshire's work on Medicaid expansion, women's health care and a slew of other issues. "I am sure I can find common ground with members of the other party in the Senate as well as President Trump," she told The Associated Press on Friday.
Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan chose to run for U.S. Senate to help protect and advance New Hampshire's work on Medicaid expansion, women's health care and a slew of other issues. "I am sure I can find common ground with members of the other party in the Senate as well as President Trump," she told The Associated Press on Friday.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry and considered by many to be the father of the same-sex marriage movement, responded on Friday to Donald Trump's election. President-elect Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, oppose marriage equality.
In this Nov. 10, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pose for photographers after a meeting in the Speaker's office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Washington's new power trio consists of a bombastic billionaire, a telegenic policy wonk, and a taciturn political tactician.
In 2013, then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to excoriate the Obama administration's environmental policy and its impact of coal jobs in eastern Kentucky. Noting a recent listening session in Pikeville, Kentucky, McConnell sought "to put a human face on the suffering that is being felt in Appalachia due in large part to this administration's war on coal."
Whether Kids Voting Kansas students visited official polling sites or cast votes using DoubleClick Democracy, thousands of the state's youth participated in the democratic process Election Day.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is rich with lobbyists and includes a climate change-denier and an ex-federal prosecutor involved in the mass firings of U.S. attorneys. Some of the individuals listed in an organizational chart of Trump's top transition personnel, obtained by The Associated Press: Retired Lt.
President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up his transition team as he plunges into setting up his administration. It's an enormous undertaking that likely requires him to alter his hands-on management style and consider going outside his small, insular group of loyalists.
As stunning as Donald Trump's Tuesday victory was for many in America, the shock was double-fold for Cobb citizens as results showed a Hillary Clinton victory in this county regarded as a haven of conservatism.
The most divisive set of elections in my lifetime are now over, and Kentucky will not see another regular election until May 2018. My congratulations to all of the winning candidates and to the Republican party, which will now control both chambers of the state legislature.
U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during an arrival ceremony at the White House in Washington September 25, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has suspended its efforts to win congressional approval for his Asian free-trade deal before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, saying on Friday that TPP's fate was up to Trump and Republican lawmakers.
President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan converse about Trump's transition to the White House. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, is giddy about a Republican-controlled White House because it will let him and the Republican majority in Congress wield legislative influence that was previously denied by President Barack Obama's veto pen.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren's announcement this week that he wouldn't run for reelection gave Massachusetts Democrats something to ponder besides the wreckage of Tuesday's election: Is Warren going to run for governor instead? Can they shift the conversation to that now, please? Someone is going to have to challenge first-term Republican Governor Charlie Baker, who, despite continued popularity, suffered a few dents in his agenda in Tuesday's election. "The 2016 elections have shown us that no one is preordained to win an election," said Jay Cincotti, executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
On "With All Due Respect," Republican Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma discusses replacing Obamacare, GOP priorities in the new Congress and Paul Ryan's job security.
Yesterday we were all fretting about Chris Christie being in control of the transition team. What ghoulish gang would he assemble? Giuliani? Gingrich? Santorum? Seems like it makes total sense to put your VP in charge of something important like that.