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Mike Pence, candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia, habla durante un mitin en The Villages, Florida, el sabado 17 de septiembre del 2016. Mike Pence, candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia, habla durante un mitin en The Villages, Florida, el sabado 17 de septiembre del 2016.
In this July 15, 2016, file photo, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold talks in Middleton, Wis. Feingold and his Republican challenger, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, are on opposite sides of the immigration debate.
The oddest of Senate odd couples - California Democrat Barbara Boxer and Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe - have accomplished something highly unusual in this bitter election year: significant, bipartisan legislation on the environment that has become law. Boxer, a staunch liberal, calls climate change the "greatest challenge to hit the planet," battles against offshore drilling, rails about the dangers of nuclear power and has pushed to restrict greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
Three statewide debates for Idaho's congressional races have been eliminated because the Democratic candidates failed to turn in their required paperwork in on time. The Idaho Statesman reports that Democrats Jerry Sturgill, James Piotrowski and Jennifer Martinez did not submit proof that they were running an active campaign to the Idaho Debates board by the Sept.
Maryland's Republican Senate nominee Kathy Szeliga was a few minutes into answering questions at a campaignevent last week when the discussion took a sharp turn toward the summer of 2015. "We've asked Chris Van Hollen to comment on whether he's still supporting this Iran deal," she told a few dozen Rotarians in Montgomery County, referring to her Democratic opponent.
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Lawmakers' European trip shows holes in campaign law Gaping holes in state laws that allow lawmakers to use campaign money for investments Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: An investigation into expelled lawmaker Jeremy Durham's campaign finances revealed loopholes in state laws, including one that allowed a GOP donor to take six lawmakers on a European trip without anyone needing to report the gift.
Donald Trump's campaign is saying it had nothing to do with the arrest of a VICE News reporter outside his speech Saturday in Houston. The reporter, Alexander Scott Thompson, was arrested by Houston Police after trying to gain admittance to Trump's speech at an event hosted by The Remembrance Project.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a journalist's question during a news conference after a CIS summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016.
In this photo taken Sept. 15, 2016, Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov, Mike Pence gives a pep talk to campaign staff and volunteers inside Trump Tower in New York.
U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley were in Iowa City Friday to tour the Iowa City VA Hospital. The visit came two months after the two Iowa Republicans joined a state senator asking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate the circumstances surrounding the suicide of veteran Brandon Ketchum.
The "harvest moon" is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, the beginning of northern fall. The Durham Rescue Mission in North Carolina hosted its annual back-to-school event, giving away more than 5,000 backpacks with school supplies for needy children, along with hot dogs, groceries, clothes, and a variety of toys.
A federal appeals court has ordered a halt to construction of another section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said in a ruling late Friday that it needs more time to consider the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request for an emergency injunction.
The 2016 presidential campaign is one of the most caustic and personally negative in recent history, and to comprehend the toll it has taken on the two people vying to be the next president, just listen to some of the words 30 undecided voters in Northern Virginia used to describe them. Donald Trump, they said, is "phony," "crazy," "arrogant," "a megalomaniac," "dumb," "self-centered," "a charlatan," "bigoted," "embarrassing," "hateful," "garbage," "self-possessed," "vindictive" and "unbalanced."
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe a temporary permit that allows demonstrators to legally protest on federal lands, as long as they cover the costs. The permit issued Friday allows protesters to gather to the south of the mouth of the Cannonball River.
Senate Democrats, worried about their chances in key battlegrounds of Ohio and Florida this fall, are increasingly setting their sights on three red states to bring them back to the majority. Democratic leaders and party strategists are zeroing in on Indiana, North Carolina and Missouri, sending major resources to traditional Republican states in the hopes of returning to power after losing the majority in 2014.
Four local school districts are asking the Kansas Supreme Court to order the state to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more per year on public schools, in a legal dispute that is shaping state politics and threatening Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's tax-cutting legacy. The justices plan to hear arguments Wednesday from attorneys on whether the Legislature is fulfilling a duty under the state constitution to finance a suitable education for every child.
Both sides are at play in two of the state's congressional races. The brash Republican businessman has Democrats suddenly eyeing an upset in western suburbs of Minneapolis where a popular GOP incumbent is facing an unusually strong challenger.
A leak in a pipeline that supplies Georgia and other states in the South and East Coast caused gasoline prices to spike in Douglas County and across metro Atlanta at the end of the week. The price of a gallon of regular unleaded was already up to $2.39 a gallon Friday night at several Douglasville gas stations, according to GasBuddy.com .