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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds to questions about the police shootings during a news conference at City Hall in Dallas in early July. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the targeted killing of a police officer to be deemed a hate crime in Texas and urged lawmakers to send him such a bill to sign during next year's legislative session.
"The mirrors communicate that we are a reflection of ourselves, each other, and of, the world that surrounds us," the artist wrote in a statement about the protest piece. "The woman becomes the future and the future becomes the woman."
Donald Trump is joined by his wife Melania as he speaks during a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester, Tuesday, June 7, 2016, in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Trump had promised a convention soaked in celebrity, a different kind of convention. And so we get an opening night during which Americans who tune in will hear from celebrities from "Duck Dynasty's" Willie Robertson to former sitcom actor Scott Baio.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, stands beside Sen. Jeff Sessions during a Feb. 28 rally in Madison, Ala. By the time Jeff Sessions appeared before the Senate to answer questions about his nomination to the federal bench, his reputation was in tatters.
The voice is coming from a nearby machine as Lightfoot practices CPR on a simulator at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center. The Augusta VA's SimLab earlier this month received its certification, one of less than 40 VAs in the country to achieve that designation, officials said.
Donald Trumps running mate called the Disney movie liberal propaganda and added moral of story: women in military, bad idea. Indiana governor Mike Pence is now presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate.
There is no shortage of action inside the convention hall as anti-Trump delegates work to cause mischief behind the scenes. A steady stream of speakers has already been featured at the podium.
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort walks off the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena after talking to reporters, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. . Workers place a sign as they prepare at Quicken Loans Arena for the Republican National Convention, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland.
Donald Trump's campaign chair says he has "close to 20" states on his list of competitive general election battlegrounds. Paul Manafort says that includes such states as Connecticut and Oregon, which he says are coming into play.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton blasted Hillary Clinton as a "socialist" who's only running for president so she can "pardon herself" in the investigations surrounding her use of a private email server. At an Ohio delegation breakfast during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday, Cotton began his speech by tracking the success of the Republican Party in recent years, noting its majorities in Congress and the state offices the party has won.
Donald Trump once promised a "showbiz" convention, packed with flash, celebrities and a "winner's night" featuring sports stars and champion coaches. Instead, the Republican National Convention kicking off Monday is shaping up to be a staid family-focused affair, with a lineup that features everyday Americans, successful business people and four of his five children.
Stephen Colbert unofficially kicked off the Republican National Convention before it was supposed to start, and he insulted presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, while he was at it. The "Late Show" host took the stage at the RNC in Cleveland, Ohio, dressed as his "Hunger Games" alter-ego on Sunday.
Congress won't ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the foreseeable future, according to the lawmaker who leads the campaign arm of the House Republicans. "My guess is that if you put it up for a vote on the floor today, it would go down dramatically," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden said during an Atlantic Live breakfast at the Republican National Convention.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman and his re-election team have been beating the bushes and sifting through reams of data for more than a year. Republicans say Trump needs to take a page from Portman's playbook, and they worry that Trump's flyby approach to one of the most important states on the electoral map won't give him the edge he needs over Democrat Hillary Clinton, who already has a strong Ohio operation.
In tapping Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump moved to persuade America that the White House would be in steady hands with his election. Now, Trump will no doubt use the Republican Convention, which starts Monday, to reinforce that message while lacquering his policy prescriptions with a gloss of mainstream rationality.
Lamar Smith, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, has long been hostile to climate science. The Texas Republican, who serves as chairman of the House Science Committee, gained notoriety for his harassment of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell heard emotional statements Saturday from both sides of a divisive proposal to create a national monument at a sacred American Indian site. Jewell's 3A1 2-hour meeting in the town of Bluff capped off a four-day research trip to Utah as a coalition of tribes urges President Barack Obama to turn 1.9 million acres around the twin Bears Ears buttes into a national monument.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee won't be speaking at the Republican National Convention this week, opting instead to appear on Fox News as a political contributor. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, had invited his former rival to address the delegates, but the network told Huckabee he'd have to choose between the news set and the convention stage.
None of Arkansas' top Republican leaders supported Donald Trump in the state's March 1 primary, but now that the party's presidential nominating convention is here, they're lining up to back him. Five of the six Republicans in the state's congressional delegation are present.
CLEVELAND >> A year ago, few imagined Donald Trump as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention - let alone as its star. Back then, maybe the billionaire New Yorker was alone in thinking he would arrive in Cleveland this week as the GOP's presumptive nominee for president.