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Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said on Monday that she had a "good conversation" with Donald Trump, promising that she would continue to share her thoughts with him. "Iowans are frustrated by the current direction of our country," the freshman Republican senator said in a statement.
Donald Trump derisively refers to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas," a taunt rooted in the Democrat's claims of Native American heritage that roiled her 2012 election win in Massachusetts. "She's as Native American as I am," the New York businessman and presumptive Republican presidential nominee said.
Similar trips take months to plan and this one is no exception. But the visit comes at a tumultuous time for Europe, following British voters' support in a June referendum for leaving the European Union.
Once a swing state in presidential elections, Colorado has teetered... . Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a news conference before attending Symphony on the Prairie for a Fourth of July concert, Sunday, July 3, 2016, in Fishers, Ind.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is blaming the news media for the controversy surrounding an anti-Hillary Clinton tweet that appeared to depict the Star of David atop a pile of cash. Trump says on Twitter: "Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff's Star, or plain star!" It's his first response since his official account tweeted - then deleted - the image Saturday.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spent Sunday with Governor Mike Pence , a former congressman with years of political experience. Later Trump revealed he'd be spending some time Monday - July 4 - with Senator Joni Ernst , a rising Republican star.
A new study reveals that the average cost to train a Teaching Health Center resident is estimated to be $157,602 per year. The report, "The Cost of Residency Training in Teaching Health Centers", published by the New England Journal of Medicine comes as current Teaching Health Centers embark on what could be their last year in existence starting July 1, 2016.
A federal judge's decision to block a new Indiana abortion law from taking effect was a setback for anti-abortion activists who backed the push to tighten restrictions on the procedure that are already among the most strict in the country. Provisions put on hold a day before they were to take effect Friday would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome or because of the race, gender or ancestry of a fetus, and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated.
The international military mission in Afghanistan will fail if troop levels are reduced further, with potentially dangerous repercussions for the rest of the world, a delegation of U.S. lawmakers warned during a visit to Kabul today. Fifteen years after an American-led operation toppled the Taliban in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Barack Obama is considering whether to maintain the current level of 9,800 U.S. troops or reduce it to 5,500 by the end of the year, as current plans call for.
Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Republican, told The Associated Press Inhofe was out flying Sunday evening when weather forced him to land in Ketchum, about 70 miles northeast of Tulsa. Harder says the 81-year-old senator, an avid pilot, "walked away" and is at home with his family.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won Sunday's Republican vice presidential straw poll of attendees at the Western Conservative Summit. Mr. Gingrich, who took 194 votes, for 20 percent of the 985 votes cast, was followed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, who spoke Saturday at the three-day conference and took 148 votes, or 15 percent.
This March 8, 2014, file photo shows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun formally vetting prospective vice presidential picks.
A spokesman for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says the governor and his wife met with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Saturday. Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said Sunday that the two couples had a "warm, productive" meeting before Pence returned to Indiana.
Eric Sorenson pays his respects as visitors continue to flock to the roadside memorial at the Pulse nightclub on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in Orlando, Fla. 49 people were shot and killed by a gunman in the largest massacre in U.S. history, on June 12. less Eric Sorenson pays his respects as visitors continue to flock to the roadside memorial at the Pulse nightclub on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in Orlando, Fla.
Donald Trump has been stepping up his courtship of conservative Christians, meeting last month in New York with 1,000 leaders of the religious right and naming an "evangelical executive advisory board." But while some evangelicals are ready to embrace the thrice-married business tycoon as a "lesser evil" than Democrat Hillary Clinton, many other conservative churchgoers are keeping their distance and may not vote for president at all this year.
If you want a straightforward answer on the terror threat Americans face this holiday weekend, don't ask a politician in a campaign year. The Republican and Democratic heads on the House Intelligence Committee on Sunday gave opposing, at times muddled answers as to what exactly the U.S. is up against.
Appearing on Meet The Press Sunday morning, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton wanted no part in trying to make the case for a Donald Trump presidency, repeatedly sidestepping questions from host Chuck Todd. Todd pressed the Arkansas senator by pointing out that his own views about how to handle the Middle East were much more similar to Hillary Clinton's than they were to the much more vague views of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
The Vice-Presidential dance on the Republican side of the aisle continued yesterday with Trump meeting with Indiana Governor Mike Pence, whose name has only recently entered the Veepstakes: Donald J. Trump met with Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana on Saturday at one of Mr. Trump's golf courses in New Jersey, as he sizes up potential running mates before the Republican National Convention this month. The meeting, initially expected on Friday evening, took place on Saturday morning at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., according to four people briefed on the get-together who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about it.