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Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan filed to run against U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the 2016 GOP primary on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan filed to face U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary moments before the candidate deadline Wednesday.
President Barack Obama went on a "myth-busting" mission Wednesday aimed at undermining Republican arguments about the economy, working to give cover to Democrats to embrace his policies ahead of the presidential election. Officially, Obama came to this hardscrabble town in northern Indiana to illustrate how steps he took in the first days of his presidency had ultimately paid off and pulled the economy back from the brink.
" Seven years ago, newly elected President Barack Obama came to a blighted stretch of northern Indiana and predicted a tough but certain recovery " if the country embraced his approach to re-juicing the economy. He returns Wednesday seeking credit for having lifted the U.S. out of the doldrums with policies Democrats are now rallying behind as they work to elect his replacement.
Obama touts Elkhart's recovery, looks to November President Obama says his economic policies 'point us in the right direction' Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://indy.st/1sMDTj7 President Barack Obama visited Elkhart Wednesday to make the case that his policies have helped shape the recovering U.S. economy - especially in the northern part of Indiana. Obama spoke first at Concord Community High School in Elkhart before a scheduled town hall at the city's Lerner Theatre.
Newly released documents about a now-defunct business owned by Donald Trump reveal strategies for enticing people to enroll in real estate seminars even if they couldn't afford it, opening the presumptive Republican nominee up to fresh criticism from Hillary Clinton that he took advantage of vulnerable Americans. " Trump University was a fraudulent scheme used to prey upon those who could least afford it," Clinton's campaign wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning.
Backers of a constitutional amendment that would have legalized medical marijuana said they were not pressured by state lawmakers to abandon efforts to put their measure on the November ballot. Legislators may have been attempting to head off the amendment, but Saturday's announcement came as a surprise.
In this June 2014 file photo, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson speaks to the media with Republican National Committee site selection leader Enid Mickelsen and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus alongside at Quicken Loans Arena. Mayor Frank Jackson and other Cleveland leaders swear they have their act together for the Republican National Convention.
When Rep. Scott Peters offered a measure last summer to forbid funds in an underlying spending bill from being used by federal contractors discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, it was approved with little fanfare. President Obama a year earlier had issued an executive order prohibiting such discrimination by federal contractors.
Republicans and Democrats are bracing for a busy June of primary fights that will go a long way toward determining how competitive the race for the House majority will be this fall. While Democrats face a steep hill to win back control of the lower chamber - they'd need to net 30 seats - party leaders see a chance if Donald Trump Rubio has gone from savior to sellout New culture wars erupt in the House June primary fights set stage for Dems' hopes to take over House MORE And a handful of contests this month will be some of the first chances for Democrats to select the strongest challengers in toss-up or Democratic-leaning congressional districts held by Republicans.
The two top Republicans in Congress are pursuing strikingly different strategies on spending bills this year, setting up a possible collision when funding for the government is scheduled to expire just weeks before the presidential election. Mitch McConnell Spending clash looms for GOP McConnell: 'Ticket-splitting' will preserve GOP Senate majority The Trail 2016: Biting the hand that feeds him MORE is betting control of the upper chamber on the argument that Republicans know how to govern.
The Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce is providing a 'business roundtable' lunch opportunity for local leaders to speak with Congressman Rodney Davis . The roundtable is scheduled for 11am Thursday, June 2 in the Tuscan Room at Bella Milano Edwardsville .
Ivy Tech might be the most politicized institution in Indiana, and Sue Ellspermann seemed to have a lock on the job even before a search began for the statewide community college system's new leader.
The Indiana Libertarian Party's Central Committee has selected Pepper Snyder of Huntington as the party's candidate for the U.S. House seat representing the state's 3rd District.
Nearly 2,000 votes have been cast a week ahead of Ohio's special election to fill the vacancy left by ex-House Speaker John Boehner . Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted says 1,922 absentee ballots were cast as of Friday.
Space industry officials including a space flight veteran plan to visit a machine ship in southwest Ohio that is contributing to NASA's Orion and Space Launch System programs. Organizers say retired astronaut Brian Duffy and members of the Orion and SLS leadership team will be joined Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, other local officials and community leaders, and students in the program at Metalex Manufacturing Inc., in Cincinnati.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton posed a wild notion in a new interview: She could carry Texas in the fall. In a newly published New York magazine interview with reporter Rebecca Traister, Clinton was asked which traditionally red states she might make a play for against likely GOP nominee, Donald Trump: "Texas!" she exclaimed, eyes wide, as if daring me to question this, which I did.
Donald Trump's national security adviser said Tuesday he would recommend using U.S. troops to implement a safe zone for refugees in Syria and Turkey to protect Europeans from accepting terrorists embedded as asylum seekers. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions said the move would prevent Europe from having to continue to accept the millions arriving at its borders.
Ron Paul, the libertarian who ran for president three times, said Tuesday he could possibly support Donald Trump "if he argued for the free market." "But this is jokingly," Paul told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
US Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson walks in Lafayette Park across from the White House during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2016. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is running for president as a Libertarian, just as he did 2012 when he managed to get 1.2 million votes.