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Rep. Diane Black is defending efforts to extend an emissions loophole benefiting a Tennessee-based trucking company whose entities, executives and family gave her gubernatorial campaign $225,000, as The New York Times reported. Campaign spokesman Chris Hartline said Thursday the congresswoman fights to support the few companies trying to keep rural Tennessee manufacturing jobs.
The former Treasurer for the city of Zeigler, Illinois who pleaded not guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and embezzlement appeared back in court on Feb. 15, 2018. Four months after federal embezzlement charges are leveled against the former treasurer in Zeigler, it looked like he would face a judge and take responsibility for the crime.
Critics are blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for dramatically lowering a fine on agribusiness company Syngenta for violations of pesticide regulations. Syngenta, under a settlement announced this week, will pay $150,000 for improperly using the pesticide chlorpyrifos at a seed corn field in Hawaii in 2016 and 2017.
Vox has a useful run-down of the latest so-called compromise in the Senate that deserves to fail. Among the provisions: Tells ICE not to focus on unauthorized immigrants living in the US without criminal records.
Not only is there no law requiring the registration of handguns or rifles - the state has a law expressly prohibiting any such regulation. People call on Congress to do something, and all eyes turn to Washington after something like this .
'Drug smugglers' desperately dump 1,800 lbs of cocaine worth A 16.5m off the side of a speedboat during a high-speed chase with the US Coast Guard A Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton apprehended the smugglers as part of an operation that seized seven tons of cocaine This is the shocking moment a suspected drug smuggler dumped millions of pounds worth of cocaine in the sea during a US Coast Guard chase. A person was caught on camera dumping 1,800lbs of cocaine into the waters, with an approximate street value of A 16.5 million.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meets with reporters following a GOP strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. Ryan confirmed that Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, updated him that the watchdog panel has decided to launch a probe related to the background investigation and security clearance for White House aide Rob Porter who has resigned due to domestic abuse allegations against him.
White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, right, talked with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, as they waited for the arrival of President Donald Trump and began a moment of silence to remember the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Oct. 2. WASHINGTON>> Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know how former presidential aide Rob Porter was allowed to work at the White House under an interim security clearance - despite allegations of spousal abuse. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to the FBI and White House today as his panel opened an investigation into the matter.
The Federal Circuit held Walker Process Claims without a "substantial" patent issue can be heard outside the Federal Circuit based on the US Supreme Court decision in Gunn v. Minton .
The Trump White House's handling of abuse charges against men in its midst is frustrating prominent Republican women as the party's yearslong struggle to attract female voters stretches into the 2018 midterm elections. "It's the mixed signals.
FBI Director Christopher Wray is providing new details that call into question the White House timeline leading up to the departure of former staff secretary Rob Porter. President Donald Trump is looking for advice from a range of lawmakers as he considers whether to issue trade sanctions on aluminum and steel imports.
A man who claimed his wife committed suicide in 1988 in Wisconsin has been arrested for her murder nearly 30 years later. Mark Bringe, now living in Arizona, was charged with first-degree murder this week in connection with the fatal shooting of 33-year-old Lorelei Bringe.
When White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned Wednesday amid allegations that he abused his two ex-wives and a former girlfriend, he parted the curtains on a Trumpian-scale personnel and security disaster.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders with former staff secretary Rob Porter in August. In the wake of Porter's resignation, Sanders has reassured reporters that President Trump is sympathetic to victims of domestic abuse.
The scandal over a former White House staffer accused of domestic abuse has raised questions about who is handling sensitive information inside the West Wing.
President Donald Trump's first year in office seemed to be dedicated to undoing key legislation ensuring clean air and water, and his proposed budget aligns with his anti-environment agenda. It includes a 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, which is largely responsible for protecting human health and the environment.
The White House budget director went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion-dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan. The president's budget for the first time acknowledges that the Republican tax overhaul would add billions to the deficit and not "pay for itself" with economic growth and higher revenue.
The FBI director, Christopher Wray, said Tuesday that the bureau's background investigation into Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary who resigned after spousal-abuse allegations, was formally closed in January. But the White House allowed Porter to continue serving in his post until the accusations surfaced publicly in news reports last week.
Law enforcement officials including agents with the FBI stand outside a home on Rice Lane in rural Vacaville after an early morning raid at the home. Law enforcement officials confirmed that it was part of an FBI investigation that was conducted at multiple locations in Northern California.