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The same day that North Korea launched its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, former Secretary of State John Kerry called on US decision-makers to give diplomacy a chance. "There's a false narrative about North Korea that has been purposefully promulgated ... that somehow diplomacy has failed, and therefore it is only 'fire' and 'fury' that is going to meet this challenge and be effective," Kerry said Tuesday.
The private equity industry collectively represents hundreds of companies and millions of employees across the country, providing a platform for significant impact on U.S. veteran hiring. We are proud of this continued partnership, and believe it can be a model for other industries as we collectively strive to improve the veteran employment picture, " said Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone's Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder.
You've heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It's true enough and, though I've been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it's always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done.
Signs and voting machines are loaded up to be distributed to polling places in Circleville, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2016. At a time when gaming election rules has become standard political strategy, the once-mundane task of culling voter rolls takes on new importance.
President Trump listens as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks in the White House Rose Garden last month. Since Ronald Reagan's rise to the White House in 1980, tax cuts have been the one issue that has unified all wings of the Republican Party.
Flight records reveal Paul Manafort made at least 18 trips to Moscow and another 19 to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev while working as a consultant for Vladimir Putin allies, oligarchs, and pro-Kremlin parties before he joined President Donald Trump's campaign, according to a McClatchy exclusive report Thursday . It is those connections he potentially brought to the campaign years later that have the attention of Robert Mueller's FBI special counsel investigators looking into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
"Just because I'm having fun. I love what I do," Creighton said, adding that she's had a good working relationship with the other two commissioners, Richard Regula and Bill Smith, both Republicans "I think we do a good job as a team."
A US district judge on Wednesday struck down parts of a Texas law that would ban the most common type of second-trimester abortions in the state, after plaintiffs argued the procedure was safe, legal and necessary for women's health. US District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin issued a permanent injunction against the provisions that were in legislation known as Senate Bill 8 and set to take effect this year, saying they "are facially unconstitutional."
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DEMOCRATS across the nation, ecstatic at their party's landslide win in the recent Virginia election, are eagerly thanking the state's voters for thoroughly repudiating Trumpism. Virginia voters spoke loud and clear in giving the largest Democratic margin of victory in a gubernatorial campaign here since 1985.
Trump is nominating white men to America's federal courts at a rate not seen in... . FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2016, file photo, Federalist Society Executive Vice President Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York.
FILE: Former presidents, like Bill Clinton, have made fortunes giving speeches and writing books. The House wants to cut back on their government-sponsored pensions.
President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America's federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation's diversity. So far, 91 percent of Trump's nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an Associated Press analysis has found.
His nomination was approved on a vote of 49 to 47 Thursday to serve as assistant administrator for air and radiation. Wehrum served at EPA during under President George W. Bush.
In 2006, the endowments of Indiana University and Texas Christian University invested millions of dollars in a partnership, hoping to mint riches from oil, gas and coal. The partnership was formed by the Houston-based Quintana Capital Group, whose principals include Donald Evans, an influential Texan and longtime supporter of former President George W. Bush.
The 44th president's motorcade - considerably shorter than the one he had when he lived in the White House - left his home in the Kenwood neighborhood on the city's South Side and arrived at the Richard J. Daley Center shortly after 10 a.m. Obama - wearing a dark sport coat, dress shirt, but without a tie - waved to people who gathered outside after hearing reports that he would be reporting for jury duty. Whether he will be selected to sit on a jury was not known.
Democrats woke up to a big dose of good news Wednesday as they dissected election results from around the country. One year after the surprise election of President Donald Trump, there were plenty of encouraging signs for Democrats trying to travel the road to recovery.
Shepard Fairey's iconic "Hope" poster remains one of the most enduring symbols of Barack Obama's historic first presidential campaign. Contrast the piece with the "Make America Great Again" hats and mean-spirited Pepe the Frog memes from the 2016 election, however, and it serves as a stark reminder of just how unhinged so much of our political discourse has become.
Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam both claim momentum is on their side with one day to go before Election Day in Virginia's high-stakes, closely watched race for governor. The candidates are racing across the state Monday after a weekend spent trying to trying to rally supporters ahead of the Tuesday vote.
If you believed the national media, the week of the annual Republican Party fund-raising dinner, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in late August, was one of the worst of Donald Trump's Presidency. The President had just responded to the unrest in Charlottesville with statements that appeared sympathetic to neo-Nazi demonstrators, and even some members of his own party were denouncing him.