Trump a feels badlya for Kavanaugh after sex assault accusation

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he feels "terribly" for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee who could face off in a high-stakes hearing next week with a woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. "I feel so badly that he's going through this," Trump said during a news conference at the White House.

Professor speaks out on ‘assault’

WASHINGTONi1 4 A college professor went public for the first time on Sunday to accuse US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s, prompting calls to postpone the nomination vote. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, initially detailed the allegations about Brett Kavanaugh in confidential letters to her local congresswoman and later to California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

Trump breaks silence on Kavanaugh allegations

President Trump on Monday responded to allegations by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Kavanaugh "is somebody very special" who "never even had a little blemish on his record."

Key Republican senators waver in Judge Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court vote

Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation for the Supreme Court is taking an uncertain turn as Republican senators express concern over a woman's private-turned-public allegation that a drunken Kavanaugh groped her and tried to take off her clothes at a party when they were teenagers. The White House and other Kavanaugh supporters had dismissed the allegation of sexual misconduct when it was initially conveyed in a private letter.

Accuser’s story of attack roils plan for Kavanaugh vote

6, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, for the third day of his confirmatio... . FILE - In this Sept.

Brett Kavanaugh ‘sexual assault victim’ comes forward

A woman who accused Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual assault has broken her silence, days after the allegations were first revealed. Christine Blasey Ford first detailed the allegations in a letter to senator Diane Feinstein, alleging that Kavanaugh had attempted to sexually assault her at a gathering of teenagers in 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17. Feinstein revealed the existence of the letter during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing last week, but would not disclose its contents nor the name of its author, instead referring the letter to the FBI.

GOP Senators defend Kavanaugh, but open to hearing from accuser Source: Cox Media Group

While standing behind federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, some Republican Senators said Sunday that they were open to the idea of hearing from Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during a party when they were teenagers in the 1980's. Sen. Lindsey Graham , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he "would gladly listen" to Ford, as some Democrats called for a Thursday vote of that panel on Kavanaugh's nomination to be delayed.

Kavanaugh accuser speaks out on sexual assault claim

California professor Christine Blasey says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.

Woman comes forward to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct

In this Sept. 6, 2018, file photo, after more than an hour of delay over procedural questions, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh waits to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Duckworth fears migrant kids at shelter are hungry and scared

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth raised concerns about an organization that cares for migrant children separated from their parents Monday, saying she worried they were hungry and stressed. Heartland Alliance runs a number of shelters in the Chicago area, primarily for unaccompanied minors -- children who arrive in the U.S. from other countries without an adult.

Russian immigrant running for US House seat in Alaska Source: AP

Born in the Soviet Union, Shein recalls standing in bread lines with his grandfather. After moving to Alaska in the early 1990s, he and his mother, who had married a man in Anchorage, wound up living in a shelter and on public assistance when the marriage soured.

11 kids removed after rural New Mexico compound searched

This Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, aerial photo released by Taos County Sheriff's Office shows a rural compound during an unsuccessful search for a missing 3-year-old boy in Amalia, N.M. Law enforcement officers searching the compound for the missing child didn't locate him but found 11 other children in filthy conditions and hardly any food, a sheriff said Saturday.

New Mexico sheriff: Compound searched, 11 kids removed

Law enforcement officers searching a rural northern New Mexico compound for a missing 3-year-old boy didn't locate him but found 11 other children in filthy conditions and hardly any food, a sheriff said Saturday. The children ranging in age from 1 to 15 were removed from the compound in the small community of Amalia, New Mexico, and turned over to state child-welfare workers, Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.

Top HHS official warned Trump administration against separating immigrant families

A top Health and Human Services official told Congress on Tuesday that he and others repeatedly warned the Trump administration that its policy of separating immigrant families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border would not be in "the best interest of the child." "During the deliberative process over the previous year, we raised a number of concerns in the program about any policy which would result in family separation due to concerns we had about the best interest of the child as well as about whether that would be operationally supportable with the bed capacity that we have," Jonathan White, with the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, told lawmakers at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

All That’s Left Is the Vote

The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump's consolidation of power - and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn't matter. In the haze of summer, with books still to be read, weeds pulled, kids retrieved from camp, it's a little hard to fathom that, three months from now, American democracy will be on the line.