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An all-volunteer group of activists has defied the odds by collecting hundreds of thousands of voter signatures for a 2018 initiative to overhaul redistricting in Michigan - without having to pay a dime for a signature. It's a rarity in state politics outside of anti-abortion ballot drives, which have had a large base of support within churches and crucial organizational backing from Right to Life and other organizations.
Top Russian Official Tried to Broker 'Backdoor' Meeting Between Trump and Putin - WASHINGTON - A senior Russian official who claimed to be acting at the behest of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia tried in May 2016 to arrange a meeting between Mr. Putin and Donald J. Trump, according to several people familiar with the matter. Kushner testified he did not recall any campaign WikiLeaks contact - Washington White House senior adviser Jared Kushner told congressional Russia investigators that he did not communicate with WikiLeaks and did not recall anyone on the Trump campaign who had, a source with knowledge of his testimony told CNN.
Recent "above the fold" headlines generated from Robert Mueller's investigation of lobbyists and consultants connected to possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election have shined the spotlight on the Foreign Agent Registration Act . The harsh light has raised questions about this little known law, which has had little historical enforcement, and that the Department of Justice had largely administered on the basis of voluntary compliance.
Fifth grader Maggie Kidder finishes pieing sixth-grade teacher Rhonda Hackler in the face during an assembly at Central Intermediate School. Students pied teachers in the face for a donation drive to help hurricane victims.
The Senate intelligence committee, as part of its ongoing investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal, has completed interviews with several key participants in the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and members of Trump's inner circle. Yet so far it has not questioned Donald Trump Jr., who organized the gathering, hoping to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what he was told was a secret Russian government effort to help Donald Trump win the White House.
Singer Kid Rock ruled out running for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, saying in a radio interview that his earlier hints about seeking office next year were a lark as he readied to release a new album and go on tour. Rock, 46, a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, fostered rumors he would run, presumably in his native Michigan, throughout the year.
American democracy is in crisis. Across almost every issue, from the environment to the economy to gun control, the policies advocated by Donald Trump and the Republican Party are widely unpopular with the American people.
On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump retweeted a video that was edited to make it look like he was hitting a golf ball into the back of his 2016 election rival, Hillary Clinton, and knocking her down. It undoubtedly had the effect he wanted with some twisted sliver of his base: they paid attention and loved it.
In the end, the political aspirations of musician Kid Rock were not laid bare Tuesday night before thousands of screaming fans when the rocker performed the first of six concerts at a new sports arena in Detroit. For much of the summer, the Detroit-area native has teased a Republican run for the U.S. Senate.
On Monday, the rockstar and aspiring senator trashed a New York Post article and Al Sharpton, among others, and called Detroit's Sam Riddle "a piece of sh criminal." Rock's public relations rep gave select media - including TheWrap - a heads-up that "a statement regarding the recent controversies being reported in the news" would be coming this morning.
The senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says questions remain about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in June 2016. The senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says questions remain about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in June 2016.
U.S. media are reporting that two top former aides of U.S. President Donald Trump are being investigated for Russia connections by a U.S. special prosecutor. NBC News reported on August 25 that Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued subpoenas seeking grand jury testimony from executives who worked with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a U.S. public relations campaign for the former pro-Russia president of Ukraine between 2012 and 2014.
One of President Donald Trump's most steadfast constituencies has been standing by him amid his defense of a white nationalist rally in Virginia, even as business leaders, artists and Republicans turn away. Only one of Trump's evangelical advisers has quit the role, while presidential boards in other fields saw multiple defections before being dismantled.
After three people tackled the assignment with limited success, the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has for now fallen to Hope Hicks, a young former public relations aide and political neophyte who entered his orbit not knowing the ride would eventually take her into the cutthroat world of Washington politics. Word of Hicks' promotion - she already was director of "strategic" communications at the White House - landed this week just as she and other top Trump aides confronted one of the biggest communications challenges in recent memory.
Donald Trump has abruptly abolished two of his White House business councils in the latest fallout from his combative comments on racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Donald Trump has abruptly abolished two of his White House business councils in the latest fallout from his combative comments on racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
New revelations about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer have rocketed the president's eldest son to the center of allegations of collusion with Russia. Here's a look back at the steady drip of disclosures and shifting statements from Trump Jr. and others involved -- which has triggered a mounting list of questions.
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump's advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump's oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign - a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.  The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story.
Students walk past Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. on April 21. Only 36% of Republicans , according to the Pew Research Center , believe colleges and universities have a positive effect on the way things are going in the country, versus 58% who say they have a negative effect.
Anthony Scaramucci has been on the job for less than 72 hours, and on Sunday he made his first appearance on the Sunday talk shows as White House communications director. It did not go well.
'Where are the calls to restore economic justice, rebuild the middle class, raise wages, end pointless wars, or to protect the women and people of color who live under daily threats of oppression and assault? They fell down the big hole in the center of the Democratic Party.' That's one of the slogans that was recently proposed by Democratic Party strategists, presumably in a lighthearted way.