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Florida lawmakers made their most coordinated effort yet to call for urgent action to combat the Zika virus, but even as they stressed bipartisanship, politics were on display Tuesday, overshadowing the possibility of a breakthrough on funding. Less than a minute into a news conference demanding action, Republican Gov. Rick Scott lashed out at Sen. Bill Nelson for voting against a funding bill last week that Democrats say is an attack on Planned Parenthood.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was urged by a GOP senator Tuesday to use the word "deplorable" to describe white supremacist David Duke and to "denounce the alt-right movement." Pence, the governor of Indiana, made the rounds in the U.S. Senate with an eye on smoothing over frayed relations between Donald Trump and some conservative lawmakers.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake - the largest in state history - hit near Pawnee, Oklahoma, on Sept. 3. That's an area where oil and gas companies have been injecting wastewater underground.
Donald Trump hasn't let many insults slide this campaign season - except when they come from Hillary Clinton's running mate. The Republican presidential nominee has all but ignored the constant barrage of attacks from Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who has assumed the traditional attack-dog role of a vice presidential candidate with gusto, but little notice.
Chris Wallace's Fox News Sunday addressed the appearance of Donald Trump on Larry King's show which airs on Russia Today, which is, like it or not, owned by Vladimir Putin. Coming to his defense, like a good lapdog, is the embarrassingly disgraced former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich who has expressed great interest in becoming a pivotal member of Trump's cabinet.
Ryan Lochte says he feels "a little hurt" after being involved in an incident on "Dancing with the Stars" that prompted producers to cut to a commercial. Ryan Lochte says he feels "a little hurt" after being involved in an altercation on "Dancing with the Stars" that prompted producers to cut to commercials.
Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Charlotte, NC., on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, to promote the Obama administration's record of supporting community colleges.
Brattleboro wanted the actor to visit for its third annual Baconfest, a celebration of all things related to the fatty cured pork strips. But he tweeted his regrets on Monday, saying in a video that he won't be able to make it to Baconfest because he's filming in Vancouver.
Missouri lawmakers are set to expand Gov. Jay Nixon's already historic status as the state's most overridden governor, a record the Democrat earned after years of clashing with a Legislature under virtually unchecked Republican control. Since Nixon took office in 2009, lawmakers have overridden 83 of his vetoes of bills and budget expenditures - nearly four times the combined total of all other governors' overrides dating back to Missouri's territorial days in the early 1800s.
A Bernie Sanders supporter who called Tim Kaine "one of the finest people in politics that I've ever known" is heading up a political action committee for Democrats backing Donald Trump. In 2002, he was appointed as a special assistant for policy in the state's Department of Housing and Community Development by then Gov. Mark Warner - currently a senator from the state and a Hillary Clinton backer.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine perfectly summed up the frustration over the Senate's continued failure to pass a bill allocating $1.1 billion to fight the growing Zika virus threat. Nearly 3,000 Zika cases have been reported in the United States, including 32 in the Bay Area, and at least two Zika-related birth defects already have been reported in California.
The push by labor unions and activists to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour may hurt young and less-educated workers the most. In 2013, the Obama administration proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour.
''We will never forget 9/11 in Indiana or anywhere in America, nor will we ever forget the losses and the heroes of that day,'' Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence says during a news conference in Indianapolis. Rough Cut .
There's one familiar hot-button issue primed for a rapid-fire jabbing as this year rolls into next. Get ready for a full-court press on raising the minimum wage.
Hillary Clinton could spend $2.2 million every day until the Nov. 8 election without running out. And every month she widens her cash advantage over Donald Trump.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is predicting that the Roman Catholic Church may eventually change its opposition to gay marriage. Kaine is a devout Roman Catholic as well as a U.S. senator from Virginia and a former governor of that state.