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A hedge funder who has been one of the biggest sources of super-PAC cash for the GOP appears uninterested in helping Donald Trump. In June 2012, hedge fund manager Paul Singer cut a $1 million check to the organizers of the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
U.S. and Michigan flags are at half-staff and half-mast until June 21 to honor victims of two tragedies. Though June 16, victims of the Orlando shootings are honored.
Danny Tarkanian has beaten Michael Roberson in a hotly contested Republican primary for the southern Nevada House seat held by Rep. Joe Heck. The 3rd Congressional District race was one of the most heated in the primary cycle, with candidates trading negative ads that called each other "Dirty Danny Tarkanian" and "Two-Faced Michael Roberson."
Voters in the District of Columbia are deciding whether former mayor Vincent Gray will return to the D.C. Council, two years after he lost his bid for a second term as mayor. The 73-year-old Gray is running for the Council seat representing his home ward.
It has only been a few days since a terrorist targeted LGBT people in an Orlando night club, but that isn't stopping Kansas Republicans from pushing anti-gay legislation that would force trans school children to use bathrooms that don't match their gender identity. The Kansas City Star reports state Rep. John Whitmer drafted the legislation, which he may push during a special legislative session in which state lawmakers try and prevent Kansas public schools from closing.
TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie on Monday said the Orlando mass shooting was an "act of terror" and that the U.S. must get tough in fighting radical Islam. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to fight back by banning immigration from countries who pose a threat of terrorism.
Vigils, rallies and marches are being held around the country Monday and later this week for the victims of the deadly attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Police in many areas have promised heightened security for the events, which come during Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.
Some West Virginia legislators appear to have caught shutdown fever. That would explain why they are returning to Charleston a day earlier than previously planned, to work on the state budget.
Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino-the 2010 GOP candidate for governor and co-chair of Donald Trump's New York campaign-admitted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee erred in some of his comments about Mexican-Americans. Paladino used most of his time at the Upper East Side gathering of the Metropolitan Republican Club attacking 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker Paul Ryan, strategist Karl Rove, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, President Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo-who defeated him six years ago.
New York lawmakers are nearing the end of their 2016 session and it's looking like they will once again fail to address, in any significant way, the wave of corruption that has made Albany one of the nation's most crooked state capitals. So many lawmakers have been forced from office for alleged misconduct or crimes - including the former Assembly speaker and Senate leader in just the past year - that government reform advocates have taken to calling this Albany's "Watergate moment."
A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun took hostages and opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub on June 12, 2016, killing 50 people and wounding 53 others before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and leaders of Chicago's LGBT community pledged support for victims of the Pulse nightclub attack as more appalling details emerged.
Are campaign promises empty promises that no one expects candidates to keep? Have we become that cynical? Running as the "unity ticket" in 2014, Bill Walker and Byron Mallott promised to improve the state of Alaska's tribal relations.
Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard's conviction on ethics charges automatically removes him from office and could mean years in prison for the powerful Republican. Friday night, a jury found the one-time GOP star guilty of 12 counts of public corruption for using the influence and prestige of his political stature to benefit his companies and clients.
"I have no sense as to whether leadership on the House side is going to take it up," said Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, who is himself a House budget chairman and often tapped to help draft complex pieces of litigation. McGrady acknowledged he had been involved in some tentative conversations about a measure that would roll back parts, but not all, of the controversial bill.
When Gov. Sam Brownback strode out before a bank of television cameras this past week to speak about the special legislative session he had just called to address school finance, he did something he doesn't always do. Brownback, the second-term Republican chief executive, faced withering criticism a year ago for his apparent lack of public engagement as the Statehouse became mired in gridlock over how to solve a gaping budget deficit.
Gov. Brian Sandoval speaks during a homecoming ceremony for the Nevada Army National Guard's 72nd Military Police Company at North Las Vegas Readiness Center Friday, 13, 2016.
An at-times emotional Mitt Romney lashed out at the slate of 2016 Republican presidential candidates for failing to stop Donald Trump , saying what's become of the GOP "is breaking my heart." CNN and Politico reported Romney appeared to tear up during the closed-door gathering when making the comment at a summit he's hosting for many of his top supporters and donors from the 2012 campaign.
Friday night, a jury found the one-time GOP star guilty of 12 counts of public corruption for using the influence and prestige of his political stature to benefit his companies and clients. He faces up to 20 years in prison for each count.