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As expected, U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance fended off two challengers Tuesday to win the Republican nomination to seek a fifth term representing north-central New Jersey's 7th District. Collecting 15,780 votes with 52 percent counted, he defeated businessman David Larsen of Oldwick, Hunterdon County, for the fourth time in a primary contest and first-time candidate Craig Heard of Succasunna, Morris County, another businessman.
Hillary makes history: Clinton claims victory as the first woman Democratic nominee and urges Bernie to let her take on 'unfit bully' Trump in race for the presidency Trump promises a 'major speech' about the Clintons: The Donald ends primary season by blasting Hillary's 'politics of personal enrichment' and 'totally illegal private server' 'I think we've got a shot.'
Hillary makes history: Clinton claims victory as the first woman Democratic nominee and urges Bernie to let her take on 'unfit bully' Trump in race for the presidency Trump promises a 'major speech' about the Clintons: The Donald ends primary season by blasting Hillary's 'politics of personal enrichment' and 'totally illegal private server' 'I think we've got a shot.'
For all the uproar over Donald Trump's attacks on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, not one Republican has withdrawn support of the party's presumptive nominee, or even reconsidered the blanket excuse for backing him that Hillary Clinton is worse. Maybe the revelation on Monday of Trump's instructions to high-ranking supporters such as former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will change that.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday did not rule out the possibility of joining Donald Trump's ticket as his running mate, just minutes after announcing he had voted for the presumptive Republican nominee. "You don't get to make those determinations," Christie told reporters outside a polling place in Mendham Township, New Jersey.
In addition to Renee Montagne's conversation with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a Clinton supporter, Tamara Keith reports on Clinton campaign in California. Please keep your community civil.
When Kansas enacted the largest income-tax cut in U.S. state history in 2012, Gov. Sam Brownback called it a first step on the path to eliminating the state's income tax altogether. The hope was that the tax reform would attract people and jobs to Kansas and that this economic growth would generate enough new revenue to pay for the cuts.
Samantha Bee takes us back through the debates, reserving her evil laughter for the media who all laughed at a Trump ticket while giving him $3 billion in free advertising. And oh, the denunciations they made.
Once again, the extremist Republican Kansas Legislature in cahoots with the equally extremist Gov. Sam Brownback has made a dangerously irresponsible decision against public education and our third branch of government. Apparently, it was insufficient to decrease funding for higher education - they now seek to further damage our elementary and secondary school children by defying another Kansas Supreme Court order to give children quality educations by an equitable distribution of funds throughout the state.
Oklahoma will make it more expensive to get divorced under a new law that has received final approval from the governor. Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed the bill into law Monday.
Oklahoma's top public education official says a measure that Gov. Mary Fallin has signed into law that axes end-of-instruction exams will help end an "over-testing culture." State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister has commended the Oklahoma Legislature for approving the law, which she says in a statement will allow schools to develop more personalized student-assessment tools.
"Attacking judges based on their race &/or religion is another tactic that divides our country. More importantly, it is flat out wrong," Ohio Gov. John Kasich writes in Twitter post.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott's scheduled meeting with Donald Trump on Monday has been postponed as a major storm threatens the Gulf Coast. Scott has said the meeting in New York with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was not related to potentially being chosen as Trump's running mate.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signs a first-in-the-nation Executive Order directing the divestment of public funds supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel during a breakfast meeting at the Harvard Club. Afterwards, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stirred the immediate ire of human rights campaigners around the world on Sunday by signing an executive order calling for the creation of a "blacklist" that would track groups and individuals who support Palestinian rights through the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement known as BDS.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that the state will be taking firm stance against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement. Rather than pursuing legislation, Cuomo signed an executive order directing state agencies to cease doing business with any group that associates itself with BDS protesters.
Gov. Mike Pence has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of a West Point cadet and Indiana native killed last week during training exercises at Fort Hood, Texas. Cadet Mitchell Alexander Winey, a 21-year-old Valparaiso native, died after an Army transport truck he was riding in was washed away in a rain-swollen creek Thursday.
Leaders of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party took aim at likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at their state convention Saturday and warned that divisions among Democrats could hurt the party in the November elections. Hundreds of leaders, party activists and elected officials gathered for the one-day convention in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune reported.