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Jefferson County in southeast Iowa is home to Fairfield, a cultural blend of old school Iowan farmers, international students and free thinkers attracted by the lure of Maharishi University of Management, a hub for education and Transcendental Meditation in Iowa. During the 2016 election, Republican Donald Trump received 46.7 percent of Jefferson County's votes for U.S. president, while Democrat Hillary Clinton had 46.2 percent, almost a tie.
Global Energy Producers LLC didn't exist until April. A month later, before it had a working website, it was flush with enough cash to make one of the biggest donations of the year to America First Action Inc., a super-political action committee backing President Donald Trump's agenda.
President Donald Trump's announcement in the Rose Garden concerning continuing negotiations with the European Union was good news for the nation's farmers, Rep. Kristi Noem said Thursday. "Our farmers want to do what they do best and that's feed the world," the South Dakota Republican, who is campaigning for governor in her state, told MSNBC's Morning Joe."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, does not support President Donald Trump's plan to help farmers who have been hurt by his tariffs, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Murkowski said in an interview with the newspaper that Trump's plan, which aims to use the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp. to help farmers at a cost of $12 billion, is too costly, too slow and simply "a very small Band-Aid for a much broader problem."
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his top deputy Thursday after a handful of congressional Republicans moved this week to impeach him. Speaking in Boston, Sessions said he has the "highest confidence" in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and described him as "highly capable" when asked about the impeachment effort.
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With the Georgia governor's race now set, the contest between Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams becomes a question of which candidate can move beyond their partisan bases to capture the electoral middle in this emerging battleground state. Kemp, a two-term secretary of state-backed by President Donald Trump, hardly moderated his approach as he celebrated an overwhelming runoff victory Tuesday.
Two retired colonels say former Secretary of State and failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should have had her security clearance pulled. One, retired Col.
President Donald Trump has touted a goal of sending Americans to the Moon again for the first time since the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, building a lunar gateway to test the technology and spacecraft that will carry humans to Mars. At a hearing in Washington, Senator Bill Nelson said the White House decision to return to the Moon - a program former president Barack Obama halted in order to focus on reaching Mars - could drag down the whole process.
It is no secret that the relationship between Donald Trump and CNN can best be described as "contentious." He has singled them out on multiple occasions and in return, in many instances, they have increased their negative coverage of his administration to eleven.
Trevor Noah attends the 60th Annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 28, 2018 in New York City. After CNN aired a secret tape recording between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen regarding buying the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair, late-night hosts dissected the audio during their Wednesday night shows.
President Donald Trump is surveying an array of "Made in America" products at the White House as he prepares for trade talks with European officials this week. Trump says the U.S. for too long has allowed itself to succumb to bad trade deals.
Yet the Republican Senate candidate is struggling to explain President Donald Trump's nascent trade war to her state's local business community. Jack Daniel's whiskey and Jimmy Tosh's hog farm are among those warning that Trump's trade policies - and the Republican candidates who support them - are hurting the very people who backed the Republican president in the first place.
Cohen says Trump knew about 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer - r - KXXV-TV News Channel 25 - Central Texas News and Weather for Waco, Temple, Killeen Michael Cohen is claiming President Donald Trump knew about and approved a meeting with a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin at Trump Tower in 2016, CNN is reporting . A source told the network Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, alleges that he witnessed Donald Trump Jr. telling his father about the meeting before it happened.
President Donald Trump and European leaders pulled back from the brink of a trade war over autos Wednesday and agreed to open talks to tear down trade barriers between the United States and the European Union. But the agreement was vague, the coming negotiations with Europe are sure to be contentious and the United States remains embroiled in major trade disputes with China and other trading partners.
Voter turnout was up for this year's primary election over 2016, especially among Republicans, but it's going to be tough for that trend to continue through the November general election. "Generally, we don't see as high of a turnout during a midterm year as we would a presidential year so we don't get really caught up in trying to compare one to the other," state Elections Director Justin Lee said.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington. SALT LAKE CITY - A recent decision by the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission will likely scrub the deal that would have led to Salt Lake City's Fox 13 being acquired by 21st Century Fox.
A White House effort to ban transgender people from military service is mired in confusion, chaos and a web of litigation a year after President Donald Trump fired off tweets that ignited the controversy, several lawmakers, advocates and lawyers said Wednesday. For now, a 2016 Pentagon policy to open the military to transgender individuals remains in place, but a Trump administration effort to reverse that plan has created a chilling effect for potential recruits and heightened fears for some servicemembers, some advocates contend.
USDA: President Trump stands by American farmers Instead of retaliatory tariffs, the correct Chinese response would be to stop their bad behavior: Opposing view Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2uPeJ7l In the Olympics, if opposing athletes continuously broke the rules while the officials let them get away with it, American fans would want our coaches to raise a fuss. That's what has been happening in the arena of international trade, and President Donald Trump is rightly calling out our competitors for unfair play.