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John Cox, a Republican business owner who has tried and failed for nearly two decades to win elected office, snagged a spot in the November runoff for California governor with the help of President Donald Trump, but that support could hurt him in the winner-take-all race with Democrat Gavin Newsom. Cox got about a quarter of the votes counted so far in Tuesday's election to easily outdistance former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for second to Newsom, who won by a comfortable margin.
In this April 16, 2018, file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a news conference in Cincinnati. The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran brief access to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
Montana state Auditor Matt Rosendale won the GOP nomination for Senate on Tuesday. State Auditor Matt Rosendale won the GOP nomination Tuesday night to take on Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in November. With 64 percent of precincts reporting, Rosendale led a four-way field with 33 percent of the vote, according to The Associated Press.
On August 21, 2017, President Donald Trump presented his administration's Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia, which rests on three pillars: "First, our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made - especially the sacrifices of lives. The men and women who serve our nation in combat deserve a plan for victory.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defended her credibility during a contentious briefing with reporters Tuesday, while still refusing to answer questions about her inaccurate statement regarding Donald Trump Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. "I think you all know I'm an honest person who works extremely hard to provide you with accurate information at all times," Sanders said when pressed on the accuracy of her statement in August that President Trump did not dictate a statement purportedly from Trump Jr. about his June 2016 meeting.
Illinois' imprisoned ex-governor, Rod Blagojevich, has filed paperwork asking President Donald Trump to commute his 14-year prison term for corruption that included seeking to sell an appointment to the Senate seat Barack Obama vacated to become president. A spokesman for Blagojevich's lawyers told the Chicago Tribune it was submitted Tuesday to the Department of Justice.
President Donald Trump arrives for a bill signing ceremony in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus May 30, 2018, in Washington. President Donald Trump arrives for a bill signing ceremony in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus May 30, 2018, in Washington.
Seeking to revive a $15 billion plan to pare back spending that has languished on Capitol Hill, the White House on Tuesday dropped a proposal to cut $252 million in leftover funding to fight the Ebola virus in Africa. The move came as President Donald Trump took to Twitter to pitch the package of spending cuts, which still faces an uphill struggle in Congress.
President Donald Trump participates in the U.S. Coast Guard Change-of-Command ceremony at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, June 1, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File President Donald Trump participates in the U.S. Coast Guard Change-of-Command ceremony at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, June 1, 2018.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1988 that the appointment of an independent counsel was constitutional, but the rules and circumstances were a little different then. And the Supreme Court has not spoken directly on the constitutionality of current regulations for special counsels.
This past week a life-long liberal, Roseanne, tweeted a despicable comment that armed the Left in their war that has been going on since the day Donald Trump entered the political scene. Anytime Trump makes a statement that questions the status quo and then he is deemed a racist and hater.
President Donald Trump defended his tough trade negotiations with China, Canada and Mexico on Monday, saying that U.S. farmers have been treated Trump opened the week with a series of tweets pointing to his ongoing trade talks with China and a slew of U.S. allies, pointing to his work to help the nation's agriculture industry. He tweeted that farmers hadn't been "By the time I finish trade talks, that will change.
President Donald Trump claimed he has an "absolute right" to pardon himself, part of an extraordinarily expansive vision of executive authority that is mostly untested in court and could portend a drawn-out fight with the prosecutors now investigating him. No need of a pardon anyway, Trump tweeted Monday, because "I have done nothing wrong."
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders is responding to questions about the president's assessment of his own powers, telling reporters that "certainly no one is above the law." President Donald Trump and his lawyers are laying out an extraordinarily expansive vision of executive authority that scholars say is mostly untested in court and could portend a drawn-out fight with the prosecutors now investigating him.
Barreling toward a historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump has his sights set on a nuclear deal, leaving allies and advocates worried that he may give short shrift to human rights abuses and regional security concerns. With a week to go before the June 12 meeting in Singapore, Trump has largely kept his focus on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, recently stressing that it may take more than one meeting to achieve that goal.
Mueller Accuses Paul Manafort of Attempted Witness Tampering - Federal prosecutors on Monday accused President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and lobbying case. - In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel Manafort attempted to tamper with potential witnesses: U.S. special counsel - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who has been indicted by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, attempted to tamper with potential witnesses, Mueller said in a court filing on Monday.
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama - Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling - Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
In this June 1, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump attends a Change of Command ceremony at the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington. Trump is defending his tough trade negotiations with China, Canada and Mexico, saying that U.S. farmers have been treated "unfairly."
In this May 17, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump's boast of record achievements on the economy and jobs ignores the Roaring Twenties, the war-time boom in the 1940s, the 1990s expansion and other times when unemployment was lower than now, economic growth was higher than now, and brisk productivity made the U.S. the world's economic powerhouse.