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Nearly two months after the House passed legislation that would allow Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin to fire bad workers more quickly, the Senate on Thursday introduced its own version of the bill - one with bipartisan support. The bill, a deal between Senate Republicans and Democrats, signals the most likely opportunity that Congress has to pass VA accountability legislation following the 2014 scandal when veterans were found to be waiting long periods for health care.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday defended President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer questioned the president's decision and called for a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation. And Republican Sen. Marco Rubio essentially shrugged.
The Republican party is mostly closing ranks around its president, shielding Donald Trump against attacks over the historic firing of an FBI director who was investigating his campaign's ties to Russia. Wednesday's circling of conservative wagons following the firing of FBI director James Comey extended from cable-news chatter to the party brass.
President Donald Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey has split his party into two factions - those scrambling to defend their leader and those who find themselves unable and/or unwilling to do so. I've spent the last several hours trying to find an acceptable rationale for the timing of Comey's firing.
I'm speaking particularly to the anti-Trump crowd on the left. Before Donald Trump became the official Republican nominee for President in the summer of 2016, I know a good number of y'all were secretly hoping for him to be the GOP's presidential candidate.
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In addition to being the day the House of Representatives passed an Obamacare repeal bill and the unofficial Star Wars day, Thursday was also National Orange Juice Day. It's a totally real thing promoted by the state's Department of Citrus, which you should not be surprised to hear is also a real thing.
The wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez rushed to Caracas' military hospital late Wednesday seeking information on her husband after a report on social media said he had been taken there with a medical emergency - a scare that proved to be wrong. "Please, can you inform us if anyone brought Leopoldo here? Did he enter or not?" Lilian Tintori could be heard pleading tearfully through the metal bars at the hospital's entrance.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL, right, admires Ysmelio Lopez's American flag themed tie after the dedication of a Statue of Liberty replica on the campus of Florida International University, Monday, July 6, 2015, in Miami. Lopez donated the statue which was unveiled after a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year, saying it's time to move on after 38 years in office. The 64-year-old Republican was elected last November to Florida's redrawn 27th district, a stretch of southeast Miami-Dade County that is heavily Democratic.
U.S. immigration authorities have released a Venezuelan opposition activist who was detained a day earlier as he waited to attend a hearing on his request for political asylum. The abrupt detention of Marco Coello in Miami drew protests from Venezuelans in the U.S. and questions from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Monumental views on insurance and risk in the nation's capital? S urely we jest. Well, we will take an occasional dip into the Potomac waters to poke fun, but overall we hope this reporting on insurance and risk as seen from the nation's capital will be worthy of reflection.
President Donald Trump quietly met a pair of former Colombian presidents last weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, thrusting his administration into an ugly power struggle in Latin America that threatens to undermine the country's controversial peace agreement with rebel leaders. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to push Trump to support the peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia at their first meeting at the White House next month.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., warned Sunday against letting the federal government shutdown this week because of the effects it could have on national security and foreign affairs. "We cannot shut down the government right now," Rubio told CBS "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson, citing a number foreign events and threats.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida says the last thing America can afford is to "send a message to the world that the United States government" is only "partially functioning."
Rochelle Hamm's eyes fill with tears when she reads her terrified husband's last words - uttered as the cargo freighter El Faro went down in hurricane, taking the lives of Frank Hamm and 32 others. A few lines later, the transcript ends, along with the lives of Hamm and the captain who desperately sought to save him.
Rochelle Hamm's eyes fill with tears when she reads her terrified husband's last words - uttered as the cargo freighter El Faro went down in hurricane, taking the lives of Frank Hamm and 32 others. A few lines later, the transcript ends, along with the lives of Hamm and the captain who desperately sought to save him.
Despite a loosening to the decades-long embargo under Obama, the political climate in Cuba remains unchanged while sentiment in the US seems to be shifting backwards. CUBA, or the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, tries almost comically to track the country through companies that do business with the nation.
In a crazy twist of international events, Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft might end up owning Citgo, a US energy company based in Houston, Texas. This isn't a direct takeover.
The National Weather Service would have to boost research - including some from private companies - to improve forecasts and storm warnings under a bill headed to President Donald trump's desk. Lawmakers said the bill should save lives by giving residents more time to prepare for hurricanes, tornadoes and other deadly storms.