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Democratic gubernatorial challenger JB Pritzker said that his Republican opponent is accountable for health problems that occurred in the Quincy Veterans' Home. In their last televised debate, held Oct. 11 in Quincy, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic challenger JB Pritzker both said their opponent is unfit for office and that a criminal investigation hangs over the other's campaign.
President Donald Trump welcomed American pastor Andrew Brunson to the Oval Office on Saturday, celebrating his release from nearly two years of confinement in Turkey that had sparked a diplomatic row with a key ally and outcry from U.S. evangelical groups. Brunson, who returned to the United States aboard a military jet shortly before their meeting, appeared to be in good health and good spirits.
U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife Norrine arrive at the airport in Izmir, Turkey Oct. 12, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas An American evangelical Christian pastor at the center of a row between Ankara and Washington looked set to fly home on Friday after a Turkish court freed him, a move that may signal a step towards mending ties between the allies.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.
Since the Supreme Court in early 2016 once again ruled that Louisiana was - and had been for decades - unconstitutionally sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the opportunity for release, the state has made some substantial strides. But many advocates say Louisiana is far from where it should be.
Voters in this very liberal, very white state made Kiah Morris a pioneer when in 2014 they elected her as its first black female legislator. Not long after, another Vermont surfaced: racist threats that eventually forced her to leave office in fear and frustration.
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman passes Fort Monroe on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, as it transits the Chesapeake Bay on its way into dock after an eight-month deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in the Middle East. The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman passes Fort Monroe on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, as it transits the Chesapeake Bay on its way into dock after an eight-month deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in the Middle East.
Obama had billed the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a chance for the US to write the rules of trade in the world's fastest-growing region - while also curtailing China's influence It was one of US President Donald Trump's very first acts: to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping 12-nation trade agreement that had been the centrepiece of President Barack Obama's strategic "rebalance" toward Asia. Trump had charged that such deals hurt American manufacturing, and on January 23, 2017, he signed the withdrawal order in the Oval Office.
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Journalists face increasingly hostile conditions covering public protests, presidential rallies, corruption, and police brutality in the course of work as watchdogs over government power. A case before the U.S. Supreme Court threatens press freedoms even further by potentially giving the government freer rein to arrest media people in retaliation for publishing stories or gathering news the government doesn't like.
After the crackdown on families began, the number of people charged under federal drug trafficking laws fell to the lowest level since 2001. As feds focused on detaining kids, border drug prosecutions plummeted After the crackdown on families began, the number of people charged under federal drug trafficking laws fell to the lowest level since 2001.
Brett Kavanaugh took the bench with his new Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancor surrounding his high court confirmation. The new justice dived into his new job, asking a handful of questions in the first arguments of the day following a traditional welcome from Chief Justice John Roberts, who wishing Kavanaugh "a long and happy career in our common calling."
CHARLESTON W.Va. - On the steps of the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston on Tuesday, federal, state and local leaders and law enforcement came together to announce a project at aiming to continue the downward trend of violent crimes in Charleston.
Grieving bride in her wedding dress breaks down in tears at her fiancA 's grave on the day they were to marry, after the firefighter was 'killed by a drink-driving colleague' as he helped at a crash 'Their cars are junk... he didn't want to drive that day!' Stepson reveals limo driver's safety fears hours before he was one of 20 killed in horror crash, as grieving family and friends hold candlelit vigil for the dead REVEALED: Well-behaved Weiner on track for May 2019 release three months earlier then scheduled, as jail bosses are impressed with their model prisoner Don Jr 'met with Israeli psy-ops firm' which offered the Trump campaign a plan to create fake social media profiles and gather 'intelligence dossiers' on Hillary Clinton whom it nicknamed 'Forest' Ford is planning to lay off '24,000 staff' globally after it was revealed Trump's tariffs cost the U.S. car giant almost ... (more)
Brazilians appear on the cusp of handing the presidency to a brash former army captain who has reminisced fondly about dictatorship, pledged to jail corrupt politicians and promised an all-out war on the drugs and crime that plague South America's largest nation. Far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro just missed outright victory in Sunday's vote, and will face former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers' Party in an Oct. 28 runoff.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in as an sssociate justice of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Roberts as Kavanaugh's wife, Ashley, holds the family Bible and his daughters, Liza and Margaret, look on, October 6, 2018. fter one of the most intense political fights of the last two decades, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has become Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Supreme Court.
Felicia Stewart is a Democrat and one of two members of the LGBTQ community looking to win election to the Alabama Legislature on November 6, 2018. She will face incumbent Rep. David Faulkner, R-Mountain Brook, in what has become a closely-watched legislative contest.
The media has been fully fixated on the eminent confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, but in the meantime, President Trump has once again proven his trade strategy is paying off. In case you missed it, President Trump has effectively replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement , which he has promised to do since the campaign and the institutional elites said was impossible.
If the allegations of Professor Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh are true, then he was a juvenile criminal. He and a friend plotted out how to get girls inebriated, force them into an upstairs side room, turn up the music to drown out screams, jump on top of them, and have their way with them.