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President Donald Trump is nearing a decision on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy after a weekend of deliberation at his New Jersey golf club. A person with knowledge of the president's thinking said Sunday that Trump has not yet communicated a final choice.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin joined a bipartisan group of Senators in urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide more resources and better support for forensic medicine practitioners as overdose deaths in the United States overwhelm medical examiners, coroners, and toxicologists. The letter presses CDC on how it plans to ensure the forensic medicine community has the tools and support it needs to collect and share data to better understand, predict, prevent, and treat the addiction crisis.
Almost immediately after news broke June 27 that Justice Anthony Kennedy was retiring from the Supreme Court, liberals and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine began warning President Trump not to nominate an "activist judge" who would overturn "precedent." Translation: Mr. President, don't you dare send us a nominee who would overturn Roe v.
Most of us have to settle for vocalizing outrage or bewilderment at the parade of lies and pretexts emanating from a White House determined to rule by low blows and dirty tricks that strike at the heart of American democracy. Manhattan Federal Judge Jesse Furman could and did something about an especially egregious effort, by which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross expects to add a question to the 2020 Census asking about the citizenship status of each and every U.S. household.
Jimmy Tosh's sprawling hog farm in rural Tennessee is an unlikely battleground in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate. Yet his 15,000 acres two hours west of Nashville showcase the practical risks of President Donald Trump's trade policies and the political threat to red-state Republican Senate candidates such as Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn.
McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options - Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy 'It's a Terrible Vote': Red-State Democrats Face an Agonizing Supreme Court Choice - WASHINGTON - Democratic senators running for re-election in Trump Country face an agonizing choice over President Trump's coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State - A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school's athletic ... (more)
McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options - Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy 'It's a Terrible Vote': Red-State Democrats Face an Agonizing Supreme Court Choice - WASHINGTON - Democratic senators running for re-election in Trump Country face an agonizing choice over President Trump's coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State - A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school's athletic ... (more)
Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns with Randy Bryce at a rally on Feb. 24, 2018, in Racine, Wis. Bryce, a union ironworker, is hoping to defeat House Speaker Paul Ryan to represent Wisconsin's 1st district.
An NBC News fact-check may give Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren the cover she needs to further explain her repeated refusals to take a DNA test that would prove the Native American ancestry she has claimed to have. DNA tests are not widely accepted as proof of tribal citizenship - in part because the DNA could not show a specific tribe, only some genetic markers from Native people - and are more unreliable for Native Americans than for other ancestral regions.
The day before Elizabeth Warren announced she was leaving Harvard to run for the US Senate, she gave Deval Patrick a call to ask for advice, eager to hear what a novice campaigner could learn from a veteran. Now, as the former Massachusetts governor and the Bay State's senior senator both seem to be positioning themselves for 2020 presidential runs - perhaps against each other - they could soon both need plenty of water as they shout themselves hoarse at campaign stop after stop, trying to stand apart from the pack - and each other.
Any minute now, the president will announce his second pick for the Supreme Court, a nominee expected to cement a lasting conservative majority on that storied bench. This would be the same president, you'll recall, who promised to appoint "pro-life justices" who would tip the court so that it would "automatically" overturn Roe v.
Fans take to Twitter every day to try and get the attention of their idols. Two women from Scranton are getting more attention than they expected from a plea on Twitter.
A Democratic city representative who says his party pushed him out of the race for a state House of Representatives seat - supporting instead a U.S. senator's son new to the district - is now a Republican. Anzelmo Graziosi, 46, said he switched parties out of frustration with Democrats, though he's been one for 25 years.
This week we had the opportunity to celebrate our nation. We are honored to have the freedoms that we have been given by our Heavenly Father and by our Founding Fathers through the Constitution.
A Long Island man was arrested Friday for threatening to kill supporters of President Donald Trump and Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin - then nearly hitting a Zeldin campaign staffer with his car, according to Suffolk County police. It was the latest in a string of attacks against the administration and its allies.
In this May 15, 2018, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pauses as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington. With McConnell leading the way, President Donald Trump has been putting his imprint on the federal judiciary for generations to come.
President Donald Trump made headlines - and offered a glimpse at what his 2020 campaign is going to look like - with a two-for-one swipe at the #MeToo movement and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren during his rally in Montana on Thursday night. Trump was out west to pump up Matt Rosendale, the Republican running to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in November.
This weekend is your last chance to see the spectacularly original Soft Power by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori at the Curran Theatre. The audacious and highly entertaining production, directed by Leigh Silverman and choreographed by Sam Pinkleton , features a gifted cast of all Asian-American actors led by Drama Desk Award nominee Francis Jue , in the very meta role of David Henry Hwang .