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Residents near a proposed large-scale hog farm in Fillmore County want Gov. Mark Dayton's administration to order a full environmental review. Waukon, Iowa-based Catalpa wants to build a 4,980-sow piglet-producing facility about 10 miles east of Harmony.
Begich is seeking to ease concerns some h... . FILE - In this May 13, 2018, file photo, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker speaks with reporters after the Alaska Legislature finished its work and ended the extended legislative session in Juneau, Alaska.
The White House attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday in the administration's social media effort to defend Immigration and Customs Enforcement against growing calls to abolish the agency. The official White House Twitter account asked Sen. Warren, "why are you supporting criminals moving weapons, drugs, and victims across our nation's borders?" Other Twitter users were quick to mock and condemn the administration's latest attack on the Massachusetts Democrat, with many mimicking the White House use of a question.
Late last week the president told reporters he would name his nominee to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, July 9 , shortly before leaving for Europe for meetings with NATO allies and then with Vladimir Putin. It is, to put it mildly, a big, big decision that will almost surely trigger a loud and divisive confirmation fight and, assuming Republicans win it, a major change in the balance of power on the Court.
With little fanfare from officials, signs went up in recent months marking the newly named Barack Obama Presidential Expressway, a stretch of about 80 miles of Interstate 55 from the southwest suburbs to Pontiac. While the March unveiling lacked the usual pomp and circumstance, state Rep. La Shawn Ford , D-Chicago, said politics - the Illinois Department of Transportation is overseen by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner - didn't play a role.
Lawmakers are asking for a list of all children separated from parents under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. They ask for the number of days of separation.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says he and his family were targeted by someone threatening to attack them with an ax. Paul told reporters Monday in his home state of Kentucky that Capitol Police issued an arrest warrant for a suspect.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is running for re-election in a state President Donald Trump carried by 19 points. Hawley is launching a new digital campaign to highlight Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill 's previous positions on Supreme Court nominees, as the latest high court vacancy shakes up competitive Senate races across the country.
As the nation comes together to celebrate freedom this Fourth of July, WDRB-TV is paying special tribute to the men and women who made that freedom possible. On June 27, WDRB's Valerie Chinn and photojournalist Doug Smith traveled to Washington D.C. with 60 veterans from Kentucky and southern Indiana.
By CATHERINE LUCEY and KEN THOMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has interviewed four prospective Supreme Court justices and plans to meet with a few more as his White House aggressively mobilizes to select a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Eager to build suspense, Trump wouldn't divulge whom he's talking to in advance of his big announcement, set for July 9. But he promised that "they are outstanding people.
Litmus test, litmus test, who's got a litmus test? Well, apparently just about every senator on the left. A litmus test - a standard beyond which one won't go, like Barack Obama 's famous red line in Syria - was once derided as the mark of a rigid mind.
This past week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , a self-proclaimed socialist, won the Democratic primary for a congressional seat in New York. Why would a sane person advocate a political movement that was responsible for well over a hundred million deaths in the last century, as well as untold misery? By her comments, Ms.
Washington a A new report from a conservative news outlet says President Donald Trump is no longer seriously considering Sen. Mike Lee of Utah to replace retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. The nonprofit arm of the Daily Caller said Monday night that Trump has narrowed his shortlist - one that included Lee at one point - to two candidates, Circuit Court Judges Brent Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
Alaska's economy should pick up given an increase in military spending and pro-energy policies of the Trump administration, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said. Acosta toured areas of Interior Alaska with Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan on Sunday, stopping in spots in Fairbanks and King Salmon, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported .
Across the country, a new generation is making its way to Washington. It's not just that some of the Democrats, like 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are young and progressive.
Several potential 2020 presidential hopefuls are signaling a shift to the progressive left by calling for the end of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and now President Donald Trump is using that rhetoric as a rallying cry. In several tweets over the weekend, Trump painted Democrats as the "radical left" and said without ICE, crime would be "rampant and uncontrollable."
Trump's trade war with China has a ripple effect that is hitting Maine, and the state's lobster industry. So much so that Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, is spending a few days in the Stonington area talking to residents and those who head out to sea to earn a living.
In this Feb. 15, 2018 file photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, left, are shown during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. The Senate battle over Donald Trump's new Supreme Court nominee is off to a fiery start _ even before the president makes his choice.