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It's hard to believe that it was ten years ago tonight that Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination , putting him on the path to make - and change the course of - history. Just a decade ago, it seemed as though every dream could come true.
We've had blistering heat and humidity in much of the nation over the past week. Politics took a very brief break over the Memorial Day weekend, but with primaries and other political events this coming week, we're heading into the "dog days" or perhaps more fitting, the "dog daze" of summer.
If you're not a political junkie , Tuesday's primary election in California may seem a bit of a snooze. But the consequences for statewide and national politics are significant.
Every year millions of taxpayer dollars are lost on wasted natural gas in North Dakota and other western states. With the country facing increasing debt and growing deficits this is no time to give away billions of dollars to profitable businesses.
It might be an uphill task for Republicans to unseat Democratic incumbents Gov. Tom Wolf and Sen. Bob Casey in November. But with the dust settled from the May primary election, state Republican Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio said he is excited to begin working on get-out-the vote campaigns for gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner and U.S. Senate candidate Lou Barletta.
Sen. Bob Corker said Saturday that he is working with other Senate Republicans on an effort to "push back" on President Donald Trump's use of authority "in ways never intended and that are damaging to our country and our allies." Earlier Saturday, the Tennessee Republican tweeted out a pair of articles focusing on the administration's recent announcement that it is imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the European Union, and some of its other economic interventions that go against traditional free-market Republican orthodoxy.
Minnesota lawmakers and Gov. Mark Dayton wrapped up this year's legislative session last month in a familiar spot, with the DFL governor and Republican leaders at odds over much of their work. Dayton did sign off on $1.5 billion in public works projects, but he vetoed tax changes and money for schools and other priorities.
Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-backed political advocacy group, is running a digital ad thanking a vulnerable Democratic senator for her support of bank deregulation legislation ahead of the midterm elections. The ad, which launched Friday, thanks North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is fighting to hold onto her seat in a state that Trump carried by 36 points in 2016, for cosponsoring a rollback of some Dodd-Frank Act regulations.
U.S. companies that export products, such as agricultural producers in the Midwest, say their businesses will suffer if the U.S. moves forward with imposing tariffs, only to see other countries retaliate with similar measures. WASHINGTON - As a tool of national trade policy, tariffs had long been fading into history, a relic of 19th and early 20th centuries that most experts regarded as mutually harmful to all nations involved.
A conservative advocacy group funded by the billionaire Koch brothers has announced a digital advertising campaign for a North Dakota Democrat, whose seat is seen as vulnerable in the midterm election. The group Americans for Prosperity announced Friday that it is running a digital advertisement for U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.
Rafael Edward Cruz The Hill's 12:30 Report - Sponsored by NSSF - Trump breaks protocol to tout jobs report When did we stop thinking big? Save the International Space Station Controversial Dinesh D'Souza tweets resurface after Trump announces pardon MORE said Friday that he was instrumental in organizing the pardon of conservative author Dinesh D'Souza over his 2014 conviction for illegal campaign donations. According to the Texas Tribune , the senator told reporters on Friday that he made the suggestion to the president when Trump was in Dallas for the annual National Rifle Association convention, where Trump gave an address.
In this May 23, 2018, photo, one of two Democrats seeking the party's nomination to run for attorney general in Colorado, Phil Weiser speaks during a campaign stop at a senior living community in Highlands Ranch, Colo. First-time candidate Weiser, a law school dean, explains in a TV commercial that he's running for attorney general because of President Donald Trump.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said President Donald Trump wants to "undermine American democracy," exhibits "strong authoritarian tendencies" and "kind of likes" authoritarian leaders in other countries, The Hill reported Saturday. "We have a president who has strong authoritarian tendencies; who wants to, every day, undermine American democracy," Sanders said Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
If a trade war is coming, the cheesemakers of Wisconsin are standing in the line of fire. So are the farmers of the Great Plains and the distillers of Kentucky.
Seeking to comfort grieving families and shaken survivors, President Donald Trump spent more than an hour privately Thursday with some of those impacted by a Texas mass school shooting that killed 10 and wounded more than a dozen on May 18. The latest spasm of violence in a year marred by assaults on the nation's schools, the shooting at Santa Fe High School was the latest to test the president's role as national comforter-in-chief. Trump met with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting, and did not publicly share his message for the grieving families and local leaders during a meeting at a Coast Guard base outside Houston.
Senate intelligence committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. and committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. wait for the beginning of a confirmation hearing on May 9, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption Senate intelligence committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. and committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.
Following the announcement that bankrupt Toys 'R Us would close all its stores and layoff its 33,000 employees -- including 11 outlets and 1,600 people at its New Jersey headquarters -- the state's two U.S. senators and a House colleague on Friday called on the chain's owners to "support" those workers any way they can. "We write to urge you to do everything in your power to support the thousands of Toys 'R' Us workers who will soon lose their jobs as the company closes its doors," it was stated in a letter dated June 1 and signed by Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez, plus U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell .
The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe. The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe.
Just when it seemed there was light at the end of the dark tunnel that is New Hampshire's overdose crisis, we are given another unwelcome jolt of reality. Despite data initially showing that drug overdose deaths had declined, state officials released new statistics in April showing that deaths continued unabated in 2017.