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Minnesota's two races for U.S. Senate - and yes, there will be two - took shape Friday, as Republican and Democratic activists gathered to put their seals of approval on four candidates. There were no surprises, but the energy in each convention hall underscored the high stakes of November's general election: Democrats want to hang onto both seats in hopes of possibly seizing control of the Senate, while Republicans are eager to grab a seat in the Senate for the first time since 2008, when Republican Norm Coleman was defeated by Al Franken.
Bad-boy bully Steve Bannon who evangelized the "burn it all down" approach to Republican politics now advises GOP candidates to back away from anti-establishment rhetoric. Bannon told the New York Times that "the anti-establishment thing is kind of a luxury we can't afford right now."
In this May 12, 2015, file photo, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye, right, and vice president Jonathan Nez receive blessings during their inauguration ceremony at Fighting Scouts Events Center in Fort Defiance, Ariz. The Navajo leaders and others on Friday, June 1, 2018, commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Navajo Treaty of 1868, which allowed for the Navajo people to return to their the homeland in the Four Corners region of the Southwest after being held for years by the United States in eastern New Mexico.
OSHKOSH, Wis. - Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says powerful special interests are spending millions of dollars trying to defeat her "because they want a bought and paid for senator."
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.
Trump privately met Thursday with more than two dozen people affected by the Santa Fe High School shooting. One parent said the president kept mentioning arming teachers.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif asks questions during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. In the U.S. Senate, contest the 26-year incumbent Feinstein is shifting to the left in the face of a challenge from state Sen. Kevin de Leon, who argues she's not done enough to stand up to Trump.
But before you get too excited, they were covering Bill Clinton's 1990s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky . The ladies on Outnumbered held a discussion today about an interview the former president recently gave where he shrugged off Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for saying he should've resigned over the Lewinsky scandal.
MSNBC host Joy Reid offered an apology Friday for comments and stories that have surfaced from her old, now-defunct website, including a post with Sen. John McCain's face photoshopped on the body of a mass shooter. MSNBCs' Joy Reid apologizes for doctored image of John McCain, other posts on old website MSNBC host Joy Reid offered an apology Friday for comments and stories that have surfaced from her old, now-defunct website, including a post with Sen. John McCain's face photoshopped on the body of a mass shooter.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Newtown First Selectman Dan Rosenthal have issued proclamations that Saturday will be Gun Violence Awareness Day in Connecticut and Newtown. Supporters wearing orange will mark the day with a march Saturday evening from town hall to Newtown Middle School and back to the Fairfield Hills campus.
At the start of hurricane season, U.S. Senator John Cornyn launched a page on his website where Texans will be able to access resources and information associated with hurricane preparedness and disaster aid. Last month, Senator Cornyn introduced the Coastal Texas Protection Act , a provision of which has been included in the America's Water Infrastructure Act .
In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, speaks to reporters as his wife, Patti, listens at the federal building in Chicago.
Florida's midterm Senate election is a race to watch this November - and not just because it will be a tight match pitting a sitting governor, Republican Rick Scott, against a sitting senator, Democrat Bill Nelson. But my research on minority politics in the South shows that it is time to re-examine old assumptions about Florida's so-called "black vote."
Hackers and security researchers have routinely highlighted vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7 , a series of protocols first built in 1975 to help connect phone carriers around the world. It's not a small problem; we've been shown how the flaw can allow a hacker to track user location, dodge encryption, and even record private conversations while the intrusion looks like like ordinary carrier to carrier chatter among a sea of other, "privileged peering relationships."
Former President Bill Clinton has said he disagrees with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's view that he should have resigned because of the Monica Lewinsky affair. 'You have to - really ignore what the context was,' Clinton told CBS Sunday Morning in an interview that will air this Sunday at 9:00am Eastern Time.
Rubio's strategy, like that of so many other senators, has been to engage Trump where he can and fight him where he can't. When will he stop engaging and start fighting? little more than a week ago, Senator Jeff Flake gave a scathing graduation speech to the Harvard Law School class of 2018.
When President Donald Trump recently tweeted his demand that the Justice Department determine whether his campaign was improperly "infiltrated or surveilled," the task of conducting that inquiry fell to the agency's inspector general, Michael Horowitz. Horowitz is the man in Washington who investigates the investigators and is now assigned to determine whether there is any truth to Trump's allegation of a spy being planted in his campaign, which he dubbed "spygate," or to many other allegations the president and his lawyers have leveled against the Department of Justice and FBI leadership.
"Sound policy would not make it easier for U.S. gun manufacturers who made the assault weapons used in the mass shootings at Sandy Hook, Pulse nightclub, Las Vegas, and Parkland to sell them to international buyers," said Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center. "The Trump administration is once again caving to the gun lobby," said Sen. Chris Murphy , D-Conn., "Making it easier for gun manufacturers to sell more weapons of war to civilians is the absolute wrong thing to do."
Mitt Romney's record on gun control came up this week during debate for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah , a conservative western state with strong support for the Second Amendment. Romney's opponent, Republican Utah state lawmaker Mike Kennedy, criticized him for signing an assault-weapons ban as governor of Massachusetts, a state that's long had tough gun laws.