Legislative panels vote to stall groundwater nitrate rule
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota lawmakers have moved to stall implementation of the state's proposed rule for reducing nitrate levels in groundwater supplies in farm country.
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President Trump to DOJ: Investigate whether FBI infiltrated campaign
President Donald Trump said he will "demand" that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came hours before his legal team said the special counsel indicated the investigation into the president could be concluded by September.
Don Blankenship To Mount Third-Party Senate Bid After Losing W.Va. GOP Primary
Former Massey CEO and West Virginia Senatorial candidate, Don Blankenship, speaks during a town hall to kick off his GOP campaign in Logan, W.Va., on Jan. 18, 2018. After losing the Republican primary, Blankenship says he'll run under the Constitution Party banner.
Trump to DOJ: Investigate whether FBI infiltrated campaign
President Donald Trump said he will "demand" that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came hours before his legal team said the special counsel indicated the investigation into the president could be concluded by September.
Dolores Huerta recalls night Robert F. Kennedy was shot: ‘For years, I suffered with guilt.’
Dolores Huerta vividly recalls the day Robert F. Kennedy joined thousands of farmworkers in Central California to celebrate the end of Cesar E. Chavez's fast for nonviolence. On March 10, 1968, Huerta greeted Kennedy at the airport and brought him back to an adobe brick building on the union's Forty Acres property, just west of the city of Delano.
Democrats’ newest midterm pitch: A crackdown on corruption
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive to speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 22, 2018. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive to speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 22, 2018.
Lawmakers return to Washington amid calls for gun control
Just days after a school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, claimed 10 lives, some Democratic lawmakers want to call attention back to gun control, an issue that has consistently struggled to gain traction on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers are returning to Washington on Monday, but there's skepticism that Congress would be willing to take up a divisive topic such as gun control, just months before the midterm elections.
The Republican Primary in Georgia Is Taking Racism to a Whole New Level
The Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia has devolved in recent weeks into a chest-thumping argument over which candidate hates undocumented immigrants the most. In their rush to prove themselves, two candidates-both currently elected officials-have engaged in an escalating competition over who can personally "round up" and remove more immigrants from the state.
Morning Spin: Lightfoot says mass shootings shouldn’t take focus off Chicago violence
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2018 midterms show start of Democratic scramble for 2020
Look closely enough at the 2018 midterm campaign and you'll see the stirrings of a Democratic scramble to reclaim the White House from President Donald Trump. The leading players - from established national figures such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to up-and-comers including Sen. Kamala Harris - don't necessarily put it that way.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Sun Sentinel: Gina Haspel is flawed choice to lead CIA
With critical support from Florida's Bill Nelson and five other Democratic senators, Gina Haspel has been confirmed as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. A career employee for 33 years and most recently the deputy director, she is highly suited in every respect but one.
Lawmakers wrap up session in a blur of bills, questions
The Minnesota Legislature wrapped up its work at midnight Sunday with the familiar last-minute flurry of votes and political machinations but surrounded by question marks, as Gov. Mark Dayton threatened to veto major tax and spending bills. The ramifications of the latest round of gridlock at the Capitol could be huge, as the failure to enact a bill syncing Minnesota's tax code with sweeping federal changes would create a massively complex tax filing season next year and hit hundreds of thousands of Minnesota families and some businesses with tax increases.
Strawberry Festival Parade dazzles
Downtown Buckhannon was crowded over the weekend with folks enjoying the final two days of the 77th annual West Virginia Strawberry Festival.
Clinton ribs Trump with Russian cap at Yale’s Class Day
Former Secretary of State and former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds up a Russian fur hat, an ushanka, with a Soviet era hammer and sickle emblem, to the Yale College class of 2018 during her Class Day address at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Sunday, May 20, 2018. As a tradition, Yale students and faculty wear humorous and playful hats during a Senior Class Day ceremony.
Jamie Stiehm: Donald Trump Breaks Bread, Glasses and Republican Party at Lunch
Translated, the president of the United States is joining 50 Republican senators in the Capitol to crash their private Tuesday lunch. Nobody is glad to hear this on the Senate side.
Hillary Clinton to give Class Day address at Yale
In this Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017 file photo, Hillary Clinton sits on stage during a book tour event in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On May 11, 2018, The Associated Press has found that stories circulating on the internet that Clinton is New York's new attorney general are untrue.
Warner: Why doesn’t Trump understand that it’s illegal for…
Donald John Trump Trump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Democratic senator: Trump Jr. meeting with Gulf emissary 'absolutely crazy' Trump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report MORE met with a Gulf emissary during the 2016 campaign who offered the help of the crown princes of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to have his father win the election "If the Times story is true, we now have at least a second and maybe a third nation that was trying to lean into this campaign," Warner said.
In Bizarre Sunday Morning Twitter Outburst, Trump Claims New York…
Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that The New York Times had vindicated him in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Things are really getting ridiculous.
Intelligence Committee Democrats: Trump Jr.’s reported meeting with Arab princes could be crime
The top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees said Sunday Trump campaign officials may have committed a crime if a new report proves true: that three months before the 2016 election, President Trump's son met with two Arab princes and an Israeli political operative who offered to help his father win the presidential election. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. met on Aug. 3, 2016 with two wealthy princes, from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with Joel Zamel, an Israeli expert in "social media manipulation."
2018 midterms: An early heat for 2020 Democrats?
Look closely enough at the 2018 midterm campaign and you'll see the stirrings of a Democratic scramble to reclaim the White House from President Donald Trump. The leading players - from established national figures such as former Vice President Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to up-and-comers including California Sen. Kamala Harris - don't necessarily put it that way.