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Elected officials from Washington, D.C., to Boston reacted to the deadly school shooting in Texas yesterday with a combination of sorrow and outrage. "We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this horrible attack in Texas," President Trump said in a tweet yesterday.
He is the Republican Party's most powerful political weapon. Yet as the GOP fights to defend its delicate House and Senate majorities, President Donald Trump is not welcome everywhere.
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton acknowledged Friday that Democratic candidates around the country still face basic questions about what they stand for and which policies their party supports. Speaking at a Democrat Women's Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., Clinton urged party leaders to return to the basics and lay out the party's values for voters.
Prior to her confirmation as CIA Director, Gina Haspel was facing tough questions from Senator Rand Paul, and The Gateway Pundit has exclusively reviewed her responses which completely dodged specific questions about the CIA's involvement with the Christopher Steele dossier. On Tuesday, Senator Paul sent a formal letter to Haspel inquiring about her involvement in surveillance of the Trump campaign.
The Russian-American lobbyist who attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr. in June of 2016 knew Hillary Clinton and some of her campaign associates. According to a newly released transcript of a testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist, knew Hillary Clinton and had contacts with her associates.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the Justice Department Friday demanding Rosenstein's unredacted memo detailing Mueller's scope. In Chairman Grassley's letter to the DOJ, he noted Mueller's team had just given Rosenstein's memo to Judge Ellis therefore the Senate Judiciary Committee should be permitted to review the document.
West Virginia's two U.S. senators have announced federal approval of nearly $3 million for a new substance abuse treatment center in Ohio County. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the grant to Heart 2 Heart.
Multiple deaths have been reported from a shooting at Santa Fe High School. The gunman has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, and he has been charged with capital murder.
President Donald Trump said Friday he has chosen Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department, a surprise announcement that appeared to catch Wilkie off guard. Wilkie, a former Pentagon undersecretary for personnel and readiness, has led the department since Trump fired David Shulkin in March amid an ethics scandal and mounting rebellion within the building.
In a surprise announcement that caught the candidate off-guard, President Donald Trump said Friday he'll nominate acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department. Trump spilled the news about Wilkie at a White House event on prison reform as he introduced Cabinet members in attendance.
The Santa Fe school district issued an alert... . In this image taken from video law enforcement officers respond to a high school near Houston after an active shooter was reported on campus, Friday, May 18, 2018, in Santa Fe, Texas.
The U.S. State Department has expressed concern over the welfare of a Utah man jailed in Venezuela, a day after he managed to upload a video to Facebook saying inmates at his prison had seized the complex and were trying to kill him. As we have reported previously , 26-year-old Joshua Holt traveled to Venezuela in 2016 to marry Thamara Caleno Candelo, whom he met online.
I first met Erin Herbig when she was heading up the first Maine Fare under Maine Farmland Trust. We worked closely together that summer to align my organization, the Belfast Farmers' Market, with this huge weekend-long event she was producing.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Gina Haspel May 17 to be director of the CIA , ending a bruising confirmation fight centered on her ties to the spy agency's past use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques. Haspel, who will be the first woman to lead the CIA , is a 33-year veteran at the agency currently serving as its acting director.
Politico : "After laying into Sen. Jon Tester in late April, Trump is reveling in a new round of attacks on the 10 senators up for reelection in states that the president won in 2016. Always more of an attack dog toward his enemies than a defender of his allies, Trump is laying into 'Sleepin'' Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, calling Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania a 'disaster' and blaming Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio for 'catch and release' immigration policies."
Shortly before the raffle for a handgun, top Arizona Republicans gave a warning to the crowd gathered at a conservative group's meeting in a retirement community at the edge of Phoenix's sprawl: The Democrats are coming.
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Bysiewicz signing paperwork to officially run for governor at the State Elections Enforcement Commission office in Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday Apr. 3, 2018. Bysiewicz signing paperwork to officially run for governor at the State Elections Enforcement Commission office in Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday Apr. 3, 2018.
CIA nominee Gina Haspel testifies May 9 during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a 54-45 vote that split both parties, the Senate on Thursday confirmed her as the first female director of the CIA.