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Illinois is worried that elaborate new barriers to stop Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan will bog down cargo shipping in its busy canals. The health of the Great Lakes is far more important to all of the Midwest and Canada than the parochial economic interests of shipping companies in greater Chicago.
Nebraska voters on Tuesday will pick U.S. Senate nominees for both parties out of crowded fields of candidates who hope to claim the seat held by incumbent Republican Deb Fischer. Fischer faces a primary challenge from four fellow Republicans but is expected to win the party's nomination as she seeks a second term.
Last fall, when President Donald Trump headed to Capitol Hill for the Senate Republican lunch, he was feuding with the powerful chair of the foreign relations panel and tweeted that the man couldn't get elected dog catcher. Now Trump is headed to the weekly GOP lunch embroiled in a controversy over an aide's comment disparaging ailing GOP Sen. John McCain, and the Senate GOP leadership is telling Trump it's past time for an apology from the White House.
Tuesday's primary elections will begin to settle swing state Pennsylvania's chaotic congressional landscape after a court fight ended with redrawn districts just three months ago. Pennsylvania primary voters will also decide the fate of President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Senate.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said the GOP can expect big gains in November's midterm elections if President Donald Trump continues to tout the country's strong economic growth. "Well, people are looking at the economy," Barrasso said on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday.
An Obamacare advocacy group announced its Rate Watch campaign Tuesday that will highlight proposed premium increases for Obamacare's exchanges for 2019. A few years ago, Republicans would send out blaring alerts whenever an insurer proposed a double-digit rate increase for its Obamacare plans, putting Democrats on the defensive.
Michael Avenatti, seen here leaving Federal Court in New York on April 16, uses Twitter and TV appearances to his advantage. Michael Avenatti, seen here leaving Federal Court in New York on April 16, uses Twitter and TV appearances to his advantage.
Polls have opened in Pennsylvania as voters choose Republican challengers to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. Also on tap Tuesday are contested primaries for lieutenant governor and a slew of crowded U.S. House races following Pennsylvania's court-ordered redrawing of congressional district boundaries.
When you hear "world tour" you usually think of superstars performing concerts in various cities for adoring fans. Not so with the presidentially deprived, entitlement-driven Hillary Clinton.
This Oct. 14, 2016 photo shows Rep. Jim Christiana in Beaver, Pa, Pennsylvania's thus-far sleepy U.S. Senate race could nonetheless help determine whether Republicans maintain control of the chamber. U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta is heavily favored over state Rep. Jim Christiana in Tuesday's Republican primary election.
Donald Trump has condemned West Wing leakers as "traitors and cowards" as a dispute over a White House aide's crass remark about senator John McCain extended into a fifth day. The president tweeted that the "leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible".
A Fargo man convicted of threatening U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Prosecutors say Olson sent an email to Heitkamp's office, threatening to shoot her in the head. He faced a maximum sentence of five years.
The Legislature's end-of-session deadline of May 21 is fast approaching and it appears the governor and Republicans are still far apart on some issues. On Monday, Gov. Mark Dayton announced he won't sign a bill squaring the state's tax code to sweeping federal changes if Republican lawmakers don't include emergency funding for schools.
President Donald Trump on Monday defended his efforts to help a Chinese telecommunications company that violated U.S. sanctions "get back into business, fast," despite criticism from Democrats and Republicans that the company poses a national security risk. "ZTE, the large Chinese phone company, buys a big percentage of individual parts from U.S. companies," Trump tweeted Monday.
That might be welcome news for Trump voters who want the president to fulfill a promise to "drain the swamp" and rid the capital of the politically connected. Yet his nominee, Gordon Hartogensis, is well known to some of Washington's most politically influential: He is the brother-in-law of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
WASHINGTON The way music is licensed and songwriters are compensated for the digital age will be undergoing big changes under a bill making its way through Congress. The Senate cleared a bill late Tuesday that creates a new independent entity that will license songs to companies that play music online.
Israel "undoubtedly" serves as a model for securing America's borders, said Senator Ted Cruz during an interview on Breitbart News Sunday. "When you are surrounded by enemies who would drive you into the sea, you don't have the luxury of indulging in nonsense when it comes to national security," Cruz told host Amanda House on the eve of the U.S. embassy in Israel's move to Jerusalem.
CIA nominee Gina Haspel is seated before a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 9, 2018 in Washington. CIA nominee Gina Haspel is seated before a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 9, 2018 in Washington.
As the shiny, silver tables inside places like Russell Hall Seafood in Hooper's Island lie waiting, so do watermen in other Eastern Shore counties - like Bunky Chance of Talbot County. "It's not upon us yet, but if something doesn't break loose, we're going to all be highly impacted," Chance said.
On Monday's taping of The View, Meghan McCain rejected the excuse that a White House communication staffer's joke about her father's battle with brain cancer should never have been made public. Kelly Sadler, a communications aide in President Trump's administration, reportedly said during a meeting Thursday that Sen. John McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel "doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway."