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In the final days before the West Virginia primary, breathless media coverage suggested that businessman Don Blankenship was gaining ground rapidly and had a real shot at winning the Republican Senate nomination. ABC News quoted a But Blankenship didn't win or even come close.
Three years ago, on the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights, I sat in an Alabama church pew with then-Sen. Jeff Sessions. He wore the flushed, impatient face of someone who had to be there.
Adam Urquhart Soon to be occupant of the home on Chestnut Street, Heidi MacDonald, Mayor Jim Donchess and Scott Slattery, Executive Director at Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity stand together at the start of the build. Adam Urquhart Soon to be occupant of the home on Chestnut Street, Heidi MacDonald, Mayor Jim Donchess and Scott Slattery, Executive Director at Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity stand together at the start of the build.
As in so much of the senator's extraordinary life, the rebellious Republican is facing this challenging chapter - battling brain cancer - in his own rule-breaking way, stirring up old fights and starting new ones. Rarely has the sickbed been so lively.
The Gazette is Colorado Springs's most trusted source for breaking news, sports, weather, obituaries, politics, business, art, entertainment, blogs, video, photos. From left: Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz., Sen. Bernie Sanders , and Sen. Kamala D. Harris The future of the Democratic Party has been booking late-night TV gigs, waking up for morning drive-time radio and showing up at watering holes in rural counties to try out new material.
Days after two Glendale teenagers died in a murder-suicide in February 2016, a group identified as LGBT United sought to "protect the memory of the victims of hate." The ad mentioned the deaths of May Kieu and Dorothy Dutiel at Independence High School and said, "This heart-breaking incident is all over the news and the comments are disgusting! Homophobes use the incident as a proof that love is a sin!" A month later, other Facebook ads from LGBT United that ran nationwide rebuked politicians who "keep giving empty promises in order to win votes" and noted "hateful comments from the Hillary supporters about Bernie Sanders."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., blasted White House officials Saturday for refusing to condemn a vile remark made about the mortality of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., with whom Graham spent several days last week as McCain battled an aggressive form of brain cancer. Graham, who also has maintained good relations with President Donald Trump, suggested that Trump might consider apologizing himself on behalf of the entire office after a press aide, Kelly Sadler, dismissed McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel by saying "he's dying, anyway."
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told staffers Friday that an aide's recent comment about Sen. John McCain was inappropriate but shouldn't have been leaked to the media. Sanders told communications' staffers in a private meeting that it was inappropriate for aide Kelly Sadler to dismiss McCain's opinion during a recent closed-door meeting because, Sadler said, "he's dying anyway."
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona listens as he is introduced at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, N.C., Oct. 28, 2008. As in so much of the senator's extraordinary life, the rebellious Republican is facing this challenging chapter -- battling brain cancer -- in his own rule-breaking way, stirring up old fights and starting new ones.
Kansas' data is too poorly documented to determine whether the state's privatized Medicaid plan is working, according to legislative auditors. Lawmakers directed their independent auditors in April 2017 to determine KanCare's effect on beneficiaries' health outcomes.
A second Democratic senator said Saturday he would support Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA despite her past role overseeing the torture of terror suspects, likely assuring her confirmation. Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana said that after "a tough, frank and extensive discussion" with nominee Gina Haspel, he believes she "has learned from the past... and can help our country confront serious international threats and challenges."
The White House is refusing to condemn a staffer who said during a closed-door meeting that Arizona Sen. John McCain's opinion "doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway." White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the aide, Kelly Sadler, still works for the White House.
University of Maine President Susan Hunter hugs a graduate on Saturday at the 216th commencement, which was Hunter's last. The first female president joined the university in 2014 and is retiring in June.
Gina Haspel's nomination to be CIA director received a crucial boost Saturday when Sen. Joe Donnelly became the second Democrat to support President Donald Trump's choice despite questions about her role in the previous decade's controversial interrogation program. The senator from Indiana, who met with Haspel on Thursday, said in a statement that he had ''a tough, frank, and extensive discussion'' with her that covered both her vision for the agency and its past use of ''enhanced'' interrogations against terrorist captives, including methods such as waterboarding that are widely considered torture.
The federal tax overhaul cut taxes for millions of American families and businesses. But the law also had an unintended effect: raising the state-tax bite in nearly every state that has an income tax.
Axios reported on Saturday some rather delicious details from a meeting in which White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reprimanded her staff for continuing to leak to the press, knowing full well that her lament would itself be leaked. Jonathan Swan reports: At yesterday's meeting of the White House communications team - in the wake of a leak from the prior meeting of a callous remark about John McCain's brain cancer - a visibly upset and furious Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the group: "I am sure this conversation is going to leak, too.
Joe Donnelly of Indiana says he made his decision after a "tough, frank and extensive discussion" with Gina Haspel, the spy agency's acting director. So far two Republicans have announced their opposition: Kentucky's Rand Paul and Arizona's John McCain, who's battling cancer and isn't expected to be present for the voting.
Addressing a key concern for manufacturers, President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to explore negotiations with California on achieving a single fuel economy standard for the nation during a meeting with auto industry executives. The president met with top auto executives Friday to discuss the standards and tasked Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to handle the talks with California officials, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
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.
As death flutters around the back-yard deck of Senator John McCain, it's sad to read reports that the scrappy Sandcutter regrets picking Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate and wishes he had instead picked Senator Jos. Lieberman.