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GOP leaders applauded President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday. House Speaker Paul Ryan said the deal was "deeply flawed" from the beginning and that "Iran's hostile actions since its signing have only reaffirmed that it remains dedicated to sowing instability in the region."
Trump's decision Tuesday to restore sanctions is expected to provoke a response from Iran that some hope will lead to a better deal. The old deal was aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear weapons program for the next decade in exchange for lifting sanctions.
Oregon's senior U.S. Sen., Ron Wyden, took to the Senate floor today to blast the nomination of Ryan Bounds, a Portland federal prosecutor, for a spot on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bounds, a conservative and a protege of U.S. Rep. Greg Walden failed to gain the support of either of Oregon's U.S. Senators, Wyden or Jeff Merkley.
Will President Donald Trump fire Rod Rosenstein? Will Robert Mueller find evidence that Trump has committed crimes? Will Rudy Giuliani and Trump land on a consistent explanation about hush money? Having read and watched a lot of the Trump-scandal coverage, I don't know the answer to any of these questions. What I can tell you is that I'm getting a little sick of some of the cliches that have become regular features of that coverage.
Republicans will choose between Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, a former U.S. senator, and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, a former state auditor who's spent the year distancing herself from Kasich's administration.
Less than 24 hours before polls opened in the Indiana Senate primary, Rep. Luke Messer pulled out the big guns. More specifically, the Indiana Republican and his family adopted a little West Highland Terrier.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to lay out his plans for the nation's biofuel policy on Tuesday in a closed door briefing with senators, after months of hearing arguments about the hotly contested regulation, according to two sources. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an 'Unleashing American Energy' event at the Department of Energy in Washington, U.S., June 29, 2017.
Republican West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship 's latest political ad has stirred controversy for its use of terms like " China people " and references to Sen. Mitch McConnell as "cocaine Mitch" and his "China family". Blankenship, who is vying the chance to challenge West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin in November, is already known across his state.
For the first time, the Utah Debate Commission is hosting three primary debates, including between U.S. Senate candidates Mitt Romney, a former GOP presidential nominee, and state Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine. The debate between the two contenders for the Republican nomination in the race to take the place of retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, will be held May 29 at 6 p.m. at the KBYU Studios on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who held himself out as a champion of women and a liberal foil to President Donald Trump, resigned from office after four women accused him of physical violence during intimate encounters. It was a swift and stunning fall for a Democrat who had pledged to use the power of his office to hold others accountable for abusing their power.
His name may not be on the ballot, but President Donald Trump is figuring prominently in a number of primary races on Tuesday, as voters go to the polls to pick candidates for Congress in Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Indiana, kicking off primaries for the U.S. House and Senate in 30 states over the next six weeks. For Republicans, the outcome of primaries in three states of the states voting today could be an important sign as to their party's chances to keep control of the U.S. Senate in the 2018 mid-term elections, as Republicans target seats held by Democrats in three states won by the President - Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia, Sen. Joe Donnelly in Indiana and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
In this Jan. 18, 2018, file photo, former Massey CEO and West Virginia Republican Senatorial candidate, Don Blankenship, speaks during a town hall to kick off his campaign in Logan, W.Va. Voters in the heart of Trump country are ready to decide the fate of Republican Senate candidate Don Blankenship, a brash businessman with a checkered past who's testing the appeal of President Donald Trump's outsider playbook in one of the nation's premiere midterm contests.
President Trump will disclose his plans for the future of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, as his hard-line advisers urge him to kill the deal and allies around the world push him to stay in. Under the agreement signed in 2015, the United States and others withdrew economic sanctions on Iran in return for it agreeing to give up the means to make nuclear weapons.
The anti-establishment fervor unleashed by Trump's spectacular 2016 election win has proven hard to control. West Virginia Republican voters will decide Tuesday if they want an ex-con coal baron as their US senator, even though President Donald Trump himself has warned the candidate is too radical to prevail in November's mid-term elections.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch called John McCain's decision not to invite President Donald Trump to his funeral "ridiculous" and urged the cancer-stricken senator to change his mind. Hatch blasted McCain's plans to invite Vice President Mike Pence instead of Trump, telling CNN, "I think that's ridiculous.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has risen to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration and a defender of women's rights, abruptly resigned Monday night, hours after four women accused him of physically assaulting them in an article published by The New Yorker. "It's been my great honor and privilege to serve as attorney general for the people of the State of New York," Schneiderman said in a statement.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a news conference with other U.S. State Attorney's General to announce a state-based effort to combat climate change in the Manhattan borough of New York City, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own.
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said he will donate to Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the event that controversial coal baron Don Blankenship wins the GOP primary in West Virginia on Tuesday. "I hope that [Blankenship] doesn't get through the primary," Flake told reporters on Monday.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch called John McCain's decision not to invite President Trump to his funeral "ridiculous." Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch called John McCain's decision not to invite President Trump to his funeral "ridiculous" and urged the cancer-stricken senator to change his mind.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who positioned himself as a combatant of sexual harassment and abuse in the #MeToo era and a major opponent of President Donald Trump, abruptly announced his resignation Monday after four women accused him of physical violence and illicit drug and alcohol use. Schneiderman, a Democrat, stepped down hours after a New Yorker article was published Monday evening detailing allegations that he repeatedly slapped, choked and degraded women with whom he had been romantic.