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Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said Monday he is returning to Washington following an attack in his yard that left him with six broken ribs. "While I'm still in a good deal of pain, I will be returning to work in the Senate today, ready to fight for liberty and help move forward with tax cuts in the coming days and weeks," Paul posted on his Twitter account .
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told the press this morning that embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore should "step aside' after reports came to light that he liked to date teenage and underage girls. After completing a forum with business leaders on tax reform, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in no uncertain terms that he believed the woman interviewed in the blockbuster Washington Post report.
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday that Republican candidate Roy Moore should end his campaign for U.S. Senate in Alabama, following allegations that Moore initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when he was 32. "I think he should step aside," said McConnell. His comments marked the most definitive position he has taken on Moore's candidacy since The Washington Post reported the allegations last Thursday.
The top Republican in the Senate said Monday GOP candidate Roy Moore should quit his Alabama race amid allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl and pursued romantic relationships with other teenage girls decades ago. "I believe the women," said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Gabriel Sherman has done some outstanding reporting and gotten some major scoops, but when he says he has a source who claims that Steve Bannon predicted that Trump has only a thirty percent chance of completing his term, I'm not sure if I can take that to the bank. I do know that Bannon is worried about it, because he's said that on the record.
With so many women coming forward to tell their stories of sexual abuse and harassment, America is getting a course in Apology 101. Lesson 1: the moment an "if" enters an apology - when the offending person is sorry "if" the offensive thing they did offended anyone - it becomes a nonapology.
People on Twitter shared snapshots of themselves at age 14, the age a woman was when she said Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her 40 years ago. In the Washington Post 's story Thursday, four women claimed Moore dated them as teens, including Leigh Corfman, who claimed he plied her with alcohol, kissed and fondled when she was 14. Moore, the GOP candidate to replace Attorney Gen.
U.S. President Donald Trump, second from rigtht, reacts as he does the "ASEAN-way handshake" with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, second from left, and Philippine President Ro... .
Jurors in New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez's federal corruption trial are getting a chance at a fresh start. Their 16 hours of deliberations -- which spilled into rare public view last week -- are set to continue Monday with an alternate juror replacing one who was excused due to vacation plans.
Republicans aren't hiding a key part of their motivation to pass tax reform in the weeks ahead: if they don't do something -- anything-- the donor class could abandon them and imperil their chances of keeping the majority in 2018 In a candid moment last week, Rep. Chris Collins conveyed out loud what many members have been thinking for months. "My donors are basically saying, 'Get it done or don't ever call me again,'" the New York Republican told The Hill.
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, the Republican insurgent running for the U.S. Senate, over the weekend again flatly denied he had initiated a sexual encounter in 1979 with a 14-year-old girl, insisting the accusation was "fake news." In his first public appearance since a Washington Post story on Thursday detailing allegations of sexual misconduct, Moore portrayed himself a victim of a baseless attack on his character.
The chairman of the House's tax-writing committee is expressing confidence that chamber won't go along with the Senate's proposal to eliminate the deduction for property taxes, setting up a major flashpoint as Republicans aim to put a tax cut bill on President Donald Trump's desk before Christmas. The GOP is moving urgently on the first rewrite of the U.S. tax code in three decades, but key differences promise to complicate the effort.
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore waits to speak the Vestavia Hills Public library, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Thursday, Nov. 9 Washington Post story an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. Moore is denying the allegations.
Two former CIA employees are accusing the Trump administration's choice for CIA chief watchdog of being less than candid when he told Congress he didn't know about any active whistleblower complaints against him. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Christopher Sharpley , the current acting inspector general who's in line for the permanent job, about complaints that he and other managers participated in retaliation against CIA workers who alerted congressional committees and other authorities about alleged misconduct.
Mayor de Blasio denounced the congressional tax plan as a theft from the middle class to benefit the wealthy. He is seen at a City Hall rally on Sunday.
Amid pressure from within the Republican Party to step aside, GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore on Sunday night called a newspaper report carrying allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl four decades ago "fake news" and said a lawsuit would be filed in response. Moore's condemnation of a Washington Post story during a campaign speech in Huntsville, Alabama, came hours after another fellow Republican, Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, urged him to drop out of a special election for one of Alabama's Senate seats.
Beneath the wave of sexual misconduct allegations in recent weeks against male lawmakers and candidates lies a common theme: These offenses had been going on for decades but were either not acknowledged or were dealt with quietly. Now, veils of silence in legislative chambers are lifting as public disavowals and calls for resignations pour in against the accused, even from fellow party members.
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI - Javier Gonzalez has joined a human tide of more than 130,000 U.S. citizens arriving in Florida since Hurricane Maria wrecked Puerto Rico, grateful for a place to start over but resenting how their island has been treated since the disaster.
Waiting for reasonable and responsible NRA members - and don't tell me there aren't plenty of them - to step forward and support reasonable restrictions on gun sales and ownership.