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Days after Sen. Rand Paul suffered five broken ribs, the lawyer for the man who's been charged with assaulting Paul says politics are not involved - and that it was a case of "a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial." The new details shed light on an attack on Paul in which he was reportedly tackled from behind while he was mowing the yard at his home in Bowling Green, Ky., Friday afternoon.
For starters, he said he was going to plead his Fifth Amendment rights in the ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but then, he just kept talking! Specifically, Page is dishing on a July 2016 trip to Moscow, that was originally billed as a "personal" trip. Now, however, it's a trip he sought permission for, then later briefed top Trump campaign officials on.
BOLD: GOP planning run to make Elizabeth Warren, Bay State see red. "National Republicans are launching an unprecedented offensive into the deeply Democratic Bay State - installing a long-term Massachusetts presence meant to bolster GOP mid-term candidates and target President Trump foe and potential 2020 rival U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Herald has learned.
Conservative activists eagerly hope the November 2018 election delivers a strong rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom they blame for stymieing President Donald Trump's agenda. When a new Senate convenes in January 2019, the Kentucky Republican will almost certainly remain in charge of Senate Republicans.
Donald Trump rose from reality TV show host to POTUS by out culture-warring the GOP , Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. The party's drift in that direction began years ago, the Arizona senator said, explaining, "We could not be the party of fiscal conservatism when we were ballooning our debt.
Middlebury College political science Professor Allison Stanger went on C-SPAN TV to discuss student violence in reaction to conservative author Charles Murray's controversial campus visit on March 2. It is the first time the educator, who was injured during the event along with Murray, talked about the free-speech incident in depth. Most people know Murray for "The Bell Curve" book.
Democrat and ex-CIA: Trump needs to focus on Making America Feel Good Again or he's out in 2020 A year ago, some 63 million Americans elected Donald Trump to serve as the nation's 45th president. Few anticipated his improbable success when he launched his campaign.
In New Jersey, Democrat Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama administration ambassador to Germany, holds a double-digit lead in most polls over Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
Sen. Rand Paul speaks during a news conference in Washington, Oct. 12, 2017. The violent altercation last week that left Paul nursing bruised lungs and broken ribs began with "a very regrettable dispute" between neighbors over a "trivial" matter, a lawyer for the man accused of assaulting the senator said on Nov. 6. WASHINGTON - The violent altercation last week that left Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., nursing bruised lungs and broken ribs began over a landscaping dispute between the senator and his longtime next-door neighbor, according to neighbors and three Kentucky Republicans familiar with what transpired.
I grew up listening to stories of the aftermath. Whenever I would complain about my relatively comfortable life growing up in New York City, my parents, born shortly after the end of the Korean War, would reflect on their struggles with abject poverty, deep financial loss, postwar trauma and missed educational opportunities.
Keith Heard, a DC lobbyist and president of Key Impact Strategies, is often mistaken for Steve Bannon. Keith Heard, former chief of staff for Sen. Thad Cochran, is a lobbyist and president of Key Impact Strategies.
Nearly half of all middle-class families would pay more in taxes in 2026 than they would under current rules if the proposed House tax bill became law, and about one-third would pay more in 2018, according to a New York Times analysis, a striking finding for a bill promoted as a middle-class tax cut. President Trump and congressional Republicans have pitched the plan unveiled last week as a tax cut for most Americans.
An assault of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul by a longtime next-door neighbor was not motivated by political differences but by a dispute "most people would find trivial," an attorney for the man charged in the attack said Monday. Attorney Matt Baker did not say what the dispute was about, preserving the mystery around an attack that stunned the Bowling Green community and left Paul, 54, with five broken ribs.
Manka Dhingra, a senior deputy King County Prosecutor, carries Democrats' hopes in the pivotal 45th District State Senate race, which could give Democrats control of the Washington Legislature. Manka Dhingra, a senior deputy King County Prosecutor, carries Democrats' hopes in the pivotal 45th District State Senate race, which could give Democrats control of the Washington Legislature.
Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee work to shape the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee work to shape the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross holds a news conference at the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday he probably would not keep his holdings in a shipping company with business ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and that he had fully and properly disclosed investments.
There are a handful of Senate proposals to address gun violence, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it's "hard to envision a foolproof way" to prevent attacks in America. Senator Ted Cruz shrugged off talks of gun control and said killers will "use the weaponry that is available."
Borrowing a phrase from Winston Churchill, Keith Olbermann said on Monday's episode of "The Resistance" that it appears America is at the end of the beginning of President Donald Trump's downfall - and what happens next has never been more unclear. With last week's indictments of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates, Olbermann mused whether we're also at "the end of whatever control of himself Donald Trump has."
The revenue generated by a 2004 voter-approved initiative in Missouri to fund better highways and bridge... . Work continues on the Department of Transportation's Main Street bridge project in Grandview, Mo., Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017.