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Gov. Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday reflected on Hurricane Sandy and said New York has come back stronger and smarter. During the joint appearance in Oceanside, L.I., to announce a Nassau County water treatment plant project, Cuomo invoked Winston Churchill's motto of "never given in" to say how New York tackled the aftermath of the devastating storm.
Roger Stone didn't tweet anything worse at CNN's Don Lemon than he has said to someone else before. ''Piece of s---,'' Stone wrote to the anchor mid-rant on Friday night, after CNN told viewers of an indictment in an investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election, which Stone helped President Donald Trump win.
When I look at what's happening in Washington, I just shake my head because I know we can do better. It can't just be me who is tired of the political scene today -- the nastiness of the debates and the nothingness of the results.
Elected officials are marking the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy by talking about the recovery that's been made and pledging to do more. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio was in the waterfront Rockaways neighborhood on Sunday.
In this Oct. 22, 2017, file photo, FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference in Philadelphia. The FBI's use of foreign intelligence is at the heart of a heated debate about reauthorizing a law that lets spy agencies collect information on non-U.S. citizens abroad.
Democrat Doug Jones , and Republican Roy Moore will square off in the Dec. 12, 2017, general election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated in February 2017 by Jeff Sessions. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey called for a special election in April 2017, but it could be the last time a governor has the authority to do so.
Arizona's Republican U.S. Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain are in a unique position to stand up to President Donald Trump. McCain and Flake, unleashed Arizona 'mavericks,' don't have to pull punches against Trump Arizona's Republican U.S. Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain are in a unique position to stand up to President Donald Trump.
Rep. Maxine Waters , a California Democrat, led approximate 4,000 attendees at the Women's Convention in Detroit on Saturday with the rallying cry: "Impeach 45!" The Huffington Post reported. "Donald Trump is the most dishonorable and despicable human being to ever serve in the office of the president," Waters said, urging the women to take leadership roles in the resistance movement.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is joining with other senators in making a bipartisan push to ensure that infrastructure in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is rebuilt in a resilient and sustainable way that will reduce the threat of damage from future disasters. In a bipartisan letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y. and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the senators said that Hurricanes Irma and Maria decimated the electric grids in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with some communities projected to face many months without reliable power, according to a news release from Franken's office.
Republican Senator Jeff Flake appeared to be spending his weekend reflecting on the state of his party under Donald Trump, after making waves this week when he announced he would not seek reelection in a stinging rebuke of the president on the Senate floor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Putin's interference in the 2016 U.S. election has been the center of a crisis in relations between the two countries.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin told West Virginia voters that the country's biggest threat comes from unaddressed, excessive spending. The Journal of Martinsburg reports that the Democrat held a town hall meeting Friday in Berkeley Springs, where he responded to a number of questions from voters on topics that included health care, gun rights and opioid treatment.
In this Oct. 26, 2017, photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, whose panel is charged with writing tax law, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are promoting their tax-cutting plan as needed relief for the stressed American middle class and a catalyst for job creation.
In Britain late last week, Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, described Donald Trump as a "daft twerp." Soames rightly was objecting to a Trump tweet that tried to link a 13 percent rise in the crime rate in England and Wales to radical Islamic terrorism, a notion that the president may have picked up .
The Senate intelligence committee, as part of its ongoing investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal, has completed interviews with several key participants in the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and members of Trump's inner circle. Yet so far it has not questioned Donald Trump Jr., who organized the gathering, hoping to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of what he was told was a secret Russian government effort to help Donald Trump win the White House.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans told county commissioners Friday that Obama has been summoned for jury duty next month in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS-TV. Obama plans to serve as juror, according to WLS-TV.
Sen. Ron Wyden , a Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is demanding that national security leaders adopt a plan to protect the personal devices and internet accounts of top Trump administration officials. Mr. Wyden of Oregon wrote the acting director of the Department of Homeland Security and the head of the National Security Agency on Friday urging them to work together to ensure senior White House officials are safeguarded from cyberattacks after malware was reportedly found recently on Chief of Staff John F. Kelly's personal cell phone.
The havoc Donald Trump's presidency has wreaked will take years to fully understand, let alone recover from. High on the list of things to undo will be the damage done by two words: Fake News.