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Oct. 12, 2007 - ANCHORAGE - Scores of Alaska Native villages are increasingly threatened by erosion, and governments must respond with new strategies as other communities around the nation face similar dilemmas from climate change, U.S. senators said Thursday.
In a September 2015 speech before the National Press Club in Washington , the Louisiana governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said: "Donald Trump is dangerous. But not in the way you think.
The Manchester Expeditionary Brigade, a group of local volunteers, will host a celebration of the 242nd U.S. Marine Corps birthday at the Executive Court Banquet Facility in Manchester on Friday, Nov. 10. Each year on Nov. 10, regardless of location, Marines pause to observe the Marine Corps birthday, often sharing a meal followed by birthday cake ... (more)
Hillary Clinton said she would gift previous campaign contributions from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to charity. Clinton made the announcement in response to a question on the matter in a CNN interview on Tuesday.
President Trump is expected to announce his decision on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal in a speech on Friday, according to lawmakers briefed by the administration. White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster was on Capitol Hill Wednesday evening briefing top Republican lawmakers on the administration's forthcoming announcement.
President Donald Trump's supporters have reveled in his and his administration's assault on the media. Trumpkins were thrilled when then-chief strategist Stephen Bannon declared the media to be the "opposition party."
The Senate's top Republican, facing increasing pressure from conservative groups, is seeking to upend a longstanding Senate tradition in order to speed the confirmation pace on a backlog of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees. Conservative activists such as the Judicial Crisis Network have been increasingly frustrated with the slow pace on judicial nominees.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - President Donald Trump pitched his tax plan as a boost for truckers at an event Wednesday in Pennsylvania, saying, "America first means putting American truckers first."
In this Oct. 9, 2017, photo, former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a television interview in New York. Bannon is the latest politico touched by the widening tentacles of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal.
Right now, leaders of Tea Party holdover groups are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down from his position. The conservative groups are all saying that Sen. McConnell, from Kentucky as well as the rest of his enablers should all go take a hike.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has signaled he will end the long-held practice of giving senators a chance to block judicial nominees who would have jurisdiction over their states - a move that comes as McConnell is facing increasing pressure from conservative groups to make the Senate more responsive to President Trump's wishes. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, stressed that the use of so-called ''blue slips'' - named after the piece of paper senators from a potential federal judge's state must sign to indicate their approval - is a custom, not a rule, and that the use of them will no longer be enforced.
One of the Democratic Party's most prominent financial backers is demanding that lawmakers and candidates on the left support removing President Trump from office, putting pressure on Democrats to make Trump's ouster a defining issue in the 2018 midterm elections. Tom Steyer, a billionaire California investor who spent more than $91 million supporting Democrats in the 2016 elections, issued the demand to his party in a letter on Wednesday.
"I have an election in 2018 and so, all of my focus is on asking the people of Connecticut to send me back to the United States Senate," the Connecticut Democrat told ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics" Wednesday. He added, "I know everybody thinks that every member of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate is starting to noodle their 2020 plans right now."
Police officers advise people to take cover near the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas. The federal government has awarded Nevada a $1 million grant to assist with the costs of responding to the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
President Donald Trump travels to Harrisburg National Guard Base, where he will make remarks on the topic of tax reform. Trump speech in Harrisburg is to be set against a backdrop of big rigs, with lots of truckers in attendance, according to the White House.
The government rested its bribery case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend on Wednesday, leaving it up to a judge to decide whether a 2016 Supreme Court ruling that already has helped reverse several politicians' corruption convictions is enough to dismiss the charges here. The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting free flights on a private jet and other gifts from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, a longtime friend, in exchange for pressuring government officials to take actions favorable to Melgen's business interests.
As prominent Republicans fret over Donald Trump's "unpresidential" behavior, that broad and undefined sentiment was aptly summed up by GOP Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who lamented that the White House has become "an adult day care center." The obvious reference is to the impression that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly is obliged almost daily to save the president from his own impulsive and habitually childish comments, which often imperil national security.
The White House reacted to Sen. Bob Corker's spat with President Donald Trump on Tuesday by saying the senator was "entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts" and offered examples of how the president has shown "strong leadership on foreign policy and national security." "Look, Senator Corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts.
Twitter is reversing a decision to keep Tennessee Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn from promoting a campaign video on that platform because of the congresswoman's statements about the sale of fetal tissue for medical research. Blackburn, a Republican running for the seat being opened by the pending retirement of Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, boasts in the ad that she "stopped the sale of baby body parts."