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This Feb. 17, 2017 file photo shows Jeremy Johnson arrives for court during the trial for former Utah Attorney General John Swallow at the Matheson Courthouse, in Salt Lake City. Johnson a onetime helicopter-flying millionaire businessman who played a key role in touching off a high-profile pay-to-pay scandal in Utah is asking a federal appeals court to reverse his conviction for lying to banks to keep his online business afloat.
Sen. John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain spoke out against President Donald Trump on Wednesday after a report claimed the president had been "physically mocking" her father behind closed doors. "This is abhorrent," Meghan said Wednesday in a tweet that also had the report's link.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and other GOP members as they talk about the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.
IMAGE: A protester holds a placard during a rally supporting refugees worldwide and in reaction to Trump's travel ban. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters The United States has decided to curtail the number of refugees it would accept next year to 45,000, half of the cap in 2016, as the humanitarian groups decried the move terming it as cruel.
When President Donald Trump announced plans to go to Indiana Wednesday to sell the GOP tax overhaul plan, party leaders cheered his engagement on the high-stakes issue. When the White House said one of Trump's traveling companions would be Indiana's Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly - a top target in next year's midterm elections - the hopes turned to head-smacking disbelief.
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A majority of likely California voters supports protecting immigrants who arrived in the country as children from deportation and about half don't think Sen. Dianne Feinstein should run for re-election next year, according to a Public Policy Institute of California survey released Wednesday. The poll also found that only about 27 percent of Californians approve of the job President Trump is doing.
Shaking hands and greeting diners at a popular lunch stop, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones is hoping to persuade Alabamians to break a two-decade habit of voting Republican. A day after Republicans picked firebrand jurist Roy Moore as their nominee, Democrats see an opening, even if it's a narrow one, for a rare Southern victory in a statewide election.
The latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is now dead in Congress, but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo remains worried about another potential cut in federal funds to hospitals that he said would blow a hole in the state budget. The money is known as the Disproportionate Share Hospital fund, or DSH, and the money goes to public hospitals and safety net hospitals that often serve the poorest patients.
Tearfully at times, Manchester auto dealer Andy Crews testified Tuesday about the impact of being falsely accused of drug dealing, money laundering and gun running.
In their effort to pin a star on their chests, Republicans are offering concessions to Alaska that other States will not have access to in an effort to win Sen. Lisa Murkowski's vote. They want to add exemptions for Alaska in order to get her to support their last-ditch bill to overhaul the American health-care system.
Are we finally getting through to the GOP Establishment; has the pain we militant normals have dealt it performed the vital task of being the teacher of last resort? It's too bad that's how the Establishment has to learn that we're serious about nuking business as usual. We tried being nice; that was the Tea Party, and the Establishment trashed it.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon mocked President Trump on Wednesday for backing the so-called Republican establishment favorite Luther Strange over Roy Moore in the GOP's Alabama U.S. Senate seat runoff. "We're 6-0 in these elections," Bannon told Sirius XM's "Breitbart News Daily," referring to "we, the people" and the slew of special elections held under the Trump administration.
Senate Republicans reckoned Wednesday with an insurgent's win in Alabama that poses clear threats to their own grip on power and the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Nearly $10 million spent by a McConnell-backed super PAC couldn't save incumbent GOP Sen. Luther Strange, who had been endorsed by President Donald Trump as well.
One month after retiring from the U.S. Senate , Barbara Boxer has a new focus not far removed from her old one: electing like-minded Democrats. One month after retiring from the U.S. Senate , Barbara Boxer has a new focus not far removed from her old one: electing like-minded Democrats.
President Trump on Wednesday began a full-throttle push to slash taxes and salvage what is left of his foundering legislative agenda in Congress, proposing a politically challenging array of tax cuts for individuals and businesses that would constitute the most sweeping changes to the federal tax code in decades. Trump, smarting from the latest defeat this week of his efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, cast his tax plan as an economic imperative and the fulfillment of a promise to his coalition of working-class supporters to deliver benefits in the form of lower taxes, better jobs, and higher wages.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss' playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments _ except in Montana. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss' playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments _ except in Montana.
27, 2017, as he returns from Indianapolis. . President Donald Trump talks with a guest as Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and right, Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., walk off Air Force One, Wednesday,Sept.
President Trump pointed to Senator Donnelly during his Indiana tax reform speech saying that if he doesn't approve his $5 trillion plan to cut taxes for corporations, simplify the tax system and nearly double the standard deduction he will come to Indiana and "campaign against him."