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WASHINGTON -- As U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez prepares to stand trial this week on federal corruption charges , the Republican National Committee on Tuesday launched an online ad campaign to force him out immediately if convicted. The goal is to allow Gov. Chris Christie , a Republican, to fill the seat until the 2018 election, giving the GOP a 53rd vote in a 100-member chamber.
As Congress returns to work this week, its agenda is crowded with must-pass legislation. To avoid shutting down the government, lawmakers will have to vote for new spending bills.
President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it's up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children. Trump was referring to former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, which has provided nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the U.S. The Trump administration was expected to announce termination of the program - but only after giving Congress six months to come up with a legislative solution to protect the immigrants, sometimes known as "dreamers."
On a rainy summer afternoon in New York, Ilana Glazer is staring at her laptop in an anonymous Airbnb rental, where the plan is to do an interview about the new season of her show, "Broad City." After some fussing with her iPhone, she summons her creative partner, Abbi Jacobson, via FaceTime from Los Angeles.
Hillary Clinton's book is due out next week. And judging by a page that was just tweeted by one of her staunchest supporters - not to mention plenty of other evidence - it's likely to include a heaping dose of score-settling.
An 11-4 season-ending win against Portland on Monday, giving the Fisher Cats nine wins over the final 14 games, wasn't enough to prevent the team from posting its worst win total and winning... "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" was the title of an article by George Miller whose premise was that most people can keep a seven-digit number ... (more)
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have a packed schedule when Congress returns this week. Lawmakers have less than two weeks of legislative days to head off a government shutdown, raise the nation's borrowing limit and provide financial assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., this week to tackle a to-do list so packed it unfurls all the way down to the Anacostia River. Lawmakers aren't only expected to focus on taxes, the budget, the debt ceiling and other such priorities.
Paul Davis, a Democrat who's running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Kansas' 2nd district, said Labor Day is a celebration of the American worker and the labor movement. Kansas House Minority Leader Jim Ward, who is running for governor, recognized the labor movement's contributions to securing the 40-hour week, workplace safety laws and overtime pay.
On August 25th, Governor Bill Walker, our second Alaskan born governor, arrived in Seward to spend some personal time here with his wife Donna in celebration of their fortieth wedding anniversary and to take part in the Lost Lake Run benefiting those with cystic fibrosis; a cause that is close their hearts as their daughter-in-law has cystic fibrosis. The governor mentioned that he likes to take the opportunity to thank those that participated in the run while raising money for a good cause.
A plan to create a new farmers market complex in the Bronx has been awarded nearly $2.5 million in federal funding. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the Greenmarket Regional Food Hub last year.
The Senate is looking to mandate a government-wide ban on the use of all products made by one of the world's most respected cybersecurity firms, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, according to congressional sources.
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. a A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing a tough new test of his commitment to protecting civil rights as he oversees the Justice Department's investigation of the Charlottesville violence. The former Alabama senator has denounced racism and bigotry, and he's called the driver's actions at the neo-Nazi rally an "evil" act of domestic terrorism worthy of a federal civil rights investigation.
In this Jan. 31, 2017 file photo, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., accompanied by the committee's ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The state's largest Labor Day parade steps off at 10 a.m. Monday in Newtown, winding from the flagpole to Hawley School. The theme of the 56th annual edition of the parade is the "Labor of Love."
Pat Lunemann struggles to find employees to milk the 775 cows on his dairy farm near Clarissa, Minn. It is labor that legal immigrants from poor countries will take to gain a financial foothold in the U.S., but that many American-born workers in a vibrant Minnesota economy with low unemployment don't want.
President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking, a Politico report says. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm - and fulfill one of the president's core campaign promises.