Manchin scorched from both sides after Kavanaugh vote
Danielle Walker cried on Joe Manchin's shoulder after she shared her story of sexual assault in the senator's office.
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The final Ohio governor’s debate: Watch the debate along with pre-and post-debate analysis
It's crunch time in the Ohio governor's race on Monday as Republican Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray face off in the final gubernatorial debate in the run-up to the Nov. 6 election. The two candidates running to succeed term-limited Ohio GOP Gov. John Kasich will meet tonight at Cleveland State University.
20 dead in crash of limo headed to a birthday celebration
A limousine carrying four sisters, other relatives and friends to a birthday celebration blew through a stop sign and slammed into a parked SUV outside a store in upstate New York, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians, officials and victims' relatives said Sunday. The weekend crash was characterized by authorities as the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in nearly a decade.
Brett Kavanaugh inches closer to the Supreme Court
The U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh inched closer towards winning a lifetime appointment as a justice in the country's top court on Friday. Amid explosive allegations, emotional hearings, fiery protests and a bitter partisan fight that split the country in opinion, the U.S. Senate on Friday advanced Kavanaugh's nomination process in a preliminary vote.
Senate Advances Kavanaugh Nomination to Final Vote
The U.S. Senate narrowly voted Friday to limit debate on the nomination of President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, advancing his nomination to a final confirmation vote that could come as early as Saturday. The procedural vote, an institutional matter unrelated to how Senators will eventually vote on Kavanaugh, allows up to 30 hours of Senate debate before holding a final vote.
Susan Rice considering 2020 challenge to Collins in Maine
In this July 7, 2016, file photo, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice follows then-President Barack Obama across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, to board Marine One.
Analysis: Brett Kavanaugh fight sharpens the stakes for midterms
The bitter battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has exacerbated the nation's political divide and left many Americans emotionally raw. It's also given new definition to the high stakes of November's election.
Manchin faces firestorm at home following Kavanaugh vote Source: AP
Danielle Walker cried on Joe Manchin's shoulder after she shared her story of sexual assault in the senator's office. She thought he listened.
2 California newcomers differ in bids to upend House races
In this May 28, 2014, file photo, California state Sen. Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, speaks at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.
McConnell says Senate ‘not broken’ after Kavanaugh fight Source: AP
Picking up the pieces after a contentious nomination battle, the Senate's majority leader said Sunday that the chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the wrenching debate over sexual misconduct that has swirled around new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. While Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Kavanaugh's confirmation was a shining moment for the GOP heading into next month's pivotal elections, GOP Gov. John Kasich of Ohio predicted "a good year" for Democrats and said he wonders about "the soul of our country" in the long term after the tumultuous hearings.
Prof who called for senatorsa a miserable deatha to take leave
A Georgetown University associate professor's tweets that white Republican men should die a "miserable death" for supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court is more than just about free speech, said the head of Students for Life of America. "Recommending violence, death and mutilation for members of Congress is not a simple 'free speech' moment," Kristan Hawkins told Catholic News Service in an email late Oct. 3. "It's a debasement of our free market place of ideas and a recommendation for criminal conduct."
‘I will not be intimidated.’ Senator Susan Collins says she made the right decision on Kavanaugh
The end of a trying process was finally here for Senator Susan Collins. The Maine Senator cast her official 'Yea' vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Latest: GOP Senate could act on 2020 high-court nominee
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following the final vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018.
Most Powerful Images From Kavanaugh Protests in Washington D.C.
As the Senate voted to confirm alleged sexual assaulter Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, October 6, protesters took to the streets of Washington D.C. to make themselves heard. Equipped with signs, banners, and most notably, their own voices, people who opposed Kavanaugh's confirmation made their way to the Senate gallery , where they shouted, fists raised, interrupting the roll call several times.
Heidi Heitkamp talks to North Dakotans about her no vote on…
As Sen. Heidi Heitkamp hustled down the main drag in Sunday's Uffda Day parade, Elizabeth Ritter, a middle-aged woman in a pink coat and matching hat, stepped off the curb, pulled the lawmaker close and spoke into her ear, carving out a private moment amid the blaring music and cheers. "I said I was proud of her and God bless her," Ritter said later.
Pitts: Republicans making difficult confessions
Republicans may bristle at the verb, but it's used advisedly. The lady admitted her party affiliation the way you would some personal failing.
University offers credit to protest against Kavanaugh
The University of Southern Maine is being criticized for having briefly offered a tuition-free "pop-up" credit to students enrolled there to be transported to Washington, D.C. to call on Sen. Susan Collins to vote against confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Two employees at the university discussed in an email the academic credit for what was called an "Engaged Citizenship" course.
Judge Kavanaugh is one step closer to crucial confirmation vote
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said on Friday that he plans to vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. This came after the Senate passed a procedural vote in the morning that put the embattled nominee one step closer to his new job on the high court.
Pat Buchanan: who are the ‘deplorables’ now?
Four days after he described Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as a "very credible witness," President Donald Trump could no longer contain his feelings or constrain his instincts. With the fate of his Supreme Court nominee in the balance, Trump let his "Make America Great Again" rally attendees in Mississippi know what he really thought of Ford's testimony.
Strong Reactions on Both Sides of Kavanaugh Confirmation
The feelings of protesters and supporters of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the nation's highest court centered, in Connecticut, on the swing vote of Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins. Dozens of people gathered on the steps of New Haven's Superior Court following the Senate vote on Saturday boo-ed Sen. Collins, whose vote pushed Kavanaugh's nomination over the top in a 50-48 margin, one of the narrowest ever for a Supreme Court nominee.