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Arthur J. Finkelstein, a longtime GOP pollster and strategist credited with helping elect Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has died at age 72 of lung cancer, his family says. Finkelstein, considered less flamboyant but arguably more influential than better known Republican strategists, such as Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes, is widely regarded as the man responsible for turning the word "liberal" into a pejorative to be wielded against Democrats.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis confirmed Sunday that a decision has been made on a new US strategy in Afghanistan. Mattis declined to offer details about the decision, saying President Donald Trump would choose when to make the announcement.
United States Sen. Richard Blumenthal will meet and participate in a roundtable discussion with participants and host agencies of the MaturityWorks program on Monday at Burroughs Community Center, 2470 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. less United States Sen. Richard Blumenthal will meet and participate in a roundtable discussion with participants and host agencies of the MaturityWorks program on Monday at Burroughs Community Center, 2470 ... more United States Sen. Richard Blumenthal will meet and participate in a roundtable discussion with participants and host agencies of the MaturityWorks program on Monday at Burroughs Community Center, 2470 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport.
President Donald Trump will outline the United States' "path forward" in Afghanistan in a speech Monday night, the White House announced Sunday. Trump's address, scheduled for 9 p.m. ET Monday at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, comes as Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis have said a decision has been made on a new US strategy in Afghanistan.
A suite of new NBC News/Marist polls has found that majorities in three key states that helped tip the election for President Donald Trump now say they feel "embarrassed" by his conduct in office. The polls released Sunday show that nearly two-thirds of registered voters in Pennsylvania , Wisconsin and Michigan said they are embarrassed by Trump's conduct as President, while only about a quarter of registered voters in those states said they are "proud" of it.
Sen. Tim Kaine says states should take a broader view of history when deciding which of their citizens are honored with statues in the U.S. Capitol. Kaine: Virginia should consider a statue of Pocahontas instead of Robert E. Lee Sen. Tim Kaine says states should take a broader view of history when deciding which of their citizens are honored with statues in the U.S. Capitol.
Confederate monuments alone do not teach Americans our history and removing them do not change the past, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said Sunday. "The president's gotten this all wrong as to what we're trying to do," Cardin told "Fox News Sunday."
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis confirmed Sunday that a decision has been made on a military strategy in Afghanistan, where more than 8,000 troops already are based in the longest-running war in U.S. history. Speaking to reporters on a military plane en route to meetings in Jordan, Mattis said it is up to President Donald Trump to announce the details of a review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and South Asia.
In this April 12, 2017, file photo, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks to the media following a town hall meeting in Hillsboro, Mo. McCaskill during the August Senate break is holding town halls in dozens of small towns and cities.
The death of comedian and activist Dick Gregory at age 84 on Saturday prompted a flood of tributes on Twitter from celebrities, activists and others. Jane Sanders recalled how her husband -- Bernie Sanders, Democratic senator from Vermont and former presidential candidate -- once spent a night in jail with Gregory after protesting segregation in Chicago.
In this Oct. 30, 2013 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Don't make things worse.
Senate Republicans are getting fed up with what they see as Trump's lack of discipline and chaotic leadership style. Several are criticizing him more openly than ever before.
Words, the stock in trade of politics and public policy, express value with as much volatility and meaning as any commodity, stock or bond. Words can be used subtly in ways that let us find meanings in the deeds and thoughts of people across time from many cultures and environments.
The event, which examines successful environmental restoration projects and ways to address new challenges facing Lake Tahoe, will take place at the Tallac Historic Site. A key focus of the 2017 summit will be combating the effects of climate change in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Alabama's special election for U.S. Senate will cost $15 million. That's a small price for a vibrant representative democracy, but a waste of money if people don't bother to vote.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump called the Lost Cause statues under consideration for removal "beautiful" and expressed his disappointment "to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart." He also reiterated his warning that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson may be the next targets of the anti-statue Left.
One of the attorneys general who has sought probes against the Trump administration has accepted large individual campaign donations from an energy tycoon with connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accepted more than $60,000 in small donations from Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukrainian-born energy billionaire with ties to Russian oligarchs, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation examination of the Democrat's financial disclosure reports .
From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan during a meeting with House and Senate leadership at the White House in Washington on March 1. British politicians are familiar with the term "reshuffle," when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they're also very familiar with "coalition governments," when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties.
In this Aug. 15, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump points to members of the media as he answers questions in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Trump's racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans' deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and grievances about a sitting president by his own party.