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The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday the panel had asked election officials in 21 U.S. states to make public information about efforts to hack their systems during last year's election. Some lawmakers have expressed frustration that the information has been kept secret, saying it impedes the country's ability to prevent such hacks in the future.
It was a platform most politicians can only hope for: A captivated, 6,000-person crowd and more than an hour of live, prime-time television coverage to hype the Republican vision for a new health care system. But when President Donald Trump got around to talking about the Republican plan - about 15 minutes into his speech - he was wildly off message.
Wednesday's edition of The Monitor carried an editorial that criticized our decision to decline an invitation to meet with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on July 4 in McAllen. That meeting would have gone against our commitment to participation.
The Supreme Court's ruling to allow President Donald Trump's travel ban go forward in part leaves more questions than it answers. The Supreme Court's ruling to allow President Donald Trump's travel ban go forward in part leaves more questions than it answers.
He personally sent packing a so-called single-payer universal healthcare bill that was virtually all fluff with little substance. Then he was viciously attacked by the nurses union that pushed the bill, playing bully politics.
"We fought in every war this country's ever engaged in," said Gregory, an Air Force veteran who served in the first Iraq war. "I want to be the last American that dies because I didn't have access to health care," said Gregory.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., during a press conference where he announced he will vote no on the proposed GOP healthcare bill at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building on Friday, June 23, 2017 in Las Vegas. People enter the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a 2015 congressional tour of the proposed radioactive waste dump near Mercury, Nev., 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Senate intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr said Wednesday he's requested former FBI Director James Comey's memos from the FBI and is confident he will get access to the documents soon. "I've made the request from the FBI, and I feel confident we will have access to them," the North Carolina Republican said.
The House and Senate are still at odds over a Russia sanctions bill that passed in the Senate last week, in a dispute that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker described Wednesday as "total silliness." The two chambers are quarreling over technical changes that the House Republicans say need to be made in the bill, which passed the Senate 98-2.
A central figure in the Senate effort to repeal and replace Obamacare - Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada - said Wednesday that he does not see a compromise on that legislation that could muster a GOP consensus by week's end.
The rollback of relations with Cuba announced by President Donald Trump earlier this month has left many facets of the renewed relationship in doubt. Though the goal was to "chill" trips to the island by Americans , some features of the Obama-led thaw - like the ability to visit or send money to the island as well as many commercial deals - remain in place.
A day after delaying a vote on their health care bill, Senate Republicans appeared no closer to a compromise Wednesday, with GOP lawmakers digging in for a protracted negotiation that may end up going nowhere. The plan in the mind of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was for Republicans to reach at least a tentative deal by the end of the week.
In this Dec. 31, 1966 file photo, Waterville Valley ski area developer Tom Corcoran, far left, and his wife Roberta, pose with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Paul Pfosi, far right, a Swiss skier who headed the ski school at Waterville Valley, N.H. Corcoran, an Olympic skier who founded New Hampshire's Waterville Valley ski area and built it into a destination for racers and celebrities alike, died Tuesday, June 27, 2017.
Like what you read below? Sign up for HUFFPOST HILL and get a cheeky dose of political news every evening! Time magazine asked President Trump to remove fake covers featuring the commander-in-chief; if only Smithsonian Magazine would show similar courage about the . The EPA is rolling back regulations on drinking water and, in a totally unrelated development, the population of Flint, Michigan, is roughly the size of Trump's margin of victory in that state.
Bipartisan legislation to limit the influence of so-called shell corporations in the U.S. could get a boost as Congress probes the ways that Russia influenced last year's election. The bill, intended to crack down on international and corporate corruption, stalled in the last Congress.
A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on Tuesday, frightening passengers and res... . This photo provided by Jackie Faherty from her Twitter page shows subway passengers on an A train with the lights out after it halted just shy of the 125th street stop in New York's Harlem neighborhood, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, ... .
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Sen. Dean Heller at a Las Vegas news conference June 23 where he announced he will vote against the proposed GOP health-care bill When Sen. Dean Heller came out in opposition to the health-care legislation last week, it was a surprise that, in hindsight, shouldn't have been a surprise. Heller is an extreme version of the five to six senators who just politically can't vote for the bill, mostly because they fear it will yank away health care for hundreds of thousands in their respective states.
The FBI is reportedly investigating whether Jane Sanders lied to financiers while securing a loan for a college which she led. Mr Sanders told CNN: "It's a sad state of affairs in America when not only we have politicians being destroyed, but when you go after people's wives.
With the election season still months away, most Massachusetts voters haven't heard of the challengers seeking to topple Gov. Charlie Baker and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, according to a WBUR poll. The survey, conducted by MassINC Polling Group, also found broad support for a 2018 ballot measure to hike income taxes on earnings over $1 million and a potential ballot question to lower the sales tax rate.