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A San Francisco hospital has received multiple victims from a shooting at a sprawling UPS warehouse and customer service center. A San Francisco hospital has received multiple victims from a shooting at a sprawling UPS warehouse and customer service center.
Former Senator Dives Into The Swamp With Lobbying Work For Alleged Macedonian Front Group
Just a month after leaving the U.S. Senate in January, David Vitter bragged about the access he would have to the Trump administration as a lobbyist for Mercury Public Affairs, a major Beltway lobbying outfit. "I can lobby the administration immediately," Vitter bragged to Politico in February.
Shooter had history of anti-GOP activity
The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation's capital had a long history of lashing out at Republicans and recently frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his Illinois home. James T. Hodgkinson, 66, wounded House Rep. Steve Scalise before he was fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip.
Senate panel meets with special counsel in Russia probe
The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign has met with the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee in an effort to ensure their investigations don't conflict. The leaders of the Senate intelligence committee say In a statement issued Wednesday that they "look forward to future engagements" with Robert Mueller.
VA warns of surprise budget gap, insists no delays in care
The Department of Veterans Affairs warned Wednesday it was unexpectedly running out of money for a program that offers veterans private-sector health care, forcing it to hold back on some services that lawmakers worry could cause delays in medical treatment. It is making an urgent request to Congress to allow it to shift money from other programs to fill the sudden budget gap.
Shooting aftermath at Capitol: House mourns, Senate votes
Alexandria Police Chief Michael Brown briefs the press on the on-going investigation of the shooting at the GOP baseball practice early this morning in Alexandria, Va. . A witness recounts the scene where Majority Whip Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, congressional staff and members of the Capitol Police were shot.
The most important takeaway from Jeff Sessions’ testimony was…
The attorney general told the Senate Intelligence Committee 16 times in his blockbuster hearing that he couldn't "recall" a particular detail. That was in addition to eight instances in which he did not "know" the answer to a question posed by a member of the panel, five instances in which he did not "believe," four times he did not "think," and twice each that he did not "have" or "remember" what the senator in question was looking for.
Sanders ‘sickened’ by Va. shooting, rejects connection to gunman
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday repudiated any and all associations the gunman in the Alexandria baseball field shooting claimed to have had with his 2016 presidential campaign. Social media accounts for James T. Hodgkinson, believed to be the man who opened fire on GOP lawmakers at a baseball practice in suburban Washington, D.C., appeared to show him as an outspoken critic of Republicans and a supporter of Sanders' campaign.
LUPICA: GOP won’t budge on gun debate – even after Va. shooting
This is how Sen. Rand Paul, who was at the ballfield in Alexandria, Va., when the shooting started early Wednesday morning, described the first moments of an active shooter firing away, this time at members of Congress: "The first shot was kind of an isolated shot and everybody kind of looks up and says, 'Hey, what's that?'" It was the sound of more gunfire in America, is what it was. It was gunfire that will now command the attention of not just some politicians in Washington, but all of them.
Bernie Sanders On Scalise Shooter: ‘I Am Sickened By This Despicable Act’
Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke on the Senate floor today after learning that James T. Hodgkinson, the alleged shooter at the Republican baseball practice had volunteered for his presidential campaign. Sanders said, "I have just been informed that the alleged shooter at the Republican baseball practice is someone who apparently volunteered on my presidential campaign.
Trump sued for foreign business profits by Democrats in Congress
A group of nearly 200 Democratic lawmakers filed a federal lawsuit challenging profits that President Donald Trump's global businesses have taken in from foreign entities. Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Michigan Rep. John Conyers are filing a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Sessions denies third meeting with Russian Federation envoy
Ahead of the hearing there had been suggestions that Sessions might have had a third, unreported, encounter with Kislyak, at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016, where candidate Trump was giving his first major foreign policy speech. "I recused myself not because of any assertive wrongdoing or any belief that I may have been involved in any wrongdoing in the campaign but because of a Department of Justice regulation ... that regulation states in effect that a Department employee should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they served as a campaign advisor", Sessions told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during a hearing on Tuesday.
Sessions Denies Collusion Allegations, Defends Involvement With Comey Ouster
His responses triggered an explosion by Sen. Ron Wyden said at the hearing . Harris asked of Sessions' assertion that he wouldn't discuss private conversations with the president.
Jagga Jasoos cast visit Radio City Mumbai
But interestingly, the makers had apparently planned a sequel when the film was initially planned. Ranbir-Kat are now busy with the radio promotions for Jagga Jasoos .
Intel Officials Won’t Publicly Testify On Private Trump Talks
The committee is holding a closed session after lunch with staff about the technicalities of the law that allows the intelligence community to surveil foreign targets. Rogers at the hearing Wednesday said he's never been asked to do anything illegal or felt pressure to do anything immoral during his three years as head of the intelligence agency.
Trump to unveil new Cuba path
Cuba's best friends in the U.S. used to be a smattering of Washington policy wonks and leftists who sent donated school buses and computers to the communist-led island. Five months into the Trump administration, Cuba has a new set of American defenders: a coalition of high-tech firms, farming interests, travel companies and young Cuban-Americans thrown into action by the looming announcement of a new Cuba policy.
In Senate hearing, Jeff Sessions denies ‘false and scurrilous allegations’
The U.S. Attorney General denounced as a "detestable lie" charges that he had been party to any Russian election interference during the 2016 campaign, as Jeff Sessions sidestepped a number of questions from Democrats in a politically charged hearing on Russia's election actions. Sessions also denied the notion that concerns about Trump's behavior caused him to linger after a meeting when Trump asked for everyone but Comey to leave the room.
Sessions vigorously denies improper Russia contacts
Attorney General Jeff Sessions heatedly denied on Tuesday having an undisclosed meeting with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. and declared it was a "detestable and appalling lie" to suggest he was aware of or took part in any collusion between Russia and the election campaign that sent Donald Trump to the White House. Testifying at a packed Senate hearing, Sessions, who was a close Trump adviser during the battle for the presidency, also rejected any idea of misconduct in the ouster of FBI Director James Comey and vowed to defend his honor "against scurrilous and false allegations."
President Trump says House health care bill was – mean’
President Donald Trump did not pressure Republican senators to rush a new draft of the health care bill at a Tuesday meeting, sources say, but instead lamented the saga that took place on the House side, and said the bill that passed in in the lower chamber was "mean" and the Senate bill should be more "generous." "He wasn't prescribing deadlines, because I think he recognized what happened in the House wasn't good, and he wants to make sure that we have a process that proceeds in an orderly way," said Sen. John Thune, R-SD, who attended the meeting at the White House.