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OCTOBER 04: Comedian Amy Schumer is led away after she was arrested during a protest against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh October 4, 2018 at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Senators had an opportunity to review a new FBI background investigation into accusations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh and Republican leaders are moving to have a vote on his confirmation this weekend.
How will your senators vote? The count is changing by the hour, but here's what we see at the moment culminating in testimony given by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh's first accuser, and then by Kavanaugh himself. Nearly everyone agrees that in their appearances before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ford and Judge Kavanaugh were starkly different in terms of .
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Donations have poured into Sen. Ted Cruz's coffers faster than ever, and on Thursday he revealed the best quarterly tally of his reelection effort: a $12 million haul that would be the envy of nearly any Senate candidate in the country. Rep. Beto O'Rourke hasn't revealed his total for July through September but based on data already available, he raised at least $17 million -- and likely far more, pulling even further ahead of an incumbent Republican whose party hasn't lost a statewide contest in two decades.
At least two of the crucial swing votes in the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh have weighed in after an initial viewing of the FBI report on the Supreme Court nominee's background following allegations of sexual misconduct raised by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. In a show of support for her own own party, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that the FBI's work appeared to show the results of "a very thorough investigation."
Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale accuses his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jon Tester, of obstructing the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by refusing to meet with him before deciding to vote against his nomination. The claim against the two-term incumbent feeds into State Auditor Rosendale's narrative of Tester as hostile to the agenda of President Donald Trump, who won Montana by 20 percentage points in 2016.
Even before a Rittenhouse Square barista caused a national uproar when she alerted the cops in April about two black men who hadn't ordered anything, Starbucks says it had planned to come to Philadelphia to convene local corporations for a career fair. It had already held similar events in five other cities, including Atlanta and Los Angeles.
U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a Republican form Hazleton, portrays U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. as ineffective. Casey, a Democrat from Scranton, touts his record of passing bipartisan legislation.
The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is among several Veterans Affairs hospitals in the country that are under review for claims they are improperly canceling a large number of patients' diagnostic tests. About 300,000 canceled radiology tests at VA medical centers across the United States since 2016 has raised questions about whether some medically important tests were canceled improperly, according to USA Today.
Senator Bob Corker released the following statement after receiving a briefing on the supplemental background investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made one last attempt to derail the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging his millions of Twitter followers to flood the Senate switchboard in opposition. Booker, D-N.J., issued his call to action as senators pored over a new FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault leveled against Kavanaugh.
WASHINGTON Barbara Smith got her start in protesting during the Vietnam War. On Thursday she was back at it, among the first to arrive at a rally here against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Kasie Hunt interviewed Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday about the results of the FBI investigation into Brett Kavanaugh , and during the interview, a citizen who was apparently there protesting interrupted the interview and got a snapped response from the Senator over her comment. Graham, who had already turned his back to the woman once, turned his head partly back toward her and replied "well why don't we dunk him in water and see if he floats?" Obviously, a reference to a witch trial, which is also Donald Trump 's favorite way to refer to investigations into his own background.
In this Sept. 5, 2018 photo, Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, a Democrat challenging longtime Rep. John Culberson for his seat in Texas 7th congressional district, speaks during an assembly of the Bayou Blue Democratic Club in Houston.
The FBI interviewed nine witnesses in its investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's alleged sexual misconduct, the White House said. The FBI ended up interviewing nine witnesses in its investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's alleged sexual misconduct when he was in high school and college.
Several polls out this week weren't good news for Sen. Bob Menendez. One even showed him neck and neck with Republican Bob Hugin -- a startling turn of events in the year of an expected blue wave across the country.
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Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford have given FBI Director Chris Wray the names of people they say the FBI should contact to corroborate her account of having been sexually assaulted as a teenager by Brett Kavanaugh. Ford wasn't interviewed by the FBI as part of its supplemental background investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct dating to Kavanaugh's high school and college years.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's critics say his history of making evasive, misleading, and provably false statements under oath should disqualify him from sitting on the nation's highest court. Whether Brett Kavanaugh claims a seat on the Supreme Court may be determined by this week's FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, but critics of the nominee say his history of making evasive, misleading, and provably false statements under oath should disqualify him no matter what the FBI finds.
Amtrak's Southwest Chief, which runs daily between Chicago and Los Angeles and has several stops in New Mexico, will drop its plan to convert a segment of the rail line between Dodge City, Kan., and Albuquerque to bus service, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall announced Wednesday. The senator said in a news release that he secured a commitment from a top Amtrak official during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing to continue rail service on that segment through fiscal year 2019.