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The real story with Ellison is that, as with so many religious-nationalist Muslims in the West, his views dovetail much more logically with the extreme Right. In mid-November Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison announced he would run for chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.
The Human Rights Campaign , the nation's largest LGBT rights advocate, has criticized three of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks. Trump has picked Georgia Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education and Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
They want to ensure that his administration doesn't bring in an influx of new Democratic hires before Donald Trump takes office. s President Obama 's time in the White House dwindles down, Republican senators are trying to ensure that his administration doesn't bring in an influx of new hires before Donald Trump takes office.
Do students love a flag aflame? At Hampshire College, in western Massachusetts, a student burned a flag to express opposition to the president-elect. At American University, in our nation's capital, flags were burned as students unleashed obscenity-laced chants against the United States.
Hillary Clinton's loss in the presidential race and Democratic failures further down the ballot have the party searching for a way forward. Democrats are clear-eyed about the size of the hole they're in.
Have you heard the news that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote? Unless you live under a rock you likely have stumbled across a barista or aspiring novelist mumbling something about how the Electoral College is unfair and undemocratic and how electors should follow "the will of the people" and vote for Hillary on Dec. 19. Because "democracy!" or something. What too many of these uneducated and unshowered drum circlers don't know, or don't care to know, is the popular vote is a meaningless unit of measure.
Housing of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may well be patting herself on the back this past week. In the process, she should be looking over her shoulder.
The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a recount of Pennsylvania's ballots in the Nov. 8 presidential election. It had wanted to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a weekly news briefing December 1, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. During the briefing, Ryan repeated comments indicating that changes to Medicare would have to accompany any effort to repeal and replace President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a weekly news briefing December 1, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. During the briefing, Ryan repeated comments indicating that changes to Medicare would have to accompany any effort to repeal and replace President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
For a brief time this week, Alvin Crockett posted an angry handwritten letter to a political critic on the Trump campaign sign he put outside his scooter shop in Key West, Fla. President Barack Obama's Fayetteville, N.C. rally for Hillary Clinton grew rowdy when an elderly Trump supporter started protesting during the president's speech.
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: Congressional negotiators on Wednesday approved an initiative to track and combat foreign propaganda amid growing concerns that Russian efforts to spread "fake news" and disinformation threaten U.S. national security. The measure, part of the National Defense Authorization Act approved by a conference committee, calls on the State Department to lead government-wide efforts to identify propaganda and counter its effects.
From left, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton applauded President-elect Donald Trump's decision to accept a telephone call from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday. President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with Taiwan's president on Friday broke decades of U.S. diplomatic policy in the region and brought a quick objection by China, but several Republican members of Congress have applauded Trump's decision to accept the call.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration 's approval of a new international airline over objections from organized labor and Republican ally Rep. Frank LoBiondo means new flights from Newark Airport. Norwegian Air International received final Transportation Department approval Friday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Congress will act early next year to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative. The Kentucky Republican insisted Saturday that some 20 million Americans who have health care through the six-year-old law will not lose coverage, though the likely upheaval in the insurance industry suggests otherwise.
Spokesman Bryan Lanza said in a memo this week to supporters that Trump's backing for the pipeline near a North Dakota Indian reservation ``has nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans.' ' Trump's most recent federal disclosure forms, filed in May, show he owned a small amount of stock in Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline builder, and at least $100,000 in Phillips 66, an energy company that owns one-quarter of the pipeline.
Republican state Treasurer John Kennedy is the front-runner in the Dec. 10 runoff against Democrat Foster Campbell, a state utility regulator. The race has drawn donations from desperate Democrats around the country seeking a victory in their otherwise dismal election cycle.
Dozens of British musicians including producer Mark Ronson have signed an open letter to US President Barack Obama comparing the treatment of protesters at a controversial oil pipeline in North Dakota with "the same inhumane methods used during World War Two". Led by singer-songwriter Kate Nash, around 160 names from the world of music wrote the letter to President Obama and the Department of Justice.
Nearly 100 students at Hillsboro High School participated in the town hall-style meeting with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on Friday, peppering him with questions, many involving the Internet and immigration. Wyden, a Democrat representing Oregon in the U.S. Congress, called the Dec. 2 town hall a 'listening session' with area students, but also took time to address an issue he brought up in Washington, D.C., in the last few weeks.
Donald Trump's skeptics hope the presidency will reveal a serious side of the brash businessman. His supporters want him to keep the freewheeling style that rattled Washington.