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Driven by a desire to free up endangered lawmakers to campaign, congressional negotiators are working to quickly complete a spending bill to prevent an election-season government shutdown and finally provide money to battle the threat of the Zika virus. The stopgap measure would keep the government running past the end of the budget year this month.
In this May 19, 2016, file photo, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., embraces the committee's ranking member Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. One is a Brooklyn-born, northern California liberal who carved out time in a two-decade Senate career to write a politics-sex-and-power thriller or two.
The contrasting styles of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are on display each time the two presidential nominees are forced to react to a national security event. Trump is often loose with his language in describing what has taken place, and couples it at times with bragging about his own calls for toughness.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told "Face the Nation" that former presidential candidates who do not endorse Donald Trump for president could find themselves penalized if they run for president again. "Those people need to get on board," he told CBS' "Face the Nation."
19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. . This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town.
Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2df0S2R Suspected bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police on Sept. 19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. The revelation that the suspected New York City bomber was born in Afghanistan before becoming a U.S. citizen prompted Republicans to attack the U.S. government's immigrant screening process.
As Hillary Clinton's once-sizable lead has evaporated in national surveys and must-win swing states, her supporters are speaking out with a new urgency, urging core followers to set aside any qualms and get behind Clinton with enthusiasm. President Obama, in a speech Saturday night before the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, bluntly stated that African-Americans need to affirm his legacy by helping put another Democrat in the White House.
Barack Obama blasted Donald Trump as being unqualified to be president as he addressed a fundraising event for Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama blasted Donald Trump as being unqualified to be president as he addressed a fundraising event for Hillary Clinton.
Red, white and blue! Priyanka Chopra, Sofia Vergara and Emily Ratajkowski lead best dressed at the Emmys in stunning gowns All FIVE bombs that were found in the New York area used flip phones as a detonator: Fears grow of link between failed New Jersey attack and IED blast in Manhattan that injured 29 'I could destroy America in half an hour or less': The moment Putin casually bragged about Russian military might in 2011 Feeling tired Hillary? The moment a weary-looking Clinton scolded Trump for immediately calling Manhattan explosion a bomb - but she now says it was an IED and an 'apparent act of terrorism' Obama says a low turnout from black voters in upcoming presidential election would be 'a personal insult' to his legacy Hillary Clinton's computer server has been targeted by hackers in Russia and China at least four times, claims report 'Can't get enough of these moments!' Ivanka ... (more)
A massive 792-page Senate Energy Committee bill threatens to authorize federal bureaucrats to cede extensive control over western state water and property rights, energy development and forest management to Native American tribes, local UN sustainability councils and radical environmentalist groups. Certain provisions could undermine the foundations of our nation from within our nation.
One surefire way to spot an election year is to check Tim Kaine's closet. If he's been rummaging around inside, looking for his clerical collar, someone is going to be voting in November.
Hillary Clinton and others will say "America is already great." Sorry folks, but as much as I love my country and think it is the best country in the world, I cannot say it is great.
Another journalist --the second one in two days -- came out Saturday to confess that Sid Blumenthal aggressively shopped the rumor to him in 2008 about then-Senator Barack Obama being born in Kenya. In "Confessions of a Hillary Insider," Larry Johnson of No Quarter said that he is "shocked at the audacity of Hillary Clinton to decry Donald Trump as a birther because her campaign not only pushed that item in a bid to discredit Barack Obama, but mounted a sustained campaign attack Obama on a broad array of issues."
As overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have soared in recent years, members of a loose coalition of drug manufacturers and allied advocacy groups have donated more than $500,000 to state and federal elected officials and political parties in Delaware.
18, 2016, after an incident that injured passers-by Saturday night. . New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Mayor Bill de Blasio walk towards the scene of an explosion on West 23rd street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, Sunday, Sept.
Mike Pence, candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia, habla durante un mitin en The Villages, Florida, el sabado 17 de septiembre del 2016. Mike Pence, candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia, habla durante un mitin en The Villages, Florida, el sabado 17 de septiembre del 2016.
In this July 15, 2016, file photo, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold talks in Middleton, Wis. Feingold and his Republican challenger, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, are on opposite sides of the immigration debate.
The oddest of Senate odd couples - California Democrat Barbara Boxer and Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe - have accomplished something highly unusual in this bitter election year: significant, bipartisan legislation on the environment that has become law. Boxer, a staunch liberal, calls climate change the "greatest challenge to hit the planet," battles against offshore drilling, rails about the dangers of nuclear power and has pushed to restrict greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
Despite signs of a tightening national presidential race, Hillary Clinton still appears to have an advantage in enough states to give her an Electoral College victory. It's an edge that could still change as advance voting gets underway in earnest and in the seven weeks until Election Day.