NC Gop senator says hea s dropping Medicare plan attacked by opponent

As Deborah Ross sharpens her criticisms this week of U.S. Sen. Richard Burr's plan for Medicare, the North Carolina Republican incumbent's office says he's no longer looking for a vote in Congress on the plan he helped draft four years ago. Ross has spent much of her time on the campaign trail recently talking about Social Security and Medicare and attacking the plan Burr promoted in 2012 with former Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

Dear John McCain, your Spanish-speaking constituents aren’t dumb. The white ones aren’t, either

Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.

Obama administration confirms 2 more payments to Iran

The Obama administration made two additional cash payments totaling $1.3 billion, after delivering $400 million to Iran by plane in January, to resolve a failed arms deal, administration officials told lawmakers Tuesday. The briefing, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was confirmed to CNN by congressional aides who attended.

Once rivals and allies, Clinton, Schumer eye new partnership

In this Sept. 11, 2003 file photo, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., center, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, bow their heads during a moment of silence as they join mourners gathering to remember those lost during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center at ground zero in New York.

Republican leaders face tough choices in Congress this week :0

Congress' Republican leaders face decisions on averting a federal shutdown, containing the Zika virus and impeaching the head of the IRS, with approaching elections pressuring the GOP to avoid doing anything that could damage its standing with voters. House Republicans were meeting behind closed doors Wednesday to hash out strategy on those and other issues.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz endorses Hillary Clinton

Schultz is one of the country's most politically outspoken chief executives, but until now he had not taken sides in the 2016 race between Democrat Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. "Hopefully Hillary Clinton will be elected president," Schultz told Poppy Harlow in a Facebook Live interview ahead of the first-ever CNNMoney American Opportunity conference in New York.

7 arrested at New Orleans protest seeking removal of Andrew Jackson monument

The juxtaposition of drumbeats and chants of "No justice, no peace" filled the air on Saturday afternoon as hundreds marched toward Jackson Square in New Orleans in an act of protest against four monuments honoring Civil War era figures . Take 'Em Down NOLA arrived at Jackson Square at 2:17 p.m., where a horse-mounted New Orleans Police patrol blocked access to the Andrew Jackson monument.

Man faces trial in triple slaying at Ohio barbershop

Bill Cosby's defense team will have a new look when the actor returns to court for a hearing on Tuesday in his sexual assault case. Hurricane Newton swept onto the Gulf of California after slamming the resorts of southern Baja and headed on a path expected to take it to the Mexican mainland by Wednesday morning and then on to the U.S. border... Hurricane Newton swept onto the Gulf of California after slamming the resorts of southern Baja and headed on a path expected to take it to the Mexican mainland by Wednesday morning and then on to the U.S. border with... A man charged with fatally shooting his 19-year-old daughter, more than a decade after he tried to kill her mother, is scheduled to be arraigned in Massachusetts.

Tim Kaine: Trump is too ’emotionally volatile, fact-challenged,…

Flake fires back at Trump, warns GOP - Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake is firing back against Donald Trump with a warning for the Republican Party at large. - The Republican presidential nominee denounced Flake as "very weak and ineffective," particularly with respect to illegal immigration

Stalemate on debates shadows California US Senate contest

The two Democrats seeking the seat - state Attorney General Kamala Harris and U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez - have been unable to agree how many there should be, or when and where to hold them. On Tuesday, Sanchez proposed a series of four debates, after Harris earlier agreed to two, one in Sacramento and one in Los Angeles.

Haredim look to Trump as a pro-Israel, traditionalist tough guy – emphasis on ‘guy’

American Jews are likely to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, but American Jewry's fastest-growing community is likely to go the other way. A solid majority of ultra-Orthodox Jews will vote for Donald Trump, say experts and Republican operatives in the Haredi enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn.