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Illinois is receiving more than $500,000 in federal grants to help prepare for an outbreak of the Zika virus. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants will support much-needed efforts to prevent Zika from spreading in Illinois.
Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence had a private meeting Saturday morning at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, that served as an informal way for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to become better acquainted with a possible running mate. According to two Republicans familiar with the meeting, the conversation between Trump and Pence lasted for more than an hour, and the governor was joined by his wife, Karen, as he visited with the real-estate mogul.
In late February, the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion in emergency money to stem the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which at the time had been tentatively linked to birth defects in South America. Since then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has concluded that the virus does cause birth defects, including microcephaly.
Hillary Clinton was interviewed by the FBI about her use of a private email server as secretary of state, her campaign said Saturday, as federal investigators neared the end of the probe that has hung over her White House bid. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, gave a voluntary interview for 3 1/2 hours on Saturday morning at FBI Headquarters in Washington, her campaign said.
In this Dec. 1, 2008, file photo, then-President-elect Barack Obama, left, stands with then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., after announcing that she is his choice as Secretary of State during a news conference in Chicago. President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign together next week for the first time this year, and their decision to meet up in Charlotte says a lot about how her campaign views her path to replace him in the White House.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could announce his running mate pick before the party's convention to help drum up excitement heading into Cleveland, a source familiar with the process told CNN. Trump, who has repeatedly said his choice for vice president was down to as few as four candidates though sources tell CNN the list is closer to seven, and his aides had previously said the pick would likely be announced at the convention.
Long regarded as having one of the shrewdest political minds among recent presidents, Bill Clinton has at times angered and alienated Democrats and Republicans alike while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton. His apparently spur-of-the moment decision to chat this week with Attorney General Loretta Lynch even as her agency is overseeing a sensitive investigation of his wife's use of a private email server as secretary of state was only the latest in a series of loose-cannon episodes.
This combination of June 2015 photos shows, top row from left, Emily DiVito in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Dr. Sarah Schlesinger in New York; at bottom row from left are Cheryl Walker in Los Angeles and Cheryl Brierton in San Diego. All four are graduates of Wellesley College, also the alma mater of Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump is turning to his family, sports figures and business leaders to fill speaking slots at the Republican National Convention later this month as scores of prominent Republican leaders continue to refuse to line up behind their controversial nominee-to-be. Trump announced Friday that his wife and children "are all going to be speaking" at the nominating convention that kicks off in just over two weeks.
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Sparks flew between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, as Cruz continued his efforts to expose the Obama administration's "willful blindness" to radical Islamic terrorism. Cruz began his line of questioning by noting that DHS didnA t attend the hearing he held on Tuesday, "Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism."
I'm writing to ask you to oppose the Roberts-Stabenow compromise language on the GMO labeling bill. This legislation would overrule Vermont's GMO labeling law, and prevent states from passing similar laws.
During a media event in Farmingdale, New York on Monday, Senator Charles Schumer called on the FAA to step up ramp checks of small airplanes, which he says might prevent accidents. According to the Senator, the number of ramp checks on GA aircraft in New York has fallen over the past 10 years.
A year after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its capitol grounds, official Washington is struggling with further restrictions on the flag's display on federal property, including in the U.S. Capitol complex. The National Park Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army have longstanding guidelines for its cemeteries that permit display of the Confederate flag one or two days a year.
" An impromptu meeting between Bill Clinton and the nation's top cop could further undermine Hillary Clinton's efforts to convince voters to place their trust in her, highlighting perhaps her biggest vulnerability. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed regret on Friday that she met with the former president earlier in the week at the Phoenix airport while the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices nears a conclusion.
Regardless of its outcome, the 2016 presidential election will draw a greater percentage of young people into the political process than in the past, according to an elected at-large delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Ryan McAllister, 28, who lives in Discovery Bay, is one of only 10 at-large delegates selected from throughout the state at the convention in Tacoma on June 19 to vote at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, set July 25-28.
U.S. House Democrats said Friday they won't support legislation Speaker Paul Ryan plans to bring to a vote next week that seeks to prevent terrorists from purchasing firearms. Following their dramatic 25-hour House chamber sit-in last week to demand votes on gun bills, Democrats contend the Republican proposal doesn't provide strong enough action and warn that renewed protests are possible after the House reconvenes Tuesday.
The next time you're stuck in a long security line, consider this: At most US airports it's possible to buy your way out of the wait. All major domestic airlines and some smaller carriers offer programmes that allow people to skirt lines leading to the taxpayer-funded Transportation Security Administration checkpoints even if they don't qualify for the government's expedited security programme.