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Donald Trump abruptly fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday in a dramatic shake-up designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and end an internal power struggle plaguing the billionaire businessman's unconventional White House bid. In dismissing his longtime campaign chief -- just a month before the party's national convention -- Trump signaled, at least for a day, a departure from the seat-of-the-pants style that has fueled his unlikely rise in Republican politics.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during the Democratic U.S. presidential candidates' debate in Flint, Michigan, March 6, 2016. International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department Simon Johnson and Deputy Director Charles Collyns hold a press briefing on the release of the IMF's World Economic Outlook at the IMF Headquarters in Washington July 17, 2008.
Hillary Clinton's search for a running mate is moving into a more intense phase, according to several Democrats, as aides contact a pared-down pool of candidates to ask for reams of personal information and set up interviews with the presumptive Democratic nominee's vetting team. Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well-liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.
Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, military officers facing retirement have had a revolving door to walk through to a civilian job at the Defense Department.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton participates in a round table conversation on national security at the Virginia Air and Space Center June 15, 2016 in Hampton, Virginia. The latest Quinnipiac University poll shows Hilliary Clinton pulling ahead over Donald Trump in Florida, but in a tight race in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Despite a poll showing more support among Americans, lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on new gun control measures. This is the second time since December that similar amendments did not get the required 60 votes to pass.
The Environmental Protection Agency, led by Gina McCarthy, will have more authority to order safety tests for chemicals and set deadlines for the agency to determine whether dangerous compounds should be restricted or forced off the market. The Environmental Protection Agency, led by Gina McCarthy, will have more authority to order safety tests for chemicals and set deadlines for the agency to determine whether dangerous compounds should be restricted or forced off the market.
Senate leaders plan to debate Puerto Rico debt legislation next week, but it's unclear whether the measure will be sent to President Barack Obama before the island's next debt payment deadline on July 1. It will "require some cooperation" from Democrats to move the bill before Puerto Rico is expected to default on some of the $2 billion in principal and interest on debt payments, said John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation's economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul's policies. Clinton's Tuesday address in Ohio, one of the nation's most prominent swing states, will aim to place a marker on the economy in a similar manner in which she did on foreign policy earlier this month with a searing takedown of Trump in San Diego.
The decisive factor in Hillary Clinton's victory over Bernie Sanders was her rock-solid support from upscale liberals voting primarily on culture-war issues. White Democrats, in other words, largely voted along class lines.
Indiana resident Kevin Kellems, who was an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney and ex-U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, has joined the campaign organization of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the New York Times reported Monday.
The Senate as expected on Monday rejected four partisan gun measures offered in the wake of the Orlando massacre, including proposals to keep guns out of the hands of people on terror watch lists. Two Republican proposals would have increased funding for the national background check system and created a judicial review process to keep a person on a terror watch list from buying a gun; two Democratic measures would have expanded background checks to private gun sales and allowed the Justice Department to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the comment Monday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" while explaining his decision to fire campaign manager Corey Lewandowski earlier in the day. He repeatedly called Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" in the interview.
Four gun policy measures failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the Senate on Monday, following impassioned debate from both sides of the aisle. The votes came just over a week after a deadly shooting spree in a gay nightclub in Orlando - the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history - and a subsequent 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control.
U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy arrives outside the Senate Chamber for votes on June 20, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. The Senate is voting on four amendments on gun control.
The Senate voted down four gun control measures Monday evening, with Republicans and Democrats largely divided along party lines over how best to respond to the Orlando nightclub shooting more than one week ago. The last time a mass shooting spurred senators to action was in December 2015, after the San Bernardino, California, shooting, when they voted on two measures intended to prevent terrorists from being able to buy guns.
Democrats Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams found common ground on almost every issue, especially the need for Washington to focus on helping the middle class, and each candidate brought their own pesonal story to the conversation. "I actually had to quit my job a few days before my son was born and go on WIC and food stamps to keep us healthy," said Colleen Deacon, a former staffer in Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office.
Gun measures failed in the U.S. Senate on Monday. less AR-15, semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifle: The AR-15 has become the preferred instruments of mass killing in the United States, notably at San Barnardino, California, last December, and Orlando, Florida, ... more The Republican-run U.S. Senate on Monday rejected a pair of gun violence proposals, refusing to bar sales of firearms to persons who have been on a terrorist watch list, or tightening criminal background checks.
In a new ad to be aired on television this week, Florida businessman and GOP Senate candidate Carlos Beruff says he's tired of "hyphenated Americans." Beruff, who has spent millions of his own money on television ads in the state, announced the ad just as talk about current Sen. Marco Rubio re-entering the race is gaining momentum, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times.