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In this April 18, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski walks a rope line as the candidate signs autographs during a campaign stop at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Trump has forced out his hard-charging campaign manager, Lewandowski, in a dramatic shakeup designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump's unconventional White House bid.
The website Politico appointed two reporters on Monday to replace Mike Allen at Playbook, which rapidly grew from a morning email to his bosses into a must-read newsletter for Washington power players and those who want to eavesdrop on their conversations. Politico's Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman will take over the newsletter on July 11, Politico said.
A top Republican is rejecting a potential compromise on gun control negotiated by moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine FILE - In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., left, accompanied by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but the prospects for any election-year changes in the nationA a a s laws are dim.
While the Senate is not expected to pass any of the four gun safety measures coming to the floor for votes Monday evening, lawmakers continue to work on a more narrow proposal that could receive enough bipartisan support to advance. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is working on a measure that would block people on the Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list from buying firearms.
Ted Cruz returned to the campaign trail for the first time since suspending his presidential campaign to stump for senate hopeful Darryl Glenn in Denver -- but at least one fan of the Texas senator isn't ready to let his 2016 bid go. "We may all need to run," Cruz joked, who kicked off his remarks in his trademark way, saying, "God bless the great state of Colorado."
The FBI released a partial transcript Monday of conversations between gunman Omar Mateen and Orlando police during his deadly rampage at Pulse nightclub June 12, in which Mateen called himself an Islamic soldier and refused to cooperate with hostage negotiators. The transcript, which includes a 50-second phone conversation with police, sheds light on the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
The Senate's plans to debate a spending bill for the Justice Department went out the window June 15, as Sen. Chris Murphy took the floor, beginning what turned into a 15-hour filibuster. Murphy launched the talk-a-thon to protest the Senate's lack of movement on legislation to curb gun violence.
The entire purpose of my satirical piece demanding the immediate defunding of Planned Parenthood and reconsideration of the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling "as a result of" the Orlando terrorist attack was to promote fact-based rationality in policymaking, even in the wake -- or especially in the wake -- of a terrible event. "Public policy should be crafted based on evidence and empiricism, ever mindful of the constitution, even when it's politically inconvenient.
The percentage of people who have a negative image of Clinton is in the mid-50s. Those who have similarly chilly feelings toward Trump are in the mid-to-high 60s, although in a Washington Post/ABC News poll released last week Trump's unfavorable hit an unheard of level of 70 percent.
Republican donors who are still willing to give to Donald Trump are increasingly uneasy - not just about the constant controversy surrounding the presumptive GOP nominee but also the perceived total lack of infrastructure related to his nascent fundraising operation. The list of problems, according to donors and party officials, is both long and not easy to fix over the course of a short period.
A U.S. Special Operations soldier takes part in a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in Afghanistan's Farah province. President Obama has pushed to reward recent veterans with federal jobs.
California Democrats gathered Sunday in Long Beach to certify delegates attending next month's Democratic National Convention. More than 200 delegates for Sen. Bernie Sanders , who has transitioned to a new phase of his campaign that is more about defeating Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton , are headed to Philadelphia .
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. "Who do you like?" Donald Trump recently quizzed supporters at a Tampa rally, cupping a hand to his ear as they suggested vice presidential running mates. "Newt!"... "Sessions!" "Condi Rice!" came the cries, referring - respectively - to former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush's national security advisor and secretary of State.
Supporters chant for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a state party gathering at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. Supporters chant for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a state party gathering at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.
Hatoumata Tounkara, center, walks to a neighborhood park with her daughter Fatoumata Dembele, 11, left, husband Abdoulaye Dembele and their infant son Mohamed, in a stroller, in the Bronx near where they live on June 21, 2016, in New York. Tounkara, a Muslim who plans to vote in the upcoming November presidential election, has already decided which candidate she supports.
The Senate, divided over how to respond to the nation's latest mass shooting, will vote Monday on four measures supporters say would keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. All of them have failed in political show votes after previous massacres.
To Team Clinton, they're 'everything wrong with our politics.' In conservative circles, they're heroes-and maybe the best positioned to dig up dirt that could poison Hillary 2016.
Donald Trump suggested Sunday that the United States should "seriously" consider profiling Muslims inside the country as a terrorism-fighting tool, the latest example of the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting increasingly backing positions that could single out a group based on their religion. "We really have to look at profiling," Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Republicans and Democrats only agree on a single issue following the terrorist attack in Orlando, according to two major pollsters. "An overwhelming majority of Americans would support a law that prevents people on the federal government's terrorism watch list from buying guns," says a new YouGov.com survey.