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Donald Trump's national security adviser said Tuesday he would recommend using U.S. troops to implement a safe zone for refugees in Syria and Turkey to protect Europeans from accepting terrorists embedded as asylum seekers. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions said the move would prevent Europe from having to continue to accept the millions arriving at its borders.
The Department of Energy Office of Inspector General has started a review of DOE's actions to address concerns about exposure to chemical vapors at the Hanford tank farms. Investigators met Tuesday with DOE Hanford officials to discuss the scope of the review and any matters Hanford officials wanted to discuss.
This May 18, 2016 file photo California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures during a community event in Sacramento, Calif. Brown is endorsing Hillary Clinton just a week before the state's June 7 primary.
Legislators can do more to curb the national heroin epidemic by earmarking federal dollars for treatment beds and resources for police and state agencies, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy , D-Conn, and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes , D-4, said Tuesday. The legislators met with community leaders from across the region to drum up support for emergency federal funding that would help Connecticut towns battling an alarming rise in overdoses and deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioid abuse.
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is pushing a bill she says is aimed at helping World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas. The Democrat says the military tested the effects of mustard gas and the blister agent lewisite on about 60,000 service members by the end of WWII.
Jerry Brown, a strikingly successful and popular governor in his own state of California, whose approach is often held up as a model for Democrats nationally, refused and refused and refused to endorse a candidate during the course of the long race for the party's presidential nomination. Brown, whose three previous bids for the presidency suggested to some that he might harbor an interest in one last run, and whose relations with front-runner Hillary Clinton had not always been good, kept on the sidelines.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally before thousands at the Fresno Fairgrounds' Paul Paul Theater on Sunday, May 29. The senator from Vermont was making a campaign swing through the San Joaquin Valley ahead of the June 7 California primary election. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders compares water problems in the Valley with those of Flint, Michigan, during rally in Visalia at Golden West High School.
California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses members of the media before signing a bill creating the highest statewide minimum wage at $15 an hour by 2022 at the Ronald Reagan building in Los Angeles on Monday, April 4, 2016. less California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses members of the media before signing a bill creating the highest statewide minimum wage at $15 an hour by 2022 at the Ronald Reagan building in Los Angeles on Monday, April ... more California Gov. Jerry Brown said on Tuesday he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the state's upcoming primary, explaining she has the best chance of thwarting the "dangerous candidacy" of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The city of New York will be spending a total of $6.6 million over the next three years so that their employees can get in shape with Weight Watchers. Starting next month, about 300,000 city workers will be allowed to sign up with the weight loss program on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sen. Rob Portman parlayed his work to combat the prescription painkiller and heroin crisis into a series of campaign ads Tuesday, as he tries to stave off former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and win re-election in November. Congress is trying to catch up with a devastating opioids outbreak that is killing more people than car crashes do in some places, and Mr. Portman , Ohio Republican, has frequently touted his efforts to stem the tide.
President Barack Obama has an outspoken and unlikely ally in his push for more dollars to combat the rising threat of the Zika virus - former Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. The Florida senator, whose home state has an alarming number of Zika infections, is ridiculing fellow Republicans in Congress for refusing to back the White House's request for $1.9 billion to fight the mosquito-borne virus.
The probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the VA inspector general discounted key evidence and left veterans in harm's way at a VA facility in Wisconsin. Senate investigation finds 'systemic' failures at VA watchdog The probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the VA inspector general discounted key evidence and left veterans in harm's way at a VA facility in Wisconsin.
The Republican nominee transferred dozens of the "Trump" trademarks for everything from hotels to ties to his U.S. golf courses into a new Delaware-based company as he papered for his White House run, Bloomberg's Lynnley Browning reports. By shifting more than 110 registered or pending trademarks to Delaware, Trump consolidated them in a state that doesn't tax income from royalties on intellectual property.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - If the ship legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world is found at the bottom of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island will own it outright because of a legal maneuver it took nearly two decades ago based on an obscure, centuries-old maritime practice.
Ohio Sens. Rob Portman, left, and Sherrod Brown - seen together in January at the Martin Luther King Jr. ceremonies at the Columbus Convention Center - have developed a cordial relationship despite their partisan differences. WASHINGTON - You wouldn't think they like each other or have anything in common: the soft-spoken, button-down conservative Republican from Cincinnati who served as U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, and the gravel-voiced, rumpled Democrat from Cleveland who wrote a book called "The Myths of Free Trade."
After the political convention confetti is swept away, a more sobering tradition of the presidential election begins: The regular, top-secret intelligence briefings for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. Started by President Harry S. Truman, the briefings are designed to get the candidates, before they walk into the Oval Office, up to speed on problems around the globe.
No one is better at abusing power in D.C. than Newt - he'd be yet another reason America needs to reject Give Newt Gingrich credit for knowing how to play the long game. The congressional back-bencher spent years amassing power in the House of Representatives in order to position himself to take the Speaker's job when the moment was right - in his case, after the Republican Revolution of 1994.
The Golden State Warriors advanced to the NBA Finals Sunday with a Game 7 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, which was attended by Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who spoke at a campaign event earlier in Oakland. Sanders arrived at halftime with actor and political activist Danny Glover and wore a blue Oxford shirt that stood out in a sea of yellow "Strength in Numbers" shirts worn by Warriors fans in his section, according to pool media reports.
If the ship legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world is found at the bottom of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island will own it outright because of a legal maneuver it took nearly two decades ago based on an obscure, centuries-old maritime practice.