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The ultraconservatives in charge have sabotaged the state economy, transferred the burden of paying for what's left of state government from businesses and well-off residents to those without resources to pay for anything additional, and without remorse are seeking re-election. How any of them can look at us with a straight face, let alone ask for our votes, is beyond the pale.
One of the nation's largest multi-employer pension funds said that it is out of ideas for ways to save itself from an impending failure. After the Treasury Department rejected its Hail Mary proposal, which would have substantially cut benefits for some retirees, the Central States Pension Fund has little choice but to turn to a federal insurance program that is supposed to offer a lifeline to troubled pension funds.
Secret Service agents remove a man from the crowd during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, May 30, 2016. A group of animal rights activists briefly interrupted the Sanders rally in Northern California when they jumped barricades and tried to rush the podium.
ELIZABETH Warren has a rare talent for distilling political messages. In 2011, as she was running for the Senate seat that she won the next year, the former Harvard law professor delivered the kind of concise, pointed rationale for public investment - and the taxation to support it - that the White House had been striving to master for the previous three years.
A relatively or somewhat, or maybe just not, clever plan by the Kansas Legislature this spring to meet the increasing funding needs of Kansas public schools by shuffling money within the school finance budget law was declared, well, not clever and not constitutional by the Kansas Supreme Court last week.
Seismic surveying involves blasting the ocean floor with sound waves that bounce off the sea bed and are recorded by ships. SANDY HOOK, N.J. It's been compared to hearing dynamite explode, or standing next to a jet engine.
Sen. Bernie Sanders sits with San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim and Danny Glover during his camopaign appearance at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland on Monday. Sen. Bernie Sanders sits with San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim and Danny Glover during his camopaign appearance at Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland on Monday.
The Vermont senator, who is hunkering down in California for his last showdown with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, used the nickname as he bashed the presumptive Republican nominee for embracing -- and then backing away from -- the idea of a debate against Sanders. "Let me not worry about Hillary Clinton right now.
In sickness and in health: Former Illinois athlete ties the knot with his fiancA e eight months after he had all four limbs amputated due to a life-threatening infection While Donald Trump will be the star of his convention, a number of the GOP's who's who said they won't be coming to Cleveland A number of GOP senators and House members have already said they're staying in Washington, D.C. to do work One of the previous GOP nominees - Bob Dole - will be heading to Cleveland while the Bushes, John McCain and Mitt Romney will stay home Donald Trump has said he wants to have a 'showbiz'-filled Republican National Convention in Cleveland, but he's also going to have to contend with a number of party no-shows.
Hillary Clinton took part in a Memorial Day parade with Bill Clinton and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, right, in Chappaqua, New York. WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is one of the best-known political figures in America.
That's according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall. “It feels like the state of politics is generally broken,” said Joe Denother, a 37-year-old Oregon voter who typically favors Republicans.
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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally at Ventura College on May 26, 2016 in Ventura, California. The California primary is June 7. Bernie Sanders meets with voters in California today, as that state and five other states prepare to vote next week.
Marco Rubio not so long ago insulted Donald Trump's tan, made crude insinuations about his anatomy, and dubbed him a "con man" and "the most vulgar person ever to aspire to the presidency". Yet days after Trump clinched enough delegates to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the Florida senator said he would speak on the billionaire's behalf if asked, and would release his delegates to Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July.
A historical group dedicated a new Topeka Cemetery grave marker Monday for John Holmes, a bodyguard for President Abraham Lincoln. The ceremony was one of several held Monday in Topeka to honor veterans, with one featuring Sen. Pat Roberts as guest speaker.
This weekend, America will pause to honor the thousands of men and women who fought and died to preserve ExxonMobil's First Amendment rights, and protect it from the tyranny of justice. The effort to cast Exxon as victim of a cabal between state Attorneys General, environmentalists, and other ne'er-do-wells followed reports by journalists from InsideClimate News , the Los Angeles Times , and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Protesters with the Fight for $15 movement say Democratic presidential candidates must deserve their vote. I don't know Robert Reich personally, but I greatly respect and appreciate his work; his voice is an important one in the fight against inequality .
Elizabeth Warren has a rare talent for distilling political messages. In 2011, as she was running for the Senate seat she won the next year, the former Harvard law professor delivered the kind of concise, pointed rationale for public investment - and the taxation to support it - that the White House had been striving to master for the previous three years.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., India's largest drugmaker, said its U.S. unit received a grand jury subpoena from the Justice Department's antitrust division related to generic products and pricing. The summons also sought documents about communications with competitors and others regarding the sale of generic drugs, along with corporate and employee records, Sun Pharma said in a May 27 stock exchange filing.
In this Friday, May 27, 2016, photo Jennifer Perelman poses for a photo at her home in Davie, Fla. In an election between two deeply unpopular candidates for president, the difference between winning and losing will come at the margins.