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Republicans abruptly laid plans Monday for a Senate committee hearing at which Brett Kavanaugh and the woman alleging he sexually assaulted her decades ago will testify publicly, as GOP leaders grudgingly opted for a dramatic showdown they hoped would prevent the accusation from sinking his Supreme Court nomination. Just hours after GOP leaders signaled their preference for private, staff telephone interviews of Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said his panel would hold a hearing next Monday with both of them.
Kenneth Starr said Monday that postponing the Senate confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would be a "profound injustice" to the confirmation process. "I think there is a profound injustice here, to the process quite apart to Judge Kavanaugh and his family," former Clinton Independent Counsel Starr said in an interview on The Laura Ingraham Show.
This week, the U.S. Senate is on track to approve a sweeping, bipartisan plan to tackle the opioid epidemic. The bill provides new funds for prevention and education efforts, plus cracking down on fentanyl and other illegal drug trafficking.
True or false, a woman's accusation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school buckles what had been a smooth path to a seat on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh denies it, but the accuser came back with an offer to testify publicly to Congress.
President Trump on Monday responded to allegations by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Kavanaugh "is somebody very special" who "never even had a little blemish on his record."
Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's US Supreme Court pick, has called a woman's allegation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago "completely false". A lawyer said the accuser is willing to publicly testify before a Senate panel that is scheduled to vote this week on his nomination.
6, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, for the third day of his confirmatio... . FILE - In this Sept.
Less than two years ago, the conventional wisdom told us that President Donald Trump had transformed the political map: GOP strongholds in the South had joined with gains in the Rust Belt and upper Midwest , giving Republicans an electoral lock for years to come. Then came 20 months of the Trump presidency.
In this March 27, 2018, file photo, author-activist Sean Penn poses for a portrait in New York to promote his novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff." Penn says much of the spirit of what has been the MeToo movement is to "divide men and women."
In this Sept. 6, 2018 photo, Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh waits to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A key Republican senator, Susan Collins, says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual misconduct should both testify under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Collins tweeted Monday that Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh, the nominee of President Donald Trump , "should both testify."
More than half of all workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025, organizers of the Davos economic forum said in a report released Monday that highlights the speed with which the labor market will change in coming years. The World Economic Forum estimates that machines will be responsible for 52 percent of the division of labor as share of hours within seven years, up from just 29 percent today.
Today, Common Cause called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay its scheduled vote on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court in light of new allegations of sexual assault by the nominee. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Common Cause urged the committee to require Kavanaugh to testify under oath about the accusations.
Now that Brett Kavanaugh's accuser has gone public with her story that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both were teenagers, the White House and Republicans have signaled that they plan to aggressively undercut her credibility. It's a strategy that some conservatives have already launched.
Facebook and Instagram users remembered those who are no longer with us in August, as late singer Aretha Franklin and late Sen. John McCain were among Facebook IQ 's Hot Topics for the month. Former President Barack Obama also cracked Instagram's list in the people topic, while Facebook users chatted about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos .
CNN talks to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to get their reaction to the accusations of alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
A top aide to President Donald Trump on Monday raised the possibility of further Senate hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as Democrats demanded that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford be allowed to tell her story, in which she accuses Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at a party in the early 1980's, a charge he vehemently denies. "This woman should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored," Conway said this morning on the Fox News program Fox and Friends, and then repeated the same to a gaggle of reporters on the driveway outside the White House.
An attorney for the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually misconduct said her client is willing to testify before a Senate committee. Kavanaugh accuser Christine Ford willing to testify before Senate committee, lawyer says An attorney for the woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually misconduct said her client is willing to testify before a Senate committee.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leader of the democratic socialist movement, is introducing a bill designed to force companies to pay their workers higher wages. The bill is being touted as an attack on Amazon.com Inc. - its name is the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act, which spells out "Stop BEZOS."
To the delight of many Democrats, he's stepped back into the fray that former presidents often try to avoid, campaigning for Democratic candidates ahead of the midterms and blasting the political culture of the Trump era. He attracted a large, adoring crowd this past week in Ohio and will be in Pennsylvania on Friday campaigning for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.