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Illinois' financial crisis is being handed off from one set of lawmakers to another this week - a problem that, at 18 months, is the nation's longest-running budget stalemate. The key players: The conservative businessman-turned-governor Bruce Rauner and Michael Madigan, the old-school Democratic House speaker whose decades at the helm has made him a Capitol institution.
In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland's Eastern shore. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that 35 U.S. diplomats would be expelled.
After Hillary Clinton dropped in on the nation's capital the other day to say a few kind words on behalf of Harry Reid, the exiting Senate Minority Leader, two things stood out. She started her remarks by making a joke about the oddness of the situation .
President-elect Donald J. Trump has offered the post of nationalsecurity adviser to retired three-star Gen. Michael T. Flynn, aneoconservative war hawk with anti-muslim views.
President-elect Trump shocked the political world by meeting with Mitt Romney and apparently considering him for secretary of state. If he nominates the former Massachusetts governor, would he also demoralize his supporters? Receiving deluge of social media & private comms re: Romney Some Trump loyalists warn against Romney as sec of state https://t.co/HDtpjeJTc3 - Kellyanne Conway November 24, 2016 Early Thanksgiving morning, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tweeted an article about Trump loyalists who were opposed to a Romney nomination, saying she was "receiving deluge of social media and private comms" regarding the unsuccessful 2012 Republican presidential nominee.
MURDER IN THE AIR is the final entry in the Brass Bancroft of the Secret Service Mysteries Collection, available from the Warner Archive . Ronald Reagan plays Bancroft in this fourth and final film in the series.
Since then, he's been a reliable backer of Republican presidential nominees, including both presidents Bush, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney. The software engineer from Matthews isn't a fan of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, but he insists she would make a more reasonable president, especially on foreign affairs, than Trump.
Michael Reagan, the oldest son of former President Ronald Reagan, said Wednesday that his mother, Nancy Reagan, would have supported Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump for president. "Donald Trump hasn't done a whole lot for women during this campaign," Reagan told Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight."
Ronald Reagan's 71-year-old adopted son Michael spent all day Monday trying to distance his father from Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying the late 40th president would never support "this kind of campaign." Michael Reagan's tweetstorm started early Monday morning after Mr. Trump implied during a Pennsylvania rally that Hillary Clinton had cheated on her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
President Gerald Ford attributed his Klutz-In-Chief persona to a few ill-timed televised clumsiness, such as stumbling down the steps of Air Force One and wiping out skiing. But Chevy Chase's portrayals became linked with Ford's legacy.
If there is any silver lining for Donald Trump, it's that the road to the White House is often lined with abysmal performances in the first presidential debate. Ronald Reagan had to fend off concerns about dementia in 1984 after stumbling through his first battle with Walter Mondale.
John Hinckley Jr. has arrived "at his mother's Virginia home after being freed for good" from a mental hospital where he's lived for decades, The Associated Press reported. A federal judge granted his request for convalescent leave in July.
Donald Trump, after weeks of self-inflicted damage, has seen support for his candidacy in national polls dip into the 30s - Barry Goldwater and Walter Mondale territory - while Hillary Clinton has extended her lead to double digits in several crucial swing states. The vote may be more favorable to Trump than the worst-case-scenario prognosticators suggest for a very simple reason: Landslides do not really happen in presidential elections anymore.
The rise of George McGovern's hard-left agenda in 1972, followed later in the decade by Jimmy Carter's evangelical liberalism, drove centrist Democrats into the arms of Richard Nixon and later Ronald Reagan. These so-called neoconservatives grew tired of liberals' perceived laxity about fighting the Cold War.
Reagan's daughter on Trump 2nd Amendment comment: 'Horrifying' Critics said the comments encourage violence, while Trump said he was talking about voting power. Check out this story on dailyworld.com: http://usat.ly/2bjCdci In this file photo from 2011, Patti Davis is photographed in her home with her dog "Gracie."
Ronald Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, was among the many Americans outraged by Donald Trump's threat that gun owners should do something to stop his opponent from nominating liberal judges. Davis, an author and anti-nuclear weapons activist, reminded the Republican presidential nominee that her father had been shot and wounded shortly after his inauguration by a would-be assassin who was inspired by an unwitting celebrity.
Donald Trump has started whining about the presidential debates, perhaps setting the stage for skipping them. It should be a reminder that the tradition of televised presidential debates has always been something of a miracle - one that didn't have to become established, and one that could end fairly easily.
Thanks to Donald Trump, the Republican National Convention that opens here Monday will be like no other in the modern era - a gathering of a divided and nervous political party preparing to nominate a candidate who stormed through the nominating process after turning his back on a generation or more of conservative orthodoxy. In many ways, what transpires in Cleveland will seem familiar.
Conventions matter - to the presidential nominees, to every candidate, national and local, running in 2016, to the party faithful, and to the public seeking the right leadership. A national convention is a combination of things - it's a political rally, a Fourth of July celebration, an evangelical tent meeting.