McConnell to force vote on Trump’s State Department pick

"Our urban and rural communities have their own unique set of infrastructure priorities, and this proposal would provide funding to address those needed upgrades that go beyond the traditional road and bridge fix". He told The News in December a new shipping channel at the Soo Locks and a customs plaza for a new Detroit River bridge to Canada are two projects for which he is seeking funding after striking out with President Barack Obama's administration."

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Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic makes a backhand return to Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni during their quarterfinal at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. . Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni makes a backhand return to Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic during their quarterfinal at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017.

Wawrinka, Kerber, and Two Highly Rivalrous U.S. Open Finals

Before defeating Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final yesterday, Stan Wawrinka felt nervous, "nervous like never before," he explained after the match. That morning, he had started feeling the pressure building, "the feeling of: you don't want to lose.

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Two NFL players join Kaepernick's national anthem protest: Crowd boos 49ers quarterback after he kneels alongside team mate and Seahawks player in demonstration against 'inequality' in the US Now the Mexican President calls Trump 'a real threat' - hours after being branded a 'traitor' for going easy on him when the pair met Seahawks player Jeremy Lane joins 49ers' Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid in protest by REFUSING to stand during the national anthem before his game in Oakland Chicago endures bloodiest month in decades with 90 people killed in August alone - more than the number of homicides in New York and Los Angeles COMBINED Hermine makes landfall: A hurricane hits Florida for the first time in 11 years with 80mph winds leaving 100,000 without power What's in a name? Florida hurricane Hermine whips up a storm on Twitter over whether it should be called Hermione - or Harambe Double ... (more)

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In this photo taken Aug. 28, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's senior aid Huma Abedin, center, departs a fundraiser at a private home in Southampton, N.Y. Abedin says she is separating from husband Anth... . Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, waves after defeating Jerzy Janowicz, of Poland, during the first round of the US Open tennis tournament, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in New York.

Una Healy shows off her toned bikini body on Instagram in Sardinia

EXCLUSIVE: Woman captured silently confronting heavily-armed Baton Rouge police in powerful photographs is a 28-year-old mom and nurse who spent 24 hours in jail for her 'crime' Off-duty cop shoots dead black football star, 20, who had bipolar disorder after he broke into the officer's home following an online argument about Black Lives Matter Wounded mother who laid on top of her son to protect him during Dallas attack praises 'hero cops' who formed a human shield around them Wounded Dallas cop tells of desperate moments he tried in vain to save the lives of three colleagues who were cut down in a hail of gunfire EXCLUSIVE: Chilling 'red, black and green' message the cornered Dallas sniper wrote in his own BLOOD as he taunted police stand for the Pan African flag, a powerful Black Power symbol 'It's gonna be OK': Philando Castile's girlfriend shares her four-year-old daughter's message ... (more)

Health tourists jump NHS queue: Foreign patients given eye surgery…

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: Yankees icon and $185 million man Derek Jeter, 42, marries Sports Illustrated model Hannah Davis, 26, at Napa wedding in front of 100 friends, relatives and sports stars Have photos of the Dallas sniper's dead body been leaked? Images posted online appear to show cop killer Micah Johnson moments after he was taken out by robotic police bomb Did Obama meet the Dallas gunman? President visited ex-soldier Micah Johnson's army base two years before gunman murdered five cops during protest EXCLUSIVE: Chilling 'red, black and green' message the cornered Dallas sniper wrote in his own BLOOD as he taunted police stand for the Pan African flag, a powerful Black Power symbol Rudy Giuliani says Black Lives Matter is 'inherently racist' and tells 'black parents to teach their children to be respectful to the police' in Dallas cop killer rant Conservative host Tomi Lahren under ... (more)

Espionage chief who used a dead drunk, fake documents and a…

'Operation Mincemeat' mastermind who used a dead drunk's corpse to fool the Germans in WW2 most amazing spy story is remembered as his medals go up for sale Using dead body of a tramp they duped Germans into thinking the Allies were planning to attack Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily in 1943 The body was dropped into the sea from a Royal Navy submarine and then floated towards the coast of Spain, carrying a case full of fake documents An Oxford-educated spymaster who duped the Germans using the body of a dead tramp carrying fake documents in World War Two is remembered as his medals go up for sale. Sir John Masterman ran the Twenty Committee , responsible for the use of double agents during the War.