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The White House staffer who insulted John McCain accused her boss of leaking to the press - right in front of Trump Kelly Sadler accused her own boss, Mercedes Schlapp, of leaking information to the press in a meeting with President Donald Trump. Kelly Sadler blamed her boss, Mercedes Schlapp, for leaks from within the White House, Axios reported , in a meeting with Schlapp, President Donald Trump, and others.
Valor, stubborn conviction and sacrifice are themes repeated throughout "John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls," HBO's documentary memorializing the life and career of the Vietnam War hero and six-term senator from Arizona. McCain, 81, who revealed this year that he had terminal brain cancer, is interviewed throughout the film, as are his family and some of his bitterest political rivals.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says the vodka shots story as embellished by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., isn't true. File/Mic Smith/AP U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says the vodka shots story as embellished by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., isn't true.
Republican fears that Sen. John McCain's battle with cancer could make it harder for the GOP to keep its Senate majority have receded, with a crucial election deadline just days away. Friends who have visited McCain as he struggles with one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer are encouraged by his recent state, though they recognize the 81-year-old's condition could deteriorate rapidly.
The Senate committee that oversees the U.S. military ordered an independent investigation of how the Defense Department handles sexual violence among children on bases as part of legislation that would overhaul how the Pentagon must respond when assaults are reported. Military officials had quietly resisted an outside review of problems documented in an Associated Press investigation , which showed broad failures of justice when military kids sexually assault each other on bases worldwide.
President Donald Trump has granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson's name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially charged conviction. "I am taking this very righteous step, I believe, to correct a wrong that occurred in our history and to honor a truly legendary boxing champion," Trump said Thursday during an Oval Office ceremony.
Former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman never knew that John McCain had regrets about not choosing him as his 2008 running mate- until the sentiment was shared in McCain's new book. "I must say, I kind of wondered, but we never talked about it.
Arizona conservatives are torn between two icons of their movement -... . In this May 17, 2018, photo, Republican Senate candidate Kelli Ward talks about her platform policies at a Scottsdale Tea Party event in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The family said the malignant glioblastoma was removed Tuesday. That's the same deadly cancer former Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy battled and GOP Sen. John McCain is currently fighting.
It's an old Washington tradition that when a new book on politics comes out, you flip to the index and look for your name. If President Donald Trump were to pick up a copy of John McCain's new memoir, "The Restless Wave," he'd see that he doesn't really come up much until the final chapters.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain wanted to give the big speech he delivered last summer about Senate dysfunction before he was diagnosed with brain cancer. The senator hadn't been feeling well, and his longtime aide, speechwriter and close friend Mark Salter was waiting to hear from McCain about test results.
As a war hero, former presidential candidate, influential voice in the Senate, and ready quote, John McCain has been a constant presence in the public eye for decades. His final book, The Restless Wave , is out today.
Translated, the president of the United States is joining 50 Republican senators in the Capitol to crash their private Tuesday lunch. Nobody is glad to hear this on the Senate side.
Trump did it and he's going down for a host of crimes, and some of them have nothing to do with Russia I've been "covering" the Trump story for over a year now, and I'm sick and tired of stacking up the details of his treachery day after day, week after week. What more do you need to know? He's a lying, thieving, incompetent, ignorant traitor who conspired with the Russian government to steal the election of 2016 and illegally defeat a candidate who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.
Here in Australia, "Question Time" has long been one of my favorite exercises of parliamentary democracy. The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in an effort to belittle those policies.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Gina Haspel May 17 to be director of the CIA , ending a bruising confirmation fight centered on her ties to the spy agency's past use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques. Haspel, who will be the first woman to lead the CIA , is a 33-year veteran at the agency currently serving as its acting director.
CIA nominee Gina Haspel testifies May 9 during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a 54-45 vote that split both parties, the Senate on Thursday confirmed her as the first female director of the CIA.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other lawmakers stop by an event on Capitol Hill during the debut a documentary film about Sen. John McCain, in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2018. McCain, currently away from the Senate, was diagnosed in last July with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
"The White House communications office has canceled a large daily morning meeting in response to the leak of a joke about Sen. John McCain being close to death that a staff member made at one of those meetings," the New York Times reports. "The meeting, which brought together roughly 30 communications staff members from the West Wing, did not take place Thursday or the two days prior.