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On Thursday night's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , Meghan McCain gave a very encouraging update about her dad, Sen. John McCain. "He had a sort of rough time at Christmas and he's made this crazy amazing recovery which I guess I shouldn't be surprised at," she said.
Uber wants its drivers to help stop sex trafficking, an enduring problem that has prompted activists to press workers on the front lines of the travel industry to alert authorities if they see it happening. Over the past few years, Uber has enlisted its drivers in local and regional efforts to help fight human trafficking of adults and minors.
Uber wants its drivers to help stop sex trafficking, an enduring problem that has prompted activists to press workers on the front lines of the travel industry to alert authorities if they see it happening. Over the past few years, Uber has enlisted its drivers in local and regional efforts to help fight human trafficking of adults and minors.
U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived at the Davos Summit in Switzerland to participate in the World Economic Forum with other world leaders such as U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron. Notwithstanding a U.S. government shut down reflecting tension between the Democrats and Republicans in the U.S Senate, this will be the first time that a U.S. president will address the WEF.
Henry Kissinger came to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to bestow his advice on a raft of global security threats, but he began his testimony with a story about the committee's absent chairman, Sen. John McCain, who was in Arizona battling brain cancer. The 94-year-old former secretary of state said he was in Vietnam in 1973 when McCain was released by the North after more than five years as a prisoner of war.
Senate Republicans needed a deciding vote from Vice President Mike Pence to advance Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's bid to be ambassador for international religious freedom in the Trump administration. Pence arrived in the chamber Wednesday afternoon and cast the final vote to cut off debate on Brownback's nomination.
Thousands of federal employees began their weekends gripped with doubt, uncertain of when they'll be able to return to work and how long they'll have to go without being paid after a bitter political dispute in Washington triggered a government shutdown. Many government operations will continue - U.S. troops will stay at their posts and mail will get delivered.
IRS) building in Washington. There's plenty that won't get done if thousands of federal employees are barred from working until dysfunctional Washington agrees on a plan to restore funding.
After Donald Trump's vulgar comments about immigrants from "shithole" countries in Africa and the global south were reported last week, the president was almost universally condemned by critics as a racist. Nearly three years after Trump announced his candidacy and began his xenophobic campaign, mainstream media outlets, which until now have been reluctant to use that term to describe the president, finally acknowledged what has long been obvious.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said the White House would back Senate Republicans if they decide to do away with the 60-vote threshold to end debate on policy bills in order to reopen the government. However, Mulvaney emphasized the more palatable option is for Senate Democrats to get on board with a continuing resolution to reopen the government and then deal with larger issues after that.
This week, retiring Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona gave a speech on the floor of the Senate. This is some of what he said : 2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth -- more battered and abused than any other in the history of our country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government.
Former congressman, senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole was one of the few prominent GOP names to support President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Trump will repay that support on Wednesday as he appears at an award ceremony granting Dole the Congressional Gold Medal.
The entrance of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio into the open Arizona Senate race was like a bull entering a china shop. The question is whether the former law enforcement official will be a boon or a millstone around the party's neck, the way Roy Moore was for Alabama Republicans in the state's special election for the U.S. Senate.
Sen. John McCain, undergoing physical rehabilation at Mayo Clinic, will return to the Senate in January, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. "Senator McCain is in rehab.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he believes the probe into Russian meddling in the US election "makes the country look very bad," according to The New York Times. Speaking to the newspaper, Trump said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly - a view in contrast with recent attacks on Mueller's credibility from Republicans, who have pressed for a new independent prosecutor to investigate anti-Trump bias.
Vanity Faira has responded to a backlash after its champagne-toasting staff called on Hillary Clintona to quit politics and take up knitting in a video message. The Twitter video shows editors of Vanity Fair's Hive website offering toasts and New Year's resolutions to the former presidential candidate.
Former first Lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama are introduced at the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit on October 31, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Former President Barack Obama topped President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton edged out Michelle Obama in Gallup's annual poll of Americans on the most admired man and woman.
On Wednesday, Rep. Devin Nunes , who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, issued a subpoena to an associate of Sen. John McCain , who allegedly traveled to the United Kingdom to receive a copy and a briefing on a salacious, uncorroborated dossier from a former British spy, Christopher Steele. David J. Kramer, a former State Department official who is now a senior fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership, traveled to London in November 2016 and met with Steele.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, participates in a flag ceremony during an Aug. 24 parade in Kiev celebrating the nation's independence day. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, participates in a flag ceremony during an Aug. 24 parade in Kiev celebrating the nation's independence day.
Tumultuous change in the congressional delegation and the state's stormy politics are among the top Arizona stories of 2017. The brain cancer diagnosis of longtime Sen. John McCain riveted the nation, with the Republican acknowledging the prognosis is poor.