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Republicans attending the Republican National Convention Spring Meeting in San Diego were energized the direction their party was taking, saying they felt good to have results coming in on the national level. "The party had been energized for a long time for change in Washington and in America," said Adam Ellison, National Vice Chair of the Young Republican National Federation.
By year's end, the Department of Defense expects to launch its 13th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, which will assess the pros and cons of converting service members from traditional basic pay and tax-free allowances to a single, civilian-like salary system. That's a slower pace of study than Congress wanted last December when it ordered the department to prepare a plan to begin to transition to a salary system no later than Jan. 1, 2018, and in the interim to provide "an initial assessment and progress report" on the effort by March 1 this year.
In this March 14, 2017, file photo, U.S. Trade Representative-designate Robert Lighthizer testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lighthizer has easily cleared a hurdle in the Senate.
Former FBI Director James Comey during the House Intelligence hearing on Russian actions during the 2016 election campaign on March 20, 2017. Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is eager to pursue legislation that would break up Wall Street megabanks and has pushed the issue with members of the Trump administration. "We're certainly reaching out to the administration," Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television airing Wednesday.
The "Saturday Night Massacre" was one of the most dramatic turns of events in the Watergate scandal -- the political drama that rocked the United States in June 1972 and led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon months later. President Nixon and the Attorney General's office were locked in a political standoff over Nixon's refusal to comply with orders to release recordings of White House conversations.
The Trump administration has not even decided yet on whether it wants to stick with a three-country deal or pursue separate two-country deals with Canada and Mexico, says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Rosss said the Trump administraton's goal "is to increase overall trade while reducing our trade deficit."
A graying man - once the baby-faced press wrangler for Sen. Barack Obama's nascent presidential campaign - nursed an absinthe cocktail as he mingled near a former spokesman for President George W. Bush's 2004 reelection bid. Nearby, one of Sen. John McCain's most aggressive public advocates in his 2008 presidential campaign huddled with a man who spent the last several years as former President Bill Clinton's liaison with the public.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is expected in Boston on Sunday to receive the John F. Kennedy Foundation's annual "Profile in Courage Award," honoring his accomplishments during his two terms in office in the face of intense political opposition. "President Kennedy called on a new generation of Americans to give their talents to the service of the country," said Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's daughter, who will present the award at a ceremony beginning at 8:30 p.m. EDT .
Following the news that retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Leo K. Thorsness died last Thursday at age 85, most news stories focused on his heroism in the Vietnam War. As lead pilot of the "Wild Weasels" F-105 fighter bombers whose mission was to destroy North Vietnam's Surface-to-Air , Thorsness was shot down, captured, and imprisoned by the North Vietnamese Communist enemy in 1967.
Two potential Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin have voting records that could call into question their conservative credentials and hurt them in a potentially crowded GOP primary. Kevin Nicholson and Nicole Schneider are among several possible challengers to Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2018.
The White House budget office says in an official policy statement that the administration is pleased with additional money for the Pentagon and border security, though it's "concerned" that lawmakers ignored Trump's request that the spending increases be accompanied by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. The statement arrived on the eve of a House vote on the measure.
President Donald Trump opened the door to a future meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, offering unusual praise for the globally ostracized leader at a time of surging nuclear tensions. Although the White House played down near-term prospects for such a meeting, Trump's conciliatory comments Monday marked a departure from his more unforgiving tone toward the North in recent weeks.
Sen. John McCain says President Donald Trump should consider a preemptive strike on North Korea if the country is able to deliver a nuclear weapon by ballistic missile, but only as a final option. "I think that we have to consider that option as the very last option," the Arizona Republican said Sunday in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"It's just the epitome of broken," former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said of the Bureau of Indian Education's abysmal track record with Native American students. "Just utterly bankrupt."
" President Donald Trump campaigned on an "America First" trade policy of bracing clarity: Renegotiate or abandon NAFTA and crack down on China's trade practices. Yet so far, his trade policy has produced mostly confusion and division, even among fellow Republicans.
Washington, April 27 - US President Donald Trump has told the leaders of Canada and Mexico that he was not immediately planning to end the North American Free Trade Agreement , an accord which he railed against as a presidential candidate, the White House said. Trump, in phone calls with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, agreed to proceed swiftly to enable the renegotiation of the Nafta deal to the benefit of all three countries.
President Trump has said over and over that creating jobs is at the top of his agenda. It may seem unfair to judge his progress on this goal in his first 100 days , but Trump has opened the door to scrutiny by making his own assertions on job creation.
When her appointment as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new chief of staff was announced Tuesday, much was made of Maria Comella's years of work for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Comella grew up in Loudonville and graduated from Shaker High School in 1999.
For the first two months of Donald Trump's presidency, which was ushered in with his "America First" inaugural speech promising to pull back from the world, he did not speak directly to the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. It's notable not only because a new Republican president spent so long not talking to a Republican chairman of a high-profile committee, but also because that chairman is perhaps the most well-known Republican in the entire Congress - Sen. John McCain of Arizona.