Protester Asks GOP Senator To ‘Apologize’ To Her Children …

Anti-Brett Kavanaugh protesters flooded Capitol Hill for weeks before his eventual confirmation to the Supreme Court, walking hallways in protest, holding loud demonstrations and confronting senators in their office buildings. Alethea Torrellas Shapiro had been attempting to harass senators on the Hill for days and regularly used her school-aged children to do so.

Would either Arlington Heights candidate be a Springfield insider?

The two candidates for outgoing state Rep. David Harris' 53rd House District seat have each tried to deflect criticism that, if elected, they'd be controlled by Springfield insiders. For first-time candidate Eddie Corrigan, 29, of Arlington Heights, that's meant fending off campaign mailers from Democratic opponent Mark Walker calling Corrigan "a political operative who was hand-picked by his party bosses to protect the status quo."

The lessons after threats drive a black legislator to quit

Voters in this very liberal, very white state made Kiah Morris a pioneer when in 2014 they elected her as its first black female legislator. Not long after, another Vermont surfaced: racist threats that eventually forced her to leave office in fear and frustration.

Kavanaugh dispute still white-hot as California to start voting

As the partisan brawl continues to rage over Brett Kavanaugh 's Supreme Court appointment, Californians begin voting this week and continue right on through Nov. 6. Granted, the bulk of absentee and early voting probably will happen in two or three weeks, but, at the very least, voters are starting to focus more on the election. How the raw battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation and accusations that he engaged in sexual assault and misconduct will affect the eventual outcome is uncertain.

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At center, debate moderator Mark Hyman shows 1st Congressional District candidates, Democratic challenger Marty Olsen, left, and Republican incumbent Phil Roe, right, the timer screens at the back of the Monarch Auditorium inside the Bristol Regional Medical Center. Incumbent Republican 1st District U.S. Rep. Phil Roe, of Johnson City, takes the podium at a debate in Bristol Thursday.

Should you care more about a politician’s morals or policies?

As Brett Kavanaugh begins his tenure on the Supreme Court, riding a wave of conservative support, a new poll shows a majority of self-identified Republicans would still vote for a candidate even if they were accused of sexual harassment. Those polled said they were willing to overlook such allegations as long as the candidate agreed with their political views.

At Ohio rally, Trump touts ‘historic week for America’ Source: AP

President Donald Trump took a victory lap in Ohio on Friday, touting a "really historic week for America" that began with the installation of his second Supreme Court justice and concluded with the release of an American detained in Turkey. Jocular and boastful, Trump barnstormed - in what was a barn on a rural fairgrounds - for Ohio's gubernatorial and congressional candidates, but, as he often does, spent much of the hour-plus speech touting his own track record.

Report: Obama had a plan in case Trump lost the election and wouldn’t accept the results

The Obama White House plan, according to interviews with [Ben] Rhodes and Jen Psaki, Obama's communications director, called for congressional Republicans, former presidents, and former Cabinet-level officials including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, to try and forestall a political crisis by validating the election result . In the event that Trump tried to dispute a Clinton victory, they would affirm the result as well as the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russian interference in the election sought to favor Trump, and not Clinton.

Google quizzed over delay in disclosing vulnerability

Three influential Republican U.S. senators has asked Google to explain why it delayed disclosing vulnerabilities with its Google+ social network. Google said this week it would shut down the consumer version of Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after revealing that the private profile data of at least 500,000 users may have been exposed to hundreds of external developers.