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Democrats mischaracterized emails between top Environmental Protection Agency officials to claim Administrator Scott Pruitt wanted "misuse" of taxpayer dollars by creating a new agency office in his hometown. Pruitt directed his staff "to establish a new EPA office in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma," sparking a wave of media coverage that added to the growing list of complaints against Pruitt, House Democrats claimed .
Businessman Mike Braun defeated two members of Congress on Tuesday in a bitter primary battle to capture the Republican Senate nomination in Indiana, setting up against incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly in one of November's top races. All three Republicans competed to show their allegiance to President Donald Trump in a state he won by double-digits in 2016.
Mike DeWine and Rich Cordray are the winners of the Ohio governor's race, according to calls made by various news organizations, setting up a rematch of the 2010 attorney general's race. Both raced to early leads when early absentee voting results were reported.
Congressional leaders are split, but not neatly along party lines, over President Donald Trump's decision Tuesday to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Some welcomed the pullout, believing the 2015 accord was unsound, but others worried the U.S. was now in the position of reneging on an international commitment and without a backup plan.
GOP leaders applauded President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday. House Speaker Paul Ryan said the deal was "deeply flawed" from the beginning and that "Iran's hostile actions since its signing have only reaffirmed that it remains dedicated to sowing instability in the region."
The governor of Georgia has vetoed a controversial computer crime bill opposed by Microsoft and Google over concerns raised by its likely implications for state and national security. Republican Gov. Nathan Deal rejected Senate Bill 315 on Tuesday, siding with Silicon Valley stakeholders over state lawmakers in the face of an end-of-day deadline to either announce his veto, sign it into law or let it take effect without his signature.
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with officials and industrialists, at a petroleum conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 8, 2018.
Oregon's senior U.S. Sen., Ron Wyden, took to the Senate floor today to blast the nomination of Ryan Bounds, a Portland federal prosecutor, for a spot on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bounds, a conservative and a protege of U.S. Rep. Greg Walden failed to gain the support of either of Oregon's U.S. Senators, Wyden or Jeff Merkley.
The allegiance of political empathy between Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel is striking. Both promised to serve and improve the city of Chicago, albeit through taxation, yet assured the citizens such expenses will be short lived and/or improvements will offset the expenditures.
President Donald Trump has sent lawmakers a plan to wipe more than $15 billion in unused spending off the government's books. The plan wouldn't have much practical impact on targeted programs such as the popular Children's Health Insurance Program but would take away leftover funding that could be used to pay for spending elsewhere in the budget.
Republicans will choose between Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, a former U.S. senator, and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, a former state auditor who's spent the year distancing herself from Kasich's administration.
Less than 24 hours before polls opened in the Indiana Senate primary, Rep. Luke Messer pulled out the big guns. More specifically, the Indiana Republican and his family adopted a little West Highland Terrier.
Current and former executives of five drug distribution firms gave sworn testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's investigations panel. Mississippi Republican Rep. Gregg Harper chairs the investigations subcommittee.
After a decision by the Trump administration last week to end protected status for Honduran refugees, immigrant activists put Democrats on Beacon Hill on notice Monday that they want more than just lip service from their state elected leaders. At a rally outside the State House in support of immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and other countries facing deportation because of actions taken by President Donald Trump, some community leaders said it was not enough for Beacon Hill politicians to offer their rhetorical support.
"If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at a news conference in Scottsdale, Arizona Monday. "It's that simple" The administration has "zero tolerance" for lawbreakers at the border.
For the first time, the Utah Debate Commission is hosting three primary debates, including between U.S. Senate candidates Mitt Romney, a former GOP presidential nominee, and state Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine. The debate between the two contenders for the Republican nomination in the race to take the place of retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, will be held May 29 at 6 p.m. at the KBYU Studios on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo.
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, speaks with reporters as he leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. One of the most seasoned pro-marijuana activists in the political world has created a super PAC with one goal this November: to unseat notoriously anti-pot Rep. Pete Sessions .
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., requested that Defense Secretary James Mattis release information the military has on service members' ties to white supremacist groups. The Minnesota Democrat sent a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis last week asking about "steps currently being taken to screen recruits for extremist ties," Military Times reported.
His name may not be on the ballot, but President Donald Trump is figuring prominently in a number of primary races on Tuesday, as voters go to the polls to pick candidates for Congress in Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Indiana, kicking off primaries for the U.S. House and Senate in 30 states over the next six weeks. For Republicans, the outcome of primaries in three states of the states voting today could be an important sign as to their party's chances to keep control of the U.S. Senate in the 2018 mid-term elections, as Republicans target seats held by Democrats in three states won by the President - Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia, Sen. Joe Donnelly in Indiana and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
President Trump will disclose his plans for the future of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, as his hard-line advisers urge him to kill the deal and allies around the world push him to stay in. Under the agreement signed in 2015, the United States and others withdrew economic sanctions on Iran in return for it agreeing to give up the means to make nuclear weapons.