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HHS Secretary Tom Price's high-priced flights on charter and military aircraft have led him to resign, leaving President Trump with another job opening. President Trump has accepted HHS Secretary Tom Price's resignation, White House says HHS Secretary Tom Price's high-priced flights on charter and military aircraft have led him to resign, leaving President Trump with another job opening.
If anyone's ready to turn the page on September, it's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell . The last few weeks haven't exactly been kind to the Kentucky senator, who watched his own party set fire to the latest GOP health care repeal, blew millions of dollars on a losing effort in Alabama's Senate runoff, and got blamed for all of it by Donald Trump.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott used slang in an effort to convince "the average American" that the president's plan would allow them to "take home more of their pay by taking less out of their pay." But it was how Scott followed up those words that caused many to react in disbelief.
Not long after the House passed legislation that included a provision to allow private flood insurance policies to satisfy flood coverage requirements, the Senate sidetracked the flood policy measure. The flood insurance policy provision was inserted in a bill that had to do with reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration's operation, which was set to expire Sept.
President Trump caused quite a bit of controversy when he pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio last month. Arpaio, who was sheriff of Maricopa County, had been held in contempt for disobeying a judge's order to stop targeting potential illegal immigrants at patrol stops.
Fresh off a blistering loss over health care, many lawmakers are cautiously optimistic their party can be more successful in overhauling the U.S. tax code, a system they say is seriously lacking in popularity and in dire need of change. Fewer than 24 hours after Republicans were forced to pull the plug on their second effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, the party released a framework, held a bicameral news conference and discussed details about how they plan to revamp the tax code.
June 2017 saw a number of policy changes in the global renewable power market . In the Americas, in the US, President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.
Republicans have been riding high since the rollout of a tax framework was judged by themselves as a success. But in reality it's all uphill from here: finding money to pay for the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in a generation.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, is given a band-aid after a flu vaccination from Sharon Walsh-Bonadies, RN., right, during a news conference recommending everyone age six months an older be vaccinated against influenza each year, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Washington.
From the Associated Press - Pat Miles, a former U.S. attorney in western Michigan, is running for state attorney general in 2018. Miles is announcing his candidacy Thursday in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit.
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard along with Reps. Frank Pallone, Jackie Speier, Anna Eshoo, and David Valadao met with President of Artsakh Republic, Bako Sahakyan to discuss a diplomatic, peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
In 2002, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling in a child custody battle between a lesbian mother and an allegedly abusive father. The parents had originally lived in Los Angeles, and when they divorced in 1992, the mother received primary physical custody.
The Trump administration declared Thursday that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce and disorganized while food supplies dwindled in some remote towns eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of 3.4 million people.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump was being escorted through Indiana on the way back to Air Force One when one of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers, Robert Turner, crashed his motorcycle on I-70, Blue Lives Matter reported. The cause of the crash is unknown, but it appears people stopped to take pictures instead of helping the officer.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise walks with his wife, Jennifer, as he leaves the House chamber Thursday in the Capitol in Washington. Scalise returned to the House more than three months after a baseball practice shooting left him fighting for his life.
Twitter's Carlos Monje, the director of public policy and philanthropy, right, knocks on the door with Colin Crowell, head of global public policy, to enter the closed door meeting Thursday with the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill as part of the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Alex Brandon/The Associated Press Twitter's Carlos Monje, the director of public policy and philanthropy, right, knocks on the door with Colin Crowell, head of global public policy, to enter the closed door meeting Thursday with the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill as part of the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was at "imminent risk of death" when he was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound 15 weeks ago, made a dramatic return to the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Scalise entered the House chamber on crutches to a roar of bipartisan applause, embraced several of his colleagues and delivered his first floor remarks since the June 14 shooting.
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse slammed white supremacist Richard Spencer in a tweetstorm Thursday night, calling Spencer's ideas "un-American poison." The series of tweets started after Sasse posted a Reuters article Wednesday on remarks by Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, who alleged Wednesday that Russian internet trolls, in an effort to polarize Americans, helped fuel debate over President Donald Trump's comments criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem.
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The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Thursday against the credit reporting company Equifax over a data breach that exposed personal information of about 143 million people, including more than 5 million in Illinois. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the company should be held accountable for the breach and a delay in notifying consumers.